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@ 06:01 PM, November 19
Hi Brady, you are doing just fine. I told you in a previous email that frustration can set in but this is normal. Pretty soon with practice, things will become automatic. If learning to fly was easy, more people would be pilots. You are becoming part of the elite (?) group. Thanks for sharing all your experience.
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@ 06:50 PM, November 19
AIM calls for the recipient of radio call (ie Osh Ground) to be first, followed by type and N# of aircraft. Example: Oshkosh Ground, Light sport 430RA, This deviation is a bit unusual from the Who you want to talk to, who you are and what do you want format called out in the AIM.
No doubt the pucker factor kicks in strong while communicating and in the pattern for landing.
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@ 10:10 AM, November 20
Brady,
Don't be so hard on yourself. I was totally impressed with how you handled yourself managing all of your tasks. It's obvious to me that you are figuring all of this stuff out and the fact that you are able to do so much after only a few hours in the air is very encouraging.
By the way, I came across the term "helmet fire" the other day on wikipedia. Look it up!
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@ 11:34 AM, November 20
"When we got back on the ground in Oshkosh, Jason told me most people feel overwhelmed when they first try to do all these tasks simultaneously." - Truthfully you are overwhelmed and will be for many more hours. I am surprised Jason has you talking while landing at this early stage of training. My CFI had me say the words out loud over the intercom initially after his actual calls and them before his actual calls. After I got more relaxed he would key the radio as I was "calling" - sneaky ! Then I was on my own, occasionally he would do the radio as we were in high stress situations and I was plenty busy. Aviate - navigate - communicate - in that order.
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@ 02:58 PM, November 20
You've accomplished so much already! You indicate hours flown so far, but how many landings so far and will you indicate landings logged for each next flight?
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@ 05:49 PM, November 20
Brady you have just brought the memories flooding back of the single biggest problem that I had in learning to fly, using the radio! Your video made me chuckle because I was EXACTLY like that. It can be intimidating even if you're normally confident and fluent in communications. I think this is one of those things that just comes with practice, slowly but surely. I found it helpful to have an airband radio tuned to the local airport, exposure to the "lingo" helps you pick it up, subliminally. You can listen to any number of live ATC feeds at www.liveatc.net
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@ 09:09 PM, November 20
Hi Brady,
I'm coming into your training a little behind the power curve, so please bear with me while I give a couple of suggestions...
__ Keep your hand on the throttle from takeoff through the climb and from the devcent until you are back at the hangar. My examiner almost failed me because of this...
__ As others have said, the accepted way to talk on the radio is "OSH Ground, Remos N430RA"...most instructors will say not to break up your radio transmissions, but I do simply because if the controller is busy, I want his/her attention before I try to tell them what I want.
__ Landings get better with practice...so practice, practice, practice :-)
I know that it really seemed overwhelming until one day I went out to the airplane and everything just "clicked"...and I'm sure it will with you as well...just DO NOT GIVE UP...you CAN do this.
As one CFI said to a class I want attending... "If you can count to 4, then you can learn to fly"
I'm excited to see the rest of your video blog.
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@ 10:43 PM, November 20
What a fantastic idea, for anyone wondering what is involved, this is an excellent way to convey the experience.
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@ 07:26 AM, November 21
Very informative. I am interested in what your equipment set up is to get the video in the plane as I would like to do something similar.
Thanks
Phil
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@ 08:14 AM, November 21
You're a brave man Brady, not for learning to fly, but for showing the world every detail ,-) I applaud you!
I just logged my 15th hour yesterday. It's good to watch another 'fledgling aviator' earn his wings. My co-workers just don't get my flight stories, glad that I can share yours!
see you in the air,
Brian
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@ 10:06 AM, November 21
Sounds like you're doing just fine. It's a pretty steep learning curve at first, but as they say, practice makes perfect.
I did my PP training at a towered airport (KHLG), so I learned the aviating and communicating simultaneously (every flight started and ended communication with the tower). I think this is one thing that makes me much more comfortable communicating with ATC than many other pilots are.
I found that using a radio scanner to monitor ATC communication in my spare time also helped. It's easy to hear what you need to hear when you know what to listen for.
Best of luck to you!
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@ 02:19 PM, November 21
I'm hoping to take my PPL checkride in the next few weeks. I've been a student for 38 years. I started in 1970 and took a great many years off and then picked it up again. Like some other I've been training at a controlled field so I've had to use the radio.
One thing I've found helpful is to use resources like liveatc.net jfktower.com and atcmonitor.com
I just sit in the evenings sometimes and listen to the chatter and learn the lingo and the flow.
Another thing I've used for navigating to new airports is to look at it using Google Earth to get an idea of what I'll see from the sky.
Good Luck to you
Randy Epstein
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@ 05:01 PM, November 21
You're doing a great job, Brady. When I learnt to fly, prior to my lesson, I had to write every little thing down that would be spoken on the radio throughout the flight, from start up to shutdown, including the ATIS, and the responses from ATC, with blanks for the variables. As I went through the flight, I would fill in the blanks, and then 'read' the sentence out over the radio, such as "G-BVFX, at the North Tees, with "Alpha", requesting taxi for a VFR flight to the "west" etc, etc. Everyone handles things in different ways, and that was what worked for me. I needed a lot of paper and a spacious kneeboard tho' ,)
Good luck with the flying!
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@ 08:39 PM, November 21
I am really enjoying your videos! They bring back memories of my similiar problems with the radio! What helped me was to make a pattern diagram with the typical radio tranmissions written at each appropriate position. Then I used to practice while driving a car. Keep up the posts!
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@ 09:01 PM, November 23
Brady,
You can be a great insperation to someone thinking about taking flying lessons.
I am impressed with the way you are putting this program all together. The realizum of it not being edited out.
I make sure I check every week to see how you are doing.
Larry
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@ 09:04 AM, November 24
Watching Brady's learning curve has brought up a question. In the case of light sport aircraft. During radio communications - what do we call ourselves? ELSA is easy as Experimental but what about SLSA? Osh tower - Light Sport - XYZ or Remos XYZ, or just XYZ. To me "light sport" makes more sense but what are we officially? I have a friend who used (note past tense) "Challenger" in his radio calls - created quite a moment when he was working with ATC in class C. - couldn't understand how he was able to fly at 55 knots in a corporate jet.
jim
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@ 02:11 PM, November 24
Tammy: Currently, I have logged seven landings (one per lesson and two on this last one). We didn’t include landings in the logbook data up top, so every now and then I’ll mention where I’m at.
Adam: Thanks for your comment. It’s good to know others have gone through the same learning curve and came out successful in the end. Thanks also for sharing the link to liveatc.net
Ron: “Helmet fire” should’ve been the title of this post. Thanks for sharing the term. And again, it’s nice knowing I’m not the only one that struggled with this at first.
Phil Solomon: In the future, I may do a post about how we are recording the flights because I’ve received several questions. For now though, here are the basics: we’re using two cams from raceoptics.com then synching them together with the audio recorded on an Edirol R-09. Using final cut pro, I edit it the video/audio together and toss in my narration (recorded on an iMac’s built-in webcam).
Brian: Thanks for your comment. Keep in touch and give us updates on your training. Have you soloed yet?
Douglas & Randy: I’ve listened to my handheld several times this week for those exact reasons. Thanks for the suggestion. Hopefully it will help.
Paul and Richard: Thanks for checking in and for your encouraging comments.
Janet & Phil: I really like your suggestions. Since I’m a visual learner, I think it will help seeing the pattern with the appropriate calls at each spot. I think it will also help to see that it’s always the same message with different blanks to fill in. I’m going to try this next time. Thanks for the tips!
Larry: Thanks for checking in on me. As long as the weather cooperates we should have at least one video a week - and most weeks hopefully more.
Jim: I’ve enjoyed your comments, and good question. Hopefully somebody will have an answer. Is it appropriate to use the manufacturer name in most calls - i.e. “Remos” ?
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Posted by
@ 06:04 PM, November 24
You did fine. If you find a pilot that says that he/she has never been where you are now, they are full of it. There will be more flights where you will be happy to be on the ground. Your solo flight will be one. I was never so happy when that plane was on the ground. Best of luck and keep up the good work, it will all come together soon.
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@ 01:47 PM, November 25
Brady...very inspiring to watch your progress. I hope to be a student pilot myself next year if all goes well. Your experience with the radio is very similar to my experience working in mission control at NASA. Its not "normal" communication in the sense that the protocol is very precise and takes some practice. I found that rehearsing these conversations (by myself) could be done as many times as I wished and really helped me to get comfortable talking with flight controllers on a headset. After a while, you'll be as comfortable as talking on the phone. Great videos...looking forward to seeing more!!!
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@ 08:02 AM, November 27
Keep up the video reports! I totally relate with your experiance. Entering control space and making those decisions while listening and communicating with the tower is truely multi-tasking. Can't wait to see your video on IFR through the same. Now that winter is here we will surely have some IFR weather to contend with.
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@ 09:10 AM, December 01
Brady, you're doing great. Keep it up! One thing that really helped me with radio communications was to use the PC software program Aviation Radio Communications Made Easy, VFR Edition, from Comm1. You're right- it CAN be intimidating. But the Comm1 exercises really helped.
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@ 11:27 AM, January 02
Great Blog! your doing well. Just wondering, what type of camera is on the dash of the plane?
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