I feel a little bit embarrassed and I think I owe you an update
Do you remember when i said this on the channel. How do you fancy
five months from when this video comes out you me echo yankee zulu
want to go once around the world? Then this happened. In just three hours Melbourne
will be back under curfew as the delta outbreak refuses to relent. Yeah well since then i've been
pretty quiet on the whole round the world thing because to be honest with you i felt a bit silly.
It's locked! But because quite a few of you have been asking me about what's happening
with the round the world am i doing around the world are you still flying around the
world don't you feel really stupid talking about around the world when you haven't
actually flown around i thought at the very least i owe you an update
just whilst i'm waiting for the engine to warm up here i'll tell you why i've been
feeling a bit embarrassed i don't like making announcements on this channel too much and then
you know you have to wait for three months for it to happen and sometimes like around
the world trip it doesn't actually happen at all when i announced that i was ready
i was ready to go and i was so excited to share it with you and then a year went past
and another year went past recently as well we had the youngest male travis ludlow to fly around the
world and the youngest female zara rutherford both completed their round-the-world flights one last
year and one early this year and i watched them and i was so proud of what they did and it was a
brilliant achievement and i celebrated with them but then shortly after i'll be honest with you
there's this slight sense of envy that starts to kick in as well because i want to do that
because it's early morning the tower's not actually open right now so moorabbin is operating
as a ctaf a common traffic advisory frequency it just basically means that tower doesn't give us
clearance to do things like taxi and take off uh all the pilots talk to each other and we
organize it between ourselves when i say all the pilots talk to each other there's no one else here
speeds alive on both engines looking all good
up we go
wow that is so smooth this morning picture perfect morning for it
we're leveling off 1500 tracking coastal southbound rabbit traffic now i don't want
to sound all entitled and privileged in this video you know a guy who owns his own plane
misses out on flying around the world people have lost jobs uh people have lost lives loved ones but
everyone's kind of had their thing and for me the round-the-world trip it really was my thing to put
my family through everything as well it took years to plan around the world trip and then to not do
it and to sit at home basically for the last two years almost this kind of state of darkness about
not being able to achieve the thing i wanted to achieve it was hard on them as well so i promised
myself to do a couple of things the first thing was to re-plan the round-the-world trip so it is
going to happen and i'll tell you about that in a second but the other thing i promised myself
to do was just to get out and enjoy flying in the meantime i know i love having these big projects
and i love having big plans but there's nothing wrong with going out and just enjoying flying
and just appreciate that i have access to this amazing aircraft and this brilliant brilliant
world of general aviation instead of focusing on that one big goal which i know will happen
i have no idea how any of those shots turned out actually with the sun
maybe they didn't work very well i might actually turn the plane around
okay then the big question am i going to fly around the world and will the radio ever stop
interrupting me 73 80 melbourne departures decent advice 8 000. now i know i started this video by
saying no big announcements but again i also started it by saying i owe you an update and
i want to be honest with you on the channel 2022 for flying around the world from my point of view
i think is going to be out i think i'm going to do this around the world trip once and i don't
want to do it where i have to stop in places get pcr tested wear masks everywhere maybe quarantine
in certain places all that stuff i think is just going to really take away from the fun of the trip
for me so i want to give it another year it means i've got another year to get the aircraft ready as
you know this pfd uh is a temporary one at the moment which we're just borrowing there's also
the fuel tank that we're fitting there's other upgrades that we're making to equipment that i'm
taking there's a lot of planning still that i can do to make the trip even better so whilst i don't
have a definitive date in mind i definitely know that i'm not going to do it this year and instead
this year i'm going to spend this year planning and practicing flying like this for fun doing
trial runs as well once i've got the aircraft spec for around the world i can do longer legs so
i want to do some international flying maybe one day new zealand will let us back in for example
and i can do some fun flights like that which i've spoken about here on the channel i really see 2022
as the time that we get back out and go traveling again and that for me is a great
excuse to actually do some practice runs for around the world flying so when it does happen
the aircraft's even more ready than it would have been i'm even more ready and i can
produce something here on youtube for you which i hope you hope you're going to really enjoy it
paul phillip heads directly ahead that's the end of the bay in melbourne and this is porcy down
here if ever you come to melbourne and you all of a sudden become a multi-millionaire this is
this is where you buy a house oh i've got to get the car back as well i keep forgetting
i've got to get the car back to my wife for uh for nine o'clock today so let's
let it turn around otherwise i'm going to end up flying down to adelaide
look at that this series is such a balanced aircraft
just in a steep turn going round and round i haven't even got my foot on the rudder
oh that's because serious pilots don't know how to use the rudder right
a little bit flat but not too bad nice and stable
what is this why have i started self-rating on my landings once again solid 10 out of 10.
i hope that explains a little bit more about why i've been feeling embarrassed about this and why
i've been so quiet on the whole round the world thing so if you do see me out there on the street
and if you want to ask about the round the world trip do it keep me honest ask me how the planning
is going am i still doing it what's the go date and it is going to happen we're going to do it
we're going to fly around the world it's going to be bloody awesome i can't wait to share it