Very excited to bring these videos back hoping to be helpful to those pilot students out there. Good luck and don't give up! *Questions and suggestions are more than welcome!!*
As a retired FSS I would suggest a vid on radio communications. Specially in en route and/or non-ATC interactions. It was always amusing when USA pilots would venture north for fishing in the summer. Their first time once they get north of 60 miles north of Winnipeg, radar coverage ends. ?? wut ?? Now what do we do?
The danger with freezing rain is if it hits a hard surface, it can transition to ice. That's why ice is such a huge problem for power lines if you take a quarter mile Powerline and add freezing rain converting to ice you've added 400 pounds of weight to that line and it's going to break. Aircraft will have the same problem only instead of the Wings breaking it is going to drop lift capability really fast. Remember ice is nobody's friend in the air or on the ground.
@@VASAviation Spatial disorientation.can cause accidents when flying at night or under IFR. Pilots need to be prepared to deal with spatial disorientation to prevent loss of the aircraft or loss of life. Trusting your instruments rather than your seat of your pants is key.
Very interesting even to us non-aviators (retired Registered Nurse here). Do keep them coming, because surely they’re very helpful to the pilot community!
Dude! Awesome Vid! When I tell folks I watch aviation vids all you get is : "How about that Kennedy Steve?" As much as we adore him I'd much rather have a chat about meteorology or aerodynamics. You should definitely keep these up, even if the crowd is booing and braying, they WILL learn and they WILL enjoy it! :D
We'll definitely be having about all that. Next video will be about navigation :)
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Super interesting. Started my ATPL less than two months ago so this is definitely useful for my meteo and principles of flight study this holiday season. Thanks!!
Just go through the question bank again and again to memorize it, understanding the principle is good but it won't help you to pass the exam. If you bring an exam to a line pilot without letting them to prepare, most of us won't get a pass even we have sufficient knowledge to operate the flight.
Nicely done! I’ve often wondered why the de-icing boots don’t extend further back along the upper surface of the wing/foil. I assume it’s a weight cost/benefit matter.
That seems a lot like the phenomenon of black ice on the road, except for it's the ice on the road that makes it dangerous and clear ice sticks to the vehicle (airplane) but both conditions make what you're traveling on unstable, whether it's a loss of tire grip in the car or a loss of aerodynamic lift in a plane.
Hahaha, not a pilot, will never be a pilot, not taking a meteorological exam... However, have been a subscriber since "blancolirio" suggested you some months back... Love your "ATC" stuff. Did not know your videos of specific topics regarding aviation, having seen this one, I will be going back into your archives to view the "classroom, whiteboard, lectures"... I sense many hours of lost sleep coming up... Thank you sir.
Cool! I don’t fly myself, but I am an Air Force brat and I find this stuff interesting. These are the kinds of things my dad and I like to chat about!!! PS: Your English is very good! May I ask where you’re from? (Spanish is my second language and I like dabbling in other Romance languages for fun.)
Clear ice: Large SCWD freezing slowly as they hit the airframe and move backwards Freezing rain: typical of inversions/ warm fronts, where rain from warmer air aloft falls into an air mass which is below freezing. All the key info you need to know for questions on this for Met exams!
could you talk about the coriolis effect and how it affects the motion of the fronts/cyclones, and show us how to spot potentially dangerous areas on the weather map before departure?
Took all measures in hand to have good light but my studio is in the loft with 3 windows on the ceiling and it was really hard to get rid of all reflections. Will try to improve the setup with time. Thank you!
Can you tell us what kind of accent that is? 😲 And I'm not 'pilot in training' but I wish to be atc in the future and your videos are one of the reasons why ✨
I believe I am not the appropriate person to judge my own accent haha - I am from Spain though but have been speaking English my whole life. Been an English teacher here too.
@@VASAviation oh it's so great you're from Europe 😂 I'm from Poland. Your English sounds perfect, it sounded something like british accent but not really so I was curious
Why could they not ran exhaust tubes off the engine behind the leading edge out to the tips of the wing to keep them warm .? Anyone.! Thanks for the update.!
Jet engines do use bleed air from the compressor stage, not exhaust, to heat the cowlings and leading edges of wings and tail. Combustion engines don't work as well with constricted airflow. It would cost a lot of performance to pump exhaust from one or more cylinders into the wings. Think of straight pipes for your car vs. a dirty air filter. Also, you are putting a lot of combustible soot, oil and condensation into hard to clean places. ... with the fuel tanks on the other side of a thin sheet of aluminum.
Kind of. If you keep water in cold temperatures for a very long time, no matter how pure it is molecules will end up forming ice crystals by themselves. If that happens, ice pellets will form.
Correct up to a point. It will not freeze until a much lower temperature without a freezing nucleus or some other catalyst, like a shock. An interesting experiment if you can clean a glass container sufficiently is to half fill it with distilled deionised water and cool it in a normal domestic freezer, on a shelf from which you can remove it slowly and carefully. At something just below zero Celcius (say, between -5°C and -2°C carefully, remove the container without jolting it. carefully place on a soft mat. Then tap the side hard with a pen,, or similar hard but light object (you don't want to break the glass). If you watch carefully enough as you do this, you can see the ice spread (very fast!) through the water from the place where you tapped it. Just for fun, you can use salt - we all know salt-water has a lower freezing point, right? So drop a single grain of salt in instead of tapping the side. The water will freeze, which can be an amusing party trick for those not in the know and if you don't tell them the temperature of the water. This is why 0.01°C is technically the triple point of water - that is, the temperature that water can exist in all three main states of matter - solid, liquid and gas. (for pure pedantries sake, I'll point out that water melts at very slightly less than a thousandth of a °C below 0°C - if I don't, someone is bound to feel the need to correct me). The formal definitions are of course in Kelvins - 273.16K being the triple point and (at standard pressure) boiling being 373.1339K Yeah, the original scale got it wrong, and there isn't actually 100°C between them!
