Episode 331: How Well do You Know Your Aircraft?

How well do you know the aircraft that you're flying? Yoda time. How well do you know your helicopter? We're kind of revisiting this video from a year ago when I first picked up the R44. And when we got that aircraft back, it just come out of overhaul. So I spent the day with it. I just really took the time to, you know, go over it, look, look for dings, dents, anything leaking, anything loose, get to kind of know the aircraft because as you fly it, you want to know when new things happen to it. One of the things we like to call hangar ash, out of the blue, the helicopters all of a sudden has a ding or a dent. Where did that come from? Who else flew it? Was somebody in the hangar and ran something into it. So the whole point of the Yoda time is spending that time to get to know the aircraft that you're flying. Whether you're at a flight school just renting or you purchased an aircraft. This particular day, I spent the whole entire day just really looking the aircraft over and more than just looking the aircraft over, pulling the pre flight checklist out, going through the factory prescribed checklist, I spent some time with that. I sat down, opened up the maintenance logs, log books. Aircraft had just come through an overhaul, so it was fairly easy. But I still took the time to just go through it page by page, look at everything in the aircraft maintenance record. So I was familiar with everything that was done and what the dates were. And then I also spent some time with the pilot's operating handbook, pulled it out of the aircraft, sat down, reviewed emergencies, reviewed normal procedures, limitations, just spending that time so you can really be comfortable when you're in that aircraft. So again, this can work with any aircraft you're flying. Even if you're at a flight school, they usually have a little downtime here or there where you could go out and just spend some time with the aircraft and really get to know it. And you may or may not know. We're celebrating 12 years since the launch of helicopter airline ground school. We're proud of everything we've done in the past 12 years. Looking forward to the next 12 years and we have a special going on now. 20% off any memberships. As the release of this video, the next three people to either purchase a private lifetime, which is a limited time, this is something new where you can buy private lifetime or a pro pilot. We have bulk hogs, bulk apps and Heather will reach out to you. The first three that purchase from the publication of this video, get the Hogs ball cap included with your membership. All right, so that's going to wrap up the video for today. Come back. We've got videos coming up for the next three days as we finish off this 12 year sale. The code is HOGS12Years, which it's posted right on the site on all of our memberships. If you're on the fence and you're kind of thinking about it, you can always reach out to Hogsmember Support at 574-767-1797. And then we got something new and cool called Ask Hogs.com you can type in a question or you can click the phone icon and carry on a conversation with my clone. Yeah, it's kind of freaky, but it's kind of cool too. And it's based off 12 years of of our content, videos, blogs, podcasts, and it's pretty amazing. Some of the answers that you can get from ask hogs.com so there's a link around somewhere around this video for Helicopter One Ground school. Sign up and we'll see on the inside. Peace out.

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