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No problem. Best of luck with the Skills Test!

Great. Glad you found it helpful. I guess that you have already found this official guidance but here it is just in case: skywise.caa.co.uk/pilots-guide-to-the-manchester-low-level-route-llr/ . Best of luck with the flight.

Thank you!

She's still going strong!

Thank you for the kind comment. Had a quick check in my log book. It was 29/07/20. Managed to get my 12 hours in during the window that we were allowed to fly last year! Small world indeed.

@@theflyinglecturer7813 indeed it was the 29/7. I fuelled at Sleap then direct Isle of Wight then back to White Waltham. Tiring but great day. I actually got the 12 hours too but only 50 minutes instructor time can you believe so am doing my Prof Check on Wednesday at Oxford.. anyhow great to see the vid and will enjoy watching the rest. Fly safe.

Thanks Joe. Enjoy next week. I need to get something booked in too. Hadn't realised how much I had missed it until I finished editing this one. Next vid = Prestwick...

Ian, thanks. Yes, that was us positioning for a standard overhead join but arriving from the East (the 'wrong' side compared to every CAA diagram that I have ever seen). Maybe we should arrived further North or South and then arrived from the West but I think that our track kept us clear of other traffic arriving on a standard approach. Ground track perhaps a bit more 'circular' than it should have been. Welshpool has a circuit height of 1500ft (normal for us would be 1000ft) and so, ideally, we would have extended downwind to take account of it. However, that (from our perspective at the time) seemed to be taking us a bit too close to terrain for our liking, forcing us to turn 'early'. So, that did leave us high but we got there in the end.

Thanks Joe. Are you flying again?

@@theflyinglecturer7813 Not yet unfortunately, I'm without a medical at the moment actually, hopefully getting it back soon but the CAA are taking their time of course.

@@JoeRichardson02 Ah, ok. Hope it comes back soon! Trips to Caernarfon and Prestwick up next (when I get a mo - just a small matter of the start of term to negotiate :) )

@@theflyinglecturer7813 Thanks, and nice that sounds great, I'll like forward to seeing them!

Great, thank you. Glad to hear it was helpful. Enjoy your trip when you go.

Thanks Rob. God to hear from you. Hope all is well? Been a bit quiet on the flying front of late for obvious reasons. Tried to go yesterday but, after months of glorious weather, once the rules were relaxed, weather turns rubbish (obviously) :)

@@theflyinglecturer7813 I know the feeling! Having my first go in a 3-axis Microlight on Wednesday, weather dependent, been waiting months to have a try! Can't wait to have a day out to Carlisle myself one day! Caernafon and Walney Island also high up on the list too! Any other recommendations?

@@robb969 nice. I have enjoyed my trips up to Scotland (Oban, Campbeltown). Much quieter on the radio :) Duxford for the museums, Newquay for the beach, Elvington for old times sake and the museum :)

@@theflyinglecturer7813 Thank you - I'll get those places on the list! Elvington - be sure not to get too close to our Electric-Lift aircraft!! PA28 would lose to that bomb proof wing! Empennage was nice though ;)

@@robb969 Lol. The other one on my list that I have not made it to yet is Glenforsa www.glenforsaairfield.com/

Thanks Joe. You will note that there is no commentary from the first 'landing' :)

@@theflyinglecturer7813 haha I can imagine the being some colourful language 😂

Andrew, thank you. Tbh, I think that he was bored :) I think that there is a comment at the end over radio that 'it looks like a proper airfield again'.

Ha, thanks Ross, how are you doing?

It was. Talk to Stuart if you are interested - he has organised this for the last couple of years I think. 2.5 hrs is a long time to be in BORL without a break :)

@@theflyinglecturer7813 Yeah I'd love to go with others like this sometime, my problem tends to be that I work in the week but I'll make it happen eventually, and I can imagine haha!

Obviously an homage to Stuart C!

Hey Joe, thank you. She is a nice aircraft to fly. And good luck with the check ride. Always happy to go flying so once you are checked out, let me know.

Did you spend any time there?

Andrew, yes, apologies, force of habit as a lifelong Lancastrian :). I use the NFlightcam GoPro Kit: nflightcam.com/products/nflightcam-gopro-cockpit-kit with a GoPro Hero 3+. It comes with a filter for the lens to take out the prop and cabling to plug into headset and directly into the GoPro. Very easy to use (except the one time I forgot to plug it into the GoPro, doh) and works out of the box.

Another way of doing it without a direct line into the camera is shown here: ruclips.net/video/kbyclqtP46A/видео.html. Hope that helps :)

I'd had a look at the standalone audio option (sure I've got a digital VR somewhere) but reckoned it would be a bit too much of a faff for me to have to edit in a separate audio track..... On a different note - appreciate your considerate approach into 10 at Sherburn - I know the dog leg can be a bit off putting, but we get so much grief from the villages at the western end of the field that every well executed circuit is a plus.....

It was my flying buddy Oliver that flew us in and he did a great job at the dog leg. It is a bit of a challenge but we always try to stick to local published noise abatement procedures for the reasons that you outline i.e. not annoying the locals and the local flyers! I suppose editing in an audio track might be a bit of a pain - which editing software are you using? I have Adobe Premiere Elements 10 on an old laptop and it is just a case of dragging the audio into the timeline. Cueing might be an issue but I suppose that you could give a hand signal and a 'testing testing' at the same time to get it sync'ed visually?