Agent Juice Aviation

How to calculate weight and balance … oh how that conundrum has plagued me. I’m not a math guy so anything involving calculating aviation equations and all that noise tends to give me a hard time. I actually made this video as a means of helping myself understand weight and balance calculations, so I figured I’d share it with you as well and see if it can help you out in any way. FOLLOW ME ACROSS TEH INTERWEBS! https://lnk.bio/AgentJuiceAviation

0:00 Intro 0:28 Tutorial Video Suggestion 0:51 Step 1: Find Your Constants 5:33 Step 2: Gather Your Charts 8:02 Step 3: Interpolate 13:20 Step 4: Plug And Play (A.K.A. All the work) 14:20 Step 5: One Last Confusing Detail ... 15:33 Conclusion VFR Flight logs have been a thorn in my side for a good long while. Sure, I’ve watched my fair share of tutorial videos and have even gone over some theoretical flight planning scenarios with my instructor, but I find that those navigation logs still elude me. That is … until I hashed out an organization method to help me understand things a bit better. So now I share this info with you in hopes that maybe some of you who struggle with it can have a little help getting started … well … getting started. FREE PILOT TRAINING’S NAVIGATION LOG TUTORIAL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydvev6B7IaY&t=1508s FOLLOW ME ACROSS TEH INTERWEBS! https://lnk.bio/AgentJuiceAviation

Spin stalls are no joke, especially when they happen on base to final turns … or as they call it: coffin corner. Now, a simulation is no substitute for real training, but since spin training is dangerous in aircraft not equipped to handle that nonsense, I figured the next best thing was to test it out in Microsoft Flight Simulator. FOLLOW ME ACROSS TEH INTERWEBS! https://lnk.bio/AgentJuiceAviation

Today I decided to have myself a totally normal simulated cross-country flight to another airport … when ALL OF THE SUDDEN … something happened! Oh, horrors! Who could have predicted such a turn of events? Anyway, come check out how I handle a simulated emergency engine-out situation. FOLLOW ME ACROSS TEH INTERWEBS! https://lnk.bio/AgentJuiceAviation

I got my hands on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and decided to have a bit of fun with virtual reality by flying in a storm as a student pilot! It was very difficult (obviously), but I must admit that there were things I handled better than I thought I would … of course there were things I handled far worse than I thought I would as well. MY FIRST TIME CAUGHT IN WAKE TURBULENCE https://rumble.com/v3ngxie-my-first-time-caught-in-wake-turbulence.html FOLLOW ME ACROSS TEH INTERWEBS! https://lnk.bio/AgentJuiceAviation

Wake turbulence is a function of an aircraft producing lift, resulting in the formation of two counter-rotating vortices trailing behind the aircraft. Wake turbulence is also BIG SCARY THINGY!! And I got to experience it first-hand. It was … an experience. FOLLOW ME ACROSS TEH INTERWEBS! https://lnk.bio/AgentJuiceAviation

I remember my first flight … it almost ended in UTTER DISASTER!! Now, obviously I made it out alive and unspoiled, but the whole thing taught me a valuable lesson in learning a new skillset … particularly a potentially dangerous skillset. Firstly, it taught me that not everything is as hard or as dangerous as it seems at first. Secondly, it taught me that if you don’t respect how dangerous a situation CAN be, it can quickly become a big deal. Thirdly I would just like to extend a thanks to my flight instructor for making sure my oopsie didn’t end up being a whole incident. And, you know, also for teaching me how to fly. FOLLOW ME ACROSS TEH INTERWEBS! https://lnk.bio/AgentJuiceAviation

As someone who can only afford to fly an IRL plane once a week at the time of making this video, I needed to find a way to practice as much as I could without needing a real plane. That’s when I discovered the oh-so-useful skill of chair flying! You see, not only am I a fan of aviation, I’m also a fan of table-top role-playing! That’s right, I love me some of them thar Dungeons and Dragons and all that other nerd nonsense, so why not use that to help me get better at flying? You see, there’s lots that goes into flying that doesn’t involve needing to actually steer a plane and deal with the physical sensations that go with it. You can review your checklists, you can look up and memorize the layout of your cockpit, you can even practice some phraseology of your ATC communications. That way, when it comes time to actually fly, you can feel more confident in other aspects of the process and focus more thoroughly on the physical flying. It works pretty well for me, other pilots recommend it, so perhaps it can serve YOU well. FOLLOW ME ACROSS TEH INTERWEBS! https://lnk.bio/AgentJuiceAviation

The FAR/AIM is the most extensive book you will probably frequently use in your aviation journey. Because of that, you’ll want to be able to quickly reference regulations without having to aimlessly flip through that massive tome. Thus, I recommend tabbing the book to make your life easier … but be forewarned! I haphazardly tabbed mine during my private pilot training and it came back to bite me in the tuchas! So how would you tab it? I recommend doing it in an orderly fashion. I have some ideas in this video, but I always also recommend looking up what others did and see if they have any better ideas. FOLLOW ME ACROSS TEH INTERWEBS! https://lnk.bio/AgentJuiceAviation

As a student pilot, you need a current year FAR/AIM, the Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, and the Operator’s Manual of your training aircraft. Not too bad, right? Yeah, that’s what I though … then I saw the sheer SIZE of those books and it made my caveman brain sad. So, I had to find a way to bookmark and cliffnote these tomes in order to make them work better for my flight training, and hopefully my findings can aid you in your own flight training. FOLLOW ME ACROSS TEH INTERWEBS! https://lnk.bio/AgentJuiceAviation

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