Hey guys! What's
up! Jon here from Fly8ma.com and today we're gonna be talking
about what you can do after you get your private pilot's license. So once you get
a pilot's license, or even as a student pilot, you want to go do some fun stuff
with an instructor what can you actually do to put that license put that
certificate to use for you.
So today we're gonna go ahead and look at what it takes to go ahead and take
some photos in an airplane. So if you want to go do a little photo shoot, maybe
take some pictures of your house, or friend's house, or some buildings, or
downtown. How can you do that, especially when that downtown area
lies right underneath a class Charlie shelf borderline right into the class
Charlie's surface air space around Sarasota Airport. So we're gonna be
looking at Sarasota today We're gonna go ahead and take some pictures of downtown
right there underlying the class Charlie airspace in within the actual class
earlier space right next to the airport there. So we'll go ahead and talk to
approach, maybe talk to tower if they want us to, let's go ahead and take a
look at how we do it. S we took off out of Venice we're approaching from the
south we're about 15 miles or so south by the time we go ahead and get the ATIS,
get the information for the airport and figure out which runways are using what
all is going on at the airport and then go ahead and tune in Tampa approach that
controls the Sarasota Charlie airspace and go ahead and get
ahold of them.
transmitting and receiving com one. And you're about 15 miles south of sarasota. You
have information whiskey and we want to go ahead and go down Soto so
it's going to be tamp approach echo whiskey soda requesting yeah you can
just say with the request and they'll and he'll say what's your request you
can say we'd like to go do some photography work over downtown service
over 1500 and below and below okay I can say this now
okay it's like I can't hear anything
all right you can go ahead try again all right four eight seven six echo with
information whiskey 208 camper do you see the antennas ahead and peerless you
need to go to one-one-niner point nine and with your position in our question
alright we're like really high try to give it another shot here in a sec
alright whatever catch a break go ahead and chime in just tell her your call
sign your book I can climb maintain so we say are there space that little
pointing there is the ten mile ring and one will make this hole up 360 can go
ahead and try to get another word okay
so wait till you catch a break there and chiming pretoria eight seven eight six
echo with information whiskey with the request
we read that makes a sec okay go ahead
photography work over you would just like to go over a camp upper photography
work eight seven eight six echo downtown Sarasota Oh what anything you said Tampa
I bet downtown Sarasota eight seven eight the connect oh my bad are you big
that goes Clark zero one five four zero one five four eight seven eight six that
go cool direct where we want to know if he hasn't given us any directions so and
we already got it right altitude 1500 altitude 1500 eight seven eight six echo
effect I want out caves you want to do the over fire downtown 1500 below 1500
blow a seven eight six echo a factor I'd repeat as a question what do you think
so you can just say we're eating go ahead aim right for downtown 1500 okay
but now that we've got the key location and we didn't have any restrictions like
you know a heading or anything so it's just direct to where we want to go and
we have that whole block of airspace from the ground up to 1500
fifteen hundred we're gonna be going over buildings
they're probably all you want to say about want to go so the general rule
like you have to say a thousand feet above the highest op school populated
and then 500 feet vehicle or vessel a person when you're in an unpopulated
area I literally hate talking to the
public my bad sorry yeah they're like alright we get it and they get it yeah
you don't even have to include all that you can I mean they understand you know
people aren't perfect yeah phraseology won't be perfect this
comes in time that was first you want to orbit around downtown affirmative huh
you say if I rip you a permit of eight seven eight six let go okay advise if
you need to go any further north in downtown
I really miss a will go it worried seven eight six echo right Wilco yes we'll go
where eight seven eight six echo so he said advisably have to go any further
north and downtown so we just say Wilco will comply we acknowledge that will let
him know if we have to go any further north and downtown they just want us to
stay over downtown not any closer to the airport okay
right just to keep us on with approach other than having yourself an hour
circles around go ahead make a left-hand circle so you get a better view and so
you can bear a little to the right is that way you can get a selfie Bank angle
your bank angle is right yeah so about ten degrees of bank is what's your I'm
literally so yeah so funny I can't think about a mile-and-a-half to South Beach
no Ella copters seven hundred feet look at traffic boy or eight six echo
well they gonna make sure that
you see the helicopter everything can't be a fighter above 1200 will maintain
VFR at above 1200 or eight seven eight six echo 1200 yep matter above 1200 you
got it the helicopters just passing right
underneath us I live I don't see em that's okay he's fired her feet below us
okay this is pretty
cool alright let's go ahead and we got a picture so let's go ahead and tell them
that we are going to go ahead depart the area back southbound okay and he'll
probably ask if you want fight ball you can tell them I'll go it without flight
following so negative flight following will go at 1,000 feet below a thousand
people Oh a thousand feet and below what that was yeah so you can tell we're
departing the area southbound all right
campus approach warrior eight seven eight six echo we are going southbound
reflective Venice thank you that's it yeah he'll come back and tell you at
some point here he'll say you can go ahead and squawk VFR freak machine is
approved so exactly in twisting 1200 well he's still talking to us because
we're still in his airspace technically and this is a good altitude yeah yeah
well hang right around 11 told her feet here cross all over all these houses and
we can go down to a thousand below okay I was thinking he might ask us what else
to do we wanted to go at and cut us loose if we told him a thousand went
below so we'd be out of his airspace so it looks like he wants to talk to us for
a little longer yeah I really love this plane it's like thirty just really love
it so that's pretty much all there is to it to go out and do some photography
work when you're flying in Class C airspace or a Class D airspace even for
that matter just contacting the tower tell him exactly what you want to deal
him ill you have a request and then specify that request with what it is you
want to do try to use notable landmarks or a distance from the airport that
you're going to be as well as what else you want to go out to really define that
block of airspace you want to work in in once they come back and say what is your
request talk to him like a normal person just explain to them exactly what it is
that you're wanting to do let us know in the comments below what it was for your
very first flight as a private pilot what was the first thing you went out
and did once you got that certificate and if you have any questions or are
curious about things that you'd like to try different scenarios that you'd like
to try now that you're a licensed pilot or once you get your license different
flights you want to do and how you might go about doing them or what you say the
ATC go ahead and leave that in the comments below and we'll get back to you
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