#123 HELICOPTER DOORS OFF FLYING | Could Be Fatal Accident Loose Objects

All right. Keep it in the true coffee with Kenny form and fashion. This is coffee number three. I brought it with me and warmed it up in the microwave. Welcome to the new look. We're not done, but man, is it getting cool. Even more fun. Neighbor brought us in this week. Monday morning, boom. Neighbor brings us over a plant and some chocolates. A next door neighbor hanger and I picked this up when Heather and I were out shopping. Love it. But first, coffee. And we went out and got a microwave and refrigerator. And we'll show you the kitchenette another day. We're set up. Oh, my God. Having so much fun. Okay, so the door's off bed. Here we go. Safety Notice SN30. Loose objects can be fatal. If you're not careful, bad things can happen. We love doors off. Flying it is the absolute best. Okay, so I've got this door over here prepped and ready to go. Now you want to take care. Helicopter doors are expensive. This we got a pretty big, pretty huge bathroom with kind of a cubby area. So I'm gonna go put this in the bathroom where it should be safe and out of the way and not get damaged. I have made cradles for them in the past, but those stayed with the people I built them for. Okay, so we can take both doors off. And both doors off are a blast. I absolutely love it. But here's what you got to think about. If you just take off the right hand side door on a counterclockwise rotating system like the Sunstrom F28F, our beautiful cream puff that we just love. Tail rotors over here on this side, right? If this door is off, an object comes out, the door goes into the tail rotor. And there have been fatal accidents. There's one in specific I'm thinking of. Back when I was training and I was new, my instructors had me read accident reports and I was flying Robinson. So I read the book, right? Flip through them, Flip through them. And I also always read the safety notices and the safety, you know, warnings in the back of the POH that are good for almost any helicopter. Regardless, the bad things that happen, people, majority time, doesn't matter what helicopter you're flying, right? So what you have to think about is if you're going to just take off one, take off the right hand side on a counterclick system. Leave this one on. That helps you from losing stuff going in out of the aircraft. You can take them both off. And again, depends on check your poh, of course, because there can be limitations on doors and there can Be limitations on your airspeeds with doors off. Okay? So always check your poh. Always, always, always. No matter what you're doing, check your pilot's operating handbook or your flight manual for that aircraft. You also have to think about when you take both doors off. It is so much fun to go out there, but then you get a lot of air blowing through the cabin. So that airflow makes a lot of noise in the radio system because that wind blows over the mic. And if you're out there trying to train and you're trying to talk to your instructor, that can be very difficult. So the other, you know, second to safety, you know, number one, if you're going to leave one door on, you want the open air feeling, but you want to be safe. Leave the door on that's on the side of your tail rotor. Take this door off. Gives you a lot of flow. Airflow makes it fun, but it does cut down the noise. Trust me. Anything that's in that cabin that is loose, the minute you start that thing up or even pull it outside, stuff's gonna start blowing out the window. So you must take the time to check the aircraft once the doors are off. Okay, is everything secure? You know, a piece of paper. The fatal accident I mentioned earlier, I read about many years ago. Pilot on this side, kneeboard, not strapped tight, comes out the window, goes into the tail rotor, causes a mass failure. And it was a fatal accident due to something coming out of the cockpit. 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Welcome to day 123.

Kennywood's helicopter line ground school.

We're gonna head out to the hangar. We're gonna talk about doors off, flying. Summertime's coming, grass is getting green. I shot an approach here to the yard just as I promised this winter. I didn't set down because the ground is soft, but I knew that. But I wanted to do an approach in, see how it felt. I'd already alerted the neighbors. One works for a city police and he notified the guy who is chief of police for the lake where I live. So I already had notified local law enforcement and they relayed that there was no ordinances or anything I would violate. So I shot an approach in here Sunday with my daughter. We didn't set down again because the ground was too wet and too soft. So that's a danger. Right? So maybe this next week, ground dries up. We're gonna film from the hangar to home for lunch or whatever, laying in the yard, and we'll do a little more prep work, and I'll walk around the yard that day and show you a little more about going in and out of a confined area. So that's coming up. Exciting stuff, people.

All right, out to the hangar. Let's talk about doors off flying, which.

Is my absolute favorite. I absolutely love it, but you got.

To take some precautions.

You got to be careful.

You could end up.

It could. You know, there have been fatal accidents from things flying out the window, so we're going to cover that at the hangar.