How to Remain Proficient in Helicopter Training After A Break

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This next one's coming up from Carlo and he wants to know what are your top tips, mistakes to avoid when you get back to flying after a long break between lessons?

Oh, that's a fresh one, man. Let me think for a minute. Caught me off guard here. But that's good. That's a good question. I would say a couple things that come to mind. It's not like you're going to lose what, everything that you learned. That's not the case. However, when you got back into flying after not flying for a long time, I would first say probably review the PoH on the aircraft that you're getting ready to go fly. Make sure that the numbers are fresh in your head, on your limitations, vnes, your airspeed limitations, emergencies, of course. So doing something to freshen up that knowledge before you go jump in. And also jumping in with an instructor, of course, if you haven't flown. Let's see, in the, in the, in the acs, now, there's something where they mention currency versus proficiency, meaning you could be current, but are you proficient and are you in the training environment? I guess this would depend on whether you're training or not. Let me break this down into two, two forms. Let's go with student training first. Many times a break in your training will help you advance when you go back to training again. And I've seen it many, many times where somebody wants to fly every day and all the time they want to fly, fly, fly. You find those plateaus and you don't make as much progress when you're flying heavy duty all the time. And some of the people that I've seen make the most, most progress is after they've taken a break. I had one guy who, he's like, I want to fly every day Monday through Friday. And I'm like, we can do that, but you're going to run into some stumbling blocks. He's like, I don't care. I want to fly every day. He had the money, he was wealthy. And I worked with him every day, Monday through Friday. And we did this for weeks on end. And he found a point where he just, it was like he just wasn't really making any progress. And I suggested a break and he didn't like it. He didn't like that idea at all. But then he had to leave for like 10 days because he had something he had to do in business and he was frustrated. Like, I, I can't go 10 days without flying. This is going to hold me up too much. And I'm like, man, I think you might be surprised if you just take the break, go do what you got to do for 10 days and come back. So he did that and when he came back, he had the best flight that he had in months. So taking that 10 days off, letting things kind of sink in, taking a little break, coming back to training, he actually did better. If we're talking the training environment and we're talking short term, it can actually be a benefit. If we're talking an environment where, say you're a rated pilot, you know, just stay on top of your knowledge is something that you should be doing all the time. And if you haven't flown, like for example, a lot of students or a lot of flight schools, if you haven't flown in say 30 days, they make you go out with the instructor for at least an hour, which I think is prudent. If you're not flying regularly, you got to take special care. You know, there's times where maybe I go a couple months without flying. Like for example, well, we had the R44 Overspeed last winter. The helicopter was gone for three months. We didn't have a backup helicopter. So the first time I had an opportunity to fly, once the helicopter came back, I'm like, okay, I haven't flown for a couple months here. So you know, take my time walking out there today, make sure I do good pre flight, make sure I think through what I'm doing and just take that extra special care that hey, I'm not super, I'm current, but how proficient am I right? Anytime you take one of those breaks, you just want to use basically some extra care as you ease back into it. 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