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Rod Machado
Приєднався 17 лют 2008
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ATC Fast Talk Simulator
One thing that causes a lot of stress for new pilots is a fast-talking air traffic controller. Given that we tend to laugh more at things that cause us stress and not things we hold sacrosanct, you can see why pilots would find this topic funny. Visit: www.rodmachado.com to learn more.
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Is He Talkin' to Me?
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Sometimes, ATC speaks at 60 with peak gusts to 90. Here's what happened to a Japanese student of mine who experienced a fast-talking controller at KSNA (Orange County tower at the time) in 1976. (Keep in mind that it was a different time and culture back then.)
Gliding Into and With the Wind After an Engine Failure
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Here's a short video excerpted from my 40-Hour Private Pilot eGround School on gliding into and with the wind during an engine failure. Sometimes the best decision on which glide speed to use when a relatively strong wind is present isn't intuitive. For more information, please visit: www.rodmachado.com.
Student Encounters F4 Phantom
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Flying is exciting but this isn't the type of "exciting" you should have. Here's a story of one of my early students who encountered an F4 jet on his cross country flight.
Energy Management
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The FAA seems to go out of its way to complicate understanding Energy Management in airplanes. Here's a short piece that, hopefully, makes the subject easier for private pilots to understand. Please subscribe and please visit: www.rodmachado.com
Rod Machado Simulates Airspeed Failure for His Student
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What happens when your instructor simulates an airspeed failure? Watch and find out. Please visit www.rodmachado.com. Please subscribe!
Rod Machado's Private Pilot eGround School
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If you're interested in learning to fly, I can help you. The first place you'll start is with a good aviation online ground school. My "40-Hour Private Pilot Ground School" provides a college semester's worth of engaging, highly educational, and entertaining aviation training. You'll love it and learn a lot. Take a look at a sampling of this training. This is where you begin learning to fly and...
How to Fly an Airplane eCourse
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NEW! How to Fly an Airplane eCourse (15 Hrs.) This 15-hour video-based, and highly-animated eCourse is designed to do the one thing that other flying eCourses don’t do, and that is to provide you with a deep understanding of how we control an airplane in the air, during takeoffs, and while landing. This course is intended for those in primary flight training. It's also intended to help flight i...
Obstacle Protected Airspace Final
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Your lateral protection from obstacles when flying an ILS approach isn't as great as you might think. Here's a visual explanation of how little lateral protection there is at decision altitude. Excerpted from Rod Machado's 50-Hour Instrument Pilot's eGround School. Visit: www.rodmachado.com to learn more.
We're Not Gonna Make It!
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As a flight instructor, you can't help but collect some wonderful, amazing, and humorous stories. Here's one of my favorite stories involving a rather large, manly student who got a little excited during a landing approach. Visit www.rodmachado.com to learn more about Rod Machado's Aviation Training Products.
Let Go of that Button Dummy
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Become a pilot with Rod Machado's Laugh & Learn training philosophy.
Rod Machado's Aviation Products
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Thinking about learning to fly or earning an instrument rating? Perhaps you want to refresh your knowledge for your upcoming flight review? Or, you might want to knock off years of rust to become a current and proficient pilot. If so, I can help. I have many books, audiobooks and eCourses designed to accomplish all of the above. These products make learning and refreshing fun and enjoyable. Tak...
Why One Wing Stalls First
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Understanding how one wing of an airplane might stall before the other can be challenging. However, this concept is much easier to understand with animation. Here's an excerpt from my upcoming eCourse titled, "How to Fly an Airplane," not to be confused with my currently published eCourse, "The Art of Takeoffs and Landings." Visit "www.rodmachado.com" to learn more.
Stalling With the Nose Pointed Down
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Most pilots associate stalling an airplane with pointing the nose above the horizon. However, it's entirely possible to stall an airplane with the nose pointed below the horizon, such as during a turn from base to final approach. In this instance, a pilot might increase the angle of attack without any obvious "visual" indication that he's approaching a stall. Watch the video to see how this can...
Rod Machado Aviation Training 2024
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If you're interested in learning to fly, I can help you. The first place you'll start is with a good aviation online ground school. My "40-Hour Private Pilot Ground School" provides a college semester's worth of engaging, highly educational, and entertaining aviation training. You'll love it and learn a lot. Take a look at a sampling of this training. This is where you begin learning to fly and...
Air Safety Institute VFR Into IMC With Rod Machado
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Air Safety Institute VFR Into IMC With Rod Machado
Rod Machado's Instrument Pilot eGround School
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Rod Machado's Instrument Pilot eGround School
Rod Machado's Instrument Pilot eGround School
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Rod Machado's Instrument Pilot eGround School
XC Flight Planning Webinar By Rod Machado
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XC Flight Planning Webinar By Rod Machado
Always brilliant delivery and material we can all relate to, even non pilot types. Thanks to Rod for being the beacon (NDB of course) for so many years.
Thank you, Sandy!
Funniest thing I've seen for a very long time. Still lolling. 🤣
I would like to know more about the downward flow of wing rotation. I've never heard of this before.
Thank you sir!
Awesome
Best thing I ever heard on Clearance Delivery was when a controller rattled through a pilot's clearance was when the pilot asked the controller if any of that was important. The controller said - "Yes it is important, that is your clearance!". The pilot then said - "Would you please give that to me again, except this time please say it as though it is important.".
Bringing logic to human activities, at full speed! Go Rod! And… thank you! 😃
What a petty Bob Racado doesn’t have his own stand up show 🤣!
That’s awesome!
Nice standup :P
At the end you said you gave no explanation in terms of conservation of mass, energy and momentum. Yet you hold out hope that maybe we would come to grips with Navier-Stokes? What is Navier-Stokes, if not conservation of mass, energy and momentum? If we were to explore what conservation of these concepts means as interconnected by Navier-Stokes, we could hopefully explain why equal transit time as has been described, is really a misreading of conservation of mass transit and its consequences. Equal mass transit time of the affected air flow is crucial to "simplifying" an understanding of lift. So instead of retreating from "equal transit time" when we see that the air on top moves faster than air on the bottom, a refreshing explanation would be how equal mass transit is accomplished when the simple "equal transit time" is false. Why is this reconciliation missing from all the lift explanations?
😂😂😂🥇🥇🥇
I believe controllers moonlight as auctioneers!
what is that ? kid toy ?
They're called "groan tubes."
So if Taylor Swift Fans are Swifties.... Rod is my Taylor Swift. So that makes me a what? A Macha-dee-oh.... I'll work on that. Ha ha. I am 100% sure I was there in the tent, going to OSH late 80's and made it a point to catch Rod every chance I got.
Rod is hillarious , wish I'd had him as a flight instructor back in the 80's, mind you I'd be laughing too much at talk to ATC :)
I _want_ one of those things!
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Pretty sure I have heard that controller.
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Great video Rod. My instructor has always drummed into me, the stick or yoke position is the first give-away a stall is imminent. AOA is directly related to stick/yoke position. For example, if the stick is central or forward during the turn, the aircraft is not close to a stall.
Thank you for the laugh! If only Orange County… I mean, John Wayne airport was still that fun. Best, Jeff
LMAO!
You’re the best! I learned instrument flying from your training material in the 90’s and I haven’t killed myself yet! I also give pilots, “Say again Please” if they need it.
Thank you, Philip. Appreciate it. And "Say again please" is a good one. My favorite is, "Standby." Best, Rod
Maaaaaate, that was hilarious!!! 😅😅😅😅😅😅
I'm pleased that you enjoyed it! Best, Rod
Look at the bar opening hours in case you need a long self-debrief.
Thanks Rod! 😃
Do these best practices apply to flying my mother-in-law? Great video Rod. Thank you for your quality years of service while giving us a lot of smiles along the way.
Thank you, 6857!
I just see new video from you and instantly go like and comment. Always great to see you Rod.
Great stuff Rod! Apart from your UA-cam content, I definitely recommend your books 📚 to my trainees too. Keep the good work up mate 👍🏽
Always great information. Thanks for posting.
I wish I had an instructor like yourself when I learned to fly in the late 70s. I have learned so much from your videos, etc. Thanks. (Australia)
Thank you, Damien. Rod
Outstanding comedy!
Thank you, JSN20. I really appreciate that comment. Make pilots laugh; reduce their stress. That's the game plan. Best, Rod
Nice work Rod, as always…. 😃 M20 pilots are special!
Oh come on, Rod! You ended the video just when it was gettin' good! I've already used two exclamation points in this comment so don't make me return and use a third.
If it helps Rod to finish this awesome story, here are a couple more exclamation points!! Please! Finish the story!
What happened was I got a call (as I recall) from Neil Savoy at the FAA (one of the very good guys at the FAA during the 70s). He asked if this was my student. I replied, "Yes." He said, "Make sure he doesn't do that again." I replied, "OK, thank you." And that was that. No muss; no fuss. But what was nearly 50 years ago when things were a lot different--very different. Nothing happened to the student, fortunately. Yes, he clearly had a bit of good fortune on his side. Best, Rod
@@Flight-Instructor good fortune indeed! Thanks for wrapping that up.
Great video!
Always love your approach to explaining things like this, over the years. Thanks, Rod!
Thanks, Rod!
I dunno. I think someone’s high school physics teacher buddy was given a gig at the FAA. It only adds terms that are just not helpful to piloting. I doubt anyone is going to be talking about kinetic or potential energy outside of a checkride. “Well Jim, your kinetic energy is a bit off, you see if you just….” Nonsense.
The difference between trading airspeed for altitude vs. trading kinetic energy for potential energy, is it's difficult to quantify how many knots are traded per foot of altitude, because "it depends." However, precisely 1 unit of kinetic energy is traded for 1 unit of potential energy. That makes energy a useful concept, if you can be bothered to do some math.
Good example, very important with a sick or dead engine. Engine problems dead or running come in high provided you know the tricks to lose altitude very fast. Maybe you can lead into how to get down quick.aka drag without gaining air speed. Flaps,gear,prop,cowl flaps,forward slips,etc…❤
You make it seem so simple, sir.
Thank you, Tim. I sure do appreciate the comment. Best, Rod
I know a student who on their Private Checkride called out the DPE when he "failed" her engine....she fixed it and pushed the throttle back in...he asked why, and she said because you didn't tell me you were simulating the engine failure... He was/is a great DPE and he laughed, and then made her deal with the "failed" engine.
That's my kind of student! Best, Rod
Have to admit, I've thought about doing that to my instructor. LOL
Funny story! Love your books, you really explain things so that even a knuckledragger like me can learn!
Thank you Mr. D. I sure appreciate the comment. Best, Rod
gr8 vid mate
Memories in Microsoft flight simulator X your young and happy those days, now... Where did the times go?
Hi cap I have questions I am in IFR and I am confused a little bit and now I understand from your video that the important instrument for ILSis rate of descent and HSI and ASI is that right but for Rnav or RNP what is the primary thank you
Greetings: If I understand your question correctly, there's no change in how you scan instruments for an ILS or any approach with vertical guidance. Best, Rod
Never understood why induced drag decreases in ground effect. Thanks to this video, I now do!!
Thank you, Nick. Best, Rod
That makes sense that AoA gauges are another heads-down distraction. Ideally, we'd replace it with a flight-path vector projected onto a HUD, but with the amount that glass cockpits cost, I'm scared to think about HUD prices.
Another benefit of dihedral is that it inclines the bottom surface of the wing fuel tanks, for more effective sumping of fuel contaminants and water (while parked on level ground). This is probably why high-wing designs bother to include a small degree of dihedral.
I suspect this is a contraction of the more descriptive terms: "controlled-movement area" and "uncontrolled-movement area". At least, that's how I justify it in my head.