Aviator90 Episode 25

Chris Palmer: [0:32] Welcome back to another episode of Aviator90 from Angle of
Attack. I am Chris Palmer, your host as always. But this time,
you’re actually going to look at me like the previous episodes.
[0:42] This time we’re going to talk about, not necessarily an off
topic subject, but something that isn’t shared a lot within virtual
aviation. Well, maybe more so virtual aviation, but not in real
aviation, a whole lot. That is the free spirit.

[1:03] One thing I absolutely love about the United States is that
we have a lot of freedom on what we can do with aviation. If I
wanted to take this aircraft up right now, even though I’m around a
busy city, I can go where I want to go.

[1:20] I don’t necessarily even have to talk to air traffic
control. I don’t really even have to plan. As long as I have plenty
of fuel for kind of what I plan on doing, which would just be going
around the area, or something. It’s fine, and I can do that.

[1:36] Now, the cool thing, the very, very cool thing about virtual
flying. So Flight Simulator X-Plane or whatever it is. Is that you
can do this without consequences.

[1:49] You can say I’m going to take off and I’m going to fly in
this direction and I’m going to see what comes. I’m going to find
an airport when my fuel gets low or I’m going to spend a half hour
flying and then I’m going to find an airport.

[2:05] Where this becomes really cool, is when you start getting
into bush flying. Alaska is really known for that. Pacific
Northwest from Orbitz is known for that where there’s just a lot of
off… I don’t know, grass strips and gravel strips in the
mountains and just random little places to land, and you have that
opportunity within virtual aviation to do that a lot, and I think
that’s one of my favorite aspects, and I think as aviators that’s
kind of what’s missing.

[2:45] I mean, why can’t we just go up and have fun, take things as
they come, and land where we want to and do cool things and just
enjoy the aircraft, just enjoy flight? It’s one of those things
that we don’t do a lot anymore. It’s all business now. It’s all, “I
need to get from here to there. I need to go on this vacation.”

[3:10] And I think that’s one thing that really draws me to single
engine, low powered, slow flight is you just enjoy the scenery and
you enjoy the fact that you’re flying. And I think we get away from
that sometimes. We get all caught up in our virtual airlines, and
we get caught up in this product or that product, and we forget
that, you know what, we just love this flying thing, and we’re just
going to go up and we’re going to go.

[3:39] And that’s one thing, perhaps the biggest thing you’ll
notice in the rest of this series is that as aviators it’s more
important to take things as they come and deal with all the aspects
of flight, the situational awareness we talked about, the decision
making, the planning of what you’re doing. I don’t mean a ton of
planning.

[4:08] I just mean being able to handle what the heck is going on
right here, what’s going on with the controls, you know, what you
have control over. I think we forget to just slow down sometimes
and just enjoy the scenery and just enjoy the fact that we’re
flying.

That’s what we’re going to do in this series, and we’re going to
learn a whole heck of a lot just by letting things come at us, and
we’re going to do some crazy things, and we’re going to enjoy the
safety and comfort of virtual aircraft and flying in the virtual
world. So that’s what you can expect from the rest of Aviator 90.
We will get into some actual navigation, but for the most part
we’re just going to go. That’s what flying is anyway: [4:28] You
just get in and you go.

[4:58] So that’s going to be it, and that’s it from the free
spirit. I hope that gets you pumped up for the next 10 episodes,
and I’m excited, guys. This is going to be awesome. So until that
next episode, throttle on!

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