Kenny Keller, a helicopter instructor with 23 years of experience, breaks down the equipment checkride examiners expect for night flight: landing light, position lights, anti-collision light, panel lights, flashlight, and spare fuses. He recommends mentally walking through the helicopter during oral exams to catch what you might forget.
Questions this video answers
Landing light; position lights (including rear position light); anti-collision light; instrument/panel lights; tachometer/RPM/engine lights; flashlight.
Both the battery and the alternator must be functioning.
Spare fuses.
Chapters
Landing light, position lights, instrument lights and lights for tachometer, RPM and engine, bare fuses, battery alternator, anti collision, position light at the rear. All right, in this video we're referencing insights from over 23 years of helicopter instruction. This is from our new book, Private Pilot 101 A Helicopter Training Blueprint. Amazon number one bestseller. You can get a free PDF down below. The thing that I continually see in checkrides over and over, when you're prepping with somebody, usually we're sitting over here on the couch and we're doing ground. And I'm asking them, you know, what's required day, what's required night, what's required for R44 specific. And one of them that people continually struggle with is the stuff on the night requirements. And because we're sitting here doing ground on the couches and the helicopter is always sitting here, the last couple guys that were struggling to give me what you have to have at night, I said, just look over at the helicopter. And when you're at the checkride, if it's not sitting there, just think about the aircraft itself. And if you think about it, when you're trying to tell the examiner, what do you have to have just kind of go down the helicopter, Got to have your landing lights, of course, your position lights, flashlight, you got to have your panel lights, instrument lights, need a light for tachometer for your engine and rpm, of course. Then you need to have both a functioning battery and alternator. They both have to be working for night flight. Spare fuses, we have those right here. That's the panel that I just closed. Anti collision lights and position light on the rear. So when you're sitting there with the examiner and you're kind of struggling, think about it. Just think about the aircraft sitting on the ramp, wherever you're taking your checkride, think about everything that needs to be on there. And working at night seems like a simple thing. But so many times people are sitting there and I'm going, okay, so you got through what you need for day, what you need specific for the R44, what do you need at night? And then they're going, ah, let's see, position lights, landing light, and they struggle getting through. So there's a good quick memory aid because required equipment, they're going to ask you on any checkride, private commercial, cfi, what do you have to have during for day flight, what do you have to have for night flight? And then are you flying R22, flying R44, what are the specific things for those aircraft? So again, this series of videos that we're doing at this time is things I've seen in the last year and a half or so since the R44 has been here. We've done 15 checkrides. So I just been sitting around kind of jotting down the things that I continually see people struggle with. So come back tomorrow for another tip of some sorts. Remember Private Pilot 101? Go down below for a free PDF and also operate. You can get the paperback or it's on Kindle as well. All from those links down below. See you tomorrow. Peace out.
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