Student Solo Cross Country Flight (Van Nuys, California)

Week five of flight training at Van Nuys Airport. Cross country flight from Van Nuys to San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and back. My communications are far from perfect but I'm working on it. My ppl check ride is in two weeks, wish me luck! Aircraft type Piper Archer II.

[@robinr.2233]

Geeez, my long cross country was VNY, PTV (Porterville), SMX (Santa Maria). I talked to 4-5 controllers the whole trip in 1980. Having to talk to so many controllers really takes the fun out of it.

[@shiviAroundtheWorld]

Flying my first solo cross country from KVNY next week. This was very helpful thanks!

[@bjorn1449]

Student pilot? Could have fooled me with those comms skills😊

[@alexssoundtrack]

coming to Van Nuys from the UK for hour-building in Jan and Feb 2024. Will be using this video to help with the RT and procedures, thank you very much for posting it without editing out these very useful details!

[@adamandsydney]

Great video man!

[@njbpaul]

nice work young man

[@SingleEngineAviator]

Finished it off with a super smooth touchdown! Git er done!

[@slavesofgravity]

Thanks man!

[@gavinohlhauser1258]

nice job, It can help if you load your flight plan into the 430 in case your iPad fails Good luck on the training!

[@slavesofgravity]

Thanks for the pro tip 🙏

[@eld.larryvaughn6568]

🎉great work man!! Inspiring

[@slavesofgravity]

Thanks man!

[@MiddleAgedAviator]

Well done.

[@NickSantos1218]

need more of these please!

[@danglestache2019]

comms on point , nice work

[@slavesofgravity]

Appreciate that brotha

[@rockyv9228]

Tell the truth...you're a commercial pilot just practicing, right? Expert job. Did my first cross country yesterday, and it was not that smooth

[@tuckerwhite2533]

The baaaallllls on this guy to not say student solo……

[@grillingwithwoos]

Is the archer equipped with actual radar or were you referring to adsb? Seeing them in adsb still doesn’t relieve you from establishing visual contact and maintaining visual separation requirements. Other than that, very well made video. Looking forward to more

[@geoffreyromain]

why do u guys call it cross country when its literally a few hours drive?

[@jamisonnichols2950]

Read a book

[@justinbayse4417]

Hi, if you didn’t already get your answer, when student pilots are completing their training they are often required to make a cross country flight. This doesn’t mean literally across the entire country, but rather airport to airport greater than 50 nautical miles away. Think of it like real world flying. When you want to fly somewhere, you fly from one airport to the other. That is cross country flying. Hope this helped.

[@jp12245]

What Flight School did you use?

[@slavesofgravity]

The Flight Academy, Van Nuys

[@javagadro]

Fly to EAA/Oshkosh!

[@slavesofgravity]

Let’s put er down at boba! 🎉

[@ben-j]

Why do you say 015 so much ?

[@slavesofgravity]

Haha it’s the last three digits of my tail number. ATC needs to hear those numbers In order to confirm it’s my aircraft that’s replying.

[@ben-j]

@@slavesofgravity thanks for the explanation, as you can see I don't know the first thing about it, but I love to hear radio chatter. Something mesmerising about it.

[@Harman88275]

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