Videos

Interesting Videos:

• Electric personal aircraft and rocket jetpacks: https://youtu.be/Fn_YXql9oiY

• See radio goes out (5 minutes) https://youtu.be/1Fs9dhju6V0

• Fabulous animation of Vx vs Vy in simultaneous airplanes (Vx plane path is STEEPER but doesn't go as far up nor far sideways as Vy plane at any time T) at 19:50 of https://youtu.be/uu-V7lU8R00 "gold star", Brian Schiff, NAFI, and aopa! (beware: at 26:50 there's video of double-fatality crash of take-off, engine fail, try to turn back, stall-spin.

• PBS American Masters series inspiring 9 minute episode from "Unladylike2020" series. This one is about Bessie Coleman, first African American Woman Pilot . Parachutist, too. Warning: images from lynchings during minutes three to four. See also article about Eugene Jacques Bullard, first black American fighter pilot, (in France in first world war, later a Jazz musician, and spy in WW2) [also in wikipedia/EJB]. 

• Radio! 

  1. Practice calls out loud! 17 minute video: https://youtu.be/qVD-zAhHQW0 first 10(?) minutes is mostly clearance delivery, CRAFT

  2. Solo student gets some help, audio + atc radar view: https://youtu.be/pTpcctMNMYg (See videos of student solos, below.)

  3. Screw-ups when talking to ATC: https://youtu.be/020bxY314Pc

  4. Other pilots help student soloing with throttle stuck to full power: https://youtu.be/nrsJ1lhQ9Pc

• Early attempts at flight (film: https://youtu.be/Je8wxnoEkug , cartoon: https://youtu.be/gI3wPhy5j-Y ).

• “You Can Always Go Around” (music & lyrics by http://www.kendravis.com/)  (There are several videos with this song: I'm linking to the one with better images (and bad sound quality at very end): https://youtu.be/opMdtzhg5_Q This video includes ...

  1. Bob Hoover (see https://youtu.be/g7R7jZmliGc) and 

  2. “St Barts” (ICAO code “TFFJ,” has IATA code “SBH”) airport w/ 2000' hill runway on Carribean Isle Saint Barthélemy landings & go-arounds: https://youtu.be/3FrYGqaW94o, https://youtu.be/JBxpxK3MO5w, and https://youtu.be/09GL3KKBSJE and pilot eye view landing at St Bart's; https://youtu.be/6l-vso323iw), which complements extreme x-wind landings https://youtu.be/CI9YthsaL6g.  

  3. and here's another "You Can Always Go Around" music video with crosswind landings galore.

• Student first solos!

  1. with go-around on landing 1 attempt at 14:00... (T&G 18:42, fullstop 24:30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jfRs2xsjtc      

  2. another fun first solo: https://youtu.be/l5lTlcHUDPU 

  3. another https://youtu.be/6WdYThSNTNA with joyful student, ends with water buckets ritual. )

• Engine-out landings (think about forced landings, rejected takeoff, and discuss loss-of-power after takeoff).  

  1. -- c205 w/ Juan Brown play-by-play! https://youtu.be/C30b2OQDj_8 (ATC helps the pilot find a field for dead-stick (dead prop) landing.

  2. -- c152 in Israel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKTnT1rVmQo, 

  3. --c172 simulated engine out: https://youtu.be/x0y4XcqeQ88 

  4. --c172? into field, https://youtu.be/PTrLxkVOShg (the following old (original) link now unavail? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LwauGvpQ3w )

  5. --c172 onto interstate highway: https://youtu.be/hisTNkN_sJY

• Other takeoffs and landings

  1. sweet landing of c150 in farm field: https://youtu.be/wLXpfFl6kKY

  2. On climbout, gentle attempt at the "impossible turn" https://youtu.be/HiT4qzKpnQ4 (re "impossible turn" see Brian Schiff article and webinar & video.)

• https://flyzolo.com/     19-year-old Zara finishes her solo round-the-world flight: video https://youtu.be/DDJ_iPZWh1g (follow-up info: her younger brother has now done the same, in 2023, setting a younger age-group record).

• "Daily dose of aviation":

  1. starts with MZeroAlpha's watermelon into prop at KVNC https://youtu.be/dSrlIVPooEk

  2. starts with jet maybe land on occupied runway: https://youtu.be/CLzx31ek8g4

  3. stall in takeoff (no major injury) https://youtu.be/9l4kBR-HC3o

  4. 747 carries space shuttle https://youtu.be/2zZdYUdR4WQ

  5. (defunct in 2023) Great daily dose with attempted plane-swap gone wrong and other cool stuff: https://youtu.be/rLr4U7u5IVs

• Pilot requests landing at military base https://youtu.be/xbbMNw6UfLo

• Skeptical viewings of Trevor Jacob's multi-camera bailout when he abandons his plane which crashes in California with no one onboard. (Pilot & skeptic Dan Gryder thinks it's a double-fake; pretending to be a fake!) NYTimes Apr 2022: FAA revokes TJ's pilot license. (TJ in May 2023 agreed to plead guilty to interfering with investigation; could get 20 years.)

  1. Questions by Jay Alaska: https://youtu.be/oRSZuC84CEg ,

  2. Detailed overview by Trent Palmer: https://youtu.be/724JxkwWqA8

  3. Parody: https://youtu.be/ZegkTKzDcg0

  4. New Career, ejection seat dummy: https://youtu.be/xKy-M7Uzrfw

• Hollywood vs Reality, Kelsey re Madagascar 2's "Penguin Airlines" documentary. Pretty accurate and realistic: https://youtu.be/nmkMkoh7e_Y

• Movies by Gary: gary fly 2017 (7 minutes of aerobatics): https://youtu.be/Zz2vdMufyXo

• Movies by Mike & Gary: 

  1. The Pattern, 2020 (trailer) https://youtu.be/s1XaZBI3u1o 

  2. The Pattern, 2020 (movie)   https://youtu.be/osX4S3DLntI  [Assignment: Let's require pattern w/ precise altitudes for saving on video: take off, climb to 700agl, left 90° turn onto xwind, keep climbing to 1000, 90° turn onto downwind, maintain 1000, start descending with left 90° onto base at 700', left turn onfo final, descend to 50' agl and fly along above the runway!] Extra: Jon of fly8MA youtube teaches pattern and no-tower radio calls at KVNC.

  3. Preflight, 2020 (movie) https://youtu.be/Os5waAIREkY

• “How to hold a glide slope, the secret” (https://youtu.be/-a-3xUAelvI) says regular 3° glide slope = 500 f/m @ 90k in Cessna 172. (More speeds & descent rates at http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/gs.htm ) Suggests slowing from cruise to glideslope by pulling power and holding altitude (staying level rather than nosing up) until speed is down to 90k, then nose down for 500f/m. On glide-slope use normal landing technique: pitch-for-speed and power-for-altitude (descent-rate)! (If change one, usually have to change the other.) Keep those gauges where they ought to be. Helps to know the appropriate power setting in advance: for c172 use 1700 rpm.  Note from pilotworkshop commenters: “In my mind, the smarty-pants in the right seat makes sure the scaredy-cat in the left seat stays safe.”

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• 2018 “Spitfire” movie! (Requires sign-in to appleTV.) Women fly spitfires at 52:50 (also 1:26:00, Mary signed her old plane). At one hour is the lost flight to Malta island. 1:08:00 is international & poc pilots; 1:23:00 is ethics (war).

• In 2014 January door-plug falls off 737. (leads to goo doc with picture, video, article)