Kenny Keller watches a helicopter crew member get hit by a rotor blade during startup and walks through why rotors kill people so easily. The person in the clip survived with minor injuries, but Keller has seen fatal accidents from the same mistake.
Day 272. Coffee with Kenny. Got a quick one here. A video that I've never seen before till last night. Somebody sent me this in Facebook messenger. And you see a guy running out here with his hands up in the air, rotor blades, guy kneeling here, and people stand over here. So it's like, what's gonna happen here? Let's take a look. Watch chopper pilots lucky escape from rotor blade. Oh, man. This is kind of. It's pretty interesting. Check this out. Oh, Bam. Apparently the guy's okay, and it ends up saying that he just ended up with a bruise. But, man, that shows you how quickly something bad can happen. And in this case, at least all the bystanders are. They should probably be even farther back, but at least they're back there in a line. They must have some kind of a cable or string up. So trained crew member gets hit by the rotor blade during startup, knocks him down. Could you imagine how much that hurt? Oh, my God. He had to have a huge headache. So there again, the dangers of the tail rotors and the main rotors. It's amazing. It's not just innocent bystanders. It's also trained crew members that get hit in the head and killed by rotor blades and tail rotor blades. So that's a great example of the dangers that we can show you. And at least the outcome was good. I just saw a new one the other day that I've never seen before where a guy walks in the tail rotor, and it's on YouTube and it's really graphic and it shows. I mean, the guy loses his life, of course, and I'm hesitant to do that one. But anyway, tail rotors, main rotors. It can be innocent bystanders. It can be trained crew members. I know there was an accident in Ohio in the last few years. Gentleman giving helicopter rides. And it was the pilot, and he was a seasoned pilot. He was an older guy that had been flying for many, many years, and he was given rides at, like, a fair or something along that lines. And he walked into his own rotor blade and lost his life. So I'm Kenny Keller, creator of Helicopter Online Ground school. You can go check out our courses down below. Helicopterground.com and today I want to mention top 10 checkride tips. Amazon number one best seller. I did this with 2018 flight instructor of the year. Dan Taz Christman. We ship you these books for just shipping and handling. We bought the books for you. We have a whole pile of them and we're pretty darn proud of this book. Dan and I put our experience together of 40 years of experience between the two of us came up with the top 10 things that people have a problem with when they go to a checkride. Going to put the link down for this down below. We will send you this book for just shipping and handling. It's a great deal. I'll put that down below as well. Thanks for tuning in for day 272. Had a lot of traction the last couple weeks doing helicopter accidents and talking about all the bad things that can happen. And we've been online eight years with helicopter land ground school almost. I've been making helicopter videos for 10 years. Always been hesitant to really do a lot of accident stuff but we've been doing them the last couple weeks and it's thought provoking. Right. We try to do them all in good taste but try to just show you a lot of the bad things that happen. So instead of just talking about it in theory, we can actually see some of these things that happen that are. That are bad news. So do us a favor. I'm going to get out of here. It's a Sunday. My daughter's home waiting for me to come fix breakfast. So subscribe to the channel, Click the bell. Leave us a comment down below. You can go check out all of our courses@helopterground.com we have private commercial CFI instrument. Go down below to grab a copy of top 10 checkride tips for just shipping and handling. Click the bell, subscribe and we'll see you in day 273. Peace out, Sam.
