A short Coffee with Kenny video (Day #307) in which Kenny Keller emphasizes the importance of slow, smooth, methodical helicopter control inputs—especially collective control—when preparing for checkrides. He contrasts smooth inputs with common student tendencies to be abrupt and aggressive, and advises taking time to set up maneuvers and remain unhurried: 'smooth control inputs' is his central maxim.
Mm, yeah. Dylan, Dylan. Let me just drop everything and work on your problem because you're priority over loving everything else I got going on in my life where the love is not over. Live to fly another day. Helicopterground.com Are you recording? Yeah, always. Coffee with Kenny. 307. You ever notice how gross the coffee cut coffee cup gets as you're drinking that? Stripping down the edge, it's disgusting. So one of the absolute best piece of advices I can give across the board, but particularly right now, getting people ready for checkrides. We've done four. Getting ready to do number five for the summer final approach courses. That is recurring theme with all five people that have come up here. All Hogs Pro members, all taking checkrides. The majority of what I've done is preach slow, smooth, methodical. Almost everybody's been abrupt. Abrupt on collective changes, aggressive on takeoffs, super aggressive on max takeoffs, really aggressive in a lot of areas where they don't need to be so aggressive. And among other areas too. So for years I've said, you know, we should have a shirt that's just smooth control inputs. What do you need to know about flying helicopters? Smooth control inputs, examiner, that we've used for 22 years repeats every time. There's no pressure today. We're not in a rush today. There's no reason to rush anything that we do today. If it takes 10 minutes to get set up for a straight in auto, take 10 minutes to get straight up for a set up for a straight in auto. So the Examiner's not pushing you, I'm not pushing you. People push themselves and they just feel the need. One of the biggest things I've noticed, these great big collective inputs. Two of the four have said half. Move those collective. Change that collective movement to half and do it slower, do it smoother. I heard somebody once talk about, you know, students operating a collective like a jack handle, right? And I get what they're saying. It's like people just get too abrupt. So every control, smooth, slow, gentleman. But collective seems the one that's kind of the trend right now this summer with everybody is just too big and abrupt on those collective inputs along with everything else. So one of the shortest, best copy with Kenny's I could ever do. Smooth control inputs. That's it. That's all I got. Okay, I'm done. I have no more for you. No soup for you. No soup for you. Okay, I'm really done. Live to fly another day. Helicopterground. Com.
