happy New Year Aviation family [Music]
in all my time flying I've discovered one thing it doesn't matter what kind of flight you're
doing it doesn't matter what aircraft you're flying or how long your flight is [Music]
pre-flight or the process of checking everything on the aircraft before you
go flying generally takes the same amount of time [Music]
the my rule of thumb is that it takes me 45 minutes to get the aircraft ready so
with a bit of contingency I give myself one hour before I need to depart when I
get to the airport to start getting the aircraft ready even though the flight
that I'm doing today this flight right now is only going to be 11 minutes long
Merry Christmas
very short flight but it's also a very important one it's also a very windy one
horrible crosswind today this is not what I wanted
for my first flight back in the new year but it is what it is away
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out of Ceramics control Zone start to make our way towards tie up now
we can turn onto our track and I'm going to climb us up to 2500 feet
yeah the crosswind of 35 knots coming across from this side at the moment that's pretty
Breezy it'd be interesting to see how we go with the landing a time it's a very thin Runway today
I'm flying to an airport called tayab which is as I said before it's a really short flight from
moorabbin airport it's about 11 minutes seven minutes you've got a Tailwind sometimes it's a
really quick flight but it's an important location because it's the venue for this year's butterfly
now fun flight is a charity that uses Aviation to help families with children who have a disability
a serious illness family sometimes where one of the parents might be ill or families that would
just benefit from a kind of a good experience in life but Aviation can bring that to them through
the charity fun flight now this is going to be the first fun flight that's actually happened
since the pandemic they haven't done one of these for a couple of years but this year's
is quite special because not only are they back after the pandemic but it's going to be their
15th year of operation and they're going to be flying their 15 000 Club flight foreign [Music]
I thought I'd fly down today just to quickly check it out and tell you a little bit more
about how you can get involved in this really really important Aviation event
today when we actually do fun flight though that's gnarly autopilot
time traffic okay turning final Runway one seven full stop time
carrying a bit more speed because it's Gusty as you can tell not my straightest
I hope no one was watching that
just in case you're not a pilot what I was talking about on the way down is when there's a crosswind
it means when you're trying to land down a straight Runway if the wind's blowing directly
across it that's what we call a crosswind that's the wind that Pilots hate the most we like a wind
that comes straight down the runway so when you land everything is nicely lined up when I was
Landing the aircraft was sort of turned to one side have to Crab in come down I'm supposed to
land on one wheel kind of landed on the other One Pilots would have probably spotted that
and it just makes the whole thing a lot more complicated but we're down and we're entire
now I always talk about Aviation on this channel as being a bit of a family in fact quite often
I'll write back to comments I always talk about the aviation family is really strong and I truly
believe that it doesn't matter if you're a pilot or not if you just love Aviation you
enjoy watching channels like mine it means that you're part of the aviation family and what I
need from this video is for that Aviation family to come together firstly Pilots if you are able
to get to tayab next month and like me you want to be one of the people flying the families and
the children around as part of the fun flight experience jump onto the fun flight website
go to the contact page fill in your details and request to be one of the pilots down here at fun
flight next month there are safety standards Hours Medical and some insurance requirements which you
will need to meet some of those are listed on the website but your first Port of Call is to
send that contact form off to the fun Flight Team let them know that you want to be part of the day
and they'll get back to you with some further questions if you're not a pilot but you can
still get down here for the day and you can offer your time that is one of the most valuable things
that you can can do in this world if you can give your time and you want to volunteer to help on the
day again use that contact form on the fun flight website now obviously if you're watching this and
you can't help if you are maybe overseas or you can't get down to time for the day then of course
donations are going to be greatly accepted by the fun flight team so they can put on events
like this in the future as well and if you can't do any of that and I totally understand if you
can't get here and maybe financially you're not able to give a donation that is completely fine
the one thing I'd just say is maybe it helps me as well but if you share this video out to
other people then other people will be aware of fun flight maybe tweet it put it on your
Instagram account yes of course it helps me as a Creator because it helps grow my channel but
fundamentally I don't ask for that very often but for this video if we can get more eyeballs
on it so more people can help out than those families and the children as the families who
well they just need a break if we can help them and put a smile on people's faces through Aviation
that's where the family works best family I keep saying family I sound
like Vin Diesel from Fast and the Furious we have a similar body shape as well
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on the day itself as well as all the flying that's going on with Pilots taking the families
and their children up to get some Aviation fun during the day on the ground there'll be a lot
of events happening as well the CFA the country Fire Authority they'll be down here there'll be
a barbecue there'll be face painting going on activities for the kids apparently they might
be clowns I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing for me anyway if your kids
like clowns they'll be clowns also the team from the peninsula Aero Club that's where I'm filming
this here today right now they'll be here as well helping out with fun flight but also available to
answer your questions so if you are interested in aviation maybe you've always dreamed about
becoming a pilot then come down on the day speak to the guys from the peninsula Aero Club and they
can also help you out with options for Flight Training and you know maybe ending up kind of
traveling around the country like I do in your own little plane it's not a bad life foreign
it's the start of the New Years I record this and some of my friends like to do
the what's your word for the year what's the one word that sums up how you want to
approach and maybe see this year unfolding and my word for this year was curiosity
he liked the idea of being more Curious in my like my local environment first of all I'm not
getting out into Melbourne as much as I could be and I really want to explore my hometown my
home state of Victoria as well and beyond that as well I mean there is quite a bit of travel that
I want to do now the pandemic seems like it's pretty much over and we can get out and travel
as normal again [Music] thank you Oh My Traffic Echo Yankee Zulu is entering and we'll be rolling
Runway one seven we are downwind departure to the north climbing 1500 time traffic [Music]
now if I could choose a phrase for the year instead of a word for the year I think my
phrase for the year would be giving back I've done okay in life I've worked hard to get where
I am no one really gave me anything for free and for the last 20 years I've I've worked a
lot to get to this point but now I'm in quite a lucky and privileged position I think now is
the time in my life when I want to actually start giving back and if you like the sound
of that and you made me want to make the phrase for your 2023 giving back as well
then come and help me out and tie up next month for fun flight because as well as
helping a load of families it's just going to be a brilliant day of Aviation [Music]
all the details about funflight are in the description down below I hope you
can get involved I hope to see you here next month