What!?
The Avalon air show is back, yay!
The last time we had an air show here in Avalon was 2019 it missed 2021 because of the pandemic
but it's back again in 2023 and it's so nice to see all the planes back here in Melbourne again
I just wanted to take a look around you a very nice Jets
George nice to meet you George one day one day
profit Prophet Hunter I don't know why is it why is it called profit Hunter
what does that mean s it's just the name of the plane just what it was called yeah
thank you for letting me have a look around your plane thank you
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fun story about this helicopter here this is the Apache ah-64 gunship helicopter
now when I was a kid when I was about probably nine or ten years old I was
getting into computer games a lot and my dad bought me a game called gunship
and in gunship your job was to Pilot one of these helicopters and execute a variety of missions
now that was also the same age that we started going to the air shows in the UK like being
in the hill we went to pretty much every year but I think that game and flying one of these
helicopters on a computer really had a big part in getting to me where I am in terms of becoming
a pilot so even though it's a helicopter this is still quite a special one to me
thank you
underneath the kc10 this is one of the US Air Force's refueling aircraft apparently
it's the last time that we're going to see this here in Australia so I wanted to come down and
take a quick look if ever you've wondered how they do the air-to-air refueling this is the
boom on the back that basically connects to the other jets that come behind it it's got little
ailerons as well so it can be moved up and down based on the airflow and this thing 160
000 kilograms of fuel this carries I know that because I just read that on the site
one issue I have as a pilot flying internationally is sometimes it's
hard to get hold of fuel the AP gas fuel that Echo Yankee Zulu the series SR22 uses this
one has solved the problem by converting itself to run on Mustard Seed based fuel
this is Wednesdays I record this this is one of the trade show days they have at Avalon it
starts on Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and half of Friday those are all trade days now if
you are watching this and you are a student pilot or you're interested in aviation and you've got a
flight school near you and you want to come down to Avalon in the future a bit of a TPC if through
your flight school or through someone at the airport if you can get a trade day ticket because
you basically get the whole air show as you can see around here with all the static displays not
about to get run over sometimes not the flying displays that you have at the weekend but they're
still flying action going on but it's far far quieter so if you're able to get a trade day
ticket try and do that but then on Friday at the second half of the day that's when Avalon opens up
to the general public and Friday afternoon there's a big air display Night Show on Friday evening and
then Saturday Sunday those are the two big days of flying where I think it goes pretty much from
about midday through to about six o'clock at night constant air displays it's really really
good sadly this year and to answer a lot of your questions if people have been asking me online
am I coming to the ho well yes I'm here but only today I'm only here today I'm not actually here
this weekend unfortunately I've just got other commitments I just can't come down this weekend so
I'm trying to make the most of it and pack as much as I can into this one day that I have here today
it doesn't matter what aircraft you sit in if you're six foot six foot two Sirius have
never paid me a penny I don't have any official arrangements with them yes I am a serious owner
but what I say now is completely my opinion and my opinion alone I find it really annoying how
much I like the vision jet yes like any aircraft you want it to be a bit higher you want it to be
a bit faster you want it to go further but it's just so so well designed and the familiarity is
an SR-22 pilot sitting in the cockpit here of the vision jet it just feels like I could
literally jump in here and fly which I can't because this is actually a mock-up this is not
a real aircraft this is a demo aircraft that they have here at the air shows buttons and
everything work but it doesn't fly the engine on top is I think it's made out of cardboard
two million dollars just shy of I think it's 1.96 million dollars that's what it would cost to buy
one of these serious Vision Jets there is a wait list for them the wait time at the moment if you
order now is you can get your vision Jet by 2027 so they're very popular there's a bit of a wait
list but but if you are one of the people on that wait list congratulations it's a lovely
aircraft can I come for a flight with you that would be great thank you my details are below
happy birthday
this is one of the new series SR-22 turbo g60s that they have here at the air show
one interesting thing about this airplane it's got nothing to do with Cirrus this is one of the
first that I've seen here in Australia which has got the number and letter combination in
its registration a little while ago there was an announcement from Casa that aircraft
registrations are not just going to be three letters anymore like Echo Yankee
Zulu but they're going to be a combination of letters and numbers like you guys have in the
US so eight what is it eight Alpha Tango that's one of the first I've actually seen in the wild
and hopefully very soon hi hello I'm good hey Errol so if I was to fly around the world in
an aircraft that's not a cirrus what would you recommend well of course it has to be
a slingmate well if you think about it you know the voice from a factory has done how many trips
around the world yeah I don't even know how many years they've done all the modifications yeah so
in experience I think sling is probably one of the best ones that if you want to
do around the world trip it has to be a sling mic is that the bush cat that I flew last time
what does that cruise at well about 85 knots oh so so but yes that's what I landed
anyone remember when I flew this up on the Gold Coast this is the same Bush cat
that we took when we flew down Surfers Paradise down the coast ground again
thank you
the South Korean demo team they are awesome
foreign as well as the military Avalon they're fairly well represented in the
general aviation category as well a lot of the brands that you'll know are down here
Sarah sahir Diamond Tech NAMM I've seen a lot of my friends who some of them run companies
that actually sell aircraft make aircraft Slinger here for example I know my friend
errol's here but it's basically military bit of general aviation there's not a lot in fact this
year there's no commercial aircraft down here so if you're expecting to see like the large Qantas
737s if you want to see an A380 which they did have down here at Avalon one year from
what I've seen and it might be different later on in the week but right now today on Wednesday
There's no commercial Aviation represented here at Avalon but this is the general aviation area
some of you learning to fly at the moment might recognize these ones
hey oh thank you what's your name Hayden nice to meet you Hayden thank you very much I don't
know I don't pick up sorry Ah that's all right we're back for it so I really wanted to show you
the interior of the Phenom 300E they've got two at the show they've got the Phantom 300 and the
100 variant behind me I spoke to the guys they said come back I came back they they had to go
they finished because it's a trade day they leave at a certain time and the aircraft is locked up
so I'm unable to show you what it's like inside this 12 million dollar private jet uh in lieu
of that though here are some stats because you know everyone wants stats it's got a range of 2
000 nautical miles it cruises at 464 knots cost 12 million it's not the same as going inside is it
it's not the end of my Aviation day I'm actually flying up to Sydney now
for something very exciting which I am going to share with you on the channel
one last thing if I met you at Avalon if you came up and said hello I spoke
to so many people today thank you it's so nice to meet you all I've said it
before and I'll say it again I love this community I'm so glad you're a part of it
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