So remember that video i put up about flying into the Wollongong air show traffic okay we're going
around yeah that one about the go around because there was me and another aircraft converging at
the same point well after that went live the pilot of the other aircraft actually reached
out and sent me an email giving his version of the events that unfolded on that day
now if you haven't seen that first video click here because what's about to happen might not
make sense but if you have seen it you're gonna love this the pilot of the other aircraft his
name is pablo not only did he send me that email but he's also agreed to jump on a zoom call so you
can hear it from his own words before watching this conversation though please just remember
nobody's perfect we're all human and we all make mistakes and every pilot that's out there
flying is learning every single time they fly me included so please if you are going to leave
a comment below on anything that's said in this video please keep it civil and please only leave
comments that just help the aviation community grow for the better pablo nice to talk to you
yeah yeah at last we talk i know at last indeed the internet can bring out the worst in people
unfounded opinions name calling but i also think the internet can bring out the best in people
and and connect people together you reached out with an email just to basically connect and say
hello so i wanted to say thanks for doing that no worries no worries i'm um i am i was made aware of
the the video by friends and i went and had a look i was sort of a little bit annoyed to start with
oh you know this guy is talking about me you know and it's all that then i started
reading the comments and i thought that you were getting uh the pretty unfair treatment
that's why you know aviation is about learning and about having fun i think and a lot of people
got very serious with the comments and they didn't know all the facts and you made it very clear that
uh that you had heavily edited the video and um i think they should have said right before they made
their comments i've been a youtuber for a while now and you get a bit of a thick skin after it
but my i want to be honest my biggest regret about the whole exercise is not actually the
video itself but the fact that i didn't i didn't get in touch with you before putting something
like that on the internet and so i want to kind of in front of everybody on my channel here i want to
apologize to you pablo first of all i included your call sign and i don't think that was fair
but we didn't speak before putting that out and i didn't give you a chance to have your say
all right well that's very nice of you and yeah i apologize accepted and um i don't think either of
us did anything wrong uh so there's nothing to be ashamed of so a couple of things i mean looking
at the comments i did join base which is not the preferred option and the reason for that was that
i was coming in from the north and i was trying to basically not join the circuit fly full circuit
for obvious reasons i mean there's a lot of people in the air that trying to get down on the ground
there was not that side of the circuit a lot of the comments talk about the dead side there
was not that side as it happened there was an f18 hornet on the right hand circuit also your video
doesn't show some of the radio calls i made it makes me look like i just popped out of nowhere on
base and i wasn't you know i was talking to to the f-18 i did say turning bass where i should have
said joining bass and the reason for that was just to make it more obvious that i was in a turn uh as
i was joining bass but other than that you did the right thing you said oh come on that's rude
i know so i left that in i left that in because i really want to show this is like
honestly what happens in the cockpit but yeah i did i did say that well you should see me driving
a car in sydney traffic every day and sell you things like that sometimes when i'm on my own in
the car well thank you i want to keep the channel honest and you're absolutely right i don't think i
think any pilot who has had to do a go-around for whatever reason who says that they've never cursed
i think they're a liar we've all done it i will say one thing pablo just on you when you're saying
about your base call you actually said i think you specified a left base which you specified on the
radio and it was that call that actually allowed me to see you on the point that you make about the
radio calls absolutely 100 my videos often edit out when you think of all the radio calls to get
from moorabbin to wollongong in an ifr flight i mean there's probably about 10 of the radio
calls remaining so yes you know we were hearing you on the radio unicom heard you on the radio
everyone had the estimates across the radio but that wasn't presented in the video which again
could could look poorly from your point of view at the end of the day i i really don't um you know
as long as we both had fun and we both learned from the experience uh we we did our best and uh
you you did absolutely the right thing by going around the estimate the time estimate look i i
read it off uh us runways i'm not gonna lie to you um and it was correct according to my logs
i don't know what happened or how come it i seem to you know appear out of nowhere either your
estimates were wrong or my estimates were wrong maybe the clock was wrong but it's the ipad and
sort of updates itself not sure what happened there the thing that i need to learn and be
better at is that the estimates are just estimates one may be right one may be wrong they both may be
right relying on the estimates and thinking as i i just said on the radio i should be in before them
because i had an estimate before yours that's not the end of the whole event that's not me therefore
having priority so you use um uh i've planned as i i yes i do yes yeah okay so i use those runways
so we can even though they both have a facility to uh to share traffic but they don't share with
each other yeah that's pretty silly right so um so otherwise i would have seen you on my screen
all the way along i would have been a lot more aware whereas i had to basically based on your
radio calls had to basically put you in my on my map the whole thing was really a non-event um it's
what happens every day i think that if you look at most uh air shows you're gonna get situations like
this all the time where people turn up at the same time the irony with all of this pablo is i never
um wanted i never want my channel to be one of those you know oh my god i've crashed my airplane
and get 300 000 views with this video the whole purpose of the video was a learning exercise for
everybody and it's turned into a controversial moment i love what you said before and i 100
agree that this was a non-event because as i said in the other video as well at the end of the day
both pilots we landed our planes i hope you had a great day at the air show i mean i certainly did
it was a learning exercise that's and that's all i want people to take from from this to everyone
who's watching this first of all make sure you say thank you to pablo for being such an
awesome pilot for reaching out and coming and doing this for us but also
i don't want anything else in the comments about people's opinions on what happened i think we've
done that maybe we can all just draw a line in the sand at this point moving forward that that's
the beauty of our flying i guess you know that um that you get to learn and you know you get to meet
people that's how now now now i'm i'm on youtube you know exactly all right well you take care
mate and thanks again and um i look forward to meeting you in person one day yep sure sure thing
you