Dealing with bad weather making terrible radio calls having a lack of confidence
running out of money if you've ever thought about learning to fly you've probably faced challenges
like those in the past back in 2019 before pandemics were even a thing i organized a meet-up
with a bunch of pilots in the blue demon hangar to talk to them about the biggest challenges that
they've faced in their flight training careers. If you've ever thought about flight training if
you're doing your flight training now or if you're an experienced pilot because let's be honest at
the end of the day we're all student pilots then I hope this video helps you realise if you've
ever felt overwhelmed by the whole thing you're really not alone. Oh and just a warning there is
actually an incident in this video with a birthday cake so if you are easily offended by food abuse
you probably want to skip this video altogether. Okay back to 2019... So you whereabouts you and your
flight training at the moment i got my rpl license and i'm trying to get my ppl license what do you
think is the biggest challenge you've had so far with your flight training like when i started my
fly school the first thing was my english like i didn't have really good english
that's why i came here but right now yeah i am much more comfortable than the first days
your english is really good your english is way better than my turkish anyway it's like when i
started it was the really language challenging for me the when i when my instructor told me
raise the noise i didn't know the what does it mean the race yeah now i am building my hours and
it's hopefully it will be better yeah of course well communication is a massive part of aviation
maybe this little cute captain can be next to milkshake he says milkshake
jonathan you're learning to fly that's correct well what stage you at at the moment
i just passed ppl last week congratulations that's awesome i'm from rural victoria
definitely been availability of aircraft so there's no flying schools up my way that
offer training to the ppl level a lot of them do training to the rpo level and it's all in light
sport aircraft so yeah definitely spend access to good training yeah it's been the biggest challenge
how how have you overcome that then i've decided i just need to move to melbourne
and uh do a full-time course yeah get it done it's he's gonna hate this for his actual birthdays
so it's it's not his birthday today good all right but can you sing okay good happy birthday hey
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abby is one of the flight instructors at avia yeah avia avia i call it aviation as i should know
by now what do you reckon like some of the big hurdles were that you had to overcome to become
a pilot i mean everyone has it where they sort of stress about the final flight test it's like
everything's going perfect beforehand and then you get up to the flight test and you just made
those silly mistakes that you never do any other situation and it's just about taking a breath
and going back through it or going oh whoops i made that mistake don't stress whenever you
make a mistake just correct it call yourself out even in front of the test you obviously whoops
made a mistake i'm gonna fix it though this is how i'm gonna do it it's really hard to get into
that mindset but once you do it makes life so much easier everybody does [ __ ] up yeah but i think
the thing is we're really worried that people are gonna call us out for it yeah but you just
think own it and move on yeah just gotta own up to your mistakes and that's how you make progress
because you've got to learn from it somehow so yeah looking to go commercial yes eventually
eventually commercial what have been some of your hurdles it's not really something you can
control but the weather so getting enough flights in is probably my biggest problem
so honestly the way you really only way you can overcome that is really just to book more flights
to try and get as many flights in as possible and be flexible travis travis yep john john sid sid
what's the biggest thing that has held you back in your flight training and what advice would you
give anyone watching on how you overcame it i'd say the biggest hurdle was like the money but um
with swinburne as a university letting us train and like put our money on like hex which is
like victoria's pretty much um like a loan that the government gives you it's such a big leap i
feel like i think weather was definitely um a big factor in you know keeping current and having to
like you know um it's kind of hard to get bookings um multiple times a week and especially with a
lack of resources and instructors it's been like you know weeks when
i want to get flights or even months when i went ahead and have an hour and then it's kind of hard
to like keep the skills building yeah in that scenario probably the studies for me because
i came out of year 12 not really knowing what to choose as a career path and then like i was like
okay let's just do aviation see how it goes and probably the studies they're really different
um you have to put a lot of time into them and the exams they just keep coming
like right now we're doing cpl it's just like one after another another what is your by far the
worst cpl exam that you have to do what's the one that you hate the most for me it was human factors
i would say human factors were one of the easiest yeah yeah yeah maybe i'm just stupid remember when
we could actually shake hands with people when was the last time you shook hands with somebody
as usual i'll be hanging out in the comments down below so let me know what some of your biggest
challenges with your flight training have been shared with the community sometimes it's really
good to hear from other pilots and realize that the things we're feeling are actually shared by
other people and we're really not alone in having those feelings thanks to everybody who agreed to
be on film for that video thanks to blue demon for hosting but most importantly thank you to
you for watching as always i really appreciate the support and i'll see in the next video you