Are you considering learning to fly and getting your PPL a private pilot license in this video?
I talk about flight training working with your flight instructor your very first solo flight
The equipment and gear that you'll need in order to be successful and how to pass your first aviation exam
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The first thing I want to cover like anytime you're studying a new subject is just some basic terminology
That I might be using during this video and that you'll definitely experience when you get to flight school
Most of them if you've already done the research to get to this video
Deep down in the barrels of YouTube somewhere. You've known these terms but
CFI, which is a certified flight instructor
They're gonna be the ones that are generally teaching you how to fly a demo flight, which is your first intro flight
Which is just some basic thing you can get off of honestly you can get that off of
Groupon or any those other places you can go up and do a hour of half-hour flight just to get a taste of flying
ATC known as air traffic control is this a general term that's used to when you're talking to control tower or anybody while you're flying
at ATC and then a glass cockpit a glass cockpit means a cockpit that doesn't have
Those round dials which are known as steam gauges
Like the old trains a glass cockpit is what you see if you've flown on a commercial aircraft and you look in the cockpit
Generally, it's about just computer screens. That's known as a glass cockpit
those are some just some basic terms that you're gonna hear especially when you get to flight school and I'm gonna bring them up a
Little bit during during this video. So I just wanted to give you some quick explanation of what does what those words are
So we're all on the same page the types of planes that you're gonna be flying once you get into flight school
The two most common and the ones that I honestly did the most were a Cessna 172 or 152
it's a small high wing aircraft either a 2 or 4 seater depending of so 152 or
172 or a a Piper pa-28
Those are the two that I had the most flight time in some schools have
Diamond da40 s or other variations of that diamond aircraft or Cirrus aircraft. I've never flown the diamond
I do have some time in the Cirrus just because a friend of mine
Had one and he was going somewhere and I needed flight time
So I jumped in for the ride and he was a flight instructor
So I logged all eight of those hours as far as I'm concerned. This guy is doing it, right
Those are the four most common planes that you'll generally see as you go through flight school
Here's a mistake that some people make is they want to go get the most expensive aircraft
They want to go get a glass cockpit because that's what Jets have the type of plane that you fly is
Totally irrelevant this stage in your career
If you're planning to pursue this as a career
if you're gonna buy a Cirrus and you and you're watching this video because you plan on getting your private pilot license so you can
Go fly your cirrus around then
Absolutely
do your training in a cirrus and prepare for it if you're doing flight school as a career choice and you plan on being a
Commercial aviator the hours that you build up early in your career
It's totally irrelevant what plane they are?
So don't pay an extra fifty bucks an hour to go fly a Cirrus when you can go apply a 152 or a 172
That's an older plane because at the end of the day when you pass your commercial check ride your final exam
They're not gonna say. Oh, well you were flying on a 152. Are you sure you can handle this? It doesn't matter
it's a totally irrelevant point and
When you go to the airline's they are also not gonna care what aircraft you were flying in the more money that you can save
Save it now if you have unlimited resources
And you don't care and you want to go fly the Cirrus then go fly it's a beautiful plane
I'm just saying do you don't need to spend the money if you don't have if your
Budget is tight as you're going through flight school, you can save the funds. It's not gonna make any difference
No, I'm saying you're poor poor
Because if you're watching this video because you're thinking
About being a commercial aviator and that's what you want to do as a career
You'll have a lot of older guys that have been doing this for a long time. That will say don't do it
It's a horrible career. You're gonna hate it. You're gonna miss your family
You're not gonna be able to spend any time around and you won't get what you want
Here's one thing that you really need to know about pilots pilots are whiners. We love to whine. Why do we do that?
I don't I'd honestly I don't know I have yet to figure it out
I was fine with the guy who had just got his dream job a couple weeks ago
We were coming out of Hong Kong and he was saying well, I just got this new job and it's a dream job
I've been one that since I was a kid and I was like all congratulations and then he started complaining is like, you know
But the thing is is this base that they have which is the new base that I'm gonna get a sign. This really sucks
Baby, I said bro. You just got the job. You said you've been working 40 years or whatever
He was about 40 years old. You've been working all that time in order to get that job now that you got it
You're still gonna be complaining and he said yeah, it's really not healthy. I just want to let you know in my opinion
It's an awesome job
It is a grind for sure coming up and getting your ratings and getting to become a commercial Avior
That is a grind there is no doubt about it. It's better than it was ten years ago, but I personally, I love it
I enjoy the company that I work for I enjoy the guys that I fly with
And that's why I'm making these videos
I'm making them so I can help people who want to be professional
Aviators or aviators and have questions about what they want to do in their career. That's why I'm making these videos
Now your CFI your certified flight instructor he or she is going to be
Someone who generally has finished their flight school and they're trying to get the hours
Hours or experience to be able to get their next job. That's generally who your CFI is gonna be they may have
500 hours or 300 hours or
2,000 hours. I don't know they're not always there because they really love teaching and they want to help you
That's generally not why they're there they're there because they want to get hours and experience. Is that your best?
Is that the best instructor you can get? No the best instructor would be a guy who really loves to teach?
That's just not how it works right now that the airlines are paying a lot
So there's a lot of guys that are just staying with those airline jobs and aren't aren't staying as instructors, unfortunately
That's what you're going to deal with now if you get a dick
Instructor that you do not get along with you got two options
You can either deal with it or you can ask your flights go and say hey, we're having a personality conflict
Can I get somebody else? I had instructor that I as I went through
I had one guy and for the most part everybody was really cool
One guy just didn't get along with and I just used him as little as possible and went with other
Instructors you can try to work through your differences you cannot it's up to you
I had female and male instructors actually the female instructor I had for my commercial multi-engine
Was an amazing pilot maybe one of the best instructors I ever had
You're gonna have some people that you're gonna meet that just naturally gifted pilots, and she was one of them
She was really good all the other spite instructors would look at her because she took me up
and when I was new to me a
25 knot crosswind landing and I forget where we were in the Duchess was well, that was a lot, you know
And she would go up and none of the instructors would do it and she said this is the max demonstrated crosswind
Let's go fly ie joking with me right now
I think that was more for her than it was for me because she got bored, but she was an extremely good instructor
So don't judge a book by it's cover if they're young or they're old. It's a male or female
It's totally irrelevant when you get into your career, and you're filing as a crew
You're gonna meet someone and you're gonna have to work with him
so
and
When you get an introduce your instructor try to make it work if it's not working then take it up and try to change it
Somewhere during your private pilot training you're gonna get sent out to do your solo usually I'd say it's around
20 hours. I got my private pilot license while I was in Vegas Durr
We did a couple of flights in the morning and the instructor said, okay good you ready for your so let's go
I don't know if you've ever seen that movie in Top Gun
And and if you haven't watched Top Gun, you have to watch that really
I mean, it's almost a requirement but one of the first scenes where they're coming in to land on the aircraft carrier
And he's all over the place that that would pretty much surmise what my very first approach
when I was alone was
It looked a lot like that and and it was windy he didn't say to come back in at land
Because they didn't picked the wind picked up. I felt like it was
Horribly windy and probably looking back on it. It was I don't know maybe ten not crosswind or something, but
Anyways, it felt crazy
So there's a few things that you're gonna really realistically need
These are these are things that I have they are not you are not required to get these things
But these are these are the things that I've chosen. I'm not sponsored by anybody even though if
GoPro or Bose wanted to sponsor me because I don't know I have 20-something subscribers
maybe they want to be getting in on this action, but
First thing kneeboard you have two different types of knee boards that you can get
They're a little metal board that sits on your leg
There's a strap around it you use it to write down different things that you get told or clearances you get told
There's a VFR knee board, which is obviously used for flying and clear weather and then there's an IFR knee board
Which you will not the IFR knee board doesn't apply right now in the train that you're going to go to
But it's going to suit your purposes. So save your money by one D board buy an IFR knee board
I'll put a link to the one that I use in the description below
You're going to use it through all through all through your flight school
And if you're a flight instructor you're going to use it then as well. So it's just a little metal board
You put a blank piece of paper on it and you write stuff down on it clearances or whatever
It is a frequency whatever it is
They they want to give you you're just gonna write it down on that paper get the IFR kneeboard. I'll link that
That'll save you some money on there
Headsets so this is gonna be the most expensive thing
You're gonna buy you're gonna have sometimes you'll have the school will be able to lend you a headset
Usually they have Dave Clark's their grain. They're heavy they clamp on your head
I personally don't like them, you know, they put out some newer ones that are better
I haven't used them my flight instructor recommended to get the a 20s the Bose a 20s
That's what I fly with now and I may get a different newer set. But for right now, I'm flying with the a 20s
They're expensive. I'm not sure the exact price. I think they're roughly $1100
I'll put a link to to that as well
the ones that I the ones that I use
My advice to be buy one good pair a headset that you can wear all the time
the noise canceling feature that you're gonna have on your
Headset is going to one. It's gonna make being able to hear what's being said a lot more clear and
- it's something you'll be able to use all through flight school while you're a flight instructor
When you go to your first job, you'll be able to use those headsets all that time buzz is a great company
Like I said, I'm not endorsed by them, but I've never had any problems when I you know
The earpiece is started to wear out and there within a few years of buying them. I sent a man
They sent me a brand new pair back. It was all refurbished
So they've done a great job as far as for taking care of me and there's something you can use long term
It's gonna be overall better headset to have on a long-term basis
so my
recommendation is buy just one good headset and be able to use that for years than have a
Crappy pair and then get a better pair later on
It's easier to buy one good pair another another common pair of people get are the Zulu Lightspeed's or the Zulus. I
Have not used those I can't tell you
I've heard good things about good things about them from different people as far as for their
Noise-canceling I'd say that's kind of the main competitor
I've never used them so I can't tell you but I'll put a link to the bows down below. You're gonna need a
6b it's a flight computer. It's this weird metal thing and it helps you calculate, you know winds and things like that
You're gonna use that through flight school and then you'll never use it again. Why do you need to learn how to do it?
I don't know but the FAA or
Whoever is teaching you want you to learn how to use it
So you buy it and you learn it and then you throw it away once you go to the airline if you're doing your check
Rides inside the u.s. There's a book called the pts standards practical test standards book or something like that
That book is going to tell you what to expect for your private pilot check rides
It's gonna go over all the things that the instructors can ask you or the examiner can ask you so they have a set number
of things that they can ask you that book will tell you all the different things that you need to study and that are going
to be in the exam
So if you read that book and you study based off of that you already know everything that they could ask you or that they're
gonna talk about so read through that and you can use that as kind of your
guide as far as what you need to prepare for for your flying and for your for your study and then the final thing is
Completely optional is getting a GoPro some guys like to get a GoPro so they can film their flights
They can put it on their wing
They can mount it
but
Down below is the one that I got you're gonna get told to buy a lot of different books and a lot of different videos
And things like that that you may not need if you have questions about it always in the comments below
Let me know when I get a chance
I'll respond back to you and tell you my thoughts on and if you're getting told to buy a certain book or a different
Different manuals, but those things are what I consider is your core things that you're gonna need no matter what?
So your checkride is gonna be your your final exam that you're gonna do you're gonna have your written exam
Which you'll do prior?
This is gonna be your flight exam and I made a whole video which I'm going to link to here in that video
I talked about how to prepare for your check rides and how to do everything a few quick things
I want to tell you before you watch that video
I talked about limitations limitations as you get deep into your career are going to be usually
limitation will be
Aircraft service ceiling how high the plane can fly or speeds of which you can extend your gear or extend your flaps things like that?
There's not a lot of limitations at this point of your career
What you'll have is limitations as far as airspace you can fly into whoo
You can fly in for what type of services things like that when I talk about in that video making your flight cards for
How to prepare and what limit making your flashcards for your limitations? That's what I want you to use
For that section of the of the preparation for your exam
other than that
I'm not really going to get into all the different rules that you're able to do
once you have your private pilot license
you're gonna get that from your flight instructor and you're gonna get that as you go through your ground school, but
The main thing is is is obviously passing that check ride. So I made a whole video about that
So I'll link that wherever that goes and I'll put it in the description below as well
All right crew that wraps up everything I can give you as far as preparing for your private pilot license and what to expect in
The comments below let me know where it is
You're doing your flight training and if you have any questions
Or you want to know anything leave that in the comment section below as well?
I look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up