Helicopter Online Ground School Behind The Scenes Introduction

So swinging by or on our way to the airport, I'm gonna swing by, sell you something cool that I'm pretty proud of right up here. Kim Keller Field. So back in the 70s, my dad was a school teacher, athletic director, guidance counselor, and he hand built this baseball field all those years ago. And we got something cool in the Jeep that we carry around with us from 19. I thought they wrote a date on there. There it is. 1974 baseball. Don C. Mark S. I don't think. I'm not sure what that is. Oh, Dan G. Brad B. Gino Gordo Z. Smeldo Nadar. So kind of cool we've been carrying this around with us. Pretty proud of my dad and what he did in his lifetime. Just wanted to give you a quick view of Kemp Kellerfield. Awesome. And I'll give you another cool part of the story. Now, as an adult, I'm driving a Jeep wrangler that I've wanted a full size Jeep my life. Here's where I grew up and I had a 1946 Willys Jeep 40 years ago. I bought it when I was, I don't know, when I was 14 years old. Okay, so I just revealed my age. I used to terrorize back through here in this old 1946 CJ2. I worked for Dr. Cannell pulling weeds, mowing grass. And as a young kid he sold me that, this Jeep. So I had it for many years and unfortunately, when times were tough, I sold it. And that was, you know, almost broke my heart that I had to sell my old Jeep. Now all these years later, I'm in a wrangler and I've been wanting one for years. So just another little fun part of the story. I try to find a picture of the old CJ2 and me with my long shoulder length hair as a pumpkin. I used to terrorize this neighborhood with that Jeep up and down the street and go flying back through the woods and knocking trees down. And in the springtime when it was muddy, this would turn into a mud pit out here. Man, I'd have mud slinging everywhere. What did you ask me, Gloria? The seat or whatever. Oh, I think it's right. It's right over. Should be right over there. Go find it. Go find it.

Yeah.

Oh, this is ice. This is ice. Solid where I'm walking, but yeah, look at it. Check that out. That is about 3 inches of ice with snow on top. That is so cool. Whoa.

Huh?

That sounds so cool. There it is. That's only been here for 30 years. An old seat out of one of my cars that we burned one night. We used to camp out here and kids make trails party, have fun. We're a lot of fun back here. All right, we're gonna go spy on the police chief real quick. Yep, Chiefson, our friend Bill, I actually trained him many years ago, and now he's the police chief. And there's Bourbon Police Department where I worked for 13 years. Good old days. A lot of fun. All right, so I was a copier for 13 years. Here's the big one. Stop light town. And Gloria says, hey, why don't you tell a story about what you guys did in the intersection? Long time ago, when I was a kid, this intersection right here, there was a woman police officer working in the town at the time. And of course, you know, being a bunch of young punks as we were, always causing trouble before I was a cop, one night we decided to go to the gas station that was about, down the street, about a block that had a great big, huge pile of tires out behind the gas station. And I don't know how many of us there was. There were probably six or eight of us. We all grabbed like two tires apiece and went down there, whatever time, Midnight, one o' clock in the morning. And we rolled all these tires out into the middle of the street. We did it at the same time. So all these tires go rolling in around, banging into each other, and then they just, you know, completely cloud the intersection. And then we all ran, of course, off and hid somewhere and watched the police officer have to get out and move all the tires out of the street. All right, let's head out to see Gary at the airport. Check out that R22. And for those of you that may have not seen the recent developments inside, we're getting this place ship shape. Our big to do list over here. Instead of everything being rattling around our brains, we can check the daily board to see what we got to do. What's going on? Things are looking good in here. New camera setups, all kinds of good stuff. And there's the cool little R22. Smile. You're on Candid Camera. The man, chief pilot Gary Cleveland. He's on camera. Didn't know he was gonna get filmed when he walked in the door. Tell us what's up.

We have an R22 here. And we're gonna take advantage of this slow Saturday morning or afternoon now. And we're going to shoot the main rotor system to show Coriolis effect and mass bumping.

And this member, where is he? What state did he come from?

He's from Arkansas. The aircraft, though, came out of Illinois.

Right. Where two of our other ground school members were here last fall. We did their ratings, so they're using the same aircraft. And you met. I haven't met him yet. Have you asked him if he wants to be on camera or anything?

He didn't say yes or no. I told him the plan. So we're hoping that Tuesday we can get him on camera.

Cool. Let's head out in the hangar.

I was gonna put my helicopter ground jacket on.

That's all right.

It's Saturday.

So there you go. Sweet little helicopter. And we're happy because we know it, because it was here for a couple weeks before. So we've flown it. We know it's a pretty nice little machine. Good looking little aircraft. They take real good care of it. So pretty happy with that.

We'll go around, go around and get a shot upward at the rotor system.

So just tell us quick, real quick, Gary, what videos are we wanting to make for ground school that the members have been specifically asking about? We're not going to put all that in this video that's going to go in ground school, but so they know, watching this video, what it is we're getting ready to make for them from the questions they've asked.

Well, we want to point out how serious mass bumping is in a semi rigid system such as this. And we want to help explain Coriolis effect and how it is overcome by the semi rigid system such as the Robinson R22. And you were to enter a low G, sever the shaft and then the blade would make contact with the tail boom and chop it off, or depending on where they're at in the rotation, come through the cabin and fatally kill the pilot and passenger before they ever hit the ground. So I'll go to the other side and hold a light. On either one. Simulating the the advancing blade flapping up and the retreating blade flapping down. The question that members have is why does the R22 not suffer Coriolis effect? Where it mounts here is also being pushed out. So even though it's flapping up, the tip remains in the same position in the plane of rotation because it's flapping up and down and being pushed out.

I'm having a hell of a time because I'm like, okay, I'm trying to look through my glasses. Are you focused? Are you not focused? I'm trying to hold the shot. Okay, shut the computer off for the day. Gary just went Home. So I know. One other thing I wanted to say was I don't think I mentioned earlier, Gary is going this week to pick up November 8626 Papa. Our favorite little cream puff, Enstrom. That belongs to my good friend Dr. Nick. So while I go to Ohio after live training Tuesday, Gary's gonna take off Wednesday or Thursday I think weather to permit depending. And a ground school member is gonna meet with Gary and get a discount. Whoops. Get a discount on the aircraft coming back from Ohio back to here. So and here's another fun part of the story. We have a new airport manager here and one day I was mad at him about something. Well, I was about this door and I gave him a hard time about the door and that it kept slamming. So half an hour later he's out here and he slams the door and he saw me come out of the office to see what was going on and he goes, come down here a minute. And I walked outside and here's this on the wall, that one and then there's another one down there. And I walked out. I'm going, are you kidding me? He was mounting those up for me, had them made and he says well now how do you feel about giving me a hard time 20 minutes ago? And I was like, guess I get what I deserve. So thanks the airport manager for putting that sign up there. That was pretty awesome. Give somebody a hard time and then they turn on, do something nice for you. Alright, I think that's about it for our first we'll call kind of a vlog style video. Let us know what you think. If you kind of like a little bit of the behind the scenes and kind of what's happening. We're going to do this every day for a week just for fun, just kind of keep you informed, tell hopefully a cool story about this member that showed up to train. That little R22 is awesome. We already mentioned that we've flown that aircraft before with two other ground school members and we really enjoyed flying the helicopter. So it's cool to see the same one back. He's a friend of the first two ground school members that were here. So it'll be interesting to see how the training goes with him next week, see how much he wants to jump on camera. It's gonna be fun to be getting ready for expo, making the details there. Gary's gonna get the instrument, bring it back. That'll be cool. Get some fresh video, some fresh flying video. I'm anxious to get out and do some flying, do some new flying videos. We haven't done any new flying videos in quite a while. So it's time to jump out. Or time to jump out. Time to jump out and show you our sign here real quick. There you go. Municipal Airport. That's where we are located. When you come to find us, look for the wrangler. I'm going to head home, see what the Glowmeister is up to. So leave a comment down below, give us a like and a share, and we will see you tomorrow.