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title: Look Mum No Instructor - Whiskey Alpha Pilot
description: I flew without an instructor. A rusty solo bimble to Silverstone, a recorder that ate its own audio, and one landing I'll let you judge.
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Look, mum, no instructor! Yes it's true. I flew without an instructor and, more importantly to me anyway, I've managed to create another video from another flight in a month. God, is my channel coming back to life? Could I be doing more flying? Yes.

This is a quick bimble up to Silverstone to de-rustyfy myself before yet another flight with Jack later in the day. There might even be a video of that one coming as well. It wasn't too bad. A little bit rusty, but I managed to remember how to do the radio, which was better than the Tower, who managed to forget who I was on the way back.

Little bit of a problem with the audio. I bought myself a shiny new recorder, a Zoom R4, multitrack super-duper all-singing all-dancing wonder machine. It recorded the flight beautifully, and then when I flew again later it recorded straight over the original. Not wiped, not lost, just cheerfully dubbed over the top of the one I wanted. Who comes up with these designs? Clearly not pilots, or YouTubers.

Anyway, I managed to recover some of the audio from the onboard cameras, and you've got my head popping up from time to time for the juicy bits. The real question is, did I manage to park the landing? Did I manage to avoid the pylons on the approach? I'll let you decide. No doubt numerous people will be commenting on how bad my landing is and how I really need to fly with an instructor. But then that's what I've been doing, and people comment about that too. You can never win. But that's YouTube.

Hope you like it. If you do, please consider leaving a comment. And if you don't, please consider leaving a comment. How else will I know what you like? Or what I like? It's YouTube. You know how it works.

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