Class D Traffic Pattern - Radio Communications

Live streamed video of traffic pattern and tower communications technique at one of the busiest Class D airports in the country. This is a great demonstration of how to handle radios in a congested airspace.

[ger]

86 yr old former private pilot here, with not a whole lot of hours. I was a rural area flyer most of my flying and was always intimidated by radio, so I found this very illuminating. Thank you.

[txhunter]

Your video has helped greatly, I watched it about 3 or 4 times. Yesterday I flew into Class D (solo) for some pattern work and everything went well. I'm a 25-hour student pilot and radios are my greatest concern. Real-world videos like this have a very positive impact on training and I wanted to thank you for taking the time to produce it. I wish you and your ground school all the best.

[DrRChandra]

As I remember flight instructor Dennis saying to Steve "FlightChops" Thorne, paper and pencil don't get cracked screens, don't run out of battery, don't usually crash, or any of a number of any technical difficulties. So writing your info on paper is a plus in a lot of circumstances.

[johnpro]

The little hand written check list @ 3:30 into the airport ..a must have if not familiar also I do a sketch of runways, position of Terminal /tarmac area and the windsock. Really helps.

[hvacmike]

I learned to fly out of KFXE, this is a extremely busy class D airport. you could be #4or 5 waiting to take the active runway. until last week I had not flown for eleven years. I was very nervous and did not do very well on my first flight with my instructor and was thinking of cancelling my lesson today. after watching this video it reminded of how comfortable I was flying in busy airspace and dealing with multiple airports with class B, C, and D airspace. so THANK YOU I'm heading to mid Florida in Tavares this am for my second flight in years.

[josfielden]

I liked it that you were nice and clear. Nothing wrong with doing a couple of turns before entering the airspace to give you time to get your act together

[FlyLubeFly]

Just to see you enjoying yourself on the touch and goes is amazing. Keep up the great work.

[LuizFonsecaDefensiva]

An amazing video, thanks !!! I´m a former air traffic controller in Brazil and your talking and ATC communications are a very good example of what to do and to expect on radio when flying ANYWHERE !

[gevmage]

Yeah, I've flown in and out of KPDK a couple of times. It's really busy. Most of the time it's busier than most class-C airports. This video was a very good flavor of it.

One minor quibble. This video was uploaded in November 2017, and presumably was shot fairly shortly before that. The runway diagram shown at 0:25 in this video was even at that time at least three years out of date. 09/27 was removed as a runway sometime before April of 2014. I was on an airliner departing Atlanta in early 2014, and I snapped a photo of the airport with hangars built on what had been the approach end of 09. That area appears just under the left wing at 13:12 in this video. The reason I know the date is that I have that photo from above KPDK and it's posted in a blog entry dated April 26, 2014.

[kipchickensout]

this is very nice to watch, good that you repeat what the tower mumbles. definitely dropping a sub

[robertblake]

Excellent flying, instruction, and video production!
Thanks, bob

[makkavalley]

“We’ll just use 2000” that made me laugh! Nice video.

[oubobcats]

I'm a student at PDK right now! Thanks for the video!

[ikay]

Its nice to have subtitle on what atc tells you. Geeat video.

[eggsaladsandwich]

Thanks for the refresher! Real solid on the radio and was good for note taking. Should come in handy to finish off my flight review.

[julianaturchetti]

Awesome video! Thank you for sharing so much great information! Blue skies and fly safe!

[joaocarlosmartinelli]

Thank you for sharing this great experience and valuable knowledge 👏👏

[SWC]

NEW SUB, AND A BIG LIKE, LOVE YOUR CHANNEL, DON'T KNOW HOW I MISSED IT! THANKS

[geoffheard]

G'day Russell, just stumbled onto this fine video of yours. I trained partially at Moorabbin (YMMB) in Melbourne Australia. Same deal as the field in the video. Two parallel N/S runways that get VERY busy on the weekends. You could be flying down final to 35L, glance at the holding point, and have 8 or so students lined up for takeoff. Busy circuit. Thanks for a great live stream, subscribed to your channel. Cheerio.

[zainhussein]

Thank u sir for uploading such informative videos. I fly on vatsim and learnt quite a bit.
Just a question sir; how have u connected voice to the camera. It’s crystal clear
Thanks