See the PPL making money with YouTube thread. I don’t think she made money via YT. Probably from product placement. The flying reporter must make most of his that way.
We have a good thread on her.
For anyone that thinks these sort of videos are in some way inspiring and instructive,
From comments on FB pages, apparently, many pilots find them educational and instructive 
It’s like eating sugar. Most people enjoy that too. The danger is mistaking this for real world learning and thinking it serves to improve.
You are clearly a really nicely experienced pilot with some proper real world experience. Can you give me a single take out from this video, other than he is an attention seeking moron ?
Musashi sums it perfectly;
‘Simply reading these scrolls will not lead to the way of mastery…’
Media attention is one thing, learning and practicing another. I would be staggered if a single pilot watched that and then set a plan to do this or that, and then went specifically to incorporate it in to a flight and executed it.
In which case, it’s a dangerous and toxic combination of believing it makes you better than you practice and that you are more prepared than before
There are millions of people who watch YT all day. Many also get their entire world view from there. Similarly on FB. So nothing should surprise anybody.
Exactly !!
Football, beer, and above gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
And if social media was around in 1948, Orwell would no doubt have added thus.
The CAA made him do some re-training, some ground school and 3hrs dual. It took forever to get it done because the school the CAA had lined up eventually decided they wanted nothing to do with him because of his YouTube channel. They then revealed that other schools had also declined. Eventually it seems they used a CAA staff examiner to get it done.
I wonder where that gem of information came from. Probably his airfield It doesn’t surprise me; gossip travels at 150kt around an airfield. As I found out in 2002 when I had a prop strike, and later on when a maint. co. flattened my battery doing power checks without ALT pressed
Another thing is (see the PPL youtube thread) is has been found that most people watching YT flying videos are not involved in flying.
Looked up the guy on CH. Four companies, three are gone to the ether and the current one some half a bar underwater.
Copied and pasted from his website;
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To begin with…
In 1991 aged 19, after leaving Charterhouse (he hated being bullied), being expelled from Stowe (loved it despite worse bullying, was expelled after going AWOL to see a girl) and finishing his A-levels at a tutorial in Brighton, Charlie got a trainee job at a broking house, GNI, in the financial markets in London, thanks to his step-father’s old boy network. The bullying there was the worst of all.
Transitioning to self-employment (being fired).
“If you listen to the tapes, you’ll hear it was actually you who made the mistake, so who’s the c**t?” Charlie, defending himself from a public accusation from his director, delivered in front of the whole company. It got him fired from his last employed role as a Derivatives Broker in London in 1993. They wrote to Charlie’s parents: “We’re sure Charlie has a lot to offer someone, but it’s not us.” That started him on his almost 30 year journey of self employment.
Early years of self employment. Car washing and gangsters.
For the next 5 years: Mobile car washing from the back of a Land Rover in Sussex, contract valeting for VW dealerships and a hand car wash in Crawley, fending off various gangsters trying to muscle in on his business, meningitis, leading to personal insolvency, and secretarial temping at the Bank of Scotland while he recovered, physically and financially.
Alongside all that, Charlie began buying and selling small flats, starting with a basement flat in Brighton which he bought for £23,500, which was his first experience dealing with estate agents.
The first tech startup.
In 1998 he started Datography with a techie entrepreneur partner, inventing the first one-stop virtual tour, professional photography and floor plan service to estate agents in London, and then Sydney. Foxtons, then privately owned, copied the idea and name. Charlie sued for copyright infringement and won an out of court settlement. Datography grew fast in London and Sydney, gaining investment from 16 investors, with a board of 8 directors and a team of 40 staff.
Charlie got fired. He lost his shares, unpaid salary, and the software product he designed. Investors and partners alike turned on him, then each other. The company eventually imploded.
The second tech startup.
In 2003, Charlie set up a new competitor, BPM, with an old friend and ex-McKinsey’s consultant. They won clients and staff from Datography and grew even faster, reaching 120 staff in 3 countries, growing organically. His former partners first tried to bury him in litigation, and when that failed they asked him to merge his new business with Datography. Not wanting to expose himself to the risk of being fired by incompetent partners again, Charlie refused.
The third tech startup.
The financial crisis of 2008 killed BPM, and out of the ashes grew Charlie’s second software product for estate agents which boomed initially, but then became the target of clients who tried to take it over and eventually a deep misunderstanding and disagreement over finances with his business partner eventually led to Charlie’s personal bankruptcy in December 2015.
The Band.
For a couple of years Charlie was the drummer for Lloyd Grossman’s ‘punk’ band, The New Forbidden, until he got fired. Most memorable moment, supporting a band called “Scrotum Clamp”, and playing at the Blackpool punk festival, Rebellion.
Divorce and Flying.
After an amicable divorce from singer Liz Cass in 2008, with no children involved, Charlie used his new found spare time to get his Private Pilot’s Licence, which he got in 2010. In 2014 he added a Seaplane rating to that, in Lake Como, Italy.
The fourth tech startup.
In 2016 Charlie started his own software development company in Lisbon, Portugal, where he also has family. It is where BestAgent was and still is being built, developed and maintained.
On 1st December 2017, BestAgent ‘BackOffice’ went fully operational, a simple CRM system, connecting estate agents data to all the major national property websites, and providing agents with a new, GDPR compliant database system, for free.
In May 2018, the then head of property at Google met Charlie at a property tech conference, saying that BestAgent’s tech was 10 years ahead of anything else he’s seen in the sector.
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Wow. Seems like his flying mirrors his life in general……. I wonder what the flying version of bankruptcy is..?
[CH = Companies House database]
I met this guy in real life. I think we had very differing viewpoints on aviation, and how to do things.
Just like golfing or sailing, aviation is a meritocracy and people can instantly detect talent. If your flying isn’t up to much it’s instantly apparent.
The plot thickens!
Apparantly the people calling him out on his poor ADM and judgement display complacency and overconfidence?
It’s all very strange. There has been some VERY knowledgeable and experienced pilots and Air Traffic Controllers call him out on stuff, and he just doesn’t want to know. He just doubles down on the idea that he is correct and they are wrong.
IMO his videos are not educational at all, and should not be used as such by new/inexperienced pilots.
