Take off and landing KDVT Deer Valley, incl. ATC and Phoenix Class B transition

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Uploaded by on Jan 16, 2011

My wife and me, taking off and landing at the Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix, Arizona, during our vacation in the USA (we are from Germany).
On our way back, we change seats and fly over Phoenix and the PHX Airport, using the Class B VFR transition.

In 2009 Deer Valley was the busiest general aviation airport worldwide(!!) and number 22 of all(!!) airports: http://www.airports.org/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=ac...
When we took the footage of the landing for this video, one runway was closed and all the traffic was handled by just a single air traffic controller! Amazing job!

While we usually share the work load, I did all the radio work this time, as my wife had a bad cold.

The plane is a Cessna 172 with the G1000. We rented it from the flight school 'Westwind Aviation', which is located at the Deer Valley airport.

As experienced a couple of times before, ATC at this relatively small airport was way more busy than the ATC of the international airport with its for many pilots 'scary' Class B airspace.

On the radio, we are 'Skyhawk 24350' or just 'Skyhawk 350'.

The cameras are GoPro HDs, I recorded the audio directly to my Android cell phone, using a custom made adapter cable for the headset jacks and the program 'Tapemachine'. The GPS overlay is done with a program I wrote by myself.

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  • OMFG die sind ja heftig am funk und bei mir gehts in einer woche rüber :-/

  • @Petejay2

    Dann wünsche ich Dir schon mal viel Spaß in den USA! Am Anfang des Videos ist der Funk ziemlich normal, bei der Landung aber außergewöhnlich schnell - mach Dir da mal keine Sorgen. Nirgendwo(!!) auf der Welt ist am Funk so viel los wie in Deer Valley. Insbesondere, wenn wie bei unserer Landung auch noch eine Piste gesperrt ist. Lies Dir einfach mal meine Beschreibung oben durch.

  • Great video, brings back lots of memories. I got my wings at Westwind 1 Sep 01. Sounds like the kdvt controllers are still the fastest in Phoenix.

  • @9HighFlyer9

    Fast controllers + busy airport + lots of foreign student pilots makes up for some good radio training... ;-)

  • Moin,

    super Aufnahmen! Ein schöner Vergleich zu der heimischen Landschaft. War es schwer sich an den amerikanischen Funk und vor allem die Aussprache der Lotsen zu gewöhnen?

    Viele Grüße aus Hamburg

    Daniel

  • @DanielBaumgart

    Hi Daniel,

    anfangs dachte ich, dass ich niemals auch nur ein Wort verstehen würde, bin dann aber doch ziemlich schnell rein gekommen. Allerdings spreche ich auch ganz gut Englisch, was mir sicherlich geholfen hat. Außerdem habe ich den PPL in den USA gemacht, so dass ich nicht gleich allein mit dem Funk klar kommen musste. In D flog ich zuvor nur UL und habe auch nur das BZF2. Wer in D öfter durch Kontrollzonen knattert und auf Englisch funkt, ist da sicherlich im Vorteil.

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  • How did you attach the GoPro to the plane on the exterior? Nice vid!

  • what a lovely flight :) Nice!

  • Great Video! Great memories. I got my wings at Westwind in 1996. Looking forward to go back there for some flying holiday. Thanks!

  • @transsib Ja danke schön, bin dann in Ormond Beach gleich über Daytona stationiert!

  • Great Video. Well done.

  • I HATE TRANSPAC!!!!! I CANT NEVER UNDERSTAND THEM!!!!

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