LTT: Helicopter Maneuver Tips

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Hey. Says we're live. And just so you know, we really are. There's Heather. She's in her little tiny chair over here. So she's in chat, talking to everybody. Nick, Jason, Jonathan, Brian Rutledge, Wayne F. All right, here we go. You know, March 1st, we had that big event planned, and it didn't go so well. I tried way too hard. So I've learned. Don't try so hard. So I'm gonna roll some fun footage here just to get started, and if I set everything up right, I can keep talking. You know what? We have this drone course. I just wanted to show you some footage today. You know what? These things are so freaking amazing. And this is all stuff that I've done. I am not a. You know, I'm an amateur video guy, right? And an addie, an average video guy like me can go out. Look at this. This is auto tracking. This is auto tracking parallel with the Mavic 2. And I know there's millions of drones out there, and everybody's probably got their favorites. I bought this thing a year ago and, like, this footage right here, this is stuff I was shooting when I just went out and started monkeying with this thing. You can. You can be an average freaking Joe Blow and go out and shoot incredible footage. And of course, I picked all the nice, smooth shots, because first thing you do, you get a drone and you go out and you start doing all this crazy stuff. And then once you actually get into the try to edit and do anything with it, man, it gets ugly. So the nice, smooth, real slow, Everything you can do with these things is crazy. So I put a link down below for a remote pilot course right below the video, along with links for our cell. And I want to start with this video today. Oh, let me tell you about this is when I bought it a year ago. You know what's cool is you can go on YouTube and there are so many good tutorials out there from people to set up your drone, no matter what it is. Like I said, this is a Mavic Air 2. I just love this thing. It is so much dang fun. And, you know, the shots you can get with it are just incredible. And, you know, when I started in helicopters, my first job 20 years ago, I know people get tired of hearing me say that, but we did aerial filming in a helicopter. We went out in a Jet Ranger, and I held a camera over my shoulder, and. Because sometimes I would be the camera guy, sometimes I was flying, sometimes I was the camera guy. And, oh, my God, what you can shoot with this thing? Oh, it's unflipping believable. And later when we were doing that news reporting stuff, we got the big half a million dollar gyro mount camera up front and had somebody in the back operating that thing. This is comparable to that. I mean there's times when it won't work, but. And this stuff, again, this is stuff I shot around town. This, none of this is colorized. I didn't do any fancy editing to it. This is just taking this little thing out and just shooting. And of course YouTube, there's so much out there. People teach you how to, you know, do colorization after the fact and techniques on shooting. This is all except for the Corvette footage in the beginning. This is all stuff I shot last spring and last summer. This just fricking amazing. And we've had this remote pilot course for a couple years and I haven't really pushed it because you used to worry about, oh, people get mad about drones. But you know what, they're a part of our world now. And yes, this is my pontoon out on my beautiful lake where I spend a lot of my time in the summer. So I want to show this footage today because I'm calm and I'm cool. It's just amazing. So this little remote pilot course, there's a link down below. People, you know, we got to live with drones. And even whether we're helicopter pilots or you just like drones, you know, we all have to learn how to live together. So the more you learn about them, the better off you are. And the point I always make is I can now with a thousand dollar drone, go out and do photo work faster, cheaper and better than I ever could with a helicopter. I mean if you think about it, you got to drag the helicopter out, schedule it, fuel it, pre flight it, and then try to go out with the aircraft and get smooth footage. You know what drones are here. And so for those of you interested in a drone course, we got one and we're going to start promoting it because we've got staff changes and we're adding staff and adding people. And so you know what remote pilot, I think it's remotepilotonline.com I think anyways, the links down below this footage, this was the first day here of my jeep just going out playing with the auto tracking. And in the last year I've wanted to do more drone stuff and now we will do some more drone stuff. But you know, if I was looking for a little side business, I would hands down, go out and start a little drone company. I think a person can take one of these drones, start your business and go out and you can charge relatively close to what a freaking helicopter would charge. And you know what? Helicopters are still gonna have their place. They always will. And there's photographers that want to go up in helicopters. And here's me playing in the background too, in the golf cart. This was clear back a year ago when I first got this thing. Just showing the auto tracking. Unbelievable what you can do. So today's video, while we let this play, I got stressed out last week. Yeah, everything got to me. I take a few days off, I was like Ozzy Osbourne biting the heads off bats on stage.

Rah.

Spitting them out. So I took a few days off and had to sit back and relax and try to figure out what's important. And what's important is what we've been doing all along. And I'm very grateful that I have able to do what we've done in the past 10 years. I was really frustrated March 1st when things didn't go well because we had everything planned. So much time and effort to have this huge event on the March 1, and then it just went to hell in a hand basket. And I was extremely upset. And then that just carried over to trying to get these aircraft in the air and fly in and in the middle of trying to buy the hangar. That was a lot of stress. And so my thing for this morning is, you know what I was telling Heather when I come in? We do have to be able to go with the flow and especially with helicopters. And by the way, here's the drone course, 97 bucks down below. Here's everything that's in there. Regulations, airspace operating requirements, flight restrictions, aviation, weather, effects of weather, emergency procedures, crease or resource management, radio communications, physiological factors affecting pilots, aeronautical decision making, blah, blah, blah. And we got FAA knowledge test in there too. So we'll have to get our knowledge test guy in there to update those written tests as well because he's taking care of all of our courses inside the HOGS courses. So we'll get those updated soon as well. So what I was wanting to say, we'll just go back to the camera. You've seen that. So I was telling Heather this morning, one of the first guys I went to work for that got my, that launched my career, he was talking about something that, you know, just day to day operations of what we were going to do. And he's like, but just remember, everything is always subject to change. And I was telling Heather that. And then also one of the gurus that I learned from to do all the stuff that I do now with helicopter on ground school, he always said, I always reserve the right to change my mind at any time. So, you know, when it comes to helicopters, Jesus, you really do have to go with the flow. And then when it comes to scheduling your training and showing up for flight training and doing ground school, no matter what it is, you really do have to be ready to go with the flow. Because you know what? And I'm going to say it, we love them, right? There's a little Schweitzer sitting over there. They're fun as hell to fly, you know, and that's why we do all this and go through the headache and heartache of what we do. But helicopters are a pain in the ass. They're just a freaking pain. They're a pain to everything about the back end of them. It was just a pain. But we do it. Why we do it because of the love of freaking helicopter flying. So, anyway, so luckily I still have a team this week because I was biting all their heads off last week. You know, Ozzy Osbourne, I love Ozzy. And he's. He's a freaking brilliant individual. I don't care what you think of him. He sounds like an idiot when he talks. But you know what? He is a super smart individual. And when he bit the head off that bat, he didn't think he was biting the head off a live bat. He thought he was biting the head off a rubber bat because they were throwing rubber chickens and rubber bats and stuff on stage. So he took the bite and I was like, oh. And this interview I saw with him, he said, you know, I thought it was. I didn't know it was a real bat. And he goes, I did it. He goes, I gotta. And then I did it. And what could I do? He goes, like, of course I milk this stuff, right? I gotta milk it. I'm a fricking rock star, right? So anyway, my bark's worse than my bite. I want to start with. This is the. Maybe the end of the month we're going to roll the beginning that Heather and I built for the March 1st where we're out in the car and we're having fun and Samaritan landed over here, which was. The helicopter inspired me. The dolphine years ago. It's a great story. And one landed on the ramp while we were out shooting the opener for March 1st. So we'll roll that. Maybe we'll Do a big event, the end of the month and transparently in my email, I'm going to get to some helicopter flying here in two minutes. I swear. We're going to. And this isn't a marketing ploy, we're going to extend the sell. Let's just do it for the rest of the month. It's ten year celebration and normally we do a big countdown. Five days left, four days left, three days left, two days left. Well, on my little break over the weekend, I. I didn't have it in me. I just didn't have it in me to sit down, write emails. Five days left, four days left, three days. Like, oh my God, I took a break, hung out with my daughter, went out, saw a band Saturday night, drink some beer, slept in on Sunday. Just didn't have it in me. So the stressed monster caught up with me last week, but I took some time off and here we are. So let's get to. Oh, here's what we're going to get to. Heather made a video. Oh, my gosh. Is this seven minutes long? Is your video seven minutes long?

I think so.

Oh, my God. Yeah.

Rolling.

Okay, so she made this video for me and she goes, I work on an imac and she goes, okay, I got a video. You need to get out of the way because I have a video I want to download, but I don't want you to see it. I know what it's called. I see the title, but I don't know. And I said, are you gonna embarrass me? She goes, I don't think so. Are you gonna make me cry? She said, I don't think so. So I don't know. So I'm gonna roll this video from Heather that I have no idea what she's gonna say. Hopefully I'm not in shambles by the time it's over. And then we're gonna get to some maneuvers, some fun stuff. So here we go. I'm scared to hit the button.

Here I go.

3, 2, 1. You're gonna make me cry, aren't ya? I probably will. Oh, my God. Here we go.

Hey, kk, Listen, I just wanted to sneak on here and tell you happy birthday and congratulations on 10 years at Hoggs. The four years that I've been working for you. I've really just learned so much. Your motivation, your drive, and your passion is second to none. And I just wanted to really thank you for being there for me these last couple years. And definitely this last year, I wouldn't have been able to make it without you. So I really appreciate how we're able to stand beside each other no matter what either one of us is going through. HOGS is growing like crazy and it's so fun to be a part of and happy birthday. Congratulations. And I think there's a few other people that want to say hi to.

Hey Kenny, it's Brian here. Just wanted to first congratulate you on 10 years with helicopter Online ground school and also wanted to wish you a very happy birthday for yourself. It's been one heck of a ride since I met you back in 2013 and here we are in 2022. I'm working for you, we're making progress and it's all because of what you've done with Helicopter Online ground school. You're a champ. You're a rock star.

You're.

Everybody knows it. Keep doing what you're doing and happy birthday, buddy. We'll talk to you later.

KK Quick little shout out. Happy birthday. Congratulations on 10 years of Hogs. You've come a long way since I first met you. Definitely deserve everything that's come your way. Again, happy birthday. Can't wait to celebrate with you.

Be safe.

Hey Kenny. Hello from Heli Expo 2022 in Dallas, Texas. I actually wanted to make this video Friday night when I dropped the helicopter. I got busy pulling the helicopter in and putting it away and all that stuff and a little bit concerned about what was going to jump out of the dark next and scare the shit out of me. So I ended up not making I want to do it from Heli Expo today, but there's just too much going on at the show, too much noise. So you get the crappy video from the hotel room. I didn't want to put it off any further otherwise Heather was going to get mad at me and you know, it's not something I want. Just want to say thank you for everything you've done for me and for Venture Helicopters over the past few six, eight months or so. It's certainly been an adventure. I have a feeling that the adventure is just beginning and there's a lot of lot of amazing stuff in store for both our companies over the next few months. So I'm very much looking forward to that. So again, thank you for that and more importantly, happy birthday and I hope you have a great day. Happy birthday. Hey Kenny. Just wanted to give you congratulations and wish you a happy birthday for surviving another trip around our nearest star. It's a big, big deal and big congratulations on the 10 year anniversary of Hogs Decades a long time, man. And you've come a long ways.

I think you've earned every last little.

Bit of it and I see a lot of great things going forward in the future. So super excited to be able to come up there and join you and be a part of that. But happy birthday. It's your special day. Go and knock your socks off, man.

Have a good one.

Happy birthday, Kenny. It's me, Jenny from SoCal. Look at you now. Wow. It blows my mind to see how far you've come. Wow. I can still remember you on the beach with your flip phone filming the helicopter threes and so humbly asking, will you take a chance on me? And I did. I did. I believed in you and I'm just so proud of you. So proud of your accomplishments and you deserve every success that comes your way. You've earned it and you deserve it. Happy birthday, my friend. I'm still working on it, haven't given up. And if there's one thing you've taught me is don't give up. I will see you again. Happy birthday. Yeah, buddy. Yeah. Good for you. Boom.

Hey Kenny, wanted to wish you a happy birthday and Congratulations on your 10 year anniversary with Hogs. Wish you were here at Heli Expo with us having a good time, but I know you got a lot of stuff going on with Hogs. I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and happy anniversary. Let's talk to you soon, Kenny. Happy birthday, buddy.

Over the years you have given the gifts of education and encouragement and support to so many people in this industry. But today it's all about you.

So I hope you're feeling the birthday love from people everywhere and cheers to.

You and another excellent year ahead.

Happy birthday.

Hey Kenny, how's it going?

So you are a big reason why.

I only have to work half the year and get to fly a pretty nice helicopter. So keep up the good works. Congratulations on 10 years of hogs. Hopefully there's a lot more to come.

And happy birthday.

Hey, good morning, Kenny. Congratulations my friend on 10 solid years of making a difference in the helicopter community. Your passion and drive towards success for pilots and for those that are learning from me, make a big difference every day. Love to see you come out here and join us in California at some time, but understand your hard work is definitely something that will pay off. But in the meantime, once you get a good look at the backyard, you could be here in the near future. We'll see you, buddy. Congratulations again.

Hey dad. Heather's been putting this together for a while.

Now.

And I keep forgetting to send her the video. So here I am in Chili's with Megan. Hi. Making this video. Congrats on 10 years. It's been a long 10 years. Yeah. Thank you for absolutely everything you've done for me growing up. Megan's laugh. I love you so much. Thank you for always being patient with me and never giving up on me no matter how much we argue. I appreciate it. I appreciate everything. And I'm sorry that I don't tell you enough. Love you so much. Thank you for absolutely everything. I know how hard you work, and it means a lot, and I do see it. I do notice it. I do feel grateful for it. Happy 10 years. Love you.

A little bit. I'm glad she didn't, Dummy.

Yeah.

I'm glad she didn't. I'm glad I didn't get to see that beforehand and today works out. Man, that's amazing. I can't believe that surprise, I guess. Always come back after getting frustrated, usually with new motivation. And I don't know what to say. I think everybody, that's amazing. I wasn't even expecting that. I didn't know she was going to do that. And this morning's email I sent out about the stress monster last week. Guess it all kind of fits into that.

That.

So that's amazing. I'm gonna go ahead and roll the first video I had for the March 1st because I need to go, like, collect myself for a minute. So take this one to heart. This is what I. This is what we need to know about flying is. This is what I preach, man. It's the easy stuff. It's not the hard stuff. I'm gonna roll this. Thank you, everybody. That was flipping amazing. I don't even know what to say other than I'm gonna roll this video so I can go take a deep breath. Thank you, Heather. That was fucking awesome. Yep.

Happy birthday.

Let's see how long we really go.

On key to a good odor rotation. And I want to start off with the objection that I get every time that I talk about this. I say it. I live by it. I train, I teach it. And the examiner that I've been using all these years always says, what's the key to a good approach? What's the key to a good straight in auto? What's the key to a good hover auto? The answer is always the same. A good setup. Then the objection is, well, the key to a good auto. Yeah, that's all fine and good, but that's not real world. You don't get to set it up in the real world. Do I say that with a little, am I, Have I been aggravated by that, by those comments in the past? Let me handle that objection right now.

Yes.

You need to go out and train in a real world environment. You're flying along, instructor cuts the throttle or however you do it, which Chris is going to touch on that, I'm sure. And that's going to. As an upcoming video, we're going to discuss that and go at length. We train to a standard. You have to have a standard to go take the practical test currently under the PTS that will become the acs. You have to fly to a standard and we have to train students to a standard. It's also our job to take students out and give those students choices like over open fields like we are right now. And we're going to go into that more. I just want to clarify, if you set up an auto and you set it up and it's nice, it's probably.

Going to be nice.

And the examiner has said to me, and I've heard him say it to students over and over again, if it takes you 10 minutes to get set up for the auto, takes 10 minutes to get up, set up for the auto. He legitimately says that. He said rather you take your time and feel good about it and give me a good auto for this practical test today. That's the idea of training to a standard. Maybe you can get someone might give some of the real world side of what an instructor should do or whatever.

You think training is all about building blocks, right. You have to have a good foundation in order to actually do it right. So in the training world, we are having a good setup because what's happening is you're training your brain to do the motions, right. So, you know, we're having a good setup at the airport, getting ourselves lined up with the Runway. You know, we're counting off 3, 2, 1, we're entering the auto. You know, it's, it's all about good setup. It's all about getting the movements down with your hands, your mind, where you're looking, scanning, all that, that stuff.

Absolutely.

Now once you have a good base and your student is, or the pilot is, has it, you know, the repetition down, you know, he understands the signs of an engine failure, he understands what he's going to do without thinking, you know, then we're going to go out there and do that real world stuff. And I'll tell you right now, as an instructor, when I'm training my Guys. To get ready for that checkride. When we're in that checkride prep phase, I may tell him, okay, let's go out here, and we'll set up for a confined area. And on the way to that confined area, I may roll throttle off to simulate the engine failure. And we may have a tailwind, we may have a crosswind. We may be right into the wind. But he now has the. The practice and the foundation of. And the repetition, the memory of what to do, you know, as soon as he recognizes that engine fail, the needles are split, the nose is yaw to the right in the G2. He knows, oh, crap. I better lower that collective and get into an auto and. Oh, yeah. Where's the wind coming from it? Well, it's a tailwind. I need to make that turn. So, yes, there is. We do need to have a good setup to start that. To start the building blocks, to start that base of how to handle it. But there, toward the end, we get into that training world where we'll just. I'll just do it. And you better take. You know, you better take the proper action, get into the wind, find that open area, whatever.

So that's right. You know, let's get in the comments. Let's fight it out, man. Let's fight this one out, because I know I'm gonna get those objections. No, I'm just kidding.

Right.

Comment, Whatever you like.

Oh, man. Went outside, took a breath. What Heather just made for me, that was absolutely amazing. I wasn't expecting that. I just glanced over as I walked outside, and I saw Paul said, real men cry. And you know something? That. Just because I saw that comment, My mom was a.

Got this deep breath.

I think I'll just roll another video.

Okay.

We'll be back.

Oh, yeah. Good wins today.

Good for autos. Nope, I think we'll go right into the autos as soon as you're comfortable doing them. And I. I always like to do it normal approach first, but if you're ready to go right to them, we can go right to them.

Well, what I would like to do is probably do a couple quick stop. Let's do a normal approach. Do a couple quick stops. Kind of get. I have started doing that now. I've started doing quick stops before I go into auto.

That's a great. That's a video.

Oh, yeah.

Look at that.

Awesome. So you're gonna go around, do a normal first?

Yeah, I think we'll just come around, do normal. Do a couple quick stops. Just kind of feel it, fill it Out.

Awesome. Chris says, you know what I said I like do like a normal approach first. And he goes, you know I like to do a normal approach to warm up and a couple of quick stops before doing straight ends autos. And I went, perfect, let's make that a video because this is a great topic to get into before we do show you a straight in auto. As Chris said he likes to do them clear on the left. And I'll try to make this short because I go on too long sometimes but this morning we're talking about when I almost got killed as a brand new CFI by a weekend warrior pilot because I wasn't ready to, I should have been more ready to fix the mistake that he was going to make. And anyway, as a brand new CFI I hired a high time instructor to come in work with me and because I was a brand new CFI I was ready to start teaching autos to a particular student and I just wasn't comfortable. So anyway, I hired this 4000 hour pilot I believe at the time at least like 4000 and R22s. And then he had other aircraft under his belt as well. He was a high time instructor where I did all my training and then had one of my first jobs. And when he said let's back up and to freshen everything up, let's do some ground school then we're going, we're going to do quick stops before the audios and then we're going to do 90s and then we're going to do 180s and we're going to get to that in the upcoming videos. But what he said in that video or in that video in that training we did the ground and he said let's, let's go on do quick stops first. Let's hone your, let's hone your flare in. And I know somebody, I met somebody at a helicopter flying years ago that was helped write helicopter flying handbook or do a revision on it or something. And he said, kenny, always teach quickstops before teaching your autos.

Yep, I like doing that.

It's a great warm up. And then same thing with this high time instructor I flew with. That's where we started with quick radio call and we did go out and we did quick stops first and I was a CFI at that point. I knew how to do a quick stop but we really talked about it like it's the end of the auto rotation almost in slow motion. And he really taught me to really hone in that flare and to pick out something on the horizon with something in the aircraft. And we were in the R22, and I think it was like the top of the dash or something with a line of trees on the horizon. And it made this instructor help me a lot. Seven five, eight five alpha, upwind, Runway 27.

Staying in the pattern.

Gosh, get my confidence up to go out and teach the auto rotations next week.

Well, Dave, if you happen to be still watching, you don't know this, but I was thinking about calling you, like, in the last day or two and saying, hey, man, how about, what are you doing for, like, the next week? I was thinking about Gloria and I jumping on a plane and coming to California and having you check me out on the R44 and, like, either the beginning or the end of our trip out there. And then we thought about driving up the coast, Pacific coast highway and run up a see Brian in Sacramento and swing through San Francisco again because we loved going there. And. Anyway, so, Dave, I was thinking about you and thinking about, like, blasting out there just to get out of here and get a break and get you. Get me tuned up on the R44. Okay, so what I was going to say before I started crying and I read Real Men Cry, what story I was trying to tell, I got choked up talking about my mom. My mom loved Norman Schwarzkopf, and I think he was amazing. And I actually saw Norman speak live at a big event that I went to with one of the people who I. This brings back memories. You know, part of my deal is I do what I do today because I got depressed. Damn it. Anyway, I'll just go to the story. I saw Norman speak live and my mom just loved him so much. And he was amazing. I think he was a great leader. He was able to be a leader, and he was able to do it in a. You know, he wasn't like the typical general. Right. And I saw this interview with him that he said he was asked during the interview, he was like, whoever, Barbara Walters or whatever. And I might embellish the story just a little with an extra, you know, word or two. But he said, she said, what do you think of a man that doesn't cry? And he said, a man that doesn't cry scares the hell out of me. And I thought, I've used that for years. And I told my daughter that growing up, we'd go to movies when she was little, and I'd cry in a movie, and she'd be like, dad, you're crying. I'd always be Telling her, Gloria, there's nothing wrong with it. If Norman Swartz. Norman says, a man that doesn't cry scares the hell out of me, that means it's okay to cry. So I was gonna, like, teach on these videos. And you know what? This day is freaking awesome. And I'm saying what I want to say in the video. Anyway, let me say this. I picked some videos today that I was gonna show March 1st. Just some stuff kind of off the cuff or different. Maybe you haven't seen, maybe you haven't heard, or maybe you haven't heard in a while. So I'm gonna roll the next one so I can take another little short break. And we'll be right back.

And if you want to know about our day, check out Chopper Guy 53 Instagram, and you'll find out why I got in the mood today.

Yeah.

Go to Chopper Guy 53 and figure out the what put Chris in a bad mood for lunch today.

Yeah.

Welcome back to Hawk Daily Fight Brief. And today we're going to talk about something that Chris and I, even though we trained together years ago, now we have a little bit of a different take on how we apply this, and we'll talk about that. So you get two different little bit, two different views, but we're going to talk about the need for when you enter an auto rotation, you need an aft cyclic pull. And if you don't, the nose drops, RPM drops, and then you just start chasing the thing all the way down. Once you at the beginning of the auto, if you don't enter it nice to get a nice entry, then you and one thing's off, then you chase it all the way down. You're up and down with the collective, or you're back and forth with a cyclic. So during the auto rotation entry, a nice small aft pull, I call it set the speed. Because what I do, if I'm using 70 for a glide, I like to enter about 72, 73, 75, a little faster than my glide speed. So when I go down collective, proper pedal. Now that I'm flying two different aircraft, proper pedal and a small aft cyclic pull that brings me back to 70. It sets the speed, keeps the RPM nice, nose doesn't drop, and it makes for a nice auto rotation. And then I mentioned yesterday that there is an accident, an EMS accident, where the guy's traveling along at 120 knots or whatever, has engine failure at cruise speed, and they determined that he didn't apply aft cyclic, lost rotor rpm and I believe everybody died. And it's been a while since I read that accident, but that's a legitimate accident report that happened in ems. You know, the improper training from the company on what to do during cruise flight at that speed, not giving him the proper training to make sure that you do the aft cyclic pull. So it's more than just a training aspect if you have it in the real world, especially going faster than your normal training speed. You need a small amount of aft cyclic to keep the nose from dropping and keep the RPM where it's at. Now we try not to discuss this stuff too much before we go out for the day, but this we talked about a little bit today and you have just a little bit different view on the entry. So go ahead and give them your thoughts kind of where you've taken it in your training as an instructor.

If you've watched previous videos, you know that I like to do real world stuff. I like to real world. So I know once you get your rating, you're going to basically be going from point A to point B and you're going to go from point A to point B at cruise airspeed. So why not practice your auto rotations or your entry into your autos at cruise airspeed?

Sure.

And the same with the altitude. I know that you're going to go 500ft above AGL or 1000ft AGL, whatever you're going to do. So why, you know why? When you enter the auto, are you exactly at 500 AGL and you know 60 knots? Because that's what we want during our glide. No, I want you at, you know, if you're going to go cross country at 1500 indicated, then I want to be at 1500 indicated and I want you at 80 knots or whatever your aircraft cruise speed is. 80 knots is what we use in here. So that's how I train. That's what I want them to train. And so I'm going to have a little bit more of an half cyclic input then you would. Because I'm cruising at 80 and I want to back it down to 60.

Absolutely.

So yeah, so it's just a slight little. And that's how I teach. And this down left aft, down collective, left pedal aft cycling. Down left aft, down left aft, down left aft. And if you have to make a turn, down left aft turn. So that's, that's how I get it, get it in there. And so today we're just going to set up for a straight in auto and you're just going to see I'm here, I am cruising at 80. I'm at 1600 indicated down left aft. And then just get your scan going.

Go after three. Saratoga, one mile, final five. Go. And then maybe after this one, then maybe we could do one where you don't use aft and see what happens. Or let's see, we'll pick up this aft after you get done doing your thing here.

All right, clear on the left. Everything's looking good. Here we go. And three, two, one, down left aft. Looking for that 60. And in this, this aircraft's going to slow down anyway. So you're just. Actually, you may just be adding just a little bit of input. So you have now gone through a little bit. I'm just going to push forward a little bit.

All right, we're back. Big deep breath. It's all going to be okay. Everything everybody said in that little video, you know what? I want everything to be perfect. And that's my problem. I need to accept imperfection because I'm not perfect and I want perfection. Nothing's been my problem. It's my problem. Gotta learn to go with the flow. I gotta go with the flow. We're gonna give one of these away after the next video. And I'm gonna ask two questions. And they're important questions, but they're. You got to know something about me. One, you can guess the other. Well, we'll just ask the question. When we ask it. I'm gonna give away a study guide. It's gonna answer a question that one of the hogs people has been wondering about. Anyway, I want to give this away after I show this video that Hauser inspired. And this is a good real world one here. Like all of them. I wanted to show you today, but this is one that you need to think about. And I'm just going to roll the video because it's self explanatory. This is an important one. And if you're not doing this in a helicopter, you need to be thinking about this and doing the method. So here we go.

On the left. So since we're sitting on some icy area here, Chris.

Yes.

I think you should talk about picking up and setting down and what. What you're thinking about as you're.

Well, I'll tell you what I was really thinking about there. When a lot you don't see this. Here I am at Rev up here. So I'm ready to go. But you know, I don't see this a lot with students. Especially when I fly with other students from other schools or someone that's. I've Never flown with.

Yep.

I'm surprised at how many times people don't give some pedal input when they split the needles. Sprag clutch. Here we are sitting on ice.

Yes.

I split the needles by rolling throttle off quickly. If you don't add right or if you don't add the correct pedal, you're gonna go spinning.

Yes.

And it's happened to me. I. I almost. I was with a student. I'll give you a quick example. I was with the student one time.

Yep.

He rolled off throttle very quickly to do the power or do the sprag clutch check. And I wasn't ready for it.

Yep.

You know, and he just did it. And we were sitting next to the fuel pumps and it scared me because the whole aircraft rotated and we were so close to pumps that I thought we almost hit it. And I actually popped my door open to look back to see how close we were. And I mean, we were farther than what I thought. But it did scare me. And it's all because he rolled that throttle off to split the needles. You gotta add pedal when you do that. Just for this exact case. Here we are, we are sitting on top of snow and ice. When I rolled off today, I added left pedal and we didn't rotate. But if I would have rolled quick, that rolled that throttle off fast and didn't add any pedal, we could have turned the whole aircraft. So I see that a lot with people that I don't. That I don't train. They never add that pedal. And it's just something easy to do so you don't rotate the aircraft.

I am going to back.

That's a good one. My good buddy, Dr. Nick, when he got. He trained in the Schweitzer with me, and then we got him his own instrument and he came here in Indiana and trained with me. And then he took it home and he was nervous. Landed his hangar for the first time in a helicopter he just purchased, and he didn't roll the throttle off and he was on ice. And the helicopter swung around and the tail rotor missed the hangar by like that much. So that's a big one. All right, you know what? Since I go on and on too much, we'll chit chat a little bit, maybe ask some questions at the end. Chitchat with you. If anybody's got anything they want to talk about. I'll try to look over the comments, but I'm a little overwhelmed at the moment. So here's the deal with the study guide and then I'll roll a video. I'm Going to ask two questions. You got to answer both questions correctly and you can type them in the same. Try to use proper spelling, please. You know, but anyway, just get the two points in the same chat. Number one, but don't start it. Don't start typing because you need to put both. Yeah, yeah. You gotta follow directions because this is part of the whole written test thing and preparation as a pilot and getting ready for checkrides. You have to listen directions. You gotta do it right the way it's intended to be done. So we're gonna ask two questions. I'm gonna roll the video and watch chat. So answer both questions in the same comment. In the same comment just to make it easier for us in chat. Number one, how old am I today? And number two, what is my favorite helicopter movie? To me, it's the best of all time. Some of you that are younger aren't going to think of this one. So we're going to roll the next video, type in the same comment. How old am I today? And what is my favorite helicopter movie that inspired me as a senior in high school when I went to the theater to see this movie. Movie and next video, please.

And I'm clear my obstacle. But I'm not going to change power. I'm going to fly away for just a little bit, get some more altitude near speed before I lower the power. Now I can lower the power and fly away. Okay, now I'm going to go around and do one more. But this one, I want to show you something I was taught once I was flying in the EMS environment and a check Air Master was talking to me about when I was flying the EC135 and the version, the model I was flying back then, it was a model that they had to really limit you on power. The two, the two turbine engines had a lot of power. Right. But the way it was built, there was too much for the transmissions. They were tearing up transmissions. So they limited us quite a bit on our power that they would let us use. So the Czech airman taught me something. He said, you know what? Everybody pulls straight to max power before taking off to try to clear their obstacle. And the problem in EMS because we were held to points where we had a lot of fuel. Maybe a heavy passenger, hot, humid day, and you try to get out of a situation and try to clear an obstacle, you just didn't have enough power. You'd get to a certain point and you would max out. And so you'd have to step back down and either burn fuel offload equipment, you'd have to come up with some other alternative and then try again. And sometimes you might have to do that two or three times. Well, you're. You want to get out of there, deliver your patient, but you can't because you're too heavy. And then you're burning fuel off, right? And that's kind of the defeating the purpose of an EMS helicopter. When you're burning, you're sitting there burning fuel, ready to go, but you can't get out of your home. Okay. So what he taught me was instead of pulling straight to max power, Most people pull 2 max, and they pull it really fast. Okay, That's a method. That's a technique. He said, here's what you try. Sometimes when you're having trouble getting out of a hole, only pull somewhere between hover power and max power, and pull it in real gently and slowly for whatever reason. Sometimes you can actually get higher than if you just pull to max power. And I went out, and I did it, and I. And it worked, and it was flipping amazing. So I'm going to use that method right here. I'm gonna get a little closer to the hanger, so it's a little tougher. And I still got some good feel on. Have a crosswind, and we're just gonna see what you saw. It climbing pretty good today, but I'm still going to talk you through it. So warning caution lights are out. Gauge is green. Everything's looking really, really good. Now what I want to do is, again, I'm going to pull about 35, 36, because I'm hovering at 32. My max is 39. I'm going to pull about halfway in between. Let's just see how it climbs. And trick is, I'm going to pull it in slower. I'm not going to pull it in aggressively. Let's do that. Let's just start kind of pulling it in. Coming up slower. Pulling the power in. I'm only at 34. There's 35. Now I can go. Is it gonna keep climbing? Yep, it's gonna keep climbing. Gonna keep climbing. And there's a point where you'd be stuck if you were pulling max. Look at that. Look at that thing climb. But now I'm gonna go. Okay, forward cyclic, fly away. I don't want to change the power until I have plenty of room over my obstacle. I fly away. So aerodynamically, I cannot tell you why that works. I could just tell you that it does. So there are four different things to think about.

So crypto, you Got it. Very nice. You've apparently watched the videos. You freaking nailed it. And there's a certain instructor out there that's been wondering why we call him Jaffe. Well, now he knows what movie to go watch. It's close. You'll get it. And Warren Oates was so freaking awesome in there. And I love the scene where he's given the two. Two guys hell that were in helicopter. And he's like, people don't like police helicopters hovering over their homes, peeking in their windows. You know what they're gonna do? They're gonna burn you, me and my whole damn division. And I don't want my division burnt. So here's how it's coming down with you two guys. You're grounded. Now get the hell out of here. Get off my desk. And whatever. Freaking love that movie, man. Inspired me. Senior in high school. I went there with my high school sweetheart and I knew I wanted to be a cop and I knew I wanted to fly helicopters. And that movie just freaking did it. That movie just. Oh, my God. Just did it for me. So do I have one video left or two? I remember Heather has chicken over here in the crock pot. Barbecued chicken. And I went over there and smelled it. And I'm starving because I slept in today, got up, drink coffee, didn't eat. I don't know if I showed this video. What video did I just watch? Did we do this one? I don't even remember.

I thought we were done, but I guess not.

I think there's one more. All right, here's one more, man. I just. This today needed to happen. Heather's video she made with. From all of you that just put icing on the cake to the email I sent this morning. Try to get some people to show up today. Let's roll the last video and then I'm gonna get ready to eat some chicken. We'll come back and I don't know what we'll do. We'll be right back.

The aircraft's getting light, so I got to kind of feel the movements. Is the nose going left. Right. I'll get everything neutralized now that it feels good. Now I'm going to gently lift up.

So the topic of today, two step process to avoid dynamic rollover. And I'm going to talk about it more in the video. We're going to go back to the helicopter. My daughter's always talking about how I talk to myself and how weird she thinks that is. Of course I talk to myself sometimes I need expert advice. I don't really feel like an expert. I just feel like a guy who's been down in the trenches and beat up and knocked down and struggled to get to where I'm at today. Like many of you out there, this is something you really need to think about, whether you're brand new or you've been flying for 20 years. So let's go back to the helicopter.

Have you ever heard of the two stage pickup? Maybe you're brand new and you have.

It, or maybe you're an experienced pilot that needs to refresh this.

I got to refresh it all the time, right? We stay proficient by working with the basics, the things we learned early on, right? And I learned early on from an awesome instructor who one day kind of spanked me a little bit. And he's like, you got to learn a good two step process. Experienced pilots roll these helicopters over from doing a sloppy pickup. And you got to understand step one, get the aircraft, line the skids, pause, neutralize. Step two, gently live the aircraft up in the air.

And he was really stern.

And I'm glad he was right because he taught me good technique that I've.

Used all these years and it works really well.

Just a refresher for those that already know if you're brand new. I'm gonna start raising collective. You're gonna hear a horn here in a minute, but it'll go off maybe. Okay, horns off. So now what I want to do.

Is I'll be looking outside 50, 75ft. I can glance back at RPM, look.

Back outside, back in at RPM. Don't worry, a little bit of instrument shake there, no big deal. Aircraft's getting light, so I got to kind of fill the movements because the nose going left, right? I'll get everything neutralized now that it feels good. Now I'm going to gently lift up two step process. And people rush the pickup a lot of times on instrument when they bounce like that because they don't like the bounce. And even though the bounce kind of sucks, I say, don't rush the pickup. Rushing a pickup can cause you dynamic rollover. Let's go over here in the grass. We'll try another one and we'll just see.

That is such a wonderful tip that you'll ask a pilot, hey, what's good? What's keto? Good pickup. I don't know. You know, or they give you silly answers. Two step process, man. And here's one more on the fly. I'm like, heather, what do I do? Man, this is freaking awesome. And I'm tired and everybody's here and like just, well, it has been 49 minutes. And I go, you know what I preach about the one hour flight lesson? And I like being back on the dolly at 50 minutes. Because when you're logging that time and you're learning, if you're back on the dolly, you're back on the ground at 5 0, you still got time to work through the shutdown properly with your checklist and learn and do it right. I'm such a firm believer in the one hour flight lesson. I don't think it should ever go any further than that. Unless you're doing cross country or unless you're like Dr. Nick, who owned the Nstrom, who I taught years ago. We would fly for an hour and then I'd go, well, it's an hour, we should go in. He'd go, well, hey, can we just go play and do autos? Like, if you want to, it's your money. And you go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We do like another half hour of autos. But we weren't doing them out of stress and really training. We were doing them for fun and proficiency. So yes, there are times when you can go over an hour, but in general, especially for new people, an hour is enough. An hour is enough. I was a police officer before I became a flight instructor. And my. I was a firearms instructor and I went to instructor development school. And they said, you never keep somebody in classroom longer than an hour at 50 minutes. They need a break. The human brain needs a break. Or if you're out in the range for 50 minutes, give them a break. And that turned into that traveled over into helicopter training. The one guy I worked for years ago that I got my first start in the industry that launched my career, he said, I love the way he explained it. The first 20 minutes you're getting warmed up. The second 20 minutes you're really making progress and things are really starting to sink in and you're having a good flight. And then that third 20 minutes, you still might be doing well. But by the end of that 20 minutes, you start to drop off and it's perfect. I know in a helicopter, I know when we're at 50 minutes, I can tell by their performance. So you know what? That's good reason to let everybody go get on their day. I want to have some. Heather's barbecue chicken is over there. It's driving me crazy. I can't thank everybody enough. I don't know what else to say. That was a total shock. That Heather prepared that video to me and everybody. Jenny Tannen, Dave, Brian, and I'll watch it again, man. But that just threw me for a loop when she said she had this video and I put it in the system. I didn't even see. It was seven minutes long. So I thought, well, she's gonna wish me happy birthday. Okay, cool. And then I'm like, seven minutes. What's on here? She's like, I don't know. I'm not telling. I had no idea that she reached out to everybody. And people took the time to send those videos in and Heather took the time to edit that up. That was awesome. And all your comments in the Today has just been incredible. And I don't know what else to say other than it's been an amazing 10 years and I want another. Definitely another 10. Oh, so last order business. There's discounts down below. When I first got here today, I go, you know what? Should we just do the discounts the rest of the month? And Heather goes, why not? And I'm like, you know, if I would have been doing my normal, hey, you know, we got. I was going to do a video every day, and things just got crazy around here. And since I took my break, screw it. We want to give people discounts. The monthlies. If you're a current subscriber, you can. You can save money. You can unsubscribe. If you've got time left in your billing cycle, we'll have to cancel for you, but you can sign back up and it's like 58 bucks a month or something with the 40% discount. Yeah. So if you're a current member paying the higher price, you can take advantage of it if you want to come back. We did learn last week that you're still. You stay in the system unless you really frustrate us and we delete you for some reason, which doesn't happen very early. Very rarely does that ever happen because people are awesome. Your sis. Your progress is there when you come back. So that's a beautiful thing. If you're wanting to come back to HOGS and you were working on private, maybe you haven't finished. You want to come back. Your progress is there. You're still in the system. And then down below is the direct links for the specials that we have right now. 40% off the links are down below. You don't even need the code. If you venture back to the Venture Venture heli. If you venture back to the HOGS page later, it's hogs 40. You can use for anything on the page except for the study guide hogs 40 to get 40% off. But there's links down below this video where you can sign up and get 40% off. And Heather's working the deals. We were going to roll a video. You know what? This is good enough. This has been amazing. I want to eat some chicken. The deals are down below. We're going to extend it out. It's not a marketing trick. It's just why not let's 10 years online, let's give back. Get some fresh people in there.

Keep the celebration going.

Keep the celebration going. And before I get all mushy and teary eyed, let's just go, let's play. I'm going to play the birthday surprise video just because. Thanks everybody for tuning in.

See you guys.

See you next Tuesday and or before.

Peace.

Hey kk, listen, I just wanted to sneak on here and tell you happy birthday and congratulations on 10 years at Hoggs. The four years that I've been working for you, I've really just learned so much. Your motivation, your drive and your passion is second to none. And I just wanted to really thank you for being there for me these last couple years. And definitely this last year.

I wouldn't.

Have been able to make it without you. So I really appreciate how we're able to stand beside each other no matter what either one of us is going through. HOGS is growing like crazy and it's so fun to be a part of and happy birthday. Congratulations. And I think there's a few other people that want to say hi to.

Hey Kenny, it's Brian here. Just wanted to first congratulate you on 10 years with helicopter online ground school and also wanted to wish you a very happy birthday for yourself. It's been one heck of a ride since I met you back in 2013 and here we are in 2022. I'm working for you. We're making progress and it's all because of what you've done with helicopter on land ground school. You're a champ. You're a rock star. Everybody knows it. Keep doing what you're doing and happy birthday buddy. We'll talk to you later.

KK Quick little shout out. Happy birthday. Congratulations on 10 years of Hogs. You've come a long way since I first met you. Definitely deserve everything that's come your way again. Happy birthday. Can't wait to celebrate with you.

Be safe.

Hey Kenny. Hello from Heli Expo 2022 in Dallas, Texas. I actually wanted to make this video Friday night when I dropped the helicopter off, but I got busy pulling the helicopter in and putting it away and all that stuff and a little bit concerned about what was going to jump out of the dark next and scare the out of me. So I end up not making it. I want to do it from Heli Expo today, but there's just too much going on at the show, too much noise. So you get the crappy video from the hotel room. I didn't want to put it off any further otherwise Heather was going to get mad at me and you know, it's not something I want. Just want to say thank you for everything you've done for me and for Venture Helicopters over the past six, eight months or so. It's certainly been an adventure. I have a feeling that the adventure is just beginning and there's a lot, a lot of amazing stuff in store for both our companies over the next few months. So I'm very much looking forward to that. So again, thank you for that and more importantly, happy birthday and I hope you have a great day. Happy birthday. Hey Kenny, just wanted to give you congratulations and wish you a happy birthday for surviving another trip around our nearest star. It's a big, big deal and big congratulations on the 10 year anniversary of Hogs. Decade's a long time man, and you've come a long ways.

I think you've earned every last little.

Bit of it and I see a lot of great things going forward in the future. So super excited to be able to come up there and join you and be a part of that. But happy birthday.

It's your special day.

Go and knock your socks off, man.

Have a good one.

Happy birthday, Kenny. It's me, Jenny from SoCal. Look at you now. Wow, it blows my mind to see how far you've come. Wow, I can still remember you on the beach with your flip phone filming the helicopter threes and so humbly asking, will you take a chance on me? And I did. I did. I believed in you and I'm just so proud of you, so proud of your accomplishments. And you deserve every success that comes your way. You've earned it and you deserve it. Happy birthday, my friend. I'm still working on it, haven't given up. And if there's one thing you've taught me is don't give up. I will see you again. Happy birthday. Yeah, buddy. Yeah. Good for you. Boom.

Hey, Kenny, wanted to wish you a happy birthday and Congratulations on your 10 year anniversary with Hogs. Wish you were here at Heli Expo with us having a good time, but I know you got a lot of stuff going on with hogs. I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and happy anniversary. Let's talk to you soon.

Kenny.

Happy birthday, buddy. Over the years, you have given the.

Gifts of education and encouragement and support to so many people in this industry, but today it's all about you.

So I hope you're feeling the birthday love from people everywhere and.

And cheers to you and another excellent year ahead.

Happy birthday.

Hey, Kenny.

How's it going?

So you are a big reason why.

I only have to work half the year and get to fly a pretty nice helicopter. So keep up the good works. Congratulations on 10 years of hogs. Hopefully there's a lot more to come.

And happy birthday.

Hey, good morning, Kenny. Congratulations, my friend, on 10 solid years of making a difference in the helicopter community. Your passion and drive towards success for pilots and for those that are learning from me, make a big difference every day. Love to see you come out here and join us in California at some time, but understand your hard work is definitely something that will pay off. But in the meantime, once you get a good look at the backyard, you could be here in the near future. We'll see you, buddy. Congratulations again.

Hey, dad. Heather's been putting this together for a while now, and I keep forgetting to send her the video. So here I am in Chili's with Megan.

Hi.

Making this video. Congrats on 10 years. It's been a long take.

Years.

Yeah. Thank you for absolutely everything you've done for me growing up. Megan's lavy. I love you so much. Thank you for always being patient with me and never giving up on me no matter how much we argue. I appreciate it. I appreciate everything. And I'm sorry that I don't tell you enough. Love you so much. Thank you for absolutely everything. I know how hard you work, and it means a lot, and I do see it. I do notice it. I do feel grateful for it. So, yeah. Happy 10 years. Love you.

Sam.