Welcome to windy Moorabbin Airport and welcome to a brand new feature on the channel.
I've been posting quite a few videos recently of my flights and I've been getting some great
questions in the comments and through messages on YouTube from other pilots and travellers.
So I thought it would be a good idea to put together a bit of a 'Ask The Pilot' Q&A and
try and answer some of those common questions on a new weekly video here on the channel.
Now if you're new to the channel and you haven't already be sure to subscribe, there's going
to be a new pilot travel flying video released every week and I'm going to be doing more
of these Ask The Pilot Q&A's as well.
So let's get to this new feature. I've even put a bit of an introduction together, tell
me what you think.
What do you think? Yeah? No? Tell me below what you think I can always change it.
So Josh asks: just wondering do you have (or are working towards) the command instrument
or the private instrument rating?
That's a good question, so here in Australia we have two options when you're going to study
for your instrument rating exactly like Josh says. You can do the command instrument rating
that's the old name for it, it's now just known as an Instrument Rating. Or what's called
the PIFR, the private IFR, so the private instrument rating.
Private instrument rating has some restrictions you can basically get your instrument rating
to fly IMC but above LSALT and then you can start to add on your approaches your 2Ds your
3Ds VOR etc. Whereas the Instrument Rating is everything so it's departures, landings,
approaches, STARs SIDs.
So I decided just do the whole thing so I've got a full Instrument Rating, the old command
instrument rating in Australia and that's for 2D and 3D so I've also got NDB which I
haven't really used since passing it but I'll try and keep current on that. VOR then all
my RNAV, ILS, um, and I think that's it.
chickenaviation101 asked what editing program do you use?
Well I started off editing in iMove, I'm a Mac boy so iMovie comes free with the Mac
and when I was getting into video editing I thought I'd give it a try and to be honest
it's brilliant it does pretty much everything you want.
But it got to the point where I was starting to want to add some more complex overlays,
some text layers, also have more than just two video channels I think you're restricted
to only two in iMovie. And so I wanted to upgrade so what I'm using now is Final Cut
Pro X I think it's version 10.3 which I'm running at the moment on the Mac which is
brilliant I really like it.
I know some people have their problems with Final Cut Pro but I think it's a great bit
of software and really does exactly what I need. But if you're just starting out if you're
on a Mac iMovie is great. Give it a try. If you're on a PC, there used to be Windows Live
Movie Maker I think they've discontinued that I'm not sure what it is now. You'll have to
Google that one.
Ah also before the next question chickenaviation101 go check out his YouTube channel as well I'll
stick a link below. He's got a cool flight from Moorabbin and some pretty cool drone
stuff on there as well.
Alright next. So Zach asked where did you do your Cirrus certification?
I did my certification with a CSIP, C S I P which is a Cirrus certified standardised
cirrus standardised. Cirrus standardised instructor pilot. I knew what it was.
But I went through a website called flycirrus.com.au that's down here in Australia and on there
there's a list of instructors the planes that they have and you can get in touch with one
of the instructors I ended up flying with Mike who's a great bloke. If you want to do
your certification here in Australia and you're looking for someone at Moorabbin Airport Mike's
details are on flycirrus.com.au, I'll put a link down below as well, is excellent, did
my transition.
So that's it for Ask The Pilot this week, thanks very much for all the questions. If
you've got a question of your own that you want to ask stick it in the comments below
and I'll try and include it in the next Ask The Pilot Q&A.
I'll try and get a better backdrop as well, I don't know whether you can see this. This
is like where airplanes go to die here at Moorabbin, so I'll try and pick something
that's a little more exciting next time.
And if you haven't subscribed to the channel be sure to do that there's new videos coming
out all the time. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you soon.