Hydraulic OFF Engine Failure Practice???

So at these flight schools that are rushing you in the cockpit, hurry, hurry, hurry, go, go, go. They're doing nothing but trying to make the dollar spend $$$. This is so ridiculous. I can't believe I'm even gonna say it. Some nimrod instructor out there decided in a training environment, Hydraulics off, engine failure. Who does that? Hydraulics off and an auto rotation at the same time. I don't know of anybody that's done that. I mean, maybe some specialized school somewhere. We're talking everyday training environment. And I got this direct from a manufacturer. They were appalled. I couldn't believe it when he told me, yes, you should do hydraulics off training when appropriate. You need to know how to land the aircraft if the hydraulics felt on you. We need to know how to do auto rotations. Obviously, it's part of the practical test. You need to know how to do it. But to combine a hydraulics off along with an engine failure. This is where the terminology I used recently from a helicopter manufacturer, somebody that said instructors are killing our industry. Every time an instructor says, well, I like to show people, well, I like to do this could be a good thing. But a lot of the times it's not going to be a good thing. When it's, well, I like to. Why came up with this? No, there should be a standard of training. And we know what a good standard of training is. Helicopters, you fly them basically the same way. Slow, smooth, methodical smooth. Inputs by the PoH, by the syllabus, the course of training laid out by the manufacturer, whatever that may be, instructors coming up with, well, I like to do. I can't even. Like I just told the girls, turn the camera on. And I'm just going to shoot this in a heartbeat. Because I was sitting there appalled, sitting on the couch, thinking that I was even going to say this in a video. Like I said, there might be some extreme specialized course somewhere where that's an appropriate course. But this of action, but this, this was a normal training environment. This instructor was not taught this. He wasn't given this training anywhere, was never told to do it. This instructor just decided it was a good idea to give somebody an auto rotation with a hydraulic soft landing. You know, get what you pay for. Go find the cheapest instructor out there in the cheapest flight school and shop around to save money. You know, people complain about what we charge sometimes. Well, guess what, you're going to get a good, professional, solid base of training that's acceptable anywhere. You're going to go and fly. You're not going to get hydraulics off auto rotations. You're not going to get. Oh, here's a good one. We had a gentleman come up for a private and he was bragging about how him and his instructor did 27 auto rotations in an hour. And my mouth dropped open. I'm like, you did what? I said, you got to be kidding me. 27 auto rotations in an hour. What did you learn in that? 27. 27 autos. And I still almost can't hardly believe that one. And then a recent one pilot's flying with us. He does a great job in the helicopter and we're discussing different things about his training. And it just came up. I'm like, we were talking about the size of the pattern and he was, you know, struggling a little bit, making it so tight. I'm like, what are you doing? He's like, well, I got to get this pattern done. I'm like, what are you talking about? What's the big rush? And so further discussion. I'm like, well, how many times in a normal pattern with who you've been flying with do you do in an hour? And he's like, I don't know, like 15 to 17 patterns. And I'm like, 15 to 17 patterns in an hour? He's like, yeah. And I go, that's normal. And he's like, yeah. I go, how did you learn anything doing 15 to 17 in an hour? I go, when I'm going out here and doing training with somebody, we like to be back here shutting down at 5, 0 landing, starting to cool things down, Work on your shutdown so that the flight's an hour. A good one hour lesson is usually maybe three to five approaches. Maybe four or five, could be a little more. But you're taking your time. When you're learning and you're training, it ought to be three, four, five in an hour, six maybe, but 17 in an hour. I go, so you could, so could you go back and debrief after that flight and go, oh well, on, on approach 13, you did this and that was good. But approach 14, who the hell is even going to remember when what you did on any approach, if you're doing 17 approaches in an hour, what is the freaking point? This, the theme here is about all this garbage that we are hearing about that goes on in the industry. And I can't believe some of this stuff we got to give credit for all the people that are doing it right and flying to a good standard, doing Things slow, smooth and methodical. And here's the other point that keeps coming up. Everybody rushing in the cockpit, rushing their takeoffs, rushing everything they're doing in the cockpit. Go ask a professional EMS pilot who's got at least five years in the industry, 2000 hours flying a $6 million aircraft. Ask them what they're being taught. They walk to the aircraft, you walk around, you climb in, you put your seatbelt on, you pull out your checklist, and you go through your checklist step by step. What's going on. The back is a medical emergency. What's going on in the front of the helicopter is not an emergency. Slow, smooth, methodical, so you don't make mistakes and you get everybody there safely. So with these flight schools that are rushing you in the cockpit, hurry, hurry, hurry, go, go, go. They're doing nothing but trying to make the dollar spend $$$. Because they've got thousands of dollars going out in a month and their hangar and their helicopter payment and their insurance and their fuel and their breakdowns. Most flight schools are struggling. That's why almost every day, well, I was flying here, but they just closed. And not only that, do you hear, well, I had, you know, $10,000 on account, and all of a sudden I went to this flight school and there was a chain on the door and they were gone. Because people take a bunch of money from somebody, they're trying to pay those bills, and it gets to the point where they can't do it any longer. And somebody comes along, the bank comes along and closes the doors for them. This, in our environ, our training environment, is killing the industry. I don't care who you are, where you are, where you're flying, if they're rushing you in the cockpit, if they're doing auto rotations with hydraulics off, they're flying you 17 times around the pattern in an hour for a lesson. I would, hands down, go somewhere else. I just had to rant, man, I just can't believe the amount of horse shit that we hear about. And it comes in every week. It's not that hard to be good. It's not that hard to do things right. It's not that hard to slow things down. Slow, smooth, methodical, take your time, be safe. Open up the far aim. Use the regulations. Look at them open. Open the helicopter flying handbook. Read it. Open the acs. Go through it step by step. Not that tough. It's not that tough. If you think that your flight school sucks, it probably sucks. If you're feeling like something isn't right, you need to change flight schools, change instructors, maybe. If even just an instructor could be the problem. If in your gut and your heart, you feel like things ain't right, they're probably not. So peace out.

When you feel the pressure to fly, but know the right decision is to stay on the ground. Hit the hogs. No. Go and live to fly another day.

Helicopterground.com and I go. You're just. You're joshing me. There's. That's not even physically possible. And. Oh, can I say that? Is that acceptable? Yes. Could you say Josh and me? That's not like, upsetting anybody's feelings or anything, right? Is that acceptable?

I. I think it is. I've just. I haven't heard it since I was in elementary school.

Okay. Oh, I. I don't think that's. You're just. Josh, you're joshing me.

What a 90s word.

I don't know. There's probably somebody out there be offended, but just. Josh. You know what?