It's been a really good week of flying...
I thought this would work out well this is actually a lot harder to do than it isn't
it that doesn't work I thought that would be a good idea but you go too fast what I
was trying to say is it's been a really good week of flying actually I've managed to get
a Night Flight in today seen a jumbo jet done a couple of flights with friends and today
if you look at the sky behind me now we're gonna take advantage of a rare sunny day here
in Melbourne and just do a quick 15 minute flight to go and get a coffee [Music] thank
you
Steven's in kilo Juliet November today with Evan as well they're flying off they're just
faster at doing all the checks and everything to me I'm a bit more of a captain slow when
it comes to doing everything here in the aircraft so they're heading off in front I'm going
to be following them down and we're just doing a really quick flight today it's about 15
should be about 15 16 minutes to our destination today just waiting for this little Cessna
152 between me and Steven before we take off how many few Pilots out there started learning
on a 150 or a one five two I'm sure a large percentage of US did again because early traffic
is a preceding test of their departing
problems up we go [Music]
all right he's starting to get a little bit bumpy because it's so hot today it was 22
degrees now here but it was about 27 on the ground [Music]
it's busy already it's like a sunny day in Melbourne at the weekend there's a lot of
people out that's why you can hear the radios are so busy at the moment people are doing
approach practices at Avalon maybe about 15 miles in that direction there's people in
the city so they've got to get clearance from the class C air space there's obviously all
the inbound traffic that's going into Tullamarine as well there's the training traffic and rabbit
itself so there's three or four in Essendon airport as well you've got some Charter and
also some general aviation going in and out of there too so there's four airports in this
Bay Area of Melbourne on a sunny Saturday morning everybody seems to come out yeah you've
got to keep a really good scan yeah safety alert Point Ormond you're going to be passing
in about 20 seconds 200 feet apart on radar that's unverified you can be very close to
each other opposite direction I'm actually quite glad to be leaving there behind me all
right lamington bomb Tower one of our VFR waypoints burning now and avoiding the year
space of Melbourne so I'm actually tracking my way actually around class Charlie airspace
I'm staying underneath it at the moment and that so I could just stay a little bit higher
I could go further to my right of the aircraft but that would mean I'd need to be a 1500
not the 2000 I'm at at the moment this just gives me a little bit more altitude especially
when I'm flying over a built up area it is pretty bumpy today actually didn't realise
it'd be like this Delta traffic Cirrus Echo Yankee Zulu one zero miles to the southeast
1500 inbound estimate circuit time for seven Melton and slows down a little bit more get
us to our kind of approach speed altitude is good speed is good well traffic are going
through turning base Runway zero four Now That's so exciting with the British my British
accent comes out when I fly melted melting traffic in it and then I'm going to try and
keep the nose wheel off the ground as long as possible because this is a softer Runway
speed is good a little bit high so I'll reduce the power
Nice, on the stall horn, already 29 degrees Celsius oh
[Music] this is Echo Yankee Zulu Steven and Evan came in KJN long time viewers of the
channel recognize this one now known as Tango Papa Sierra still sounds rubbish that's the
old Tango Delta Sierra that I took to long reach about how many years ago was that four
years ago
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and a banana bread [Music] thank you [Music]
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[Music] but now that we're back in January I'm back and flying again which I'm really
excited about earlier in the week also I got to combine two of my absolute favourite things
that is planes and pizza [Music] now I've parked Echo Yankee Zulu to some pretty cool
planes in the past but I think this one I think this is my favourite
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fun fact about this Boeing 747 this is Victor Hotel Oscar Juliet Alpha this holds the world
record for the longest non-stop flight by an airliner when they flew it all the way
from London to Sydney it's the only 747 that's ever done it all in one go Non-Stop
off everywhere this is Wollongong airport just on the East Coast of Australia we've
just phoned up here from Moorabbin it's about a two-hour flight parked my aircraft right
next to the 747 we just decided to come up it's a beautiful night for flying I wanted
to get some night practice as well so we're actually going to fly back and hopefully the
sun will go down as we're flying back home it's just a fun opportunity to come out with
a couple of friends order some pizza to the airport vegan Margarita of course and enjoy
being around all the planes foreign
starting up the only thing I did forget though was flying at night time well it's generally
dark and the GoPros well any camera to be honest when there's not much light it's really
hard to film so even though I wanted to bring you the whole experience of what it's like
flying at night time eventually I just decided I didn't think it was going to work
4 300.
see how I'm trying pigs here is Echo Yankee Zulu is rolling Runway one six will be climbing
left circuit overhead the Air Drive
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[Music] City departures series Echo Yankee Zulu IFR departure from Shell Hopper okay
three two four zero and remain outside class Charlie okay [Music]
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[Music] I definitely want to get back to Wollongong they've got a great collection of aircraft
there as well as the 747 there's Connie the Super Constellation and many many other aircraft
it's well worth if you love your Aviation getting down to Shellharbour airport used
to be known as Wollongong but now it's Shellharbour airport and take a good look around anyway
I've got my banana bread I've had my coffee we're gonna jump back in the plane to fly
back to Melbourne
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I've said it before on this channel but Australia doesn't have many good on Airport eating like
food drink options so when we do get one like that brilliant place in Melton I really want
to try and support it so if you are in Melbourne or in this local area or if you just want
to come down to Victoria for the day check out Melton Aerodrome it's a really good long
Runway based aircraft should be able to get in there uh the people down there were really
lovely and the coffee I don't want to say this too loud I think that oatmeal latte was
better than the one I get in my local cafe in Melbourne I know in the US and I know in
the UK you guys do on airport food drinks very well a lot better than we do and so it's
really nice when we get one that's uh actually does decent food we're already talking about
doing another trip back there Ramen Tower Cirrus Echo Yankee Zulu Brighton 1500 inbound
with Tango downwind Runway 35 West I think he's doing this moment six nights yeah copy
that okay
High one mile
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