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Done this every year since 2020 whether I'm going to the real show or not. Best fun I have with my sim all year. Thanks for doing it again, guys.

LOVE this event! Thanks pilotEdge!

The L-3 chart doesn't show a hold there now. Is this because there's no hold here now?

at 3:17 assuming you were approved to enter the pattern, can you cross the runway overhead at say 500 feet above pattern altitude and do a 200+ degree turn and enter the downwind at 45 that way (vs going the designated flight path you have in red? Hope this makes sense

Note that at 15:48 and onward, the initial contact request doesn't actually include a request for taxi (even though that seems to have been the plan to do so, at least according to the briefing right beforehand), not sure if something got cut out there or not... I made that mistake in my CAT-6 of only requesting Flight Following and then not following it up with a second full request for taxi, so was left sitting in parking for a while :-)

I remember during one of my long cross country trips as part of my private pilot certificate requirements, NY Approach advised me to coordinate any transitions through Class D airspaces in my path. I had to switch frequencies and talk to the Class D controller while transitioning through their airspace, then returned back to NY Approach for flight following.

You know, VATSIM is a great service, but it is absolutely geared toward IFR. The PE subscription is so worth being able to fly VFR without feeling like I’m a nuisance to the controllers, not to mention the fact that these videos and ratings are clearly aimed at people who are new to ATC communication.

These videos are absolute gold, wish I found this sooner

why does this only have 89k views? every pilot needs to watch this.

I'm not here to join in on the critique of airspeeds on approach, etc, but can we presume that for the CAT ratings, the evaluations are based on radio comms with ATC and not flying a perfect pattern, approach, etc? Naturally, you want to do it all correctly, but just curious about the specific criteria for CAT. IE it's not a check ride ;-).

I love this video❤️Everything makes sense❤

Do you guys use VRC? This looks like VRC

Coming full circle! I was using this as a student pilot for ppl (which I didnt get back then got it about a year ago) and now Im using it as I prepare for my IFR check Ride on Apr. 5

What does it mean when they say turn left closed traffic

This is so great. Exactly what I've been working on the last few days, and this video really helped fill in some of the finer points I had been missing. Thank you!

Does pilot edge can be used in Portuguese airports???

Cant seem to get the PTT/test on 123.450 to work

I just want to confirm that the free trial, 5 hours of "network time" really means what it sounds like. If I sign up for it tonight and fly for 2 hours, I could fly for 3 more hours a week from now, correct? I'm just used to video games that charge you for "premium time" that don't operate as online time- if you buy a day, you get 1 calendar day- so want to make sure. Thanks in advance!

Wow, those were some great tutorials. Thanks!

Can you request flight following even if you're going to a small, private airport?

You should do an example of how Guard works in the network.

My dude at 38:11 didn't deserve that silent treatment lol

Question, in this great and helpful video and the chart supplement i looked up on Foreflight, the TPA for single engine aircraft is listed as 1203' for KSBP. I've been seeing a lot of videos lately of controllers berating pilots for not flying procedures for noise abatement or some similar unpublished VFR procedures. Looking up the website for San Luis Obispo airport, they have specific instructions for single engine aircraft to fly a 1712' TPA. So what would you do here in real life and/or PE World?

So it looks like MSFS has the New Cuyama runway as 10-28, but looking on ForeFlight it’s listed as 11-29. Which do we use for the cat 1 rating?

Excellent!

Just got done doing this. This video was extremely helpful. Thank you!

Upwind is for go around this part is wrong departure Leg is when you takeoff not upwind everyone confuses this

Trouble dialing radio always reverts to 126.1???

It frustrates me so much that I KNOW what I'm supposed to say right up until I press my push to talk button then my brain completely blanks and I stumble like an idiot

Does "Turbine" mean turboprops? IE Cessna 208 or Kodiak?

Me talking to arc : “no you hang up first ❤”

What to do if I can't hear myself in headset? Sound bar moves in the test mode but no feedback in headset. Is this an issue?

The leg to fillmore doesn't have an altitude. Do you just use the previous leg's altitude? Wait.. I just looked at the chart myself and it DOES have an altitude of 5000 listed but the chart you had in the screencast did NOT have an altitude listed. This is the leg between Suana and Fillmore. Yeah original RNAV came before GPS that's why :)

One thing I'm curious about. You talk about how they may or may not pass you off to your destination airport. And I think in the video the "radar service terminated" in fact means they did not and essentially they canceled flight following? Trying to understand the why here. You asked for flight following, so under what conditions do they just decide to end it? Feels arbitrary.

"Handing us off to another controller" which is of course the same controller :p I swear there are only like 3 controllers on the entire PE network. Poor controllers must be busy.

Loved the glimpse to the other side of the curtain. Do you have more videos showing the controller side? I think seeing that side is a great way to learn.

Random thought -- kind of a "Behind the Scenes" thing but wondering if you found doing all these stressful? Did you actually fail any and have to redo them? Did you learn anything yourself doing them?

If they say something like "Remain north of the airport" how FAR north would be the standard? Am I crazy or did you call El Monte ground while over in San Bernadino? :D Glad to know I'm not the only one that makes mistakes like that! Also a couple questions about the piloting, but I know that isn't the point of these videos. 1. Report a 3 mile base -- any tips on judging distances like that in the air? 2. Not a critique, just my confusion, but it looked like you reported 3 mile base while you were actually on crosswind? Or did I misunderstand the pattern? I find entering the patterns very confusing spacially.

I'm curious why you said that you expected right downwind rather than something else.

No way I could ever fly this. Way too much stress for me! I'm shocked they don't have a pretty high accident record.

TPA one thousand two hundred.. and THREE. Can anyone actually fly a pattern that precisely? I sure as hell can't in the sim. The airplane is way too sensitive. Wonder if it is different in real life?

As an aircraft firefighter worked around airfields for 40 years and found this amazing! The spotters remotely located make perfect sense and explains the extra ATC traffic Completely understand if on a short final but very curious about how you handle inflight emergencies? Divert to an alternate airfield so it doesn't interrupt flow?

VORs are amazingly confusing (remember: your IQ drops 30 points the moment you sit down in the left seat) so hats off to the pilots who had to learn VOR nav without the benefit of GPS looking over their shoulder. Double hats off to the ADF pilots. Nice tutorial!

You make it look so easy!

So the planes actually fly between those two wires!! 🙂

These are great tutorials - I'm currently working my way through the CAT ratings. I know it's still simulation but I got nervous the first time calling! It's tough sometimes to understand what they are saying, even when I'm listening to our local Tower, sometimes I'm like "I didn't understand a word that controller said" -At the end, right before you are given taxi clearance after clearing the runway, does the controller say 'remain in the streaks?' I couldn't quite make out what you guys are saying there. Thanks!

LOL! How do you fly with flags on the HSI? Crezzyman!

Vatsim is free though, what’s difference?

I'm from Brazil, and I want not only to train but also to learn aviation English, would it be a good idea to use Pilot Edge?