Randy Sharkey, a designated pilot examiner, says his number one pet peeve during helicopter checkrides is applicants claiming they weren't prepared for the winds. He and Kenny Keller stress that instructors need to train students in gusty conditions, logging those flights, with winds up to 20-25 knots.
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What a nice machine. Hey, it's Kenny with Helicopter Line Ground School. This is Hoggs Daily Flight Brief. I'm Kenny Keller, creator of Helicopter Line Ground School. Chris Hauser, currently with SWEET Aviation. You've been seeing him in these Hogs daily brief videos and you've met Randy the last three days. If you caught the last three videos, which you should have, if not, go back and watch them now. Randy Sharkey is with SWEET Helicopters and designated pilot examiner. So we're gonna do is give you Randy's top 10 pet peeves. These are things that he sees as a designated examiner. Everybody always wants tips for a checkride. Here you go. We're gonna have 10 of them for you from a DPE. So Randy, go ahead and just give us your number one Pepe.
Hey Kenny. Welcome aboard, Chris. Good to have you. Chris, why don't you take the controls and you focus on flying and I will talk about the top 10 pet peeves. Pet peeves for DPEs. Just a disclaimer that I want to make, Kenny, is that today's recommendations and suggestions are based on my observations and just mine only. So I hope they're helpful. You know, that's the idea. That's why I'm here. Understand that these suggestions and recommendations are by no means mandated by the FAA. So one of the 10 pet peeves that I have is this comment right here. Man, I wasn't prepared for the winds. That is one of the most common statements that I hear during a check ride. Man, I just wasn't prepared for the winds. So having said Kenny, I just want to let your fans know, your followers know to make sure that their instructor flies with them even on the windy days, even on the gusty days. Because depending upon the instructor that day, he may not give a lot of grace. Helicopters are not like airplanes where airplanes do have a crosswind component limitation. We don't have that crosswind component because we are always into the. So that's my first one, guys. What do you think?
That is a great one, Randy. And I like it because luckily I was taught early on as a new cfi. The guy worked for said, make sure you take your students out on high wind days and make sure you put it in the logbook. And it makes sense now with my years of teaching. If you're not ready to go out and handle wins for the examiner. You're probably not ready to be a private pilot. And I think that's really the basics of it, right? You're, if you're only going out on beautiful days, then you get a private need to get turned out into the world and you can't handle the wind and you lose your life in the aircraft because you weren't prepared. So I think is a great tip. And that's, that's, I was kind of surprised with that one just because, well, I'm not, I'm not an examiner. Right. So, so I wouldn't know that. You know, I can only give my thoughts as a cfi. So that's a great one, Randy. We appreciate that very much.
And I, and just real quick. Yes, please do. I totally agree with that. And I, I make sure that I go fly with my students on a windy day. They'll, they may even text me or call me and say, hey, it's, you know, it's 10 guston to 14 out there. I don't know, I'm like, no, we're going to fly because you have to experience winds. Now do I recommend them going out there on a solo flight with wins 15? No, of course not. But I will take them out there on a, on a 20 knot day or even up to 24, 25 knots just so they can have the experience. And you're exactly right. I will log that in their, in their logbook. Hey, winds 20 gust into 25 just so that they have the practice.
Yes.
So I do make my guys experience that.
Absolutely great tip. So if your instructor's not flying you on windy days, encourage it. Ask to go out and learn. I mean you still got to use cars, but you need to experience that wind and know what it feels like so you know you can get home. If you get unexpected turbulence, which happens, the weather doesn't always come out the way it's expected. So. Awesome. Randy, top 10 checkride tips. This is down below free PDF where we ship it to you for just 7 bucks shipping and handling. So like and subscribe and we'll see you tomorrow or Randy's gonna give us number two. So again, like Randy said, these are food for thought. He's giving you his opinions. You still have to abide by the PTS that will be assumed to be the acs, your pilot's operating handbook for the aircraft flying. There's a lot of things that you have to follow. So come back tomorrow for the next tip. Peace out.
Just like this. Good.
I like that.
Yeah. Yeah, that one worked out really, really well, guys. Yeah, really.
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How we doing, guys?
Awesome. Everything's looking. Those are still recording for sure. I see red lights.
Good deal. Red is good. All right.
You ready to go? I am ready.
Okay.
How'd the live go?
It's windy out, so hopefully. I worry that. Yeah, they'll sound like hell, but.
Oh, because of the. Just the surface winds.
Because of the surface winds. Yeah, yeah. And I have a special mic for that.
Yeah, yeah.
Somewhere.
Of course. We didn't help the situation, Eddie. That's all right.
