You may be wondering where all the flying content has gone on this channel you may be wondering why
i'm not flying echo yankee zulu anymore well i want to answer that question in this video
i also want to talk to you about why i think i've lost my mojo just a little bit when it comes to
general aviation flying and also i want to tell you exactly why i'm in Bobart Tasmania right now
so two weeks ago as i record this jack and i arrived in Tasmania we spent a nice weekend in
Launceston in a place called stillwater 7 which is a really nice hotel and restaurant we then
picked up a car drove to Lake St Clair stayed at a brilliant place called pump house point which is
this really cool converted old hydroelectric pump house on a 200 meter jetty right out in the middle
of lake sinclair and then when we were in lake sinclair we saw this on the news from 11 59 rpm
tonight victoria will enter a seven day circuit breaker lockdown and these restrictions will be
in place until 11 59 on thursday the third of june yeah sadly that actually i don't need my
sadly there were a few more cases of coronavirus which had popped up in our hometown in melbourne
these cases have been reported just a couple of days after we'd left to come down here to tasmania
and so we thought to ourselves that we can either go back home to melbourne
and go back into that lockdown or extend our stay and stay for another week down here in tasmania
i am really trying to make the most of traveling domestically you know you would
have seen if you've watched this channel for a while i used to love traveling internationally
as so many of you watching would have done as well but not only are we here in hobart then to
avoid that lockdown in melbourne but i really wanted an opportunity to like i say explore
a place that i know fairly well but not too well but also i just want to put my tourism
dollars somewhere and if i'm not putting them overseas i want to you know support some of the
local businesses down here as well so we thought stay for an extra week pay for some accommodation
for a week down here go to the restaurants and the cafes and the pubs spend our tourist dollars
down here in a beautiful place like hobart so we benefit from it by experiencing a really cool
town and hopefully we can help the local economy a little bit as well by spending our money down here
so we've been down here in hobart then for the last two weeks and that's a big reason why
i haven't been flying in echo yankee zulu and putting those videos on the channel but i'll be
honest with you i haven't actually flown echo yankee zulu for over a month now and there's
another reason not just avoiding melbourne for the lockdown but there's another reason for that
and i want to share that with you in this video because i think it may help some of
you who may be in a similar situation and that is that i feel like i've lost a little bit of my
enthusiasm and motivation for flying i think for me the big reason for that is i was supposed to
be doing my round the world trip last year and of course with covid that got cancelled
and when you build up to something so big over three or four years and then it doesn't happen
it's really hard sometimes to deal with that and i've been having a few problems just dealing
with the disappointment of not being able to to do that project now of course as you're watching this
i know people are having financial issues health issues there are way bigger problems than some 40
year old bloke in australia who can't fly around the world in his own plane i understand that but
just for me personally having been building up to that big goal last year and then not being able
to achieve that big goal has put a bit of a den in my enthusiasm for flying and so i feel like
it's not over the relationship is nowhere near over um there's some reconciliation to do
but i just feel like flying and i doing a little bit of a trial separation right now
one thing i'm really guilty of i wonder if you guys do the same is that i've also been sitting
here thinking i'm just gonna wait for the world to get back to normal again i'm just gonna wait for
kobe to be out of the way then everything will be back to how it was and i can fly around the world
once again and i can take that off and then i can move on so instead of constantly waiting like i
am at the moment just waiting for things to get back to normal and waiting for my round-the-world
trip to happen i think i need to start getting a lot better at well defining the new normal
there's a step there so to try and get that motivation with flying back again i've decided
to do two things one is to stop being such a loner and flying on my own all the time and involve some
friends so i don't normally say coming up in the next few weeks but coming on the channel
i'm doing a little series on formation flying we're going to do some formation flying
in the cirrus aircraft i'm going to do that with stephen from blue demon
shannon abby a couple of the other people that you've seen on this channel as well and the second
thing i'm going to try and do is whenever i'm traveling and i encourage you to do this as well
if you enjoy aviation whenever you're traveling see if you can integrate that into your trip as
well and being down here in hobart and never having flown on a seaplane before i know in 14
years i've never had any experience on a seaplane in the past i thought today i would change that
yeah yeah of course melbourne but i haven't
been there for three weeks so don't worry you're all fired
these are these are my um my fellow passengers from the flight did you have it
your son's a pilot as well it is going to be yesterday hi nicholas hi jamie hi nick hi jimmy
and hey billy hi billy enjoy the rest of your time don't fall in don't fall in don't fall in
it will make a funny last shot but don't fall in i want to say a massive thank you as well to you you
right there watching me right now um it's your motivation and encouragement it's you watching
these videos liking them commenting sending me messages on instagram all of that that reminds
me that there's a community of like-minded people out there people just like me i might be the one
with the camera here but at the end of the day we are a community on this channel and i'm really
grateful for the support so look if you're going through a bit of a lull like i am with
flying i just want you to know you're not alone i'm hopeful that i'm going to find my mojo again
i'm sure you're going to find your mojo again as well if the same thing's happening to you but yeah
thank you for the support it means a lot thanks for watching guys i'll see you in the next video
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