Good morning flying friends and welcome welcome to Melbourne and welcome to 2018.
I know another year and you know what that means it's time to set our 2018 New
Year's aviation and travel resolutions. Now I'm a big one for goal-setting I
think if you don't actually set a goal and hold yourself accountable to it then
what's the point in having one in the first place. So what is my resolution for
2018 well right now you're watching in 1080p and I think I'll keep it to that
maybe go up to 4k later in the year yeah. All right maybe the first resolution
should be no more Dad jokes... but no I can't promise that. Without documenting
goals and without sharing them with you then there's no way that I can really
hold myself accountable like I say so here are my five New Year's resolutions
that I've made for aviation and travel which hopefully is going to make this
channel a whole lot more interesting and a whole lot more exciting throughout the
rest of the year. Resolution number one travel more. Now I set up this channel to
share my travel and flying experiences with you all and I've looked back - over
the last six months and actually realized that most of the videos on this
channel had nothing to do with travel and everything to do with flying itself.
Which is cool and that's a big part of what I do in my life and it's a big part
of why you subscribe to this channel in the first place but the travel component
the exploring new countries and finding new places to stay things to see is also
really important to me. So what I'm going to be doing in 2018 is starting to set
up some more of these mini playlists for these travel vlogs that I'm going to be
releasing on the site and this will start next week with the first mini
travel vlog that I'll be publishing which is up in Port Douglas in tropical
North Queensland. Now Port Douglas is really interesting
there's loads to do up there I'm hoping to get out on a boat I want to do some
snorkeling, there's walks that you can do there's the resort lifestyle the travel
up there and back the food you can get the town itself. There's so much to
explore and discover and stuff that I want to film and again share with you
here on this channel. But it doesn't just stop at Port Douglas either because
coming up for the rest of the month I'm actually travelling to Singapore for a
week and then I'll be in Thailand as well and there's going to be some really
cool places that we're going to go and visit on those trips. And I want to share
those with these new mini travel vlog playlists on the channel and I'm gonna
make it interesting which actually leads me on to
point number two, and my next New Year's resolution. This comes down to filmmaking
and this is really important for me on this channel if I if I really want this
channel to grow and really provide you with the best sort of content that I can
I want to make sure that what I'm putting onto this channel
through this camera is if the highest quality it possibly can be. Sometimes
these movies that I'm putting out can be a little bit bland the colors have been
lacking a little bit they've not been as sharp as they could be so over the last
few weeks what I've been working on is trying to improve my techniques in terms
of trying to make sure that as well as having the good story that's there and
the informative content that I know you like just the way it's filmed and the
visuals are a lot more cinematic and a lot more interesting to look at. Just on
the vlogging stuff for a second I did actually consider my new year's
resolution was going to be I want to do a daily vlog on this channel. So every
single day in 2018 I wanted to upload a daily vlog on to the channel but I
decided not to do it in the end because whilst I am doing a lot this year
probably more travel and more flying than I've ever done before I didn't
really think the daily vlogging style was going to suit you guys out there. So
I'm gonna keep it short keep it concise and just work and work on those mini
travel vlog playlists so you still get that dynamic content uploaded frequently
but it's not just, you know, good morning. Here I am at the shops and
buying some bread and off to get some milk...
My next resolution actually involves the ways that I'm coming up with ideas for
content on the channel and one thing I've been asked to do quite a lot when I
produce my travel and flying videos is to get you more involved in what's
happening behind the scenes. Now this obviously means for flying content it
means getting you more involved in the actual flight planning itself so how am
I deciding where to go to and what am I doing in order to make sure I've got
permission to be able to go there but for the travel vlogs I've been talking
about as well it also means involving you in where am
I traveling to and who am I flying with and which carrier is best and why have I
chosen to go that way. But also there's heaps of stuff around frequent flyers
status credits how to earn them how to maximize your frequent flyer scheme if
you are a member of a frequent flyer club out there and then also there's stuff
to do with airports as well so which airports are better to travel to which
airports have got the best lounges. All that planning is a big part of flying
and travel and this year I want to try and involve you more in that
so you can learn some of the tips that I've learned over the years of traveling
hopefully you can benefit from some of those tips too. There's two lawnmowers
now by the way up I'm just down at my local sports oval down here in Melbourne
I thought it'd be a nice background but I'm in danger being killed by a lawn mower.
I'm just gonna jump this fence
And so my final resolution and this one involves
you guys directly. My final one is that I want to get more social and what I mean
by that is not to start posting more stuff on Twitter because there's already
a lot of stuff out there but no get more social with yourselves. I want to start
setting up more conversations between me and you but also between yourselves.
Both here on YouTube and also across the other social media channels
that I live on. Now had some comments recently when I did the live feed that a
few of you guys didn't know it was going on so I just wanted to remind everyone
out there that if you want to keep up to date with what's happening outside of
YouTube in my aviation and travel life then follow me on you can follow me on
Twitter on Instagram or on Facebook all the same just @stef747. So in 2018 I
want to use these channels to interact more with you and start getting you more
involved in the stories that I'm creating for this channel. Do reach
out to me and let me know if you've got ideas for places that I could travel to
in the Cirrus or countries that you think I should travel to to make travel
vlogs on or if your airfield is doing a fly-in for example then let me know
because I'd love to fly the Cirrus up come and meet you come and have a look
around your local airfield as well. And hopefully together as pilots and
travelers we can just communicate more and realize that we're actually not that
different at the end of the day we're all very similar we're all sharing this
planet and we've all got this common love of adventure and exploration and
that's really what I want to try and bring to everybody who's watching here
today and and through 2018. Alright I'm battling with the lawnmowers
guys I'm not going to win this.
Now I'd love to hear from you as well
about what you're planning for 2018 what are your travel and aviation plans let
us know in the comments below it also helps give other people great
ideas just to hear what everyone else in this community is up to. Otherwise that's
pretty much it for me and New Year's resolutions so thank you as always for
watching it means so much to know you're
supporting the channel give us a like if you enjoyed that content and if you're
looking forward to 2018 as much as I am hopefully I'll see you more in this
channel in the future. Don't forget to subscribe
travel safe and thanks as always for watching, I'll catch you soon.