The world's most polite radio call? OR Why is my passenger crying?!?!

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Hi Everyone! Finally was able to post the second half of my adventures with Lynne and Cassidy on a flight to and from KHXF (Hartford, WI) originating at KMWC (Milwaukee's Timmerman Field). This time Cassidy was up front (a popular request here on PoA) and we had a blast.
Cassidy wasn’t too into flying the plane though - she sort of cried a little.

It was probably just intense concentration and the air vent blowing on her eyes….right?

I was legitimately concerned at first, but we figured it out.

I make a joke inside about all of the internet trolls that I was expecting to totally take apart my videos, but everyone here at PoA has been really rad. I'm glad that you enjoy the videos AND they have the added benefit of being a great debriefing tool for me. This flight was back in July of 2017, and there's a TON that I've learned from watching all of the footage again.

Other things to look for - more radio ridiculousness (someone did just send me the FAA Pilot/Controller Glossary on YouTube…. Whoops!) and a perfect demonstration of yaw and why using rudder pedals correctly makes a big difference in passenger comfort.

 
Awesome dude. Keep em coming and keep buttering the bread


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I was the one who commented on your polite radio call , "More people should say, 'I'd like to land at your airport, please.' :)"

Loved it.

Yaw and passenger comfort: especially back passengers. In the front, we are sitting on the CG/CL and barely feel it. But in the back... I liked to take students on a flight with a partner in the back to whack them over the head when they felt a lot of yaw. Great instructional technique!
 
WannFly said:
Awesome dude. Keep em coming and keep buttering the bread
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Time to shave those legs!

midlifeflyer said:
I was the one who commented on your polite radio call , "More people should say, 'I'd like to land at your airport, please.' :)"

Loved it.

Yaw and passenger comfort: especially back passengers. In the front, we are sitting on the CG/CL and barely feel it. But in the back... I liked to take students on a flight with a partner in the back to whack them over the head when they felt a lot of yaw. Great instructional technique!
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Awesome. Yeah maybe more people could be a little more polite on the radio. I can't remember if I said this before, but the controllers at MWC are top rate and super helpful. I think if I would have been flying into another local airport the controller would have given me some trouble for that call. Love that instructional technique - I actually think more students should tag along in the backseat - I learned a TON doing that on a friends night cross country.
 
GMascelli said:
Great videos...enjoyed the flyover of the 'frozen tundra' (in my best John Facenda NFL films voice).
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Thanks! That approach into GRB is pretty great. They had to vector us around some high towers as we travelled north, which was pretty fun too.
 
99% of random internet "lets go for a flight" videos bore me after about 30 seconds; I watched the whole thing and was laughing out pound (to the annoyance of my dog). Get your CFI, film a few students, and let the Kings enjoy their retirement :)

PS- Cassidy or Lynn...maybe I missed it l, but which one are you, um...
 
Another fun vid. Can't wait for the next. But since you asked us to nitpick every ^%$* thing... ;)

In accordance with 91.105 and 91.107, Lynne was legally able to unfasten her seat belt and was legally free to move about the cabin since she was not a required crew member and you were not taxiing, taking off or landing at the time that you called her fat.
 
asicer said:
Another fun vid. Can't wait for the next. But since you asked us to nitpick every ^%$* thing... ;)

In accordance with 91.105 and 91.107, Lynne was legally able to unfasten her seat belt and was legally free to move about the cabin since she was not a required crew member and you were not taxiing, taking off or landing at the time that you called her fat.
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LOL. Informative and funny at the same time!
 
As I watched, I was thinking what a fun way to fly: grab a couple ladies and laugh a lot.
 
Brad Z said:
99% of random internet "lets go for a flight" videos bore me after about 30 seconds; I watched the whole thing and was laughing out pound (to the annoyance of my dog). Get your CFI, film a few students, and let the Kings enjoy their retirement :)

PS- Cassidy or Lynn...maybe I missed it l, but which one are you, um...
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Thank you for reinforcing my desire/need to get my CFI. Gotta get it done! And the answer to your other question is... ::pause for suspense:: ... neither. There IS a Mrs Dembro and she's pretty great.

asicer said:
Another fun vid. Can't wait for the next. But since you asked us to nitpick every ^%$* thing... ;)

In accordance with 91.105 and 91.107, Lynne was legally able to unfasten her seat belt and was legally free to move about the cabin since she was not a required crew member and you were not taxiing, taking off or landing at the time that you called her fat.
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I'm surprised that you're the first person to mention this! She totally could move around, I don't know why I didn't want her to...

iflyvfr said:
As I watched, I was thinking what a fun way to fly: grab a couple ladies and laugh a lot.
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It's the best.
 
Nothing against the OP, but I’m completely miffed why people find this entertaining.
 
Why would you be miffed? Do you mean befuddled?

Miffed:
adjective
1. put into an irritable mood, especially by an offending incident:
I was miffed when they didn't invite me to the party.
 
iflyvfr said:
Why would you be miffed? Do you mean befuddled?

Miffed:
adjective
1. put into an irritable mood, especially by an offending incident:
I was miffed when they didn't invite me to the party.
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No, miffed.
 
dembro said:
I make a joke inside about all of the internet trolls that I was expecting to totally take apart my videos, but everyone here at PoA has been really rad.
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At my age, that’s definitely what I’m shooting for. “Rad”. LOL.

I thought that word died back in the 80s. :)

FastEddieB said:
That was VERY enjoyable.

Now, what will it cost us to see the touch and go that was so carefully edited out?
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LOL. You noticed that too? :)

Kritchlow said:
Nothing against the OP, but I’m completely miffed why people find this entertaining.
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Really? People having fun and interacting on a flight in a spam can makes you grumpy?

YT is full of flight training videos that’ll bore the average person to tears who has no interest in flying, but a video like this one might actually reach an audience that thinks light aircraft are the death traps the media makes them out to be, constantly.

You might need to go fly something small and take some passengers along that aren’t locked safely away on the other side of anti-terrorism door of death, there, Cap’n. No secret knocks for them to tap you on the shoulder and point and say, “What’s that over there?” It’d be good for ya. Haha. Grump. :)

Ohhhhhh-Kay. Now I’ll be “that internet guy” @dembro . Just for a sec. Mostly because you showed interest in going on to more ratings and the CFI...

If you use a checklist, the windows probably won’t be open when you push the throttle up. And if they are, it won’t be a surprise. :)

(You also won’t pass any further checkrides without using it. So... think about putting it back into your flying. Just sayin’. No worries, I got lazy about it as a Private Pilot too. Lots of people do. It’s a bad habit to not use one, and it’s easy to break the bad habit. If you don’t, your next CFI will break it for you. And if they don’t, your next DPE will. :) :) :) Not kidding. They will. You’ve been warned.)

Okay lecture time over.

I liked the video. Editing was spot on. You understand music cuts which is almost never seen in amateur aviation videos.

The overlays were done well, the banter was entertaining and not the usual boring three hours of looking at one camera pointed forward and no audio, and you could tell you and your passengers were having a good time, which tells a much more compelling story in video than most YT aviation videos.

Okay one more nitpick. I can’t resist. Sterile cockpit.

Not going to harp on it but careful around airports and not letting passengers know to kinda keep it down to a dull roar. It may not bite today or tomorrow but it can bite. Only saying it because I’ve BTDT. Be ready to flip that Pilot Isolation switch on the intercom.

(My favorite was a little kid who decided he was having so much fun he started spontaneously singing some song at the top of his lungs right about the time tower was sequencing me for entering the pattern. I laughed as I reached for the isolation switch. Couldn’t really blame the kid, it was a lovely day to fly! But adult passengers will pick the strangest times to ask questions I swear. In the flare... “Oh, is that the new blah blah building over there?” If not specifically told, they don’t know when your higher workload times are and when to avoid that stuff. Not their fault. Totally on the PIC to brief that. And don’t brief them to be silent, brief them that they should limit commentary in the traffic pattern to calling out traffic! I have messed that one up too... “So did you see that airplane over there?” “Yeah, but you told us to be quiet around the airports.” LOL. Long time ago.)

Anyway. The video.

I laughed out loud at the “May I land at your airport?” There’s some places where they’re too busy and that would make controllers grumpy, but where you were, no real problem. Definitely funny as you realized it and unkeyed and reacted to yourself.

Oh. And one more thing. You missed a golden opportunity to say “Giggity” when she said you had the pilot voice.

Hahahaha. Ahhhh I know. Not PC and she’s not your wife. Still. Funny. Maybe. Or she’d be mad. Who the hell knows nowadays.

But *I* would have laughed when if you got in trouble for it.

Still thinking about the “rad” thing though...

I’m going with... no. :) :) :)
 
denverpilot said:
If you use a checklist, the windows probably won’t be open when you push the throttle up. And if they are, it won’t be a surprise. :)
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Takeoffs with the windows open are not prohibited in most (all?) of the Cessna 100 series. I think everyone should try it at least once in their lifetime.
 
asicer said:
Takeoffs with the windows open are not prohibited in most (all?) of the Cessna 100 series. I think everyone should try it at least once in their lifetime.
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Definitely.

But it was clear they didn’t want them open in the video. :)
 
Clark1961 said:
ROTFLMAO Nate probably talks about something, anything while he is rounding out to land...

That is all.
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Lately I’m mandated to. Ha. The pretend student is in the other seat.

“It would be nice if you’d put the correct wing down for the wind so we don’t go off the right side of the runway today.”

:)
 
iflyvfr said:
Ah, you wished you were there, gotcha. That's understandable but I was glad for them regardless.
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Do you always only read the first definition of a word?
 
denverpilot said:
Ohhhhhh-Kay. Now I’ll be “that internet guy” @dembro . Just for a sec. Mostly because you showed interest in going on to more ratings and the CFI...

If you use a checklist, the windows probably won’t be open when you push the throttle up. And if they are, it won’t be a surprise. :)

Okay one more nitpick. I can’t resist. Sterile cockpit.

Not going to harp on it but careful around airports and not letting passengers know to kinda keep it down to a dull roar. It may not bite today or tomorrow but it can bite. Only saying it because I’ve BTDT. Be ready to flip that Pilot Isolation switch on the intercom.
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Thanks for your (and everyone else's) thoughtful feedback here. Lots to respond to, but I'll chime in on a few points.

RE: Checklists - so I cut the checklists out for time BUT I definitely did use them and continue to use them. I totally said the item about the windows being closed and then followed up with something like "We'll do that in a second since it's so damn hot" which, of course, lead me to completely forget about them again. There's an interesting lesson there for sure.

RE: Sterile Cockpit - This is also something that was briefed, and I think that the editing removes a lot of the context here - long silent patches are cut out because they're kind of boring. That doesn't mean that we couldn't be better about sterile cockpit though. They were definitely briefed on the whole 'finger up means shhhh' thing and to point out traffic (Lynne was actually really helpful with that about midway through the video).

Thanks for the feedback! Always looking to improve as a pilot and as a filmmaker.
 
dembro said:
RE: Sterile Cockpit - This is also something that was briefed, and I think that the editing removes a lot of the context here - long silent patches are cut out because they're kind of boring. That doesn't mean that we couldn't be better about sterile cockpit though. They were definitely briefed on the whole 'finger up means shhhh' thing and to point out traffic (Lynne was actually really helpful with that about midway through the video).
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I've found that I am sually the sterile cockpit offender when I have passengers. You decide to point out some building on final and everyone else takes it as the signal to start talking again :confused:
 
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