This is... This is another big YouTube announcement. So many people me included
here on YouTube are always making big announcements but I've decided to take
a new strategy when it comes to making big announcements [Music] [Applause]
dangerous fire [Music]
He Loves the Sunshine
Over the years I've made several big announcements on this YouTube channel here are a couple of
examples yeah you read it right it's not clickbait how do you fancy five months from when this video
comes out you me Echo Yankee Zulu want to go once around the world that announcement was three years
ago still haven't flown around the world for that second trip I was talking about and the reason why
I've put that mount in Echo Yankee Zulu is I've got a trip coming up very soon where I'm going to
circumnavigate Australia that one was four months ago and I still haven't I'm actually taking my
aircraft to another country and the thing about Australia being an island is when you fly to
another country you have to fly over Open Water okay I did actually do that one that was me flying
to East Timor but you kind of get the idea one out of three is a strike rate for announcements
to action it's not a very good percentage telling tens of thousands of people here who I'm very
humbled to have in the audience are you guys watching but telling that many people that you're
going to do something and they're not following through and not doing it frankly it's really
embarrassing for me starting in Australia flying up then through Indonesia to the Philippines are
going to be going up then through Japan over the top into Russia across through Iceland into my
home country of the UK I felt really stupid about the round the world announcement yes I know covet
happened like I announced it about three months before the lockdown started happening but other
people have done it since then I potentially could have done it since then but because of
circumstance and reasons I just haven't done it since then and to be honest I feel like
I've lost the power that I had of having that secret of my own because I've announced it but
then nothing's actually happened about it seeing other people achieving that goal that I hadn't
that I announced is fantastic and like brilliant to them I'm really proud of their achievements but
it really does compound my embarrassment and to be honest my sense of regret even more but like with
Aviation I am learning every day in my everyday life and I want to improve myself every single
day that I'm on this planet not for anybody else not even like I really appreciate you guys but I'm
not improving myself for you the whole objective of this and really this is a bit of a video that
I hope I'll watch back in the future as well but the whole objective of this is to improve myself
so you're going to be seeing a lot more of echo Yankee zoo and me flying her on the channel over
the next couple of months as I get ready for this trip you're probably wondering when I'm
thinking of setting off I've got a tentative date at the very end of June this year like
I said exactly five months from when this video comes out there's that well-known saying not to
actually speak louder than words and I always think that well-known sayings are they're well
known for a reason I really buy into the stoic philosophy um don't worry I'm not going to turn
this into a a big monologue on Greek philosophy but the stoic said it doesn't matter what you
think it only matters what you do that was Marcus Aurelius and I actually picked up that quote from
a guy called Ryan holiday he has an email called The Daily stoic he understands this way better
than I do so I'm going to link that down below if that's what you're interested in I subscribe
to his email I watch all this stuff but I've learned a lot from that but what I haven't done
is put that into practice as well as I think I could have done and would have hoped I would
have done and here's a quick something about me that I've not really shared on this channel
before and I don't I don't tell a lot of people so now I'm I'm obviously telling a lot of people
but I I'm not that socially confident I'm not great in big groups I'm not great with people
that I haven't met before I've got a close circle of friends and family obviously who I love very
much and I'm very comfortable around them but when it comes to having a voice amongst a big
group of people I'm not very good in kind of the real world so this for me this YouTube channel
for me is my voice the fact that you listen to what I say and respond to me and we can interact
like in the comments and online means so much to me so when I feel like I almost abuse that
by telling you things and then not following through with actions I feel like I'm really
wasting the privilege of having this channel but I don't want to do that anymore [Music]
is Albert Park in Melbourne this is where we obviously hold the Australian Formula One Grand
Prix it's about a month away starting to look like a formula one track again so on this channel
instead of telling you what I'm going to be doing I want to be better at sharing with you what I've
done now I've had a couple of questions about a few things I have done this week namely my IPC
or that's my instrument proficiency check which is an annual check that we have to do if I want to be
able to fly under the IFR or instrument flight rules some of you asked did I film that flight
and will I be sharing it the answer is no for two reasons first of all I was with my instructor it
was an exam I need to focus the other reason why I didn't film it is we did it at night I thought
I'd put up on screen my flight track and just give you a really quick overview of what we did so we
took off from moorabbin did the ILS at essendon's landed at essendon took off on the Sid that's a
standard instrument departure made our way all the way across to a place called Latrobe Valley and
you can see here on the flight track I did what's called a sector entry which is just a fancy way
of saying joining the hold I did one complete hold so flew all the way around then we did
the approach into electric Valley I did a missed approach which means I don't actually land hi but
I actually go into a missed approach as if I can't see the runway we did a couple of Maneuvers under
partial panel so Rob covers up my instrument so I can't see them everything's dark outside I can't
see the Horizon and then once that was done we made our way back to moorabbin flew the arnab
into moorabbin did a circling approach landed and thankfully I passed [Applause] foreign [Music]
if you are coming down to the Formula One Grand Prix let me know in the comments it's
going to be a brilliant brilliant weekend I think it's sold out months ago months ago to
really solidify this whole idea for me I'm going to do something that I've never done
before and I'm gonna screen record it as I do it to prove to you that I am doing it this is
my YouTube channel these are the videos that I've published if I scroll back in time to try and find
where is it it was pre-pandemic so it's before I made all those flights if you remember flights
in week yeah right I'm going to do something that I've never done before on YouTube to a
video which is actually performing okay it gets some views but I'm not proud of
it and I don't like seeing it up there and I don't want it to represent me on my channel
so I'm going to take it offline save
done okay that feels really good now next on the channel a huge announcement coming
up watch this video no I'm kidding of course I mean you can watch this video but no more
announcements no more announcements I'm just really grateful that you're on this journey
with me so thanks for sticking around you can click on this video if you want it's a good one