Is this the world's BEST air traffic controller?
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- It's so refreshing and disarming to come across such a friendly air traffic controller. Amanda and I have been talking online for some years, but we've never spoken on the airwaves together, until now!
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Hi Jon, I'm an ATPL student at one of 'the big schools' and I feel your CAA pain; my exam nerves kicked in just seeing you drive up to the CAA's centre! Best of luck with your retake (me and you both!) and future exams, congratulations for your two passes and happy flying!
Thank you. Do you have some more to do?
@@TheFlyingReporter I do - you mentioned March which also has my next exam week, so I'll come and say hello if I spot you!
Do they only run the exams once a month there or something?
Ah, Halfpenny Green! Forever etched in my memory, as it was my destination airfield for my first qualifying cross country from Gloucester. Also, at 11:45 in your piece, I saw the estate where we had our first house just half a mile from the airport, I quite enjoyed the smell of jet fuel on a summer's night!
Love this Jon, will deffo pop upto Wolverhampton soon. Well done on the exams, I agree totally about the Human Factors exam.
Thank you Terry
Hello! Love your channel! It's great seeing you here! 😊 Wasn't this a wonderful video?
Driving into the car park at 0:26 gave me flashbacks to exam morning nerves!
I know what you mean
Poppy is a DOLL !!!! - Excellent content Jon. - Keep up the great work ... and Thank you for sharing !!
I’m based at Luton and always hear Amanda…nice to finally put a face/name to a voice haha
Sorry to hear about your HP fail…I remember doing it. Whenever Eustachian Tube was a possible answer, that’s what I’d put haha
Watching this video during a short break from studying for the EASA ATPL Principles of Flight exam-I can relate to the struggle!
Well done on the exams 👏 I’m currently doing ATPl, passed instruments, HPL but failed met , so frustrating , I’m not a nervous person however the strictness and formality’s on the day at the test centre really got to me !!looks like I was feeling the same as you. I took a full week off after which has helped reset and focus, I’m back on track studying the next module and the resit !
Sounds like a good plan. I have taken a bit of a break, but need to get going again soon.
Your videos are such a great insight to the activity of GA flying. Thank you for what you do!
Thanks for watching Jack.
Quality content and I believe your best yet. Keep up the good work, so appreciated.
Thank you Alan. Very kind of you to say so.
Hi Jon. I sat my atpl exams in 2016. I only scraped through HPL (78%). Failed Gnav first go. Been flying the 737 commercially since 2018. We’ve all been there!
That's comforting to know, thank you!
I visited Halfpenny Green while you were there Jon, but didn’t get to say hello, sadly! The new eatery is spot on! One thing we did see while we were there, and maybe someone from the airfield can answer - what’s with the propellor engine mounted up on a really high stand, between the hangars?! Never seen anything like that, and would assume it would just pile drive into the ground if started!!
I seem to remember them telling me they are doing some engine testing there. I didn't see it myself while there.
I grew up in the early 60s very near to Halfpenny Green - used to cycle up there, go "newting" in the storage ponds and play in an abandoned Anson parked at the back. Had to keep an eye out for the scary security guy though!
Sounds like a great way to spend your childhood.
I'm overdue to do some cross country flying and have been thinking about where I should go. This looks like a great candidate for a visit.
Another first class video Jon! Unlucky on your clean sweep... I'm sure you'll pass next time 🤞🏻
How amazing to see so much love going into a GA airfield. Well done the new owner 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Kevin. It makes a real change to see the investment.
This was a very delightful video! Good show! 😃 It was entertaining, it was informative and a joy to watch. Thank you! 😊
Thanks for watching Nathan.
Bloody hell they didn’t even have that HF stuff when I did mine… I must be really dangerous! Your videos just get better and better . Many thanks. Steve.
Thanks Steve.
Class D in Australia is the same as the U.S. abbreviated clearances. If they acknowledge you can enter. Normally I get flight following which makes life easier since I will get continuous service early on and like the U.S. you just get swapped between frequencies.
Your exam experience with all the proper pilots matches my experience doing IFR. Was a 3 hour single exam here and was one of the more nerve wracking exams I did. When I hit the submit button and saw I passed I was definitely relieved (very close to fail) so was trying not to annoy other exam takers. I hate human performance questions it’s very abstract.
Looking forward for the re-sit - NOT!
Unlucky about the HPL result but the difference was only one question so I’m sure you’ll be fine on the resit, congrats on the other two subjects over 90% is really good. Looking forward to hearing how the next exam sitting goes. Good Luck
Thanks Oscar. I've just put them back to April actually, as there's a lot going on this month.
Awesome 😎😎😎😎😎😎 video
hi jon, im currently on an integrated atpl program, currently working towards my cpl. the fails are definitely annoying and get to you, but being on 71% it is quite close and nothing to beat yourself up over. I found that HPL is one of those subjects where you just have to kind of learn the answers to the questions on the bank. Realistically, how many pilots are going to be able to tell you the size of a nasal spray droplet? Keep up the work and you'll smash it, your other two results are impressive! well done
Thanks Sam.
Shame that you missed the HP exam, better luck next time!
I remember thinking it was super woolly through my Basic ATC course, but once I got my head around it the subject made a lot more sense, and you realise just how much human performance/factors can help close a lot of the holes in the swiss cheese.
Oh yes, I get it. It really makes you think about those human errors, and once you've studied it, it's all obvious. I just find some of the detail difficult to grasp.
UK is generally considered to have a very safe airspace. Well deserved investment to Wolverhampton
Great service at Halfpenny Green. We pretty much took over the cafe last year for a large Bulldog and Chipmunk formation. Which I think they put on their own social media. 😊
It's a true GA place.
Having taken a few of these I found little correlation between the formality of the candidates dress and the outcome of the exam. The relationship between number of epaulette bars and exam success is probably inverse 😁
Haha. I think they train those professional pilots well. So they probably do allright.
Love your videos
Hopefully I get to fly to this airport during my hour building in the next couple of weeks ✅🙏🫡
With it's fresh new runways.
I may have missed something, but are you saying that in the US and there was a Luton equivalent you could just barrel across the zone as you feel like? Or would they make it a higher class of airspace?
Last thing you need is an A320 appearing in your windscreen 😬
I think C and D airspace is just two way communication. Bravo requires a clearance.
A the CAA battleship…..how I loved my 90s visits for BCPL, perf, ATPL etc….funniest exam being the audio morse test , do they still do that ?
No. I don't think we have to learn the morse any more! I'll let you know when I've gone through the communications theory.
Is Halfpenny Green flexwing friendly ?
Check out 18:14, there's a shifty in the background so that's a start 👍
Also noted that Hadair microlight school operates from there; both 3 axis and weight shift. Landing fees currently £10 under 600kg when flights resume.
Never understood why pilots were allowed calculators on their exams. Engineering exams you're only allowed a pen. And I'm much more likely to have a calculator in my pocket than a pilot...
Your job isn’t several 1000ft in the air while trying to maintain altitude heading stay out of certain airspace’s , avoid traffic among other things. So having a calculator can greatly reduce workload and time and possible errors especially if the plane you are flying doesn’t have autopilot or equipment that can make most of the calculations you need 😂
None of us is any good at Maths!
@@TheFlyingReporter yah that too 🤣🤣
Hey Amanda! How's Chewy? 😁
Hi Jon, what camera are you using for this handheld stuff? Looks great!
I was using a Sony FX30 in this shoot.
@@TheFlyingReporter Ah, I thought it might be something like that. Looks sharp. Nice.
is the a320 winglet still there?
At the CAA? I can't say I noticed.
@ when i did atpls there, you’d go down the right side and wait. if you look further back,i think close to the windsock, you’ll see the winglet. i believe it’s an actual winglet from the neo, you see it front on so it appears thin. take another look next time you go ! :)
I don't know what you mean! All controllers are friendly aren't they!?
Of course they are!
Human performance is a pain even in ATPLs. Its full of complete fluff.
Haha. It does seem a little like that yes - some useful stuff too though.
HPL is the most subjective subject out of all, I hate it the most and in my personal opinion it should be kicked out from syllabus or simplified at least
Much of it is useful stuff. I just find it a difficult one to get right.
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😅you mean… you still have to take in a whizz wheel in this day and age ?
Yup!
Of course the USA does properly not follow ICAO either, so it's the USA that is out of step with the rest of the world when it comes to CAS.
Never heard of her
She's legendary in these parts.