I am an 80-year old and disabled ex-paratrooper. I guess that I am weird in that I will never achieve one of my long-time interests, that of flying a helicopter. Even a remote controlled one. Injuries from a major accident (wow...36 years ago) have me consigned to my living room chair. At least I can live my dreams vicariously by watching your fantastic videos. Had I not been injured and had I found your channels in my care-free youth, you probably would have seen me in one of your flight schools. Other than that, I will have to settle with fantasizing through your videos. Thanks!
Your videos have inspired me! I lost my job, and my apartment due to COVID-19. I worked for 10 years in the entertainment industry. My life has come to a standstill, not knowing what would be next for me. Yet, I always have had a love for helicopters and today is the day I begin a new journey. I am 28 years old living out of Southern California, and I am on my way to starting my education in becoming a career helicopter pilot. Your videos and the knowledge you bring makes me want to hit that 8,760 hour mark. Thanks for being an inspiration during these trying times. Maybe one day I will make it out to BC helicopters.
How the heck if you’ve lost your job and home are you able to afford this? Good luck and I’m envious of your position to be able to just pick this up. The costs in the UK are far too extreme, even for fixed wing!
As a Fixed Wing private pilot its quite interesting watching you with your students, you can tell how much you enjoy thier successes. I think having a great instructor is not only a major plus towards learning to fly, but also in giving one the love of flying itself. Your students, in my opinion are blessed with a Great Instructor. Stay safe and God Bless!
I'm 59 and a fixed wing pilot from New Zealand. Thank's for for taking us on this amazing journey. Loved every second of it. Getting away from the flying for a bit, your personalty is just gorgeous. .Captivating and inspiring! I asked my self what makes a person like this? In my observations and life experience, I think it's brutal honesty with your self combined with a passion of what you do, No pretention , no ego, in tune, and connected. Most people a busy trying to be someone their not. What a gift! Keep up the the great work.
Congratulations Mischa; what can say that hasn’t already been said? You are building a wonderful career as a pilot and making epic contributions to the aviation industry. Keep those rotors in motion.
I’m a 63 year old powered parachute pilot from Virginia in the United States. Seeing the world around us from the air is such an awesome blessing. Thank you for taking the time to show us Canada. It’s a breathtakingly beautiful place. I have not seen your around the world videos yet.
Couldn't happen to a nicer person, the passion you have for what you do, and safe and professional way you do it make all your videos a joy to watch, for those of us interested in rotor aviation. You're a true aviator Mischa, keep up the great work, big congrats on a great milestone, wishing you safe flights! awesome man truly awesome!
Hi Mischa! I have been watching your videos for about a year, just finished your "year in the air" and thought it was really great. Some of the best years of my life were back in the early 50''s as an army aviator in a topographic mapping battalion flying surveyors to their mountaintop stations in Alaska and southern California. Our Hiller helicopters only had 200 hp and were unable to hover on most of the landing spots so we had to land on the very edge, over-rev 200 or 300 rpm, hop into the air and fall off the far side. At 91 years of age your great videos bring back many memories and liven my days!
Thanks for the helicopter ride. I took my first ride when I was 9 years old in a bell 47. Was hooked. Started working on my license as soon as I was old enough. My family tried their best to help me pay for it , but after 13.5 hours I stopped. I honestly did not have the money and really had no clue how people could afford to be a pilot. Now Im 38 , wife , kids . We take helicopter tours when we go to the beach. Looking back if I had you tube back then, Im sure I could have done it , just needed a guide to help navigate. May be when Kids grow up I can finish. Till then I will continue to enjoy the ride. Have fun sir!
Watching your videos reminds me when my dad was a private pilot and the adventures we had. He’s almost 80 and stopped flying after retiring from the AF. He as well has enjoyed your videos as I forward them all.
Thank you so much for your videos. Being disabled and sitting at home so much it is so nice to watch one of your video's with such wonderful views. Ever since I can remember I wanted to fly helicopters. Found you site a few years ago and have watched on and off now and love it. Gives me an escape some days to just watch and wish I was there. When covid started life did not change much here other then the prices went up of the everyday items we have to buy. The things I got out of the house for stopped like church and Civil Air Patrol meets. Slowly things started to return with church and CAP but now the CAP meetings were changed from in person to remote again because of all the new cases. Membership expires here in just a few days and even at only $65 a year for dues being there for 11 years now just might come to an end. Covid cause us to lose all our cadets but when we started to have small meeting again we were working on getting new members in and then with the change to remote again that has seemed like a kick in the gut. Again thank you for your videos because it does make me feel better to sit back and enjoy your flights.
I don’t want to become a helicopter pilot but your way of teaching is just so captivating. You are so passionate and skilled at your craft and I think that’s really admirable.
Love this channel! 1. The Cabri is just such a cool piece of technology. 2. The scenery! 3. The fantasy of being able to land on a snow-covered mountaintop is realized week after week, and 4. Mischa and the rest of the BC Helicopter crew seem like the sort of people I'd like to hang out with. Ignore the order of these! Island Hopping was my favorite. Wish you all would go out over the sound a bit more, but I realize there are many considerations, not just 'where's the best scenery'!
Hello Mischa from Switzerland. Congrats to your flight hours - 1 year non-stop in the air, incredible :) I am also German and been watching your inspiring posts for a year or so...also flying the R66 and AS350 in Switzerland, preparing for helimission.org. Next step is a mechanic training starting this summer... The mountains you are flying in are pretty similar to the Swiss Alps. I learn from your posts regarding long line and mountain flying. Unfortunately, there is no money left to accomplish a thorough mountain rating, which is regarded a king discipline in Switzerland for helicopter pilots. I thought, if ever necessary / possible I'd probably do the mountain training with you ;) you never know... However, keep up the good spirit.
You totally called me out. Long time viewer but first time commenter. This channel helped push me to starting my ppl. I've got 1.7hrs under my belt, with my next lesson tomorrow, so thanks for making the beautiful videos that you do.
One of your best videos.. I've been flying for 27 years both rotorcraft & fixed wing, and I'll never master it. I've finally realized that. It is in the pursuit of mastery where the real joy lies.
HI Mischa, I’ve only recently started watching your amazing videos when I was looking for some aerial footage of the flooding in your part of BC, and since that video I have become ‘hooked’ on the channel and your impressive, professional calmness with which you fly and instruct. The scenery of BC and the mountains is breath-taking and almost beyond compare and your videos are stunning. After I retired, my wife and I were fortunate to spend 5 weeks in 2018 travelling around BC and Alberta and we had a wonderful time exploring this vast and fascinating part of the world. I guess the closest we came to a helicopter trip was taking the Peak 2 Peak gondola from Whistler to Blackcomb mountains but after seeing your videos, I wish we had taken a ride with you guys as well! Your videos not only bring a lot of enjoyment to the people who watch them but I also find them very technically informative on how to fly helicopters. Keep up the good work and good luck to you and the family on your new venture with the bus.
I love sitting on the co-seat like back in the days when I was a on board engineer on a CH53 in the German Army. Man I miss those GOOD times. I can relate to so much of your topics. It's amazing. Thank you so much and congrats. Always enough fuel in the tank, enough heaven below you and enough runway left.
Your professionalism and experience is clearly demonstrated by your calm confident manoeuvring around these beautiful yet deceptive and dangerous mountainous regions. Impressive and inspiring. Good for you!
Congrats, my last flown chopper was the S92A, and when you got comfortable flying is when you have to increase your situational awareness again, always respecting the machine.
Dear Misha, perhaps the most emotional video you gave us. You really captured where earth and heaven meet. I felt like I was the only one in the world flying with you. Much congratulations and blessings on this milestone. Yes!-:" It's incredible". Favourite part of the world tour was when you where in Russia. The shear rawness of the place was fascinating. Well done! Don't stop ✋
I would say that all of the videos you make gives me more energy mentally to want to keep pushing towards going back and finishing my CFII when I can and get to the air! Congratulations on the built time!
Beautiful vid Misha. It always amazed me how quickly you could be surrounded by such incredible beauty just minutes from the pad. It is without a doubt the most beautiful place in the world to learn how to fly helicopters. Congratulations on your time! Living the dream! 🚁🇨🇦
Just wanted to let you know that even after two years this video is still inspirational. I'm presently at what feels like a very awkward 14-hr point in my helicopter pilot training and need all the inspiration I can get.
Congratulations 🍾 8760h for heli pilot is a lot! BC is very beautiful! I hope that the current situation does not affect your school too much, I wish you continued safe landings!!!
Awesome! This video had a calming feel to it. Very picturesque. Reminded me when Sam, and I flew to the waterfalls. One of my favorite segments on the world tour was Russia. Awesome stuff!
Big congrats on the year in the air buddy. That scenery is just stunning 🤩 been watching a lot of your videos recently and have a lot more to watch but again congrats 👏
Congratulations dude, wishing you lots more hours good health and that your heli school keeps thriving. God bless and thanks for your videos, my son and I enjoy very much and have learned from them. And the scenery is AWESOME!
Mischa, CONGRATULATIONS on such a milestone achievement. Loved the video...what a great and memorable flight you had and thanks for sharing it with all of us, flying around such beautiful scenery. We never stop learning...loved the "learn to experience" motto. In the EPIC World Tour there were so many beautiful places you and Ruben visited, that it is hard to tell which one was the best, but flying in your backyard in BC, DEFINITELY has to be one of the best and nicest places to fly in the world. You are very fortunate to be able to fly there all the time. Can't wait to come up and visit. Safe Flying my friend! All the best! Guillermo
Wow Mischa you are certainly living the dream. I love watching your videos and it's about time I booked my second flying lesson as my first was 17 years ago in a Hughes 300 flying from former WWII RAF base - Biggin Hill Airport 12 miles south of London. That was for my 40th birthday and the only thing flying by for me since then is time so maybe I should treat myself to giving it another go to again fulfil my childhood dream of taking the controls of a helicopter. Congratulations on having completed a year in the air you deserve it and thanks for sharing with us all it's really appreciated.
Fantastic - What an achievement! Love your ethos of always learning. My 'old man' finished his commerical flying career with 18,000+ hours and loved every minute of it and that was a career that started with him learning to fly a Tiger Moth in the 50's and finish on a BAC One-Eleven in the late 80's. I have about 150 hrs under a paramotor wing, so only 9850 to go ;-). Keep up the great content!!
Really enjoyed the beautiful scenery and motivating message! And big congratulations on reaching a notable milestone. Since you asked for comments... I'm a commercial fixed wing guy, been flying airplanes for almost 25 years but never set foot in a helicopter even though I've always been fascinated by them. Watching your videos over the past year has been a big factor in motivating me to pursue the rotor-wing add-on ratings. I'm now pretty close to wrapping up the private add-on (in a Cabri G2!) and am planning to jump right into instrument and commercial next. See you someday for the mountain course, I hope!
All of your content is amazing Mischa, from the tutorial type videos, flying videos, instruction. You're a wealth of knowledge that were all lucky to be able to tap into through your channel. Thank you, congratulations and may many more years of flying time be had! Calm skies from Australia
Congrats from the land down under on your 24/7/365!! Something I have always wanted to do is learn to fly rotaries. I flew solo fixed before I soloed in a car at 16. You are SO lucky to be able to fly in such breath taking landscapes!!
Awesome video Mischa, I've been watching your channel for about a year now. I'm 19 and currently training to get my commercial helicopter licence (24hrs currently) out in Ontario . And for as long as I could remember I've always wanted to become a pilot, and your videos inspired me to follow my passion for aviation. I'd love to come down to do additional training with you when I'm done my CPHEL
Well I'm one of those lazy guys been watching quietly in the background. So enjoy your videos , including this one , it was so smooth , and beautiful scenery. Congratulations on the 10,000 hours that's quite a feat these days and wish you many more years of safe flying.
Beautiful video, Mischa. Congratulations on an amazing achievement! I'm a relative newcomer to your video feed and I have really enjoyed it. You asked what our favorite video was? I can't say I can point to any "one" video for that, but I can point to a couple of video threads that you have done in the past few years. As I said, I'm a relative newcomer here, but two of the threads that I've gotten the biggest kick out of watching were, one, the series of videos you did on Sam's initial flight training. It was so much fun watching as his flight skills started to gel and that perpetual smile he always had on his face! The second was your "Round the world" flight. Those videos got me through the first couple of weeks of this corona lockdown. It was almost like being in the helicopter with you and Rubin throughout the trip and it was amazing, such a grand adventure! Mostly though, I have to say I'm very impressed with your teaching style. You have a love of flying and a love of teaching and it comes through. I was fortunate to have a flight instructor with those same attitudes when I earned my PP fixed wing license back in 1979. He made that process one of the highlights of my life and you remind me a lot of him in many ways. Thanks for everything and Fly Safe!
Congratulations Mischa, I`ve been following your channel for a few years and love it. Wish I finished my helicopter training but sadly it was too expensive for me back then. I get vicarious pleasure from your vids.Thanks!
Hey Mischa, awesome channel. I am getting ready to start Rotor wing school and a buddy introduced me to your stuff. I gotta say...this video just got me so pumped for my new life!
Just now found some of your videos. Very cool, especially the one with you four flying into Bella Coola, as i used to live right beside the airport. Brings back so many memories, seeing all the search and rescue planes and choppers. I have many hours flying around those mountains and even over to Williams Lake and getting lost. Yup , was a bit of an eye opener. But it all ended well and was a good learning experience. I'm happy to have been able to see some of your experiences. Thank you.
CONGRATULATIONS!! Wow....now almost three years later - wonder how many hours you have done now! I'm totally amazed by the terrain you have there in Canada....so mountainous and so much water....beautiful country you have.
This made me tear up to watch. Just started my heli journey and it’s really inspiring to watch. Such an incredible journey and experience to chase dreams and do this!
Well done, Mischa! Keep more of these fly-for-no-particular-reason videos coming. The scenery and the mountains that you've got there in BC are spectacular!
I'd like to thank you for sharing not only a great life achievement moment, and personal feelings.. but also, the unbelievable place you live!! I love how much you still have sense of wonder!! Just great!! I also love the mountains.. the first time viewing the tetons,literally brought tears to eyes eyes !Congratulations! Thank you for sharing !
Just found your channel few months ago. Brought back excitement from nam. Flew hueys. Loved your teaching work Kat. She's a hoot. Favorite place in the world is Hong Kong. Stay safe and thanks for sharing your special moment. Dave from calif
Hello Mischa, I found your videos at the beginning of the lock down and they're an inspiration in these weird times. I immensely enjoy the beautiful landscapes you fly through and the instructive reports. I'm a huge fan and hope to be able to join you one day... Congratulations on your many achievements !
Congratulations, Mischa. Thank you so much for all the extra work you put in making these videos for the community. Your content and approach will no-doubt create safer future pilots.
What you do it's just Fantastic!!! Congratulations,!! And I like the way you make this so professional, nice and simple at the same time, but I know there is a lot of preparation behind. Thank you for sharing your videos and your experience .
Hi Misha, I started flying in 1996, and stopped for many years, as business drove me in a different direction, I started watching your videos and you have been a great inspiration, and I decided that I was going to fly again, I found a school that fly Cabri G2s here in Australia and started flying again last week... I will get the rust out and I want to come and see you in my next business trip to Canada. I would like to go out for a flight with you. Thank you for being such an inspiring person and for providing us with so much information. It will take me a while to catch up to your 10k hours... but I think the challenge is there... Best wishes to you... looking forward to buying my own helicopter soon...
I watch all your videos and have been slowly working towards my license (25 hours). I was pleasantly surprised to hear I may be able to write off a Commercial Pilots license and that may change my course of action. I booked a flight with you when I visited Vancouver with my GF but the weather did not cooperate. Keep up the great work! Thanks!
Really liked this video! You had some real fun flying by yourself! Awesome landscape! I‘m a big fan of your channel and watching every video! Keep it up with your positive way. Looking forward to fly with you in BC one day! Just the best for you, your family and the entire crew! Happy landings 😀
Congrats on the year of flight hours. I have so many great videos that I’ve enjoyed, top would have to be ones like this with some snow on the peaks and water flowing at all the waterfalls.
Mischa, It's because of you and all your videos that have motivated me to pursue getting my helicopter license at the age of 52. Thank you and keep up with the great inspiring videos.
Congratulations Mischa with the full year in the air. I enjoy all of your video's and i am one of the guys that not always comment on video's. Loved the scenery of this one tho. Beautiful location you are. Nothing like where i am right now. (The Netherlands) Everything is flat over here. Hope to see much more flying video's on your channel.
Congratulations Mischa, a great achievement and a sensational video. I think you are in the best place on earth to fly helicopters with all that magnificent scenery virtually on your doorstep. Keep flying and stay safe. I'm also adding a ditto to the previous comment. Could not have said it better myself. Cheers from Melbourne, Australia.
Wow! I got my Commercial Instrument license (ASEL) in 1990 but didn't end up in a different career. I really love flying and miss it terribly. I've flown a LOT of hours in Microsoft Flight Simulators and this is the kind of flying I like to do. Your videos are breathtaking and I really wish I could be up there doing that! Thanks for taking us along so we can experience the flying we want to do through you.
Great videos. You make me think about time I do and don’t spend with my own kids. Great to mention pictures and such from our own childhood times. We should all spend time with our kids experiencing our own memories with them. My kids have been hanging with me at Oshkosh or such their whole lives. Funny but they just don’t remember it all! Lol. Sometimes sad that they don’t remember those days on my shoulders walking through the sea of aircraft. Now they are busy teen agers. Keep making those memories. 👍
Thanks for the video, it's amazing! It remember me of my story. I took my commercial class in 1996 at Helicraft, Montreal. Did some rides and photo with clients. A couple years after I bought with my father a Hughes 269B 1967 which I did nearly 500 hrs. I started a small company in Mont Tremblant but didn't go as planned. Too many expenses for the small contract I had. Anyway, it was an amazing journey! Very great full for it. I'm happy for you, You are living the dream!
Congratulations!! What a milestone! I love watching all your videos as they always inspire me to strive for flight training when I can!! My favourite video was probably the one of Sam going solo because it’s so noticeable how surreal he finds it! Keep up the amazing work!
Congratulations! You have come a long way! Great memories when we bought ggg-I together! It took a lot of hard work for you guys to be where you are now! All the best for the future!
Delightful! Thank you for taking us along with you on this very personal tour of your favorite spots. To just fly around and look at things. What a wonderful way to spend a moment..
Thanks for sharing your amazing achievement with us Mischa and many congrats. I don't fly and i wish I did, I don't know you and i wish i did, but your wonderful videos allow me to believe for a while that one day, in a perfect world, I might do both. Stay safe and keep flying for all of us.
Great video. I'm a GA fixed-wing pilot from Australia. But your videos make me want to take up Helicopter flying. Time is not on my side unfortunately, I'm 67. But keep up with the great work, you obviously have a love of aviation and Helicopters in particular.
What a great achievement, I've only been up twice, loved it both times, In a Robinson R44 and took a ride in an R66 at Zion, both epic trips, you must be stoked every flight. Congratulations
Congrats, man! I am a new subscriber, not more than a month. But being locked down I have watched lots of your videos. Not all of them - there are a lot ) I love the "hill top - to the river bank" autorotation video. And your "return home after the round-the-world trip" video :) thank you for your clips and explanations. I like your truly helicopter-wise attitudes. (i'm a private pilot, moscow, russia, mi-2, mi-34, R44)
I love how Pilot Yellow as a channel and Mischa as a person, though I haven’t had the pleasure to meet you in person yet, has accompanied me in the journey ever since I was collecting money for the cpl, then during the studies, the flight training and trough every step, exams and everything. I can’t wait for this quarantine to be over and do the final exam!
That's a cool achievement, well done. You've certainly got some beautiful scenery to fly over there. I've only just started flying (30hrs in a R44), I love it and can't wait to be able to do it everyday as a commercial pilot. I've only been watching your videos for a few months but they're great, keep them coming. Hopefully one day I might get back over to Canada and fly over some of those awesome sights.
I am an 80-year old and disabled ex-paratrooper. I guess that I am weird in that I will never achieve one of my long-time interests, that of flying a helicopter. Even a remote controlled one. Injuries from a major accident (wow...36 years ago) have me consigned to my living room chair. At least I can live my dreams vicariously by watching your fantastic videos. Had I not been injured and had I found your channels in my care-free youth, you probably would have seen me in one of your flight schools. Other than that, I will have to settle with fantasizing through your videos. Thanks!
Your videos have inspired me! I lost my job, and my apartment due to COVID-19. I worked for 10 years in the entertainment industry. My life has come to a standstill, not knowing what would be next for me. Yet, I always have had a love for helicopters and today is the day I begin a new journey. I am 28 years old living out of Southern California, and I am on my way to starting my education in becoming a career helicopter pilot. Your videos and the knowledge you bring makes me want to hit that 8,760 hour mark. Thanks for being an inspiration during these trying times. Maybe one day I will make it out to BC helicopters.
Good for you man.
I feel you brother. Also from the entertainment industry, and I want to do the same thing. Good luck dude!
How the heck if you’ve lost your job and home are you able to afford this? Good luck and I’m envious of your position to be able to just pick this up. The costs in the UK are far too extreme, even for fixed wing!
As a Fixed Wing private pilot its quite interesting watching you with your students, you can tell how much you enjoy thier successes. I think having a great instructor is not only a major plus towards learning to fly, but also in giving one the love of flying itself. Your students, in my opinion are blessed with a Great Instructor. Stay safe and God Bless!
Good luck 👍
I'm 59 and a fixed wing pilot from New Zealand. Thank's for for taking us on this amazing journey. Loved every second of it. Getting away from the flying for a bit, your personalty is just gorgeous. .Captivating and inspiring! I asked my self what makes a person like this?
In my observations and life experience, I think it's brutal honesty with your self combined with a passion of what you do, No pretention , no ego, in tune, and connected. Most people a busy trying to be someone their not. What a gift! Keep up the the great work.
Congratulations Mischa; what can say that hasn’t already been said? You are building a wonderful career as a pilot and making epic contributions to the aviation industry. Keep those rotors in motion.
I’m a 63 year old powered parachute pilot from Virginia in the United States. Seeing the world around us from the air is such an awesome blessing. Thank you for taking the time to show us Canada. It’s a breathtakingly beautiful place. I have not seen your around the world videos yet.
Couldn't happen to a nicer person, the passion you have for what you do, and safe and professional way you do it make all your videos a joy to watch, for those of us interested in rotor aviation. You're a true aviator Mischa, keep up the great work, big congrats on a great milestone, wishing you safe flights! awesome man truly awesome!
Hi Mischa! I have been watching your videos for about a year, just finished your "year in the air" and thought it was really great. Some of the best years of my life were back in the early 50''s as an army aviator in a topographic mapping battalion flying surveyors to their mountaintop stations in Alaska and southern California. Our Hiller helicopters only had 200 hp and were unable to hover on most of the landing spots so we had to land on the very edge, over-rev 200 or 300 rpm, hop into the air and fall off the far side. At 91 years of age your great videos bring back many memories and liven my days!
This one is my favorite you’ve made... so raw... and beautiful... one way to truly explore
Thanks for the helicopter ride. I took my first ride when I was 9 years old in a bell 47. Was hooked. Started working on my license as soon as I was old enough. My family tried their best to help me pay for it , but after 13.5 hours I stopped. I honestly did not have the money and really had no clue how people could afford to be a pilot. Now Im 38 , wife , kids . We take helicopter tours when we go to the beach. Looking back if I had you tube back then, Im sure I could have done it , just needed a guide to help navigate. May be when Kids grow up I can finish. Till then I will continue to enjoy the ride. Have fun sir!
Watching your videos reminds me when my dad was a private pilot and the adventures we had. He’s almost 80 and stopped flying after retiring from the AF. He as well has enjoyed your videos as I forward them all.
Thank you so much for your videos. Being disabled and sitting at home so much it is so nice to watch one of your video's with such wonderful views. Ever since I can remember I wanted to fly helicopters. Found you site a few years ago and have watched on and off now and love it. Gives me an escape some days to just watch and wish I was there. When covid started life did not change much here other then the prices went up of the everyday items we have to buy. The things I got out of the house for stopped like church and Civil Air Patrol meets. Slowly things started to return with church and CAP but now the CAP meetings were changed from in person to remote again because of all the new cases. Membership expires here in just a few days and even at only $65 a year for dues being there for 11 years now just might come to an end. Covid cause us to lose all our cadets but when we started to have small meeting again we were working on getting new members in and then with the change to remote again that has seemed like a kick in the gut. Again thank you for your videos because it does make me feel better to sit back and enjoy your flights.
I don’t want to become a helicopter pilot but your way of teaching is just so captivating. You are so passionate and skilled at your craft and I think that’s really admirable.
Love this channel! 1. The Cabri is just such a cool piece of technology. 2. The scenery! 3. The fantasy of being able to land on a snow-covered mountaintop is realized week after week, and 4. Mischa and the rest of the BC Helicopter crew seem like the sort of people I'd like to hang out with. Ignore the order of these! Island Hopping was my favorite. Wish you all would go out over the sound a bit more, but I realize there are many considerations, not just 'where's the best scenery'!
Hello Mischa from Switzerland. Congrats to your flight hours - 1 year non-stop in the air, incredible :) I am also German and been watching your inspiring posts for a year or so...also flying the R66 and AS350 in Switzerland, preparing for helimission.org. Next step is a mechanic training starting this summer... The mountains you are flying in are pretty similar to the Swiss Alps. I learn from your posts regarding long line and mountain flying. Unfortunately, there is no money left to accomplish a thorough mountain rating, which is regarded a king discipline in Switzerland for helicopter pilots. I thought, if ever necessary / possible I'd probably do the mountain training with you ;) you never know... However, keep up the good spirit.
You totally called me out. Long time viewer but first time commenter. This channel helped push me to starting my ppl. I've got 1.7hrs under my belt, with my next lesson tomorrow, so thanks for making the beautiful videos that you do.
One of your best videos.. I've been flying for 27 years both rotorcraft & fixed wing, and I'll never master it. I've finally realized that. It is in the pursuit of mastery where the real joy lies.
Thank you for sharing this very exciting moment.
Stunning footage as well!
Best pilot, best views, best narration, and best instruction...Thank you Mischa!
Delightful. Thank you... at 15:23 till almost the end just black screen with a few minutes right at the end of video but no sound.
HI Mischa, I’ve only recently started watching your amazing videos when I was looking for some aerial footage of the flooding in your part of BC, and since that video I have become ‘hooked’ on the channel and your impressive, professional calmness with which you fly and instruct. The scenery of BC and the mountains is breath-taking and almost beyond compare and your videos are stunning.
After I retired, my wife and I were fortunate to spend 5 weeks in 2018 travelling around BC and Alberta and we had a wonderful time exploring this vast and fascinating part of the world. I guess the closest we came to a helicopter trip was taking the Peak 2 Peak gondola from Whistler to Blackcomb mountains but after seeing your videos, I wish we had taken a ride with you guys as well!
Your videos not only bring a lot of enjoyment to the people who watch them but I also find them very technically informative on how to fly helicopters.
Keep up the good work and good luck to you and the family on your new venture with the bus.
I love sitting on the co-seat like back in the days when I was a on board engineer on a CH53 in the German Army. Man I miss those GOOD times.
I can relate to so much of your topics. It's amazing.
Thank you so much and congrats.
Always enough fuel in the tank, enough heaven below you and enough runway left.
Congratulations on a milestone. The fact that you appreciate and Are you grateful of the whole experience of life is awesome!
Your professionalism and experience is clearly demonstrated by your calm confident manoeuvring around these beautiful yet deceptive and dangerous mountainous regions. Impressive and inspiring. Good for you!
Congrats, my last flown chopper was the S92A, and when you got comfortable flying is when you have to increase your situational awareness again, always respecting the machine.
Dear Misha, perhaps the most emotional video you gave us. You really captured where earth and heaven meet. I felt like I was the only one in the world flying with you. Much congratulations and blessings on this milestone. Yes!-:" It's incredible". Favourite part of the world tour was when you where in Russia. The shear rawness of the place was fascinating. Well done! Don't stop ✋
I would say that all of the videos you make gives me more energy mentally to want to keep pushing towards going back and finishing my CFII when I can and get to the air! Congratulations on the built time!
Beautiful vid Misha. It always amazed me how quickly you could be surrounded by such incredible beauty just minutes from the pad. It is without a doubt the most beautiful place in the world to learn how to fly helicopters. Congratulations on your time!
Living the dream! 🚁🇨🇦
Just wanted to let you know that even after two years this video is still inspirational. I'm presently at what feels like a very awkward 14-hr point in my helicopter pilot training and need all the inspiration I can get.
Congratulations 🍾 8760h for heli pilot is a lot! BC is very beautiful! I hope that the current situation does not affect your school too much, I wish you continued safe landings!!!
Thanks for inspiring the love of flight with these videos. They have rekindled my dream of becoming a helicopter pilot. Keep making them!
Celebrate It! Memorialize seems like an ending. Keep pushing forward my friend, make life an adventure!!!
Awesome! This video had a calming feel to it. Very picturesque. Reminded me when Sam, and I flew to the waterfalls. One of my favorite segments on the world tour was Russia. Awesome stuff!
Big congrats on the year in the air buddy. That scenery is just stunning 🤩 been watching a lot of your videos recently and have a lot more to watch but again congrats 👏
Just beautiful brother!! My favorite memory was the Vancouver airport touch and go.. Had a smile on my face the whole time.
Congratulations dude, wishing you lots more hours good health and that your heli school keeps thriving. God bless and thanks for your videos, my son and I enjoy very much and have learned from them. And the scenery is AWESOME!
You have such a great outlook on life ...you inspire me to find that joy of life again...and just wanted to say thank you !!!
Congratulations from Switzerland. Still remember our times back in 2007. Hi from my HEMS shift at Air-Glaciers - fly safe.
Your editing is wonderful. This is a great video. The terrain is awesome. Congratulations on the one year in the air. Thank you for sharing.
Congratulations on your 1 year of flying, love all your videos and once again congratulations! 🎉🎊🍾🎈
Mischa, CONGRATULATIONS on such a milestone achievement.
Loved the video...what a great and memorable flight you had and thanks for sharing it with all of us, flying around such beautiful scenery.
We never stop learning...loved the "learn to experience" motto.
In the EPIC World Tour there were so many beautiful places you and Ruben visited, that it is hard to tell which one was the best, but flying in your backyard in BC, DEFINITELY has to be one of the best and nicest places to fly in the world. You are very fortunate to be able to fly there all the time. Can't wait to come up and visit.
Safe Flying my friend!
All the best!
Guillermo
Wow Mischa you are certainly living the dream. I love watching your videos and it's about time I booked my second flying lesson as my first was 17 years ago in a Hughes 300 flying from former WWII RAF base - Biggin Hill Airport 12 miles south of London. That was for my 40th birthday and the only thing flying by for me since then is time so maybe I should treat myself to giving it another go to again fulfil my childhood dream of taking the controls of a helicopter. Congratulations on having completed a year in the air you deserve it and thanks for sharing with us all it's really appreciated.
Fantastic - What an achievement! Love your ethos of always learning. My 'old man' finished his commerical flying career with 18,000+ hours and loved every minute of it and that was a career that started with him learning to fly a Tiger Moth in the 50's and finish on a BAC One-Eleven in the late 80's. I have about 150 hrs under a paramotor wing, so only 9850 to go ;-). Keep up the great content!!
Really enjoyed the beautiful scenery and motivating message! And big congratulations on reaching a notable milestone. Since you asked for comments... I'm a commercial fixed wing guy, been flying airplanes for almost 25 years but never set foot in a helicopter even though I've always been fascinated by them. Watching your videos over the past year has been a big factor in motivating me to pursue the rotor-wing add-on ratings. I'm now pretty close to wrapping up the private add-on (in a Cabri G2!) and am planning to jump right into instrument and commercial next. See you someday for the mountain course, I hope!
I'm living my dream vicariously through these videos. Congrats on a great achievement!
Congrats Mischa! Thanks for taking us along to so many parts of amazing British Columbia!
All of your content is amazing Mischa, from the tutorial type videos, flying videos, instruction. You're a wealth of knowledge that were all lucky to be able to tap into through your channel. Thank you, congratulations and may many more years of flying time be had! Calm skies from Australia
Zach Bray thanks Zach
Congrats from the land down under on your 24/7/365!! Something I have always wanted to do is learn to fly rotaries. I flew solo fixed before I soloed in a car at 16. You are SO lucky to be able to fly in such breath taking landscapes!!
Awesome video Mischa, I've been watching your channel for about a year now. I'm 19 and currently training to get my commercial helicopter licence (24hrs currently) out in Ontario . And for as long as I could remember I've always wanted to become a pilot, and your videos inspired me to follow my passion for aviation. I'd love to come down to do additional training with you when I'm done my CPHEL
Well I'm one of those lazy guys been watching quietly in the background. So enjoy your videos , including this one , it was so smooth , and beautiful scenery. Congratulations on the 10,000 hours that's quite a feat these days and wish you many more years of safe flying.
one of your best yet! Like the start up sequence, you fly in on of the most beautiful places in the world.
Beautiful video, Mischa. Congratulations on an amazing achievement! I'm a relative newcomer to your video feed and I have really enjoyed it. You asked what our favorite video was? I can't say I can point to any "one" video for that, but I can point to a couple of video threads that you have done in the past few years. As I said, I'm a relative newcomer here, but two of the threads that I've gotten the biggest kick out of watching were, one, the series of videos you did on Sam's initial flight training. It was so much fun watching as his flight skills started to gel and that perpetual smile he always had on his face! The second was your "Round the world" flight. Those videos got me through the first couple of weeks of this corona lockdown. It was almost like being in the helicopter with you and Rubin throughout the trip and it was amazing, such a grand adventure!
Mostly though, I have to say I'm very impressed with your teaching style. You have a love of flying and a love of teaching and it comes through. I was fortunate to have a flight instructor with those same attitudes when I earned my PP fixed wing license back in 1979. He made that process one of the highlights of my life and you remind me a lot of him in many ways. Thanks for everything and Fly Safe!
Congratulations Mischa, I`ve been following your channel for a few years and love it. Wish I finished my helicopter training but sadly it was too expensive for me back then. I get vicarious pleasure from your vids.Thanks!
Hey Mischa, awesome channel. I am getting ready to start Rotor wing school and a buddy introduced me to your stuff. I gotta say...this video just got me so pumped for my new life!
Just now found some of your videos. Very cool, especially the one with you four flying into Bella Coola, as i used to live right beside the airport. Brings back so many memories, seeing all the search and rescue planes and choppers. I have many hours flying around those mountains and even over to Williams Lake and getting lost. Yup , was a bit of an eye opener. But it all ended well and was a good learning experience. I'm happy to have been able to see some of your experiences. Thank you.
CONGRATULATIONS!! Wow....now almost three years later - wonder how many hours you have done now! I'm totally amazed by the terrain you have there in Canada....so mountainous and so much water....beautiful country you have.
This made me tear up to watch. Just started my heli journey and it’s really inspiring to watch. Such an incredible journey and experience to chase dreams and do this!
Well done, Mischa! Keep more of these fly-for-no-particular-reason videos coming. The scenery and the mountains that you've got there in BC are spectacular!
Hi Mischa,
I was right there with you. Even got a little emotional. Fantastic milestone for you. Congrats, " You earned it "
Marc
I'd like to thank you for sharing not only a great life achievement moment, and personal feelings.. but also, the unbelievable place you live!! I love how much you still have sense of wonder!! Just great!! I also love the mountains.. the first time viewing the tetons,literally brought tears to eyes eyes !Congratulations! Thank you for sharing !
Just found your channel few months ago. Brought back excitement from nam. Flew hueys. Loved your teaching work Kat. She's a hoot. Favorite place in the world is Hong Kong. Stay safe and thanks for sharing your special moment.
Dave from calif
Hello Mischa, I found your videos at the beginning of the lock down and they're an inspiration in these weird times.
I immensely enjoy the beautiful landscapes you fly through and the instructive reports.
I'm a huge fan and hope to be able to join you one day...
Congratulations on your many achievements !
Congratulations, Mischa. Thank you so much for all the extra work you put in making these videos for the community. Your content and approach will no-doubt create safer future pilots.
What you do it's just Fantastic!!! Congratulations,!! And I like the way you make this so professional, nice and simple at the same time, but I know there is a lot of preparation behind. Thank you for sharing your videos and your experience .
Hi Misha, I started flying in 1996, and stopped for many years, as business drove me in a different direction, I started watching your videos and you have been a great inspiration, and I decided that I was going to fly again, I found a school that fly Cabri G2s here in Australia and started flying again last week... I will get the rust out and I want to come and see you in my next business trip to Canada. I would like to go out for a flight with you. Thank you for being such an inspiring person and for providing us with so much information. It will take me a while to catch up to your 10k hours... but I think the challenge is there... Best wishes to you... looking forward to buying my own helicopter soon...
I watch all your videos and have been slowly working towards my license (25 hours). I was pleasantly surprised to hear I may be able to write off a Commercial Pilots license and that may change my course of action. I booked a flight with you when I visited Vancouver with my GF but the weather did not cooperate. Keep up the great work! Thanks!
A memorable flight, stay safe and be well!!! Thank you!
Really liked this video! You had some real fun flying by yourself! Awesome landscape!
I‘m a big fan of your channel and watching every video!
Keep it up with your positive way. Looking forward to fly with you in BC one day! Just the best for you, your family and the entire crew! Happy landings 😀
I like the profound experience you’re describing. Thanks for bringing us along!
WOW !!!! Great film congratulations on one years flying hope have many more
Your videos inspired me to go after my helicopter license. Beautiful views and advice. Thank you and congratulations!
Congratulations! Currently studying for my ATPL(H) studies in the UK. Great inspiration and motivation to keep pushing though! Great videos!
Congrats on the year of flight hours. I have so many great videos that I’ve enjoyed, top would have to be ones like this with some snow on the peaks and water flowing at all the waterfalls.
Mischa, It's because of you and all your videos that have motivated me to pursue getting my helicopter license at the age of 52. Thank you and keep up with the great inspiring videos.
Wow that’s so amazing. Thanks Kevin
Congratulations on your milestone, another great video I can't wait to be a part off the experience.
Congratulations Mischa! Nice to see you in the right seat again too!
Congratulations Mischa with the full year in the air. I enjoy all of your video's and i am one of the guys that not always comment on video's. Loved the scenery of this one tho. Beautiful location you are. Nothing like where i am right now. (The Netherlands) Everything is flat over here. Hope to see much more flying video's on your channel.
Wow! That's amazing! Such an amazing "backyard" you guys have, it's really something! Congratulations on the 1 year in the air Mischa!
Congratulations!! Truly inspiring you are a blessed man!! stay safe and on top of all have fun!!
Well done buddy i love watching your channel and am 50 !!!! take care and here to the next year
Congratulations Mischa, a great achievement and a sensational video. I think you are in the best place on earth to fly helicopters with all that magnificent scenery virtually on your doorstep. Keep flying and stay safe. I'm also adding a ditto to the previous comment. Could not have said it better myself. Cheers from Melbourne, Australia.
You seem to be living you're dream buddy.
Amazing.
Wow! I got my Commercial Instrument license (ASEL) in 1990 but didn't end up in a different career. I really love flying and miss it terribly. I've flown a LOT of hours in Microsoft Flight Simulators and this is the kind of flying I like to do. Your videos are breathtaking and I really wish I could be up there doing that! Thanks for taking us along so we can experience the flying we want to do through you.
Great videos. You make me think about time I do and don’t spend with my own kids. Great to mention pictures and such from our own childhood times. We should all spend time with our kids experiencing our own memories with them.
My kids have been hanging with me at Oshkosh or such their whole lives. Funny but they just don’t remember it all! Lol. Sometimes sad that they don’t remember those days on my shoulders walking through the sea of aircraft. Now they are busy teen agers.
Keep making those memories. 👍
Thanks for the video, it's amazing! It remember me of my story. I took my commercial class in 1996 at Helicraft, Montreal. Did some rides and photo with clients. A couple years after I bought with my father a Hughes 269B 1967 which I did nearly 500 hrs. I started a small company in Mont Tremblant but didn't go as planned. Too many expenses for the small contract I had. Anyway, it was an amazing journey! Very great full for it. I'm happy for you, You are living the dream!
My favorite video is the one when I discovered you. My favorite memory is the one when I discovered you. Great work on all accounts.
Thanks.
Congratulations!! What a milestone! I love watching all your videos as they always inspire me to strive for flight training when I can!! My favourite video was probably the one of Sam going solo because it’s so noticeable how surreal he finds it! Keep up the amazing work!
The scenery is so peaceful! Thanks from a Air Force veteran.
Congratulations! You have come a long way! Great memories when we bought ggg-I together! It took a lot of hard work for you guys to be where you are now! All the best for the future!
Thank you for sharing those landscapes with us , no doubt we want to learn how to fly... :)
Keep on the air as much time you want .. you deserve it
Delightful! Thank you for taking us along with you on this very personal tour of your favorite spots. To just fly around and look at things. What a wonderful way to spend a moment..
Thanks for sharing your amazing achievement with us Mischa and many congrats. I don't fly and i wish I did, I don't know you and i wish i did, but your wonderful videos allow me to believe for a while that one day, in a perfect world, I might do both. Stay safe and keep flying for all of us.
WOW AGAIN MISCHA SUCH BEAUTY IN THE MOUNTAINS & YOUR SKILL LEAVES ME IN AWE CONGRATULATIONS AND I THANK YOU FOR MY RIDE WITH YOU...
Great video. I'm a GA fixed-wing pilot from Australia. But your videos make me want to take up Helicopter flying. Time is not on my side unfortunately, I'm 67. But keep up with the great work, you obviously have a love of aviation and Helicopters in particular.
What a great achievement, I've only been up twice, loved it both times, In a Robinson R44 and took a ride in an R66 at Zion, both epic trips, you must be stoked every flight. Congratulations
Awesome views. Flying around doing a job you love and enjoying the scenery whilst doing it.
Congrats, man! I am a new subscriber, not more than a month. But being locked down I have watched lots of your videos. Not all of them - there are a lot ) I love the "hill top - to the river bank" autorotation video. And your "return home after the round-the-world trip" video :) thank you for your clips and explanations. I like your truly helicopter-wise attitudes. (i'm a private pilot, moscow, russia, mi-2, mi-34, R44)
I love how Pilot Yellow as a channel and Mischa as a person, though I haven’t had the pleasure to meet you in person yet, has accompanied me in the journey ever since I was collecting money for the cpl, then during the studies, the flight training and trough every step, exams and everything. I can’t wait for this quarantine to be over and do the final exam!
That's a cool achievement, well done. You've certainly got some beautiful scenery to fly over there. I've only just started flying (30hrs in a R44), I love it and can't wait to be able to do it everyday as a commercial pilot. I've only been watching your videos for a few months but they're great, keep them coming. Hopefully one day I might get back over to Canada and fly over some of those awesome sights.
Congratulations Mischa.Outstanding scenery that you have to fly in.Here's to the next year
Thanks for sharing this moment - so graceful!