Pilot Weather Abort Decision Making

Ain't no rest for the wicked Got bills to pay.

This is all footage from a flight I did today. Going to get some maintenance, and what.

I want to hit is three things.

On aborting a helicopter flight. This is something we need to spend a bunch of more time on, but something real quick. I did five years working for Omni Flight Helicopters, doing EMS flying, and that was awesome. Got to fly BK117 and EC135, and a ton of great experience. And I think one of the best things that I ever got from their training was the chief pilot, who was a former line pilot. Czech airman said, if you're flying along on an EMS flight and all of a sudden you find yourself descending and slowing down from where you want to be at to feel comfortable, it's probably a pretty good time to turn around and go home. And I want to add a third one to that. If your gut's telling you that too, that's probably a great idea. There's all kinds of factors that get involved in deciding when to turn around and go back or when to land and get down on the ground and get to a safe spot. And we all have outside pressures, depending on what kind of job you're doing. It doesn't matter. They all have pressures. We have pressures we put on ourselves on this flight that looked pretty bad you see in this picture. In reality, the direction I was really.

Going to go was pretty decent.

There was a spot opening up and everything was great. But I had my own personal minimum set. As I was flying along, I knew at what point I was going to say, you know what? Yes, I want to get up for maintenance, but if I can't get there today, I'm just going to have to turn around and go back home and delay it another day. It doesn't matter what else I have going on, and it's going to screw up. And that's part of being a pilot, trying to make the best decisions you can. And. And there's really a lot to that. Three things, and this isn't in any textbook anywhere. It's just something that I kind of like and tell myself. And I still, like I said, I still go back to the days when they said if you're slowing down and you're lowering your altitude, it's pretty good bet that it's time to be going home and turning around or finding a place to land. And if your gut is telling you as well, that's, you know, everything in life, usually your gut is right, you're slowing down, you're dropping your altitude, then where you really want to be, and your gut's telling you it's time to go home. It's probably a good time to abort and turn around and get back home. Thanks for stopping by. Click the like button. Thanks, everybody.

I've been using them so long, I'm not sure if I remember how to do it. Brr. It's like the sky opened up just for me. Yep. Holy.