How to Fly a Cross Country with a NAV LOG (PPL Lesson 49) 

Another great video as always. Looking good in your Ospreys! 😎🙌

I really appreciate your videos. I'm picking up student lessons after 50+ hours of prior lessons some16 years ago. I was decent at hand flying the aircraft, but I struggled with (didn't enjoy) all of the planning and ground work needed. I'm hoping to get the PPL across the finish line this time around!

Absolutely love your channel. I'm doing all of the ground lessons on my own and without the cfi. These videos have been tremendous help. Thank you.

Thank you is all I gotta say. You’re doing an amazing job with these videos

Great video, just started to finish up my rating, and like so many flying the plane is the easy part, the planning is definitely more difficult. I enjoy your videos very informative, keep up the great work and looking to see more that would help me in my training, thanks and be safe

That GPM calculation is such a time saver! That's unfortunate my CFI didn't approach it this way as I was always struggling in flight coming up with quick precise numbers. Love your approach as I'm still learning as a private pilot. I'm working in getting my CPL now. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, they are very instructive!

Funny timing. I just completed my first cross country. And my son is going up for his first cross country today! Great video and I’ll be sure to share it with him. Update: your E6B tips for checking real GS were so helpful on my first solo XC!!!!

Another great video. Thank you. I use the Easy Activate/Close from 1800wxbrief to open/close, activate, delay, or cancel flight plan via SMS. It's actually pretty decent.

Thanks, a lot of great information and a good way to be ahead of the airplane.

As always love the videos and super informative! Planning for my dual night cross country from 1H0 to Cape regional. This paper log is the bane of my pilot existence....LoL Still trying to get good with the planning and implementation of it.

I have never actually opened up a VFR flight plan. And for the same reason: whenever I call up the FSS near my home airport they don't respond. The first time I talked to FSS was when I was asking them to help me with weather, and that was well after getting my private. But I *love* pilotage and dead reckoning. I really like how it makes me feel much more familiar with where I'm going. Unfortunately I've really gotten into a habit of just plugging my destination into the GPS and flying that. I need to get back to doing some P&DR flight plans. The one thing I did in my checkride that I did not do in my solo XCs was I didn't try to fly a straight line between my takeoff airport and my destination airport. Instead, I took headings towards waypoints that I could easily identify when I'm close to them rather than trying to find them from 10 miles away. For example rather than trying to fly KJQF direct KILM (my checkride XC) I flew along I-485 to KEQY. And then I could easily follow I-74 along a string of airports that made easily seen checkpoints. Does this add a little more time, distance and fuel? Yes: 11 nm, 5 minutes and 0.8 gallons. But man it reduces the stress level by TONS. As part of my checkride prep, my CFI and I flew this route and it was a lot less stressful then when I flew a similar route for my first solo XC. And when I flew this for my checkride, the DPE liked that I had a visual reference available to me for the entire flight, not just at the waypoints. Anyway I need to do another P&DR flight soon.

I make extremely tight tolerance tools. I constantly use a timer, because the machines cannot sit and also hold tolerance. We are all human, and forget to reset stuff and or start stuff. I use 3 timers simultaneously. 2 count up normally. I use one for overall time and another I reset. The third timer counts down, but then counts up, if it hasn't been stopped or reset. If I make a mistake on resetting the second one, it's simple math to see where I goofed. It was simple to set up, and easy to use. When I have a significant difference between the countdown and regular timer, then it immediately alerts me to some kind of resistance I need to correct (which would perfectly translate to winds or engine performance altering navigation). I can't believe I lived using a single timer. Great video. Keep it up.

wow i have been watching your videos for along time and all of them are pretty good thanks for sharing all that knowledge :)

Thanks for that. Great to see the real time calculations

Very instructive. Thank you.

That's amazing video. Thank you a lot!

Always enjoy your content. I started training at Strother years ago. From Ponca city.

Love these videos so helpful thank you. And PLEASE when he said BONITA I hope I wasn’t the only one signing the rest of the song BONITA , BONITA ,BONITA 😂🎶🎶 80,s joke if you don’t get it.

great videos Thank You

Good luck getting flight following here in the LA basin

First, who is the guy in the left seat? Second, as a PPL myself, who hasn’t flown in 20 yrs your lessons are priceless. All I do now is MSFS2020 and use all the g1000 and FMC tools and none of the basics. Your lessons have inspired me to “Get back to the basics”. I still have E6B so, it’s time to use the sim to see if I am still a component PP using the sim. Thank you for all your contributions to the flying community both RW and Sim pilots.

What is the white box on left window? Could you make a video about similar trip but with ForeFlight?

Strother Field - Winfield, Kansas. It was a one-time Army Air Forces base during WWII.

FYI, next time go to Augusta 3AU, it's closer to McConnell and never busy during day. Sad I didn't know you were coming, I was there too

You said you picked Trophy Ridge as a way point because there "wasn't much out there." How about the town of Elgin right on the Kansas/Oklahoma border about 15 miles to the east? It's bigger and closer to your last way point (Bartlesville VOR) from which you could have flown a radial (305 degrees?) directly above the Caney River from Hulah Lake. I mean, if you're going to use a VOR radial for positioning, why not fly one to the next way point? Or just follow the river. Elgin also lines up nicely with your last way point "Bend in the road" which I think I would have named "Cowley State Fishing Lake" which is right beside it. I would think this would have greatly simplified your last two legs. But I'm not a pilot. Am I missing something?

This may seem stupid but can you explain selecting correct Isogonic line is it closest or direction of flight?

There should be a clock aromatically started when the plane take-off.

Your transponder has an automatic flight timer that starts on takeoff. Just press the function key three or four times to get to it. You don’t have to remember to start it.

Can we get a 30 second Baby Rain video please?

How do you do North and south flow calculations 😊

Please tell me you have a 2nd YT channel where you hunt sasquatch down in the woods of AK…!

I realy like the old 172 and old GPS and wish You were the Flight instructor instead of That Rob Guy in MS flight sim way back when orrrr wish you were around a few years ago would have made my calculations alot faster.

I like your hat copilot... Hercules C-130 ...

Can't you use your cell phone calculator as a flight computer

What's the app your father in law is running on his tablet?

Why is T-HAT easier for you to remember than THAT?

video is good but what is it with the father in law and the cell phone? Every video he is playing with it?

texting during take off and shit, not even paying attention, he should have been in the right seat or the back seat.

This has nothing to do with the information in the video, but those shoulder harnesses look super uncomfortable! 😳

Do not do checklist items during taxi. Stop. Do your Checklist and continue