“New Helicopter Student Struggles”

Hey, what's up, Kenny? With helicopter underground school? And I just took a little break from editing. I've been upstairs editing the files for the maximum performance takeoff video that I mentioned yesterday. It's coming out really good. It's gonna be awesome. So I'll have that ready soon, and that's gonna be fun. So I took a little break, I thought. I got this email from a member and he asked some really good questions. And these are pertinent to anybody that's getting started right now. His name's Joshua, and he's at about six hours. And he talked about the ground school. He's a member and he wanted to thank us, which is. We love that. Right. And he talked about how much the visual aids in ground school are helpful for any student with comprehension and understanding. And I. And I appreciate reading that email. Taking a break, because in the max performance takeoff video I'm doing right now, I'm taking a little more time and going the extra mile to put as many different visual aids in there as I can to complement the different methods I'm teaching on that max takeoff. So as I'm trying to be more creative and really show some cool stuff in this next video. Pretty fitting that this member's question mentions that. Right? So it just made me feel good. Right. So it's a great topic. And he had some questions. And I. I said, you know what? I'm just going to answer this in a live video today because I decided just to edit from home today just for the heck of it. And. And I took a little break to come out here and go through these questions. They're great questions for anybody getting started. And he's about six hours. So I've done videos before. So, Joshua, your questions are very common for someone that's starting out brand new. Okay, so first off, I know how excited you are when you have six hours, but it's not much time yet. Okay, so a lot of these things that you're asking about, well, a couple of them anyway, they're going to come into play and get much easier with more experience under your belt. So just remember that everybody had to start somewhere, but I'm just giving you a little bit of motivation here. So his first question is. So of course you probably hear all the time, I'm trying to find a way to afford a training. That's everybody's problem. So, Joshua, welcome to the club. Everybody struggles with this part of it. I have heard you can receive funding degree from attending certain colleges. Have you heard of this options or Others like it. Okay, here's the sad reality. There are a few grants and things like that out there, but they're not very prevalent. You're going to have to really dig, get on Google, do a bunch of research. You know, I know there was some type of Facebook group out there about helping people with money for flight school, but in general that kind of stuff is not easy to find. So if anybody's got a great option, please put it down below. For Joshua or anybody else trying to get the training or trying to get the money for training, it's the age old problem. You know, we say, and I've heard others say everybody says the same thing. Well, hopefully you got either you got a rich uncle or you save the money, you try to borrow it. But most banks don't want to lend money on flight training. It's just the way it is. Not saying you can't get some. The only loans I know of is the one I used was pilot finance.com and I have no affiliation with them. I can tell you they're still around and I used them from my commercial 20 years ago. So I wish I had a, a better, some better feedback for you on that. And if anybody's got some better feedback, then please put it below because man, finding money for flight training is just difficult. But don't give up. Took me four years to go off the street to see if I, for that exact reason I would sell stuff. I used credit cards, my dad gave me some money along the way. I had a business that I was running and so once in a while I could pay myself a little extra out of the business. And that was a lot of the. Part of the reason took me four years. Part of it was because I failed my first private pilot checkride. But then the other part of it was money. Keep after it. You'll figure it out. Anybody has any great options, let us know below. Number two, I'm training in the Robinson R22 and I feel like I'm losing, lacking learning certain skills that the NSTROM has to offer, which, you know, he's making those comments from our videos, which is cool, like throttle control, trim hat settings and it looks like you adjust the fuel mixture in flight. Okay. We say all the time in these videos, train in the helicopter that's right for you. Maybe the one that's closest to you, the most available. Whatever the case is, don't worry about this. Fly whatever you need to fly. Fly what works for you. Things that you're mentioning here are easy to handle and the throttle. Let me cut touch on that one real quick. I've had a lot of people asking about the throttle lately because I've been doing all these videos in the instrument. And let me tell you, it's not a hard transition. It's very easy in the instrument. The correlator is so good that all you have to do is just manipulate the throttle just a little bit. If you fly the thing right, the throttle is not that difficult. Trust me. Not that difficult. Same thing with the trim button. You can learn that. It's nice. And I'm not saying, you know, don't fly an instrument. That's not what I'm saying. The instrument is a great helicopter. But pick the helicopter that's working for you best right now. And if it's the R22, great. If you get an opportunity to fly an instrument, that's great, too. They're both great aircraft. Every single helicopter has its pros and cons. And I talk about these all the time. I like the instrument. I like the Cavalry, I like the Schweitzer, I like the Robinsons. They all have pros and cons. Just like the instrument that I love and talk about all the time, you know, it has that instrument bounce, picks up during pickup and set down. It's just something that you put up with, right? People all the time make comments about that. Oh, I don't like that. That's ground resonance. It's like. No, it's not. It's just the instrument bounce. And you just look past it, right? It's a not a pro to that aircraft. It's a con. But don't sweat it, man. Joshua, fly whatever is available to you that works best for you and just work towards the training. When you get opportunities to fly different aircraft. Fly different aircraft, because you do learn every single time. But right now, don't even worry about it. Just fly what aircraft is best for you. And nearest by, looks like you adjust the fuel mixture in flight. Negative. Nada. No, no, I mixed. I adjust the mixture just a little bit before takeoff and we pick it up to a hover. We see how much power we're using, we check what the EGT is doing, the exhaust gas temperature, and then I may set it down and make another small adjustment. But leaning in flight in an instrument, no, we do not. We just lean it a little bit when we're preparing to go fly. But never, we do not lean the mixture in flight. We might richen it up in flight a little bit if it's run a little Bit warm, we might richen it back up. But very dangerous to lean the mixture and fly in a helicopter. Very, very dangerous. But again, don't worry about it. Fly whatever you got, man. And then here's a good question. This is a good question for somebody. Six hours. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not. Not downing you, ma', am. Because everybody had to start somewhere. I'm having trouble with the wind. Seems like it's a huge factor and not covered clearly for me to understand. Even in flight, it's hard for me to find the wind. You're gonna get it, man. I'm gonna set the iPad down. At six hours, you're just learning and there's so much to take in. And I can think back to when I was new, right? I remember you're trying to learn radios and you're trying to learn the controls and you're trying to learn the pattern. There is so many things that you're learning that it gets overwhelming. Okay? And that's pretty much for anybody. It's like I tell people when I first start out, let's say we're going to fly for an hour. I'm going to be talking that whole entire hour. And at the end of the day, you may remember five things that I said. There's no way you can remember every single thing, every single thing that I that I tell you in an hour flight. Over time and with practice, your brain is absorbing those things, right? And just like the movements, the control movements are going to get easier. And with the wind, you're only at six hours, right? At six hours, the instructor is going to take you out on pretty calm days or should be taking you on fairly calm days. As you progress in experience and you can handle more, the instructor should start taking you out on windier days and introduce you to higher winds. And everybody throughout their training, from off the street to private pilot, needs to go out on a couple days, once you're to that point with your instructor and get beat around in the wind where it almost maybe even scares you just a little bit. Because you need to be trained to know that as a private pilot, let's say you make a decision about you want to go fly and the weather is, you know, the. The weather's calling for winds that are going to be comfortable for you. But let me tell you something, you're at six hours. Here's what you're going to learn. Forecasts aren't always right. Unforecasted things happened. Wind kicks up. When they say it wasn't Going to want to across the board. So during your training, throughout your course of training, whether it takes you 40 hours, 50 hours, 60 hours, 70 hours doesn't matter, you're going to gain more experience, you're going to get more comfortable, and you'll learn and take on more. As you learn and figuring out where the wind is at, you start by the night before at home, when you're looking at the weather for tomorrow, you're checking the wind. When you get out of bed in the morning and you're drinking a cup of coffee or an orange juice or whatever, driving to the airport, you're looking at the wind. You get to the airport, you check the weather, you look at the wind sock, and then when you're out flying, you should be looking at that windsock. You should learn where they're at the airport, and you're always checking that thing. And through experience, you're going to learn. Look for smoke coming out of smokestacks, look for somebody burning trash or burning brush. Look for the ripples in the water, look for flags at businesses. Once you get a little more time under your belt, you're going to pick up all those cues and it's going to become second nature to you. And all of us. Well, there are some people out there that are perfect and do everything right every single time, all the time. Not all of us occasionally make a mistake on wind. Like I thought that's where the wind was. But the wind can change on you and the wind can change direction very quickly on any given day. So you're always doing your best as a helicopter pilot to figure out where the wind is. Not saying you'll never make a mistake and misjudge it that, because that does happen. But by using good technique, you'll always have yourself in the best position to handle anything. Especially like our 30. Keep 30 on your airspeed till your array of sets below 300ft per minute. If you're doing a nice slow approach in somewhere and you've misjudged the wind, you're gonna know that aircraft is acting goofy. When you're setting up the approach and you're gonna feel it, you're gonna go, something's different, something's not. This doesn't feel quite right. Oh, the winds behind me. So I think at six hours you're in good shape, man. So anybody just starting out know that things are going to get easier. We learn through repetition and we learn from going out and doing it over and doing it over and doing it over. Just like the studying inside Helicopter lane ground school. The members that go ace check rides. They tell us repeatedly, Kenny, I went through the videos twice, or I went through the videos three times. And the private pilot's probably well over 20 hours now. But if you really want to, if you really, really want to, want to excel, you'll be reading on your own, studying on your own, doing one on one with your instructor at the flight school. And then if you spend 40 or 60 hours going through a private pilot course, we learn through repetition. So going over and over and over is how we learn. And going out in that aircraft, that's how we learn. And you learn through repetition by doing it over and over and over. All right, somebody just fired up a weed eater, I don't know, a chainsaw or something over there. So I'm going to wrap it up. Subscribe to the channel, click the bell so you'll be notified of our videos that we've been doing daily trying to keep people motivated during the apocalypse. Oh, did I just say that? You got to make a little bit of fun, a little bit of light of the situation, right? 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