Kenny Keller explains what you can legally do with a private helicopter license: fly for fun, bring family and friends, and split costs, but you can't get paid. He walks through a real example of students Danny and Chris flying to Toledo with luggage for overnight training.
Toledo, Ohio.
Man, the response to all this is just awesome. Another great question. What can I do as a private pilot, or what can I do with my private pilot? Helicopter rating, simply put on the private pilot allows you to schedule the helicopter to come get the helicopter, take it out to go flying. You can go fly for fun. You can take up your family members, you can take up friends. You, you are somewhat limited. But the private pilot rating is for fun. And if you are wanting to just do it for a private rating to go enjoy it, that's great. A lot of people do that. You can go out for fun, you can share expenses with other people, but you just have to be careful what you do. Everybody has to pay their fair share. If you have two people, you can split certain expenses or three people the same way. You can't go out and do things for hire. You can't have people pay you to deliver them from point A to point B. But you can go out for fun, fly around, take up your friends, your family, and you can share expenses with people. Anything to make money is definitely out. That doesn't come till later when you're doing things as a commercial pilot and so on. And we'll talk more about that later. So what can you do as a private pilot? You can schedule the aircraft. You can go out and have fun. You can with the instrument. Another plug for our aircraft. It is larger than the other helicopters. You can literally schedule the helicopter to go overnight somewhere. And we have a baggage area on the side of the instrument. It's pretty good size. And for example, Danny and Chris went to do their ratings and they flew to Toledo, Ohio. There's enough room for both of them to put their bags in there with their books. Danny had a bunch of books because he's going for private. Each rating, you have tons of books. Chris had a bunch of stuff because he was going to do instructor rating. So they have all their gear and then they need to take some clothes with them and some stuff for the next day because they're staying all night. So they're able to get everything that they need for their test in the helicopter, in the baggage area. The smaller aircraft. Again, I say I like them. I like the Robinson, I like the Schweitzer. They're great helicopters. I seriously mean that. I wished I had all three. I wish I had a Robinson, a Schweitzer and an Instrum. They're great aircraft. Advantage to the instrument, little more money, bigger aircraft, nice big baggage area instead of going to a rating in a small helicopter. And you're going, man, where am I going to put this? And where am I going to put that? And this is going to make us too heavy. So another advantage to the larger aircraft is it does have a nice baggage area. And that being said, if you want to fly to Indianapolis for the night, you can put your bag in there, fly down to the heliport, park for the night, go walk over to motel, go out to have supper, do whatever you want to do, and then you can fly home the next day. So that's a quick explanation of what can I do as a private pilot. Basically, go out and have some fun and go places. And we do run our aircraft. So that is one more handle. That's number 10. Okay, thanks, guys, kids, girls, everybody. See you later. Bye.
