Bob Poe has been flying helicopters since 1967, spent 34 years in the Army Reserve, ran a charter company for 44 years, and still teaches at 75. He says it's never too late to learn to fly.
1967
34 years
44 years
75
Louisville Aviation
Hey, welcome to day 139 Coffee with Kenny. This is amazing. We got the hangar doors open. Natural light today. Have Rex Alexander stopping by in a few minutes to stop and check out our new hangar. Someone you've seen in some of our FAA webinars. So we'll be talking to Rex a little bit later. Don't know if we'll do a video with Rex Wise here or not, but on to it. 75 years old, out instructing in a helicopter with Sam, who was here last week, the airline transport pilot flying for UPS that came into the video with us. He told me all about his flight instructor and, you know, I'm just going to roll the video. I'll roll the video. I'll be right back.
Kenny, Sam Doherty here again, back home in. Well, actually not in southern Indiana. I'm in Louisville, Kentucky today at Louisville Aviation. And this is my instructor, Bob Poe, who's been training me on the bell 47. And we were talking about it never being too late and nostalgic aircraft. You're going to get to see this bell 47 at some point. But I thought you'd be interested in Bob's background. Bob, can you talk a little bit about your background and experience?
Well, I started in helicopters in 1967 in the Army. Stayed in the army for 34 years in the Reserves and Guard. Started my own helicopter company, charter company, did that for 44 years simultaneously doing the Army. Finally, I've retired from all of that, but I'm still enjoying myself flying this belt 47. It's a treat.
It's a wonderful machine. One question that gets asked a lot. Kenny says he gets this question all the time. I'm 60 years old. Is it too late to learn how to fly a helicopter?
My opinion, it's never too late. If you want to learn, have the desire and just get out there and do it.
You'll do it.
I gotta tell you, Kenny, it's been a treat flying with BO he showed me things, that it's wonderful to fly with different people because you always learn something new and interesting. But here's one fun fact I think you'll enjoy. If you don't mind. Bob, would you tell everybody how old you are?
75.
It's never too late. Kenny and Bob just want to say thanks.
Hey, I enjoy flying with you. It's fun every day.
Little shout out to Louisville Aviation. If you want to fly Bell 47. This is the place to be.
Thanks. So there. There you go. That is what we've been saying for Months, the last several months during coffee with Kenny, we've been talking a lot about people flying into their 50s, their 60s, their 70s, and we even heard of instructors out there into their 80s. Sam told me about Bob, his instructor, and I've heard of this gentleman. I know he's been flying forever and I know he's, you know, had some awesome companies in the area over the years. So right there is a testament to it doesn't matter. As long as you're healthy and fit and you're willing to learn, you can do it. So for all the naysayers keep saying, ah, you're too old, you're too old. Hogwash. Living proof. In the video I just rolled for you, Sam's going to come up and bring the Bell 47. I've mentioned this in a couple videos. This Bell 47 was actually a helicopter that inspired me as a kid. When I was a kid running around and watching these people fly helicopters, I was inspired by Dave Latimer who was the airport manager for eight years at the last airport I was at, Dave inspired me as a kid to fly. He flew helicopters for the state police. And this particular Bell 47 that's coming up is what he trained in many years ago. So I know Dave's going to be excited to hear about this bell 47 that he flew years ago. At that time it was used by civil defense and the sheriff's department in the county that I grew up in. So as a kid I knew this bell 47. Right. So it's kind of exciting for me too just to get to see it. I've never flown it, but you know, again, being inspired as a kid by this bell 47 being the Sheriff's department helicopter, I remember there being a star underneath of it. And then when I got a chance to be a police officer, I can remember when they would call the helicopter out how excited I was. You know, I was excited to be a police officer, but I was even more excited when we had to call the helicopter and the helicopter come out to the scene. So that's awesome. Day 139. Subscribe to the channel and when you do, click that bell so you can be notified of our daily video. We're covering all kinds of awesome stuff. Down below we have a link to two of our Amazon best selling books. We ship you those for just shipping handling. The book is free. We've already paid for it. And down below you can take our training for a 24 hour test flight. Private commercial. See it by instrument 24 hours. No charge. Either leave your credit card information in, keep the training after the 24 hours or remove it or end it in PayPal before then the 24 hours we build nothing. You want to keep the training, keep it month to month, keep as long as you like. Come back anytime, work on additional ratings, commercial, cfi, instrument, it's all up to you. You can self sign up and self unsubscribe. So we're just digging it? Oh yeah, 100% no hassle money back guarantee good for 30 days. Not day 34, not day 56. 30 days. Alright so we're gonna wrap it up. It is awesome. Hangar doors open. Summertime here. It's Friday. Love it, love it, love it, love it. All right, big weekend coming up. Holiday weekend. See what special I can dream up for maybe a special sale.
I think that should happen.
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