How To INSTANTLY Access Emergency Frequency for Help!

Kenny Keller shows how to lock your helicopter radio to emergency frequency 121.5 by holding the remote comm transfer button. He covers R44 checkrides and mentions a book signing in Las Vegas on November 11, 2024.
Questions this video answers
121.5
Hold the remote comm transfer button for a few seconds (com locked to 121.5)
R44
R22
Las Vegas, November 11, 2024
Chapters
I am going to show you something super cool I just learned today. We've been flying since 97. I didn't know this and you might bash me in the comments and you go, I can't believe you didn't know that. But no one of the other pilots around or I've talked to knew this either. But first I got to show you. We did two checkrides today. We did. Bob did his private add on with us here in R44 with our final approach course and we did Chris for us. He's an ATP. Did a CFI add on with us today with our final approach course. FinalApproachCourse.com to learn more. Check this out. We learned this in the helicopter. Actually happened during a check ride and with a good outcome. Checkrides went great. Oh yeah. Quick. There's two, there's two free books down below. We're doing a book signing in Vegas. Let us know if you want to meet us. Text hogs Vegas to 574-767-1797. Get these books free below. Oh yeah, and we're getting our 22 soon too. So R22 training with hugs. Check this out. You need to access the emergency frequency really quickly. Look what you do. Hold the button in, hold for seconds and watch down here. Boom. Com locked to 121.5. Hold remote comm transfer key to exit. So you just hold that transfer button in and boom. It takes emergency frequency. Then when you need to get off of it, you just push the button again and it goes back to the frequencies you already had loaded in there. Boom. Back to your frequencies. That's something that everybody we should know or everybody that's ever something everybody should know. I don't know how many of you have this. I don't even know because it happened today specifically. Is that an option for some radios? Let us know. Let us know down below. Number one, if you knew about this. Let us know what radio you're using or what helicopter you're flying that that works for. But that is a super important tool. If in an emergency instead of jacking around, you're trying to fly the helicopter and you're trying to reach down turn knobs. Get to 120 or 121.5 in emergency. That could be hard to do. You're trying to handle the emergency. Try to change the damn frequency on the radio to have that option. Nobody's ever pointed that out to me. Hold that dude in. Let's just see how long it takes. Just a couple seconds. Boom. Com locked 121.5. You're ready to transmit your emergency. That is something that we should all know. So I thought this is an important video I wanted to do right away and let you know, check that out. I mean that could save your life knowing that little simple trick. I didn't know it, neither did any of us here. So remember both of those down below, book signing in Vegas, 2024, November 11th. Meet us out there. We're going to have free books and we'll be signing them for you, myself and dan. Taz Christman, 2018 Flight Instructor of the Year. We put that out. Amazon bestseller. That's down below for a free PDF. So is this one. So like I said, we're adding R22 to the mix. So you have the option of doing your final approach course. Get your ratings finished. We finished two guys today. That makes a total of how many heather? 16. 16 Final Approach courses with lookafterground.com so if you're struggling with ground school, it's real simple. Go to helicopterground.com on the web. Have private commercial CFI instrument, 24 hour test flight of all kinds of different packages. If you have a question, reach out to Heather at 574-767. 1797. 1797. Peace out.










