Join us on a special birthday flight adventure! 🎉 It was Jackson’s big day, so Justin suggested a quick trip from our home base at Gloucestershire Airport to London Oxford International to visit our friend Dan, who recently started working in the control tower there. It was awesome catching up with Dan and even chatting with him on Oxford Tower during our inbound flight!
Our journey also included a Zone Transit through the Brize Zone and a MATZ penetration through the Fairford ATZ. After leaving Fairford, we routed back to Gloucestershire via the Northleach Roundabout VRP. Great fun! ✈️
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Great content, I'm on my navigation phase now and this is really helpful, Brize zone refused the zone transit to me last week, I'll try again next Sunday hopefully they will allow me, fingers crossed
I'm really enjoying your flying videos, thank you. I was rubbish at RT but as 90% of all calls are a standard pattern and standard words I simply rehearsed them often, at home. Not making up things if I was driving, but actually going through all RT I could need and receive on a particular flight. Examples of first contact, pass your message, position reports, leaving frequency, etc, all in context of my next planned flight. I still sometimes make a note of specific words to save stumbling (easy to lapse into saying Yes instead of Affirm! 😊). But something that was drummed into me at the very beginning – Roger just means you have received the info ATC have given (eg, be advised there is windshear reported abeam the hangars). Wilco means you will comply with an instruction (report downwind, etc). Therefore, if you are saying Wilco you don't need Roger because obvs you have heard the message. I'm desperately trying not to adopt your 'Roger, Wilco' habit 🤣. As I said, I am enjoying the vids, and we are all still learning!
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I really want to fly this route. Your video has helped build my confidence to do it.