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Spent 20 min on hold with AVEMCO today before getting an answering machine telling me to leave a message. Said they’re very busy currently. On the positive side, they have awesome hold “music” — it’s ATC recordings (or maybe LiveATC).

Hi all, I’m in the process of selling my airplane and stepping up to a family hauler. I’m finding it difficult to weigh options because of the time it takes to get an insurance quote. When shopping for houses or cars it’s easy to go online and get a ballpark quote, but with airplanes it takes...

What company did you use for quotes?

A friend of mine told me that I should expect not to be able to buy insurance if I go the home built route. I’m considering a Glasair currently. I’ve got ~300 hours (most in SR22) and IFR. Any idea if he’s right?

Lots of great advice here. I put together a new video and published it today. I worked a lot of the advice that I got into the new video and will continue to do so. Kept it short, tried to limit the boring stuff. But I still made a video that I like and that fits me. This is Part 1 of 2 (to...

This is what I'm focused on now. I have a couple videos of my first volunteer flight (where my airplane's starter went out 4 hours from home) and I'm about to publish a couple more that show my first successful volunteer medical flight. Glad to hear it's interesting to folks. Probably need to...

Yeah this makes sense to me. Sounds like it would be entertaining. If I didn't have two jobs during the week, my channel would be flying to interesting restaurants with friends. That's the dream channel for me — show 50% flying and 50% exploring cool restaurants. The FBO idea is super...

That's nuts. Now I'm genuinely interested in learning about this. Not for views...just to understand.

I can't tell if this is a reference to me burying a link in the word "LINK" above or something else. For what it's worth, I made an effort to explain what it was. Thanks for the idea - I need to check this out. I also really like being able to skip around but haven't tried adding chapters to...

Here you go: LINK. That's the most recent video. The follow up is coming in a few days. Thanks to some feedback in this thread, I'm probably going to re-edit it before posting the follow up!

This is a super interesting channel — I haven't seen it before but already have a few things I'm bookmarking for later.

This is great advice. I've been working on stripping videos down to the important stuff — it's really easy to feel like everything is important when you're editing. I finally hired someone to help me edit (because I'm not great at it to begin with) and I keep pushing him to make them shorter and...

Thanks Wayne. You're right — that's me. I didn't want to pump the channel here, but it's awesome to hear from someone who has watched one. I like the idea of including more of the planning. That's something I haven't done a great job of, but it's easy to do with a little forethought!

I've spent the past few months making videos of my flights. They started out pretty bad — learned LOTS of lessons on what not to do — but I'm slowly starting to make videos I'm more and more proud of. I went from one subscriber per month to one per week, and now it's approaching one per day. My...

I'm sorry to hear about this. Had a similar experience last year with a Bonanza (though it played out over a couple of weeks). It's really frustrating figuring out that they're slow to get a formal agreement in place so they can string you along as a backup. That experience was a learning one...

My wife and I have been talking about flying to Mexico recently. We live in Austin, not a long flight from the border, and there's a local guy (pilot) who does training flights down to Mexico. He helps people who haven't done any international or Mexico flying how to do it and goes with you...

Is Teresa a pilot, too? Seems like a heck of a cool head to keep calm and guide you in when you can't see!

That makes sense. I've done lots of reading, but the main thing I've learned is that I'll need help from someone who knows the business. My whole business is helping people who don't understand the nuances of my business survive in it...so won't take much convincing for me to pay someone for...

Good call outs! I own an SR22, but am already thinking of upgrading for our personal use. It's a bit cramped and we travel far enough regularly (CA and GA from Austin) that it's a bit slow for us. Thinking about the next airplane is part of what got me on this path. As for size and scope, the...

Hi all, I’ve spent a few weeks trying to learn more about the Part 135 world (mostly Google), but I’m finding it hard. I have tons of questions but hoping people will fill me in on some basics. For context, I’m working on my commercial and am thinking about what comes next. I worked for a...