Transcript of a YouTube video (Kenny Keller) featuring two speakers—an instructor and a student/CFI—discussing helicopter training practices. They emphasize learning from multiple instructors and aircraft to become well-rounded, describe continuing learning over years, and plan a practical exercise (power failure at altitude and field selection).
Scotia Traffic Copter 3 Charitla just departed 27.
Right.
Traffic. And we'll sidestep for the inbound on 9.
Thank you.
All right.
I can't help but think back as a cfi. I've learned so much from so many people over the years, and I just want to stress that you learn so much flying with different people, different aircraft, different places around the country, and being open to let other people show you new ideas. Sometimes you'll adopt their idea. Sometimes you might think their idea is complete bogus. It doesn't matter. I feel like I've learned the most by taking all the little bits and things that somebody showed me and I go, ooh.
And that's exactly what I tell my students. I encourage them to fly with other instructors. I also encourage them to go out and fly other aircraft, you know, because I tell them, if you can take a little bit from each instructor, going to be a well rounded pilot, you know, if I would only take what I learned from you, then I would only know your methods. I would only know what you do or don't do. Exactly. I've had several instructors, you know, throughout my training, and if I could take a piece from all of them, then that makes me a well rounded.
Absolutely. So many times a student doesn't want to switch, they don't want to switch.
Aircraft, they don't want to switch instructors.
And I get it.
I was the same way. You get comfortable.
Just like the pilot that helped me as a new cfi, he was also there to, like, give me the stage checks. Right. And I was always terrified of him. Right. Because he's gonna come in and kick your butt. Right. But in the end, who did I go to when I needed help, I went to him. So there's just so much to learn. And I swear I started playing in 1997, and I swear, even today, I still learn something new every time I go out. It's like you just see something, you'll feel something, you'll hear something that you just never noticed before. I think it's amazing how you just continue to learn as time goes by.
Yeah. Yep.
Tomorrow we're gonna show you a power failure at altitude. So here's.
Are we doing the 180 now? Are we doing a. Oh, we did 180. Well, I know, but with two turns, I didn't know if we were doing what we were doing.
Oh, you want to go back and do a full 180?
I don't know. Whatever you want to do. We could.
You want to go back and do one.
You're the man. You're the boss. You're telling me I'm just the dumb pilot? I'm just flying.
Well, I think you're out here. Now that you're out here away from the airport, this might be a good time to lead into the power failure. At altitude, right?
Why in the heck would I want to do that? Oh, power failure. Oh, look at that. I know. The wind's coming out of the northwest. Make a slight little turn. That's all there is to it. Going into this field. Now, when we go into a field, we're looking for wires, looking for trees.
