Thanks to the organization for this event today. Thanks everyone for coming as well.
We're focusing on what we all really like. I'm gonna start talking about how VASAviation started.
How I got to the idea of creating it. It's just my name + aviation. What I've loved for years, my passion.
How I started in aviation since a little boy. I'm sure we all have our own story.
Just seeing airplanes and finally loving this world.
VASAviation hast now around 2 million views per month.
Just today we made 45,000 subscribers or followers.
I publish around 16 videos a month. 4 per week.
We cover the aviation in real world but also flight simulation.
Everything from my point of view and knowledge as a passionate
in real life aviation watching airplanes, studying procedures or flight simulation
which I'm sure many of us use Flight Simulator, IVAO or different programs that allow us enjoy.
How did VASAviation start? VASAviation as a Youtube channel was created in May 2008
but it was in September when the first video was uploaded. You can see a thumbnail here.
it is just me and my father going to Barajas to see airplanes.
I could be there for hours just seeing airplanes landing.
I'm gonna show you a video for you to see the extreme high quality I recorded...
You can see the extreme quality (irony). If you can't guess the company, it is Pullmantur.
And that was the first video ever to be published.
Quality was as you see, so bad. But I was so happy just seeing and filming airplanes at the airport.
Aeronautic communications; in that year, my father bought me a scanner to listen to the ATC.
And when we went to the airport, that scanner complemented the spotting.
What is great about hearing the ATC? We can learn from professionals.
We can learn from people who have studied and work on this.
We can hear the ATC giving instructions but also the pilot flying those instructions.
We learn new procedures. Not the same to read through hundred manuals than learning just by hearing.
We can feel like on more. We as passionates can feel like also cooperating and working with those professionals.
Many anecdotes to share. We all have our own livings and we can share them.
In my case, I remember an anecdote in Madrid. It was a morning seeing an Iberia landing
while a wild boar was just crossing the runway. When the Iberia vacated the runway,
I heard him tellin the Tower that a wild boar had just crossed the runway.
The ATC acknowledged and 5 minutes later, we saw a car checking for the animal.
It's now the same to just see the wild boar but to be inside the coordination they all do.
It is like feeling one more. Why only the Iberia if I can be there as well?
Apart from going to Barajas and just filming airplanes, I saw that adding the comms was a very good point for the viewers.
It's not just seeing the aircraft land but also hearing the guys inside
So I came to the idea of showing that aicraft on a radar scope.
I'm gonna show you one of my first videos of this kind. It's just airplanes moving around a STAR chart.
I was using the editor to move all those little dots around showing the aircraft's positions.
Also using transcript for those who maybe have difficulties to understand the radio because of many factors that decrease the audio quality.
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The video is not working. The video just shows these dots moving around this chart.
This chart is from Madrid west arrival chart. Frequencies here are 127.1 and 128.7 controlling this area
I use the editor to move those red dots as the aircraft is moving in real. I also add this transcript to read the audio.
The ATC transcript here in black the aircraft's in red where the aircraft is.
Going to the USA. I came to a moment where Spain was maybe a bit small for this.
I saw in the videos like people liked them but it was just for latinos who understood Spanish.
I felt like the videos were only for Spanish or latinos so I got to the idea of going further and do them in English.
In this case, thanks to LiveATC, the best options was to go the USA... (interrupted)
Organizer: What's up?
VAS: Videos don't work.
Organizer: You're the youtuber! (laughs)
VAS: I had videos to show on Youtube but it's not working.
(After some minutes solving the problem...)
After this halt we've had... thanks David for solving the problem.
This is the previous video we were talking about.
I hope the audio works.... and it doesn't huh? (laughs)
You can hear the audio quality is very bad. This audio was just recorded by my scanner. Lot of static.
Maybe recording far from the airport, mobile microphone, etc, made audio quality so low.
That's why I think adding transcript is so helpful for those who can't udnerstand.
Spanish law came so severe with these communications so I had to go find them somewhere. Best option was USA.
Apart from being stuck in Spanish language, why not opening to English which is the universal language.
Everyone involved in aviation must know English so that opened many doors up.
The videos will reach way more people. China, Africans, Germans, etc. who won't watch videos in Spanish but so in English.
There we can see a little fragment of this video.
We can see JFK. To those who like LiveATC, I recommend to spend just a few minutes listening to Ground frequency.
I continued with that idea of showing the audio into a map. We can see a diagram and the airplanes shown over.
We have here that 31R is only for arrivals and 31L only for departures. The airplanes shown here are only departures.
The controller has so many departures that he creates two different flows for taxi.
One flow is this one just taxiing paralell to the runway for Juliet taxiway to cross runway 22R.
And the other one is up here to cross north of the airport. There aircraft will be divided into two again.
Ones will go via Zulu and others will go east to taxi via runway 22L.
The idea here is that listening to the audio may not provide you anythnig but seeing the situation on a radar, you can easily imagine what's going on.
Each day on VASAviation is not easy. I receive many comments daily from people complaining of my videos. I really try my best working on them.
Apart from that, the hardest task here is balancing VASAviation and my daily work.
This is just a hobby and I have my personal job in which I spend more hours.
Now, if I spend 8 hours sleeping and work another 8, I have almost no time to edit.
Now I'm starting the PPL studies. That's gonna steal me so much time from editing.
I know some people here have Youtube channel, difficult thing is combining studies, work and Youtube.
You have to be constant. You really have to like this. Not only aviation but also video editing, internet skills, etc.
You have to be informed and trained. Being informed is so easy now with Twitter, Facebook and social media.
There are many webs that share very good information just after an incident happens. Minutes later.
Being trained is important to offer a good content. Always asking professionals to help you out.
In my case, asking Paco who is an Iberia pilot, he's helped me a lot with Airbus incidents explaining me and helping me understand concepts.
This captures is taken from the editor after a video editing. This video is about a Fedex whose gear collapsed in Fort Lauderdale.
All 3 onboard resulted uninjured but the left side of the aircraft got all burnt.
I received many emails asking me to do this video so I fast got to it and edited the video.
Here's how the editor looks like after a full edition. Those who work in edition, you can imagine what this was.
This is all layers, I add aircraft logos, trucks, cars... I try to show the best way I can what is going on at the airport.
I just move the logos all around representing on a radar what's happening.
You can see the aircraft here and the trucks going to it out of the fire station.
Teamwork is something I really like to talk about and I'm gonna mention some people here.
In the top left picture, we can see a shot I took from a local TV in San Francisco. They used one of my videos for their news.
This was a Citation departing from San Francisco and a door just got off the aircraft.
The door just flew off and we can hear the pilot and noise in the background. I just showed the path in this video.
This local TV - a subscriber told me - used my video on their news
Below, it's a shot from the ABC7 from Chicago who also shared one of my videos on their news. They asked for permission in this case (laughs)
In this video we added 3D animations thanks to Andre trying to improve and let the viewer visualize the situation even better.
We show the situation from the top in 2 dimensions but also give a 3D visualization showing smoke, fire, animals, etc.
This was an American with an engine fire on takeoff. They rejected and evacuated by the other side.
ABC7 television contacted me via Twitter and email asking for permission so I really appreciate that.
We've come to a moment when I want to do so many videos and I receive so many emails asking that I need some help.
There is an email to which subscribers send audios, information, transcripts, etc and help the channel in an awesome way.
Webs and social media really help the channel as well by sharing information about anything in aviation.
There are webs such as Avherald or AirLive which share good information minutes after an incident happens. I really recommend those.
These are completely reliable because if we rely on TVs... we can find that an Airbus 747 just crashed somewhere (laughs)
so better trust those which we know are reliable and offer good information.
Friends from IVAO, some of you are here, who help the channel with these awesome 3D views.
TVs and newspapers, as I told, sharing my content on their news really cooperate with aviation and VASAviation.
What are your mose watched videos? A very frequent question. Most watched video is that one on the left.
American captain dies during flight. This is the most watched video with over a half million views.
Apart from the tragedy here, it's so watched because of the great work done by everyone involved.
Videos starts at cruise with copilot declaring emergency down to the gate at parking.
As soon as the pilot declares, controllers move everything and start working and coordinating.
Plane was headed to Boston but diverted to Syracuse. Controllers coordinate he medical services at the airport and get the aircraft land ASAP.
We have a pilot performing single pilot duties. Work load is 2x or more times for that single pilot.
That's why controllers try to make things as easy as possible for that single pilot. Approach controller even ask the pilot to stay on the frequency.
When he contacts Tower, this suggest the pilot to vacate by a taxiway which will lead the aircraft just straight to the gate.
He will vacate by this taxiway, taxi straight without stopping and waiting for anyone and will reach the gate.
Captain finally died but we can see how great they all worked here.
This one hre is from the last year's Super Bowl. You all know that Super Bowl is the biggest sport events in this world.
Every year a TFR is created. TFR is a temporary flight restriction. No one can fly inside that area without permission.
The TFR here was like a cylinder around the stadium from surface to an altitude.
In this particular case, a Cessna penetrated the TFR and a couple of fighters came to intercept it.
Just imagine a Cessna flying inside the TFR and two fighters intercepting him. They finally lead the aircraft out to land.
There are many comments about what's gonna happen to that pilot. I really don't know. If someone knows, please tell me.
This case down here is also a good example I wanted to show. It's about lasers... a big problem we're having lately.
I aslo have videos of drones passing near an aircraft... lasers and drones are becoming a huge problem for the aviation.
In this case we have a Virgin A340 going to New York. After 45 minutes of flight, the pilots declares that his Captain is starting to get blind.
What's about this? The Captain is getting blind, but also the aircraft is returning so passengers may lose connections.
It is money spent to go 45 minutes and now returning that time to London. Fuel consumption, aircraft usage...
All this because a fool came to the idea that hitting an aircraft with a green laser was cool...
Finally in that picture, it's a clear example about the problem of similar callsigns.
In Spain we have one reported by controllers that is Air Nostrum. There are times when very similar numbers coincide and create confusion
If the ATC gives an instruction to one but the other thinks it is for him, both read back and confusion is done. Imminent dangerous.
In this case here, we're at Midway airport with crossed runways where we deal with a Southwest departing 31C and a Delta departing 4R. Both have similar callsigns.
Their last two numbers are the same. The Ground controller advises them both of having another one with similar callsign.
Tower controller lines both on the runway and he has to be quick because he also has traffics on final to land.
(Original video can be found on the description)
We have a Delta 1328 and a Sotuhwest 3828
If the Tower is stressed because of high density of traffic speaks fast, we come to the conclusion that the last 2 numbers are the same. Who is he speaking to?
One thing many people commented is that apart from the similar callsigns, there's something that can be clearly heard and it's the runway.
Southwest is on 31C and Delata on 4R. Although callsign is not clear, runway is so and ATC clearly says 31C so Delta is not the one cleared.
Both airplanes vacated with hot brakes, contacted company, etc...
Then the idea is that if I haven't heard the 100% of the comm and I don't know that instruction is for me, I DON'T move my aircraft. Never.
What has VASAviation brought to you? Way more aviation knowledge. I've learnt a lot during this time.
Wanting to progress and go further, satisfaction when I read comments of people saying that they liked or learnt with the video.
When people appreciate your work and enjoy with it is great.
Recognition; being today for example and having the opportunity to share my experience in VASAviation in this big event is a pleasure.
New friends as we have here many of them who have helped and I really consider friends right now.
Starting new projects as I said, now starting my PPL studies. Going a little step further and expand my aviation knowledge.
Platform to share. We all know that Youtube is now a huge platform to promote our tasks. Something we really do well, Youtube is the best platform to share it.
To finish, my huge thanks to LiveATC for all the help. It's a great community and they spend so much time working the feeds and more.
Thanks to IVAO for all these years helping and teaching me new things. Specially Paco for all his help and time dedicated.
Thanks to my subscribers. That screenshot is not updated, we've reached 45,000 subs just today. So thank you all for the support.
Thanks to the MASM17 organization for this event full aviation where we all are learning something today. Great and hard job done by them.
And of course, thank you everyone for coming here, hear and enjoy my project. I really hope you keep learning with VASAviation.
Now if someone has some questions or wants to chat... I have plenty of time!
We can keep talking about privatization of communications. Many countries in Europe that don't allow comms to be on the web.
I started working English because of that. Spain law became severe and I stopped working Spanish audios.
I wanted to ask you all about your opinion of this privatization. I really think sharing comms helps aviation. We all learn with them.
Piltos and ATCs don't want to be heard in their jobs and they are against. Some of them think it's great to share as well. Opinions are divided.
Participant: How long does it take to edit a video?
10-15 minutes of video - if I edit logos, trucks, planes, 3D, maps, etc - it can take 8 hours to edit one video.
You have already seen that screenshot. Layer by layer, it's all hours of editing, moving them all and synching the maps with the audio.
I start transcribing the audio, then add the maps and then the logos. It's all hours of editing mixing the layers.
Participant: What do you feel at first when hearing an audio of an accident?
Well, I keep being surprised. I never get used to hear an audio of an accident.
For example, that American Captain who dies... well, do you remember that video about hot air balloons in Sao Paulo?
For those who don't, there is a video in Sao Paulo with balloons creaeting conflicts in the approach. Many aircraft reported having balloons so close.
There was an Air Europa there who almost hit a balloons and we can hear the pilot scream "caution there"
In that moment when you hear that, also the autopilot OFF warning in the background, you know something dangerous has happened.
The balloon was that close that pilot screamed on frequency, disconnected the autopilot and avoided the balloon.
In cases of dead people, nobody gets used to it. It's always shocking. The thing is learning and come to conclusions from it.
The video of that American, despite of the tragic, is so good to understand all the work behind. All that coordination.
Any more questions?... Let's go then! :D
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