From Virtual to Reality - My PPL Journey Begins

This is the first video of what might be my new series of videos where I vlog my journey to earn a Private Pilot's License.
Recorded with a GoPro HERO5 Black.
Copyright © 2019 - Doofer911 - All Rights Reserved.

[@_Max_Headroom_]

I wish you good luck and fun by/with flying. I am looking forward to your new video's. And ... keep your modesty. That distinguishes you !

[@Doofer911]

Thank you for the reminder, keeping that attitude for life in general is very important to me :)

[@CptPatButcher]

Fantastic! I will be looking forward to more videos

[@johnfischer9201]

Awesome! Happy for you! I started working on my PPL on my birthday.Two years later and two weeks after my birthday, I accomplished my goal. I turned 59 that month. Never too late - keep going!

[@philipmoseley5512]

I’m half way through your tutorial videos and absolutely love them - having watched your “times are changing “ vid I want straight to this one and am soooo pleased with the direction you are going with this. Well done Joss you’re doing a great job. I’m in my 60’s about to retire and have every intention of gaining my PPL soonest - age should never restrict your ambitions. Your videos are giving me the inspiration to do just that for which I say Thank You!! I had to get work, then wife, then family, then finances sorted before I could get there thus the late start. Cheers and Good luck keep them coming.

[@jacobelmore8865]

You’ve been such an inspiration for me to continue following my dream. I love aviation, and obviously love your videos, and I thank you for motivating me, and congratulate you for your progress. Look forward to the journey to come.

[@russmorgan8173]

At last it's a reality! Thanks for taking us with you. Excellent video, looking forward to the next one. Have fun and happy landings!

[@carlosfuentealbamillar215]

what a surprise man! you actually making it! and the first video is taxiing and taking off from an back to Inverness, nice touch! i think all of us will be looking forward for more videos. Go for it!

[@Chikyel]

Sunny, clear and lovely day to flight.

[@bluejester2713]

Brilliant mate, really pleased to see you taking the plunge. Hoping our crappy weather won't lead to too much rescheduling.

[@sksupply]

Will want to see every stage of the journey. I wasn't able to finish my training because of a medical problem, but always love to watch anyone achieve the rating!

[@hi_flyer2643]

CONGRATULATIONS !!! You are finally on the way to become a real pilot. I am sure all your followers look forward to watching a full series of videos in which you will share many interesting things you will have learnt during your PPL training. All the best and... safe flying.

[@SilensVenator]

"CLEAR!" *Immediately cranks engine*....Lol Good luck with the training! It's been a long time coming for ya

[@azuraza1]

Best of luck, Doofer, with acquiring your PPL! I truly look forward to seeing more of these kinds of videos as well as you receiving your PPL soon!

[@princegabytv7251]

Congratulation my friend for your ppl really you inspire inspired inspired me alot. Big up doofer 911. Am very happy you💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝

[@hermand]

Hey Doofer, I finally got my PPL a couple of years ago after yearning for it for 15 years. It's hard, it's expensive but my friend....it's everything you imagine. Easily one of the best achievements of my life and flying a plane is just like nothing else. Good luck, and enjoy your new crack addiction

[@hermand]

P.S. You don't need anything complex for audio, the audio out is a standard 1/4inch jack. I do recommend recording on a Zoom device or similar, and getting the ambient noise aswell, to mix in post production

[@thelastpilot4582]

Fantastic, more please. Inverness wow that was a surprise :-)

[@ultranoob4]

Love it, well done Matey and yes, looking forward to more

[@Reaper4367]

Marvelous! dont worry about cinematics mate. Its the info and sharing is what counts. Cheers for sharing :)

[@travisbeamon5356]

Man this is gonna be pretty awesome and from the looks of it so far fairly inspiring. This is something I've wanting for 20+ years and have been putting off for the past 10. I wish you the best on this journey and really can't wait to live vicariously through you.

[@billymkirkwood4956]

Definitely more of this Joss please, its nice to see you finally following your true goal..... well done mate!

[@WayneM1961]

WOW MAN! I'm green with envy. Through your excellent video's It taught me how to "table top fly." Don't worry too much about audio and visuals, I'm sure everyone will agree, it's your adventures we want to share with you as you get closer to getting your wings with every flight you do. Wishing you all the very best mate, fly high! (well within VFR!) I'm sure you will make one hell of a pilot in command

[@rangerrick8220]

Hey - I watched your `Things have changed' video and now this one. I too followed a similar journey many years ago being totally engulfed with Fltsim 98 and doing flights, designing airports and the like. Took all my time. Then realized I was spending too much time behind the computer and needed to get out and LIVE my life... so quit the Fltsim circuit and went out and dated! Got a wife and kid and real life. Followed my dream of having a family and now many years later am looking at Fltsimming again... Wife says I drive her nuts sometimes so wants me to do something to get out of her hair. My only regret is not following my dream of becoming a pilot. Everything happens for a reason and I believe in God so do believe I am where I am supposed to be. I'm in my 50s though so too late for a commercial licence but maybe not for the PPL. Anyways - follow your dream bub but don't let either the Fltsim world or the work world totally engulf you... balance is where its at. And if you are religious - prayer helps alot. Best of luck!

[@Doofer911]

Thanks for sharing your story Rick. At the moment, the aviation industry is crying out for pilots so if you're able to make the dream work, it's still possible. I remember watching a video from a KZbin called Captain Scott (747 Pilot) and he has a story about a pilot in his 60s who went and got his license and ended up flying 777 aircraft! So it's not impossible but I appreciate that now you have a family, you might not want to fly and be away from home much. As for myself, I'm very happy with where I am although I could do with a Mrs to keep me on the straight and narrow and stop me from being so focused on my new job! haha

[@noambenmordechai]

That's fantastic news Joss! I wish you the best of luck and I would love to see more videos!! 🤩😄

[@Hoekstes]

Living the dream! Congratulations on starting your PPL Doofer! And thanks for taking your fans along for the ride. 👨🏼‍✈️

[@survivalhealthandhealingtv5651]

Looks great! Looking forward to your next video!

[@randyclark1221]

Very interesting. Nice narrative. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your training.

[@CHmachine]

saw your channel and found it nice, subbed!! i started my ppl 3 weeks ago aswell, already have 4 hours training, its amazing no words, this is the best dream to follow

[@pappinr]

Looks great to me. Keep them coming Doofer. Your content is always welcome here.

[@Doofer911]

Will do :)

[@jawuku3885]

Yes, excellent video, and I'm looking forward to the series.

[@greenlightzone]

Congrats Joss, Im so glad to see you join us in the real world aviation. Hope the best for you. Dont be sad when you dont pass a practical test in order to have a solo flight. The day during my test for gliders I totally forgot how to fly, I was slipstreaming while flying straight XD. Thankfully the next day, I had the test again after a few schooling flights and it turned out great, I was allowed to fly solo. Remember you already past the hardest test ever. It's the class 2 medical test, many unlucky people fail that.

[@Diabologhost]

Great video Doofer and its nice to see that you are happy and progressing with your PPL!!!! My notifications are on and I am anxiously waiting for this series and all the information every video will have like your airplane tutorials I want to know every little thing about your training because I would also love to go and get a PPL for myself!!!! And if you continue down the road after getting your PPL it would also be great to continue this series!!!! Looking forward to your highly educational "vlogs". You taught me almost everything about Aviation and the different Airplanes in the Simulator so its great to see you continuing to do it in real life as well!!!! Lets hope that both of us one day we will be enjoying the clear and calm skies while we are flying outside of the Simulator!!!!

[@simonbushell3311]

Great work Doofer. I'll definitely be following along as your achieve your dream!

[@laspinner1896]

Brilliant! Good luck on obtaining your ppl. I'm definitely looking forward to your videos.

[@BrooksIngersoll]

Great job. I first saw it on my phone through your twitter feed. Much better on my PC!!!! Keep it up Joss.

[@billytakoho5046]

Way to go, man!!!! Keep up the good work!!!

[@johnnyholmes5688]

Yeah!... Good for you mate, I can't wait to see further videos in your PPL adventure. Enjoy buddy.

[@DingXiaoke]

Congrats! This is amazing!

[@dixielandfarm]

Great opening cut! Congrats on your journey!

[@matteand]

Excellent! Will follow this. Good luck with the training!

[@StevesSwearBox]

This is actually brilliant! I wish you the best of luck buddy

[@skyler9359]

Heck yeah man! Looking forward to more and good luck! I've been studying on how to fly and cant wait till i can be in the air! :)

[@jetraid]

Good to know about you again. Congrats for making your dream to reality. Greetings from Argentina

[@elwiled]

Good luck for this beautiful adventure!!

[@jeltejeensma4015]

Love it ,please go on with the flogs and flying experiances ,(We) i'll learn an lot of you in the Sim.. and now for real to !! very nice to watch youre progressing for real Pilot ,looking forward to see the videos ,good luck and safe landings Mate !!

[@nigelnewby5028]

I have just found your channel after searching for X-Plane tutorials - glad I did :) Thank you for posting this, I look forward to following your progress. Thanks for taking the time to do these, I'm sure it takes quite some effort. Cheers.

[@Doofer911]

I'm glad my videos could help :) yeah they do require a considerable amount of time and planning!

[@robertjohn819]

Great stuff and good luck with your dream.

[@ngxaviation]

Well done! This is really inspirational! :D

[@RonaldvanHoove]

Yes, please go on and share your videos! Good luck with your PPL- training..

[@Doofer911]

Thanks very much, more videos are coming soon :)

[@Paul9601EX]

Do continue ! I m very interested in your career to a PPL :) Knowing your learning curve, it will be an adventure

[@hadeswhitediamond7162]

Epic adventure, so excited about this. Just remember the gear please lol.

[@peteralberti]

So happy for you! 1 suggestion and 1 request: Suggestion: Set up a Patreon page (www.patreon.com). Some of your viewers WILL help you pay for your training/AvGas because they appreciate what you're doing for them and for the general aviation community. I, for one, would become a subscriber. Request: As often as you think of it, I'd love to see you include commentary about the differences (and even similarities) between real-world flying and simulator flying. I'm a student pilot with only a few hours in the left seat, plus a good number of hours right seat. I've been using FSX for procedural training/self-study for a few years. I hope to have the financial capability to commit to my PPL this Spring/Summer. So I'd love to hear your thoughts about "transitioning" from armchair to air. Thanks for all you do! Cheers from the USA.

[@torquaymouse2236]

Good luck with the training buddy we're all with you. And yeh defiantly keep going with videos.

[@erikkuppens5927]

Fantastic! I Keep up the good work !

[@bernardsavard493]

Hey man, this I think will be interesting. Hope your PPL is going well. best of luck.

[@networkers1]

I"m so happy for you my friend, keep gping on.

[@campia901]

Great video. I am 1/2 way through and love your videos. I train near Glasgow so might be able to go flying one day.

[@zeerakkiani]

Good luck with all your training! Having recently finished I wish you all the best and most of all...ENJOY it!

[@Doofer911]

Thanks very much and congrats on getting your license :)

[@slim22rb]

very nice, good luck with everything

[@samdish]

Its about time my dude ! Rock on

[@ColonelClydes]

Congratulations on starting your PPL Doofer. I'm currrently doing my own PPL at Perth (just started navigation exercises). Might hear you on Scottish info at one point :)

[@joveeke]

Great, what started with a game becomes bit by bit reality!! Wish you the best and good luck :-)

[@collindass2361]

inspirational video. thank u

[@prasanthtadiparthy4896]

These Series are good . Continue with them.😃

[@naomi10260]

thats awesome doofer!!! good to see you in a real aircraft :3 and nice puns lmao

[@Slynell1]

Loved it

[@scottskinner577]

Awesome! Keep it up and keep em coming. Im not currently takin my PPL lessons so this helps me "chair fly" like a champ lol Safe flying my friend

[@Doofer911]

Will do, next video is coming very soon.

[@farayidarlingtonchaparadza20]

Really happy for you on your bold step forward. I got my PPL march of 2018, your videos were inspirational. Great video, though I would suggest mounting your camera somewhere inside the cockpit to steady the footage a bit. It would also be nice to run through the checklists and technical aspects of the aircraft in realtime as well. Longtime fan.

[@Doofer911]

I'll do my best in future videos to try and get some more angles which give more context as to what's going on :)

[@losmosquitos1108]

Wow, the visuals and graphics are stunning! What sim is that? 😂😂😂 Jokes aside, I congrat you to follow your dreams as I did myself many years ago from FSX to reality. It‘s an incredible experience and you‘ll find, having thousands of hours in a flight sim DOES help actually! My instructors did confirm that too watching me handle situations and controls. Thank you for your informative videos and love from Uruguay, mate. Mike. 🇺🇾✌🏻👍 PS did you have serious drawbacks during the covid situation or were you allowed to fly? There is no risc up there and perfect for social distancing... 😃

[@harshithpvs676]

Hey Doofer911... All the very best for your training... Pls do make vlogs on your training!

[@HENRIPOL4]

I do appreciate it ! Go on and let us see more videos. Thanks!

[@Doofer911]

Next video is coming very soon, been very busy at work and not had much time to edit videos together.

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

You have been a good teacher from the beginning bro

[@benjalee4014]

all the best and have fun for real flying. i had 10 hours lesson on real flying, and i put it on a hiatus after that thanks to bureaucracy and higher costs in my country. So i reverted back to sims now :P on the plus side, learning real flying makes more sense when u're flying in sims, cos without real flying, nothing makes sense in the simulator,(ie: u're flying blind in the simulator with no idea what you're actually doing)

[@soulslayer59]

hey buddy firstly i would like to thank you cuz your mfx tutorials wer of immense help to me...thank you for the great content ..and well best of luck for your license ...would love to see your videos...keep us updated :D..cheers! from india

[@Dayhmian]

Welkom back

[@Gamah1991]

Lets goooooo buddy!

[@Tobi_-iq5ds]

Great! 👍👍

[@jamesrussell2936]

About damn time.

[@chargr383]

Keep the dream alive!

[@goosebumps1334]

I knew it, good luck man!! (I'm Cicada:D )

[@peterroper6055]

Fantastic that you have reached this point. I was so disappointed when you missed the ATC thing - what is the matter with them? Anyhow, I'm not sure who will be the instructor during your CPL training but it should be an absolute blast for you. I wonder if the school you are signed up with already uses or suggests some of your videos as training aids - they probably owe you a good few lessons free!! cant wait to see/hear your impressions as you fly. Thanks for all the stuff you have already done to make sim flights fun and so much more realistic through. I believe you will go all the way now.... Time to donate - how do I do this?

[@Doofer911]

Funnily enough, when I went for an interview and I talked about some of the videos I'd made, my boss took a look at his computer and sure enough he had watched my Runway Marking's video! It's a small world haha.

[@amhr58]

I wish I had seen this video a month ago. Congrats on working towards your PPL, and good luck on your studies. If you're going to create videos of your flights, I think it would be helpful if you were able to illustrate the instrument readings in the video. Anything that augments what the pilot is doing, and why, makes aviation videos better, especially from what I see on KZbin. For example, if I saw the flaps settings, airspeed, and vertical speed on approach when you landed in this video, that helps detail how the pilot's making decisions and so forth. Also, I wouldn't hold it against you if you weren't able to create many videos during your training, since I'm sure that will be an exhausting process. Either way, good luck.

[@Doofer911]

I'll definitely try my best to produce some additional content which helps give context. The challenge for the first few videos that I've recorded is that I haven't been able to record any communication between the instructor and myself, so I don't have the sound cues to remind me what was going on at that particular point in the lesson. Will hopefully get better in future vlogs.

[@baydarma8126]

So glad you got your ppl training finally. I bet the cfi doesn't have much to teach then.

[@davenguyen1968]

Heck yeaa sweet!

[@Doofer911]

I'm very fortunate :)

[@fspotter7569]

Amazing video! Quick question, Would you say flying virtually (A2A Cessna Specifically) helped you learn the ropes slightly faster/get a better understanding quicker?

[@erikcele1604]

Nice

[@muhammadafiq8280]

On my way to getting my PPL as well! Best of luck to us both I guess 😂

[@Doofer911]

Good luck! How many hours have you got so far?

[@dukeminecrafter6659]

I would love you to carry this one. Will you still be doing live-streams?

[@MrRoblox1377]

ONE OF US

[@iftikhardurrani]

Very good, considering the fact that it was your first flight .Your idea to record actual flight and put it across for the flight simmers is a novelty. Now what you require is at least three cameras simultaneously recording. One should be fixed on the panel with supportive light so that it s clearly visible though it would be interrupted by the Piolet's hand. The second for the outside view and third for the maps. Put it after editing supplemented with commentary. Is this far fetched to expect?

[@Doofer911]

That is exactly the vision I have for these videos moving forward. I'm in the process of looking at additional cameras and audio recording options to capture more footage for future videos. These videos will also have additional editing around the flying, as I said, they'll be more vlog style but there'll be plenty of editing and ideas going into each video.

[@khilanmehta]

hii please upload on managed and selected approach on a320 thanks

[@TopgunB]

Great thank you. The landing looked good but at all times there were 4 whites? Are there no Pappis at Inverness?

[@Doofer911]

Through real flight training, I've learned that light aircraft don't really need to make use of the PAPI lights. Lot's of light aircraft will takeoff and land from runways which don't have any lights, so you're taught to get a certain "picture" of the runway and use that to tell if you're high or low. Also because light aircraft are much more nimble than larger aircraft, you can descend faster than normal without picking up speed if you have to.

[@VoiplidTelcoMobile-Voip]

You're my real pilot

[@chinyehli3152]

Xplane11!!

[@miki318]

For your communication recording just get a very small microphone and put it in you ear, like an earphone... it will record all your communication.

[@Doofer911]

After looking into UK legislation, it seems to be illegal to broadcast any radio transmissions publically. So I could record them for private review only. I appreciate that there's probably other KZbinrs who do but I am not willing to put my work and the flying school I'm training with at risk.

[@CareerOcean]

Can you do a 747 pmdg tutorial u have good tutorials u helped me learn to fly the pmdg 737

[@Doofer911]

I don't know if I will be doing more tutorial series I'm afraid. Real life comes first and I'm kept fairly busy nowadays.

[@RipVanAllan1983]

Here is the link to the Friendly Skies video on making a headset recorder kzbin.info/www/bejne/nH20pHiqoZuHiJY

[@mro9466]

60 fps is all we need :)

[@andresilveira9973]

Please make a Majestic Q400 tutorial

[@Doofer911]

Unfortunately my life is becoming too busy with other commitments more important than producing KZbin videos on a regular basis.

[@andresilveira9973]

@@Doofer911 ;(

[@milo4008]

doofer man you still around? lets do an A320 stream again some time?

[@Doofer911]

I'm still around, busy with real life and normally feeling tired once I get home from work. I have to feel ready to stream to make it an interesting and engaging viewing experience.

[@SimUKReviews]

lol