This is one of my absolute favourite times to be at any airport it's 6 30 in the morning
the sun doesn't rise until 6 53
i'm the only one here i've got the whole place to myself there's no one else here.
This is Moorabbin airport it's the biggest general aviation airport here in Melbourne,
Australia. But there's nobody here i've got the whole place to myself
this is by far my favourite time to be at an airport not just because i do have the
whole place to myself and i can do whatever i want here right now but look at this sunrise.
That video i made a couple of weeks ago about one of my weaknesses being a bit lazy sometimes
resonated quite well with you so i do want to touch on that again today but the plan
to be honest is very straightforward today i'm going to get in the plane
i'm going to take off i'm going to head south that's the plan that's basically it
i do talk about weaknesses a lot on this channel talked about self-doubt imposter syndrome laziness
but the the older i get the more i realize that weakness is a relative
term and it's you comparing yourself to someone else you're saying you're not as
you're not as this as someone i think the older and maybe the more stubborn i get the more i
realize that's such a futile exercise comparing yourself to others is one of the best ways i
believe that you can stop yourself growing and achieving your full potential thinking
everything's good on the batteries there which is good i'll check the left magneto
back to both and check the right
all good back to both alrighty we have a happy echo yankee zulu
if you've watched this channel for a while the other thing you'll remember is that when i fly
this early in the morning from moorabbin the tower is not actually active so it is still
a ctaf common traffic advisory frequency once again the only pilots i'm talking to
currently at the airfield are the ones in this aircraft that's the uh there's no one else here
ramen ctaf series echo yankee zulu is entering and rolling runway three five right
be a downwind departure right turn tracking to the south rabbit traffic
temperatures and pressures are good
up we go
okay 500 caps now available make a right turn
we're climbing 2500 tracking southbound some rabbit traffic
very pretty
so i'd go and check out the south coast today i know sometimes on these early morning flights we
either do the city orbits or we just go down the coast to the heads at the bottom of port
phillip bay here in melbourne but i thought we're actually going out the south coast
i do think i'm a bit of a loner like i really enjoy my own company i'm very comfortable
kind of being in my own company but as a pilot that's actually a really good thing because
there's no one else here see being a loner is quite a good thing if you want to sit for hours on
end on your own in an aircraft i think having that comfort in your own skin and being confident to
be in your own environment and not needing other people i love having other people around me i love
my family and my friends but don't need people around me all the time and i actually think for me
that makes the long trips that i do that waking up early in the morning and coming to the airport
on the own it makes it a lot easier to do and therefore i think if you are a little bit of
a loner or at least if you really enjoy your own company being a pilot is a pretty good thing to do
the second one is i'm a little bit of an anxious person i suppose i wouldn't say i
suffer from anxiety but i do get a little bit anxious around you know large groups of people
and big noisy environments i tend to be a little bit skeptical of the world around me i question
a lot of things before i'm happy to go ahead but again i think that sense of cautiousness
and almost that sense of anxiety that you have as a person can again really help you in the
aviation world because skepticism is a good thing to have in the cockpit i'm not saying go the full
hog and just think that everything's going to go wrong and be so completely anxious that
you know you're not going to enjoy the flight and you're never actually going
to get out there and do any aviation yourself but i just mean questioning things and being
you know being a little bit skeptical of what's going on around you at any one time just because
the engine looks like it's doing all right now will it be doing all right in the future what if
it's not where will i go where will i land the aircraft like in a social environment having so
many questions firing through your head which i do all the time is not necessarily a good thing
but i think here in the comp it actually gives me a lot of beautiful the southern coastline here we
go so if you keep going out that way to the ocean you get to tasmania and past that you get to
antarctica there's nothing else down there i love this part of the coastline
730 contact me one two two decimal seven five expect star clearance
one two two seven five quantity the next thing that i would consider a bit of a weakness of
mine is i'm not very verbose when i'm in groups of people i'm actually quite quiet
and i think that's because i don't like speaking unless i feel like i've actually got something to
say when you're in the cockpit and also in all environments of life but especially in aviation
you don't want to speak unless you've got something to say and i'm not just talking
about on the radio i'm talking about you know briefing your passengers flying with co-pilots
just flying with friends you don't want to be sitting there chattering away you've seen those
air crash investigation episodes with cockpit resource management when there's just one strong
voice that's talking all the time and the other pilots don't want to question that strong voice
and that's caused some problems and some incidents in the past having a strong voice when you need it
and talking when you need to talk i'm actually really comfortable with that i'm getting more
comfortable in the social world but i'm very comfortable with that in the aviation world
all right let's turn her around
killing three twelve two zero miles right i'm still desperately trying to see whales down
here i still in all my time flying i've never seen a whale from the air from my own aircraft
singapore two to seven understood uh you can expect director wendy shortly for time four four
four seven it's so nice hearing international aircraft like singapore airlines just there
on the radio it's so nice i'm hearing that more and more as i'm flying around these days
it's also fun because i've got my first international flight in over
two years coming up well fingers crossed it's coming up in the next couple of weeks i'll be
vlogging that and sharing it with you on the channel i am so excited to leave australia
i didn't have any breakfast before i left oh that'll do um so actually i should mention
thank you kezzy's kitchen it's kind of sponsored like they didn't pay me they just sent me these
for free so well they paid me in food and to be honest if there's any other companies
out there that also want to pay me in food then i'm very open to that please pay me in food 100
vegan as well for all my plant-based friends out there
you know in the early days of the channel i've been plant-based for a while in the early days
of the channel i was actually quite ashamed not ashamed i was quite worried about talking about
that because i thought people watching me oh bloody vegan don't really care about what he's
saying but i think that actually is part of this whole thing that i'm talking about in the video
today which is embracing those individualities is a really important part of life the older i
get the less i care what about what people think about my individualities and the more i actually
start to embrace them so if you are watching this and you are a bit of a loner as well if
you do go to parties and you're the one standing in the corner because you don't know what to say
to anyone if you feel a bit anxious sometimes or nervous around people don't worry about it there's
lots of us out there and if you're looking for something to do as a hobby or as a career i reckon
aviation is a great thing to get into i think that list of personality strengths not weaknesses
it's almost a prerequisite for this world i mean we're a funny bunch of pilots like who would
choose to wake up at five o'clock in the morning just to hop in a plane in a chilly airport fly
this is brilliant
grabbing traffic serious echo yankee zillow is seven miles to the south 1500 just a carom
inbound uh straight in approach runway three five ride estimate circuit type zero zero
well this could be interesting because the tower could uh come active
right as we're coming in for our approach but we'll keep going as normal
station towers now right but we're gonna run away three five left and right
the q and h here is uh one zero zero eight good morning and uh through while south we have
echo yankees yeah we're on a two mile final three five right can we go three five left
okay that's approved three five left okay thanks i've left your number one number
and sorry i stepped to you but i got clear to land no not just at the moment i'll wait until i see
you and have a proper look at the runway and then we'll go with that roger that thank you thank you
if you like aviation adventures check out this playlist of me attempting to
fly around the border of my home state of victoria 5 000 kilometers
using only a paper map fun adventure over a couple of days if you like flying you'll enjoy that one
but thank you as always for watching embrace your individualities and i'll see you in the next video