Writing down ATC instructions - Pilot's Shorthand

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[yvad]

When I started getting into instrument flying, I started watching youtube videos and wrote down the clearances along with the videos. It really helped be able to replay things, In a non stressful environment. It one of the reason I enjoy your videos, you keep a large amount of the ATC instruction in your videos. Keep up the good content.

[jtlos]

Just passed my checkride and wanted to come here and say thank you for all the great videos. They really helped me along the way and kept me motivated. Keep up the great work.

[andyhawaii]

I get stressed when I get approach clearance. Controllers seem to talk faster and I’m busy setting up.

[alexalexandrakis]

This is really useful stuff for any IFR pilot. I went through all my instrument training at a really expensive top of the range flying school (think of a university town starting with Ox) and nobody ever bother to even suggest any method apart from “good pilots memorise everything instantly” kind of approach.

[Newberntrains]

One of the best helpful videos I think I've seen on this channel cause if there is 2 things that new students don't like touching while flying it's the mixture (oops killed the engine)
And the push to talk for the radio

[fuckup]

I'm an airline pilot who retired 8 years ago. I've started flying my X-Plane 11 simulator to get back into "flying" and appreciate this comms revision. Very good tutorial.

[NinjaPilot]

This is good info as a controller as well! And I like that PTAC is used on the pilot side as well. Exactly what is used for atc training

[benmartz]

I love this channel because im not a pilot! I learn so much just watching it! Thank you for your time and hope you you have a great holiday!

[Ronbob]

Josh... Flew to Houston from Abilene on Saturday and used your method. Six ATC’s in 300 miles and not a single repeat request. Thanks for a great video.

[chrisjavier]

As a fellow pilot, and a CFI, this video rocks

I learned a lot of new things here too, thank you so much

The video, the cadence, the editing, the quality, and usefulness of everything on here, well done man, this is one of the best videos I've ever seen!!!

[lostinasia]

I'm a paper guy type too. Just bring extra pens & batteries because they do fail at the worst time. I also suggest for learning radio communications, buy a handheld radio and listen to approach, tower, ground and other frequencies to learn and visualize the clearance.

Back in the day we had King radios without dual flip frequencies we had to copy new frequency in case of no reply.

Great video and good instructions.

[MabrysDad]

Just gave my wife her notepad (late Cmas present) and we watched the vid again. This will be so helpful when she flies again and starts making radio calls. Thanks for this awesome flying tool.

[ralphwoodard]

I wish I would’ve had this kind of information way back in the early 80s when I was trying to learn to fly. I hated getting on the radio most of the time.

[markdristy]

Nice work. Would like to see a video like this (and notepad) for VFR flying. ATIS/Clearance :)

[gabrielayres]

Great video. Very helpful. Thanks a lot.. He went full Eminem at 11:15 though... haha...

[joedavis]

A lot of good advice. My approach was similar. I always wrote down the entire expected clearance in the standard format on a simple small yellow pad, with the entire as-filed route . I would also draw a box around each part of the expected clearance. The actual clearance instructions from ATC where written outside of the boxes. This really helped me understand exactly what to do when I got to the "then as filed" part. Another thing I found helpful, especially in the beginning, was to rehearse the entire expected clearance using my best ATC voice. This is best done in private.

[jhr]

Josh, Thank you for this video! I've been flying sims for years but never have wanted to learn the ATC side, but this video is a great start for me! I've also recently learned the phanetic alphabet, so there's hope yet! 😀👍🏻

[adrienpage]

I haven’t even started my lessons yet for my PPL, but I can hardly wait to implement this! Great job!

[titanicdanny]

I'm an aspiring pilot and have always found the radio side of things worrying. However this really helps, thanks sm dude

[carlsonlemos]

This video is awesome and I bought the IFR notepad ( the updated version). Thanks for all you do for the aviation community.