Diamond DA62 IFR - Sydney to Byron Bay 

Great videos for IFR procedures and radio calls. Would love to see more in depth details of your procedures and mnemonics. Thoroughly enjoying!

i want to get my cpl to start a air taxi business too Im very inspiring by your videos and professionalism doing Aviation im doing a online ground school course now. in canada

Amazing vid as an Australian I always appreciate some good old Aussie aviation content. I’m hoping to have a career in the aviation industry videos like these keep me motivated to keep pushing. Thanks for this vid and thanks for your inspiration.

Though at 140kg, smaller aircraft are out of the question for me, I like the air taxi idea, especially for regional towns not, or no longer, serviced by commercial operators, such as YBTH for example. Even though being a pilot is long dead dream of mine, I do love the DA62 in MSFS and can just imagine how good the real aircraft is.

Fantastic idea, would be a must do for anyone with any interest in aviation

Thanks for this. The DA 62 is just lovely.

Fantastic video, Got this pop up in my feed as a suggestion. Look forward to the future videos you put up

I really enjoyed this.. thanks for sharing !!

Awesome video Steve, love your channel.

Great idea on the website for the flight taxi service. Thanks for the great videos

great video steve,and a nice business plan,best of luck for the future.

Best of luck with your new venture.

Great stuff Steve, I’ve seen the A/C around BK and admired its beauty. I love the idea for the air taxi!

Just found your channel after just discovering the Sydney Airport live streams. Great business idea, I wish you all the best with it.

really enjoying your videos, especially the explanations that you share. Good luck on the air taxi service, it sounds like a great plan. The your Diamond 62 looks great.

Just recently subscribed, love your vids Steve, Operated from YMEN for many years, great work. Cheers John.

Thanks for sharing the awesome video!

Love this idea, since discovering the DA62, I was thinking of doing the same. luxury air taxi type flying, all about convienience. keen to explore the possibilities.

Love this!!! I live in Brisbane and dreaming of getting my own plane in the next 10 years so my family and I can travel up and down the east coast at will!!

Awesome video mate 👍

Wonderful GA Video, and Aussie too. Ill be a fAn of this. Cheers mate, clear skyes to ya.

This is epic content!

Awesome video mate! I'm a controller at Brisbane centre and often see this rego flying around the place. Nice machine! Look forward to more videos. Love the business idea!

Great videos mate, subbed ☺️👍

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I lived in Ballina growing up and you flew right over my old place at Shaws Bay. Byron Bay is beautiful (I went to high school there) but Ballina has such a nice chill vibe and has a few great restaurants and pubs. Highly recommended the Shaws Bay Hotel next time you’re in town! I live in Ontario Canada now, so was great to see the home town pop up on my YT.

Just found your channel, great work! Always love seeing a fellow BK pilot and hearing some familiar voices from ATC 😂

Love the air taxi idea. And *really* love the GSR56 wx. Also the HDR mode is definitely an improvement.

Love it mate. New subscriber :)

Great vid. Northern nsw certainly is a great place to fly, was expecting some orbits around cape Byron maybe next time and wing cams… might be asking too much now 😂

Most interesting, thank you. The action cams would probably benefit from DIY lens hood or possible relocation to avoid spill light in cabin. Trial and error mainly. Subscribed. 👍

Nice! I really enjoyed watching this video. If you ever need a co pilot I'm located on the gold coast haha

This video was really inspiring. The best businesses always solve a problem and your idea is no exception. I haven't ever had to charter an aircraft but I've booked many lessons as well as private aircraft hires and the process has almost always been a little challenging. Some small charter/training companies do it well with booking portals but more often than not they're often archaic. Something pretty, modernised and simple will do really well in my opinion, and such a software package/solution could even be sold to other companies (subscription service perhaps?)...although this sounds like a competitive advantage for your company over others so perhaps not. Side note, my goal's always been to attain my CPL, purchase an aircraft and work for myself. Definitely won't be able to afford a Diamond straight off the bat though 😂 Whenever I get there I'll get in touch to see if you need a plane and pilot for work in QLD/NSW as I'll likely be based in BNE. Great video as always, awesome to see Aussie aviation isn't going anywhere even after the pandemic. Cheers Zac

I like this idea a lot. I'm interested in taking my daughter on short fights to places that would take a long time to drive.

Sounds good. Hope you can get approval.

Lovely flight! Might need to see if you can reposition the camera so we can see the air field before you get to 100ft away from it? Right behind the pillar!

You need to go to Uluru in that thing :)

Im a web software developer and a ppl holder. It sounds like a perfect fun project!

Hi Steve, just came across your channel, well done mate. I was listening to you explain the air taxi service - it’s a great idea and it’s needed! I’m a founder of tech and a services/marketplace app myself, if you haven’t already got a developer for coding and launching drop me a line I can share my experiences with you. Thanks again mate, well done. Andrew

Love a walk-around if you're ever at WLM

Ha, I was just thinking, I wonder what you do for a living, that's a brilliant Idea, all the best

Love the video, love the Diamond and love the idea. How long was the flight from. Bankstown to Ballina?

Your business solves 2 problems. I am of the view that you could sell the platform as an SAAS to others who want to run such business on subscription. I’m also an aviation geek. I would hope to use your service to do a day at Byron Blues fest next year.

I've literally had a dream about my own 62. Not counting the number of daydreams bordering on the obsessive. Just one measly Powerball win, that's all I ask! What configuration is your 62? 4/5/7 seats? How long did it take from order to delivery (I've been told 3 years!) Won't bother asking what it cost - I have the pricing lists. 😭 I've never even seen one in Vic. Seems they're all in NSW. Fair number of 42 in the schools, never mind the singles. EDIT: just noticed that you're hauling at 94%! No concerns about lower TBOH?

Sydney to Ballina!

I learnt to fly at ballina. And as someone for Ballina Byron his horrible 😂. I guess saying Byron in the thumbnail makes it seem more fancy and better for view's.

great video steve, would you ever head up to archerfield in X62?

You should come visit Tyagarah airfield

😢That be Sydney to Ballina mate. Not Byron. Never will be😂 nice gig tho!

Would love to come on a flight with you.

Good luck mate .... UBER AIR coming soon ...

Are you available next week for a flight to Melbourne? Enjoying your vlogs, found your channel only a week ago and the DA62 is an incredible aircraft, if you have an email address as definitely interested

Air taxi idea is good but not sure how reliable weather info is 15 days out.

Background music too loud but great video

Why do you tap brakes on rotation? thanks for the video

Hi Steve, I’ve just completed my PPL and currently working through my CPL and eventually ATPL at university in Melbourne (based out of Moorabbin), I am originally from Sydney and my parents still live there. When your company is fully up and running with the taxi service style of operations you mentioned, would you be open to hiring someone such as myself? It sounds like it would be a great opportunity. Cheers, Angus

I'm onboard with the air taxi idea. Bankstown to Gold Coast return mostly for me. Would you take a well behaved dog?

Wait…you hauled that out of the hanger yourself??

Hey mate, any chance you can give me a quick run down of how you record your audio? Thanks!

get a polarizing filter

It a decent idea but I think the most obvious problem is what has always held back private aviation in Aus. Lack of demand/small population. Almost every flight will have an empty return leg which combined with long distances in Aus make it hard for the numbers to get low enough to achieve a decent level of demand. Capex of the DA62 will kill any opex advantages vs older options. Only hope as you alluded to is leasing underutilised AC from owners but without the population and tax advantages that the US has, there’s just not a lot of people who want to spend $2m on a piston twin. have a similar model in the US using SF50s and are still struggling to make it work despite without all the headwinds and equivalent model in Aus would have. Hope it succeeds but as far as entrepreneurship goes this is playing the game on hard mode for sure.

Hi Steve, Absolutely love your vision of the flight taxi service. I live in Sydney as a Sole Trader specialising in sales. I know a lot of people that would benefit from this service and would love to have a chat. Please feel free to reach out, cheers. Aaron

Steve, Were does one find more information on the skytaxi concept you mentioned? Is there a website or contact point? Tally ho James

I was always taught that “9” is pronounced “niner”. I notice you say niner when talking to the camera but on the radio you and the tower just says “nine”. Is there a reason why?

Ballina is better then Byron, how much was it to land at the airport, Ballina council is not a fun time

Why add music to the takeoff ? Thats what pilots (well this one anyway) want to hear.

If you can develop that software and host with a cloud provider, you could make substantial income by leasing the software to all the firms offering Part 135 ops.

The trick to this trip is stay in Ballina, don't come back to Shitney. I'm not a fan of asking for subscribers, I like to challenge the system and let people make up their own minds. If I start begging for stuff it's time to leave the platform. Nice to see something a bit more modern, curious aircraft in many ways. Especially trying to work out the country of manufacture and the very unusual engines.

In this day and age of computers and AI and automation still surprises me how people have to press 100 buttons to get a plane moving.🤷

Why the Stupid MUZAK? I'm very interested in this aircraft. However if I were to go to a music concert, an aircraft enging running on stage would not be welcome!

sydney to Tamworth? contact info. please.

Why people say Byron Bay, when it’s Ballina airport. Yes it’s know as Byron/Ballina Gateway, but because Byron Bay is this stuck up shithole, people use that location.

@diamondairtaxis @Steve love the idea of creating a taxi service. Please reach out if you need help building the online service, it's what I do.