Kenny Keller warns that airplane pilots learning to fly helicopters face a deadly risk: their instinct to push forward during descent causes a low-G pushover. Helicopters require down collective to descend, not forward stick. Proper transition training and sharp fundamentals are essential.
Get an early start at 24 Hour Diner. Welcome to Day 87 Coffee with Kenny. I'm Kenny Keller, the creator helicopter airline ground school and we're heading out to the airport early getting ready for my member coming in to do some flight training in the instrument helicopter. He's flying up in his airplane. So this is a helicopter add on and today I want to cover a safety notice. Airplane pilots high risk when learning to fly helicopters. So let's head out to the airport. This is really odd for me. A lot of nights I'm leaving when it's dark. Rarely am I coming in when it's dark. That's okay. I'm excited. It's springtime, great time to fly while the still cool before we get the hot summer weather. It's awesome. Many of you have probably heard of Gary Vee. I was just watching him the other day and I thought he said something about success and I thought his definition was awesome. He was asked what does success mean to you? And he said going where you want when you want and doing what you want to do within living within your means. And I totally identify with that. I absolutely love what I do. Alright, let's head inside. Yep, I just had to stop get some McDonald's coffee on the way in. Alright, head out to the hangar. I just want to show you this. Heather put this up yesterday. We're going to start filling this dude up nice big full size calendar. For the whole year we only allow one flight training student here at a time which actually works out really nice for students and it works out nice for us. So what I want to talk about today is the safety notice SN29 airplane pilots high risk when flying helicopters. When you read through the safety notice I totally get it. As a past law enforcement officer I know we always revert back to the way we're trained. So what the safety notice is telling us that the inherent things you do in an airplane that you're trained to do if you're not properly conditioned when you're learning to fly the helicopter, it's going to get you into big trouble. So this is one I will cover today with my hogs member when he gets here. He is a rated airplane pilot. So this is just one of those things that I'm going to bring up now. Don't get discouraged because of this notice. It's just basically saying you need to use caution. If you're an experienced fixed wing pilot you got to be careful and be conditioned to do things a little bit differently. Mainly if you would need to descend in a hurry. Let's say a bird or a cloud or something appeared in front of you and you had to descend quickly. A helicopter pilot uses down collective and descends where an airplane pilot is going to have that instinct to push forward. And in a helicopter, you never want to push forward. It's called a low G pushover. You don't want to push abruptly forward at any time. In a helicopter, anytime you descend, it's down collective. So yes, you can be a fixed wing pilot and safely transition into helicopters and learn. As long as you're getting the valid instruction or getting good quality instruction and you're taught all the good, simple safety helicopter stuff and you stick with that through your helicopter flying career. You know, I based all my training on really harping on the basics. And a lot of times I think that's what gets people into trouble, is when you get away from the basics, the things that we're taught from day one, private pilot, when you let some of those good fundamental skills that you learn early on, when you let those slip away, that's when problems start to happen. So thanks for tuning in to day 87. Please like and subscribe for us. We're approaching that 20,000 mark. For subscribers, please subscribe, click the bell when you do, leave any comments you have down below and join us tomorrow for day 88 coffee with Kenny. Hell yeah.
