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Gift of Flight: Flying to Give a Surprise Helicopter Flight Lesson

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Flight Lesson #1: Straight-and-Level, Cyclic, and Collective

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Helicopter Instructor Prep: Flying Back to Boeing Field

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Helicopter Instructor Prep: Normal Takeoff, Normal Landing, and Traffic Pattern

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Helicopter Instructor Prep: Shallow Approach, Hovering

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Helicopter Instructor Prep: Steep Approaches

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Full Flight: Lunch run to Harvey Field (S43) in a Robinson R44

It was the day before Thanksgiving 2021, and my son had the day off from school. Rather than have him sit around at home all day watching us work, I decided to take the day off and do something fun with him instead.
The original plan was to head out to Jefferson County Airport for lunch and some of their famous pie, but the weather near the strait wasn't cooperating. Given that, we took the short hop over to Harvey Field (S43) in Snohomish, Washington. The food is great, the company is better, and we were able to get Derek back in the helicopter for the first time in weeks. Good stuff all around!
This video is a full-length, uncut view of the roughly 30 minute flight from Boeing Field to Harvey Field. It's mostly father/son bonding over the shared love of aviation, but there are some CFI-type lessons scattered around as well.
As always, we hope you enjoy the ride!
#helicopter #r44 #fatpnw

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Gift of Flight: Flying to Give a Surprise Helicopter Flight Lesson

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Gift of Flight: Flying to Give a Surprise Helicopter Flight Lesson

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Join me as I fly from Boeing Field (BFI) in Seattle to Whidbey Airpark (W10) to give a surprise flight lesson to a lucky new student. His partner set this up weeks earlier, under the premise of a wine tasting expedition. Apparently he hates wine but loves helicopters, so way to play with the guy's emotions! The video begins just north of Seattle, near Lake Union. I proceed over Green Lake, Shor...

Flight Lesson #1: Straight-and-Level, Cyclic, and Collective

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Flight Lesson #1: Straight-and-Level, Cyclic, and Collective

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As you may know, my “day” job has me working as a software engineering manager at a local Seattle-area tech startup. Aviation is my passion though, and I’ve garnered a decent following at the office as I’ve made my way through the training process. Now that I’ve become a certified flight instructor, a few folks from work have expressed interest in working toward their own ratings with me. Joel’...

Helicopter Instructor Prep: Flying Back to Boeing Field

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Helicopter Instructor Prep: Flying Back to Boeing Field

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This is the final portion of my September 27th, 2020 instructor prep flight. In this segment, I transition through the Auburn Municipal Airport (S50) area back to Boeing Field (KBFI). I cover flying in the vicinity of an airport, Class D airspace operations, and the Oakdale Arrival back to Boeing. It'd been almost a month since my most recent actual training session (smoke from wildfires follow...

Helicopter Instructor Prep: Normal Takeoff, Normal Landing, and Traffic Pattern

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Helicopter Instructor Prep: Normal Takeoff, Normal Landing, and Traffic Pattern

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This is an uncut portion of the flight from Boeing Field (KBFI) to Auburn (S50) as I practice my flying, talking, and teaching in preparation for my flight instructor checkride. It'd been almost a month since my most recent actual training session (smoke from wildfires followed by PNW IMC) so this was part of my "dusting off the cobwebs" flight. You can check out some other segments from this f...

Helicopter Instructor Prep: Shallow Approach, Hovering

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Helicopter Instructor Prep: Shallow Approach, Hovering

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After a sloppy attempt at a shallow approach (I let distractions divide my attention a bit too much), I moved over to the taxiway and parking area to do some hover practice. It'd been almost a month since my most recent actual training session (smoke from wildfires followed by PNW IMC) so this was part of my "dusting off the cobwebs" flight. You can check out some other segments from this fligh...

Helicopter Instructor Prep: Steep Approaches

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Helicopter Instructor Prep: Steep Approaches

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I went out and flew a couple of steep approaches into a confined area practice spot located just southeast of Auburn Municipal Airport (S50) in Washington state. I'm working on my "teaching while flying" technique here, and am happy to have you along. It'd been almost a month since my most recent training session (smoke from wildfires followed by PNW IMC) so this was part of my "dusting off the...

Helicopter Lesson: The Four Aerodynamic Forces

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Helicopter Lesson: The Four Aerodynamic Forces

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Today's topic is the four aerodynamic forces that act on a helicopter in flight. They are divided into two pairs of opposing forces, generally vertical and horizontal: - Lift (up), opposed by Weight (down) - Thrust (forward) opposed by Drag (rearward) In unaccelerated flight - for example, when straight-and-level, or in a constant airspeed climb or descent - lift is equal to weight, and thrust ...

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Helicopter Lesson: Ground Effect

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In this lesson, we expand upon our previous discussion about induced flow and its effect on angle of attack to explain ground effect. Ground effect is the increased rotor efficiency and lift performance that we feel when within roughly one rotor diameter of the ground. The maximum possible ground effect in a given situation will be reduced by a variety of factors such as: - Distance from the gr...

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Helicopter Lesson: Airflow and Lift

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In this basic lesson, I talk about the types of airflow experienced by a helicopter's rotor system and how they combine to generate lift. I had trouble understanding this beyond a superficial level at first, but it’s pretty straight-forward once you draw it all out. The topics introduced here are: - Relative wind - Rotational relative wind - Induced flow - Resultant relative wind - Angle of att...

Instruction Intro: For the Love of Aviation

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Instruction Intro: For the Love of Aviation

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In this short video, I talk about what I've been up to for the last year or so as Covid impacted my flight instructor training. Part of my plan has always been to leverage UA-cam as a means to both refine my instructional technique and to share my love of aviation with others. I've put together a basic private pilot ground school road map, and I will be implementing that road map through a seri...

Flight over Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the Rain

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Flight over Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the Rain

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It's Saturday August 29, 2020. Here in the Pacific Northwest, that means we're running short on reliable weekend VFR weather, so we need to get these flights in while we can. Derek starts school on Monday, and we go back to work as well all virtually, of course. A bucket list item of ours has been to overfly the Tacoma Narrows bridge, so that's what we're going to do today. While we're in the g...

Landing Off-Airport in a Schweizer 300C Helicopter

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Landing Off-Airport in a Schweizer 300C Helicopter

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While taking my friend James on a grand tour of the Seattle area on this beautiful August morning, we came across a prime spot for demonstrating basic off-airport helicopter operations. This stuff never gets old! [Recorded August 25, 2020] #helicopter #fatpnw #generalaviation

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Helicopter Picnic at Ranger Creek

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Join us as we make our way out to Ranger Creek (21W) in a Schweizer 300C helicopter for a picnic lunch and hike in the mountains! We took a slight detour on the way to overly the beautiful Lake Tapps, which is located south of Auburn and west of Enumclaw. [Recorded August 23, 2020] #helicopter #fatpnw #generalaviation

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Discovering Spada Lake in a Helicopter

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It's August 16, 2020. A week ago, Derek and I took a flight out to Ranger Creek on the northeast slope of Mt. Rainier. It was an amazing adventure, and Derek couldn't stop talking about it. Unfortunately, that left Crystal feeling a bit left out. She wanted in on the action. I don't need any excuse to go out and fly, so the problem at this point was figuring out what to do. We wanted to fly int...