Kenny Keller documents Gary's transition from Robinson R22 to R44 helicopter. Gary has flown R22, Rotorway, and Hiller helicopters and needs five hours of dual instruction in the R44 to earn his PIC sign-off, plus five hours of instrument training for his commercial rating.
Questions this video answers
At least 200 hours of flight time in helicopters.
At least 50 hours of flight in Robinson helicopters (with exceptions).
Up to 25 flight hours in the Robinson R22 may be credited toward the 50-hour R44 requirement.
At least 10 hours of dual instruction in a Robinson helicopter, of which at least 5 hours must have been accomplished in the R44.
Five hours of R44 dual instruction (Gary already has 5 hours in the R22).
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This is a short intro video to kind of let you know what Gary and I are doing. As of today, we're getting ready to go out and do basically an R44 transition for him. He has about five hours of R22 time. This is going to be his first flight in the R44. So not only we're going to get him some R44 time, we're going to do part of the instrument training he needs for the five hours of commercial, for the commercial rating, the five hours of instrument time. So today we're just going to do a familiarization flight with him just to get him comfortable with the R44. He has R22 time, so it's not totally foreign. He's got rotorway time, he has instrument time, R22 time now R44. And what else have you got time in? Anything else? Hiller. Hiller and then he owned a Hiller for a while. So he's got, you know, a good range of different aircraft that he's been in. So not a big deal to him to, you know, transition to another aircraft. And we'll probably make two sections of this training. One will be for anybody just wanting to transition to the R44, and then the other section of training will be covering the five hours of instrument time that you need for the commercial. So what I want to look up here, I was actually looking right before Gary came in, is we want to not only get him transitioned into the R44, but we need to think about what's it going to take for him later to get a sign off for pic in the R44. So. So you have about five hours of R22 time now. Yes. Right. Okay, so we go to the handy dandy far aim to the SFAR section and it tells us you have to look up R22 or R44, whichever aircraft you're looking for your PIC sign off. Okay. First we'll cover the SFAR training. He's had the SFAR training. I, I already asked him about that and he, he has the SFAR sign off, the initial SFAR sign off when he went to flying the R22. So we're covered on his SFAR sign off. If you've been going through our other videos, you know, I'm current with the R44, I am PAC current, I'm instructor current, and I have all the sign offs I need for the R44. So looking up for Gary, what it's going to take for him to be able to be pic in the R44. Okay, so here we go for Gary's R44 pic sign off. No person may act as pilot in command of a Robinson R44 unless that person has had at least 200 hours of flight time in helicopters, which Gary has. He's at his private now for three or four years. So you're well over the 200, right? Yes, at least 50 hours of flight of which were in the Robinson R44, which he doesn't have that. But if we continue to read down, there's an exception to that part. Like there's an exception to every single rule and everything that we do. The pilot in command may credit up to 25 flight hours in the Robinson R22 towards the 50 hour requirement in the Robinson R44. Okay, he doesn't have all that time or, and here's where this applies to us, or has had at least 10 hours dual instruction in a Robinson helicopter. So he's got five now in the R22, at least five hours of which must have been accomplished in the Robinson R44 helicopter and has received an endorsement from a certified flight instructor authorized under paragraph B5 of this section that the individual has been given the training required by this paragraph and is proficient to act as pilot in command of an R44. Okay, so we just verified through. He has his sign off, he's got five in the R22. I'm a qualified instructor. So after I give him five hours of R44 instruction, he can then have the pilot in command sign off for the R44 because he's got the 10 hours of duel, five of the R22, five in the R44 to get the complete 10. Sounds good. Okay, so Gary has already started his pre flight on the R44 while I was up here doing some other stuff. And he has some questions, of course, because it's been a while since he was in the R22. So we're gonna go down there, I think we'll throw a camera up and a mic and we'll just kind of go over some of the stuff that Gary's gonna be asking about because I did an entire pre flight already this morning with the first guy that went out to work on his commercial. And you know, I'm comfortable with the pre flight. We did the full pre flight, used the ladder, hit the blades, hit absolutely everything. So we'll do more of a abbreviated go pre flight. Gary's went over everything he could find. We're going to go through in the things that he wasn't sure of. And we'll check those out. Look the aircraft over, check fluids, and we'll record that. And then the second part of this is I think all you can really do is kind of look for. If you look in there, you can see it, his commercial. And he has to have five hours of instrument training. And I wanted to cover this in this video.
