#23 Gusting Wind is there a technique you can suggest to better manage this?

Hey, it's Kenny with helicopter at Land Grouse school. Just finished up with my third cup of coffee. These daily videos so I'm trying to have them up and ready to go and shoot by the time I'm done. My third coffee from a member who is struggling. Here's his question. I'm preparing for the commercial. Add on 70 total R44 hours and 40 hours pic as of today. I fill it one with the machine when winds are consistent in less than 10 to 15 knots. Above that and gusting, it's eating me for lunch. Downright humbling. Is it just a matter of more time flying in challenging conditions or is there a technique you can suggest to better manage wind gusting? Better manage wind. Gusting wind. I'm going to answer that question first. I'm going to tell you I've done two videos in the past on dealing with wind. I'll put both those links down below. One's in a Jet Ranger, one's in an instrument. Just some tips and tricks about flying in the wind, hovering in the wind, getting better with the higher wind conditions. So I'll put both of those down below. Put your tips and tricks for learning to manage wind, put those down below and also subscribe to the channel and click the bell for more videos with notification of the daily video. So Anyway, he's at so 70 total hours. Okay. As, as he builds time, he's going to get more comfortable, consistent, you know, 10 to 15. That's great. Above that gusting is eating me for lunch. Downright humbling. And yes it is. And it's going to get easier with time. You should be going out with your instructor on particularly on some windy days and even put that in your logbook when you go out on a higher wind day. But you're going to get better with experience. More time in the aircraft, more time in the seat. It's going to get better. Okay, Going out and practicing on high wind wind days. I highly, highly recommend doing that with an instructor. You know, once it gets up to around, say even above 25 or so, I'm not even going to go out and usually do training unless that's I've taken somebody out for high wind training. Even in, say, Even in the EMS helicopter world when I got much above, say 30, even the medical crew, who are usually gung ho, gets much above 30. They don't even really want to go because it's not fun for anybody to get bounced around in a helicopter. It's just not. And you know, any given day can Be different. One thing I want to point out is you can be out on a day with 30 knots of wind and it can be kind of a steady wind that might not be bad. You can be out on a day where they say it's, you know, 15, gusting 24 and it doesn't sound that horrible. But man, that particular day, depending on the way the wind is working, it can literally knock the hell out of you and just make you totally uncomfortable. So at 70 hours, that's not a lot of time. So this member should not feel bad, don't feel bad that it's humbling you. You should be practicing on those days, 10, 15 knots, honing your skills for your checkride. But at the commercial level, going into commercial checkride, he's going to want to make sure that you can be proficient and be proficient still with the higher winds because in a commercial environment you're going to be going out and you're going to fly on windier days with worse weather, higher loads. So at the commercial level, you still need to have really good skills, but you do need to be versed in high winds and you don't want to be scared to go out and fly in it. But also make a good no go decision. And if it's just too windy or you even go out for the day and it's windier than expected, sometimes the, the weather report won't be right. You know, sometimes what the ATIS is reporting is not what it's doing or it's reporting on the ground, up at 500ft, 1,000ft, who knows what could be going on. So the answer to his question I think simply is you're gonna get better with time, you're gonna get more comfortable with time. There's gonna be those days where the wind is just gonna kick your butt. And there's nothing wrong with just going, you know what, today it's just too windy today. I'm gonna go back. I've mentioned a couple these other videos. You know, I've flown as much as high up to like 45 knots and I don't even do that anymore. That's just ridiculous. That gets out there and just beats the heck out of you. And of course you need to look at, and I should have mentioned this right off the bat, limitations for your aircraft. You know, always, always, always check the POH and know the crosswind that you can fly in and also know the wind limits totally for the aircraft. So you're a pilot in command. You're the one who needs to make the decision about when is a good time to fly and when is not. Don't be afraid of going out and going, whoa, we're turning around and going right back in. Did that with my daughter one day. Went out in the R44. Wind was way. It was beating me around a lot more than I expected. I was gonna go fly to my hometown. We're gonna, you know, check out the baseball field that they named that my dad, that they named after my dad. And my daughter was looking really forward to that. But we started getting beat around. I'm like, nope, we're going another day. Gloria turned around, went back, put it on the ground. So you're gonna get more comfortable with time, you're gonna get more comfortable with practice. You should be out there with your instructor flying on the high wind days. And make sure that you log this in your logbook, whether you're going for private or you're going for commercial or even CFI on those high wind days when that's what you're going out to do is to learn and fight and get comfortable to the higher winds. 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