No runway required | Landing at Salisbury Racecourse in an R44 Helicopter
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2021
- Who needs runways? This flight was great fun and it turned out to be a really worthwhile learning experience for me as a new helicopter pilot. I flew my wife Lizi from Leicester to Salisbury where we landed off-airfield at the racecourse. We had some rain to deal with and lots of military airspace and danger areas to navigate around. Thanks for watching!
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Super cool, lucky enough to see Tom Cruise flying around yesterday. Look out for a matt black H125!
Thanks Liam, that sounds cool!
How can anyone give any of Rory's videos a thumbs down.
You’re very kind. 😁
Another smashing video Rory . Lovely to see Lizzy looking so radiant and happy . My best wishes .
Thanks very much David. 👍
Great Rory thanks for sharing cool stuff.😎
Thanks very much Andy. 🚁👍
Hello Rory - your thorough enjoyment of your new role is infectious! Very pleased for you. All the best - Paul
Thank you very much Paul - I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
Another very enjoyable video Rory, and well done to Lizi for asking the question about 'Basic service' and thanks for putting up the answer. Well done.
No worries - it was a good question from lizi. 👍
Great to see Rory and nice to see how excited your uncle got, he really enjoyed it.
Thank you, yes he really got into it!
Excellent video Rory...and the aircraft isn't even bent! Well done!
Ha ha - thanks for watching - especially all the way to the end!
very good vidio thanks you.
Thanks very much Stephen. 👍
Good video, looked a great trip
Thanks Andy - it was a fab trip.
Great Video as ever! On my last flight I was listening and transmitting on a different box as talking to the tower and getting ATIS on box two pre start and did not switch it back.
Yeah it’s easily done isn’t it. I love having two boxes but I always feel like a tit when I make a mistake on the radio.
Thanks Jon for another great video..................oh bugger still watching Rory! Thanks Rory another great video I hope you are not expecting applause landing at Halfpenny Green! The little un is building hours at a great rate.
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Yes, it’ll have its ATPL unfrozen before it’s even born! Lol
It’s awesome seeing you fly to Salisbury where I live! I currently fly from Boscome and used to fly from Old Sarum!
Lovely stuff Tom - I’m really pleased you enjoyed this one. There’s more Salisbury action coming this Saturday on my next video. 👍
Interesting film - we’ll done
Thanks very much David. I hope you’ll consider subscribing. 👍
Great video as always Rory. I said during your training that I was looking forward to the videos of you both flying and thaws have been excellent. Both proud of each other in different ways, just as it should be! 🙂
Thank you Tim. You’re very kind and I’m delighted you enjoy watching lizi and i flying together. I love having her alongside me In the cockpit - it’s a shame I won’t be able to take her on commercial jobs!
Good to see you didn't bend the a/c, I'm sure the ground crew appreciated that. The joy of random landing access. Enjoyed that Rory.
Yeah it’s magic being able to put the chopper in a field somewhere- brilliant fun.
I rory and lizzy hope both of you are well and enjoying life to the full.brilliant video not too hot just yet.just waiting for the summer to start.secnery beautiful.take care and I hope to see you both soon philip. 🍺🤘👍
Thanks Philip. 👍
Great video Guys..looks so much fun !
Thank you. Yes, superb trip. 👍
Another good one Rory. Very professional. Down my neck of the woods so looking forward to the Compton Abbas trip when you post it. I'm a controller and also fly the R44 so these videos tick all the boxes!
Excellent stuff - I’m delighted you enjoyed this one. Compton couldn’t have been more helpful and my family loved it. Should be out in a week or 2.
Great video! Looking forward to flying in on the 15th
Lovely stuff - the fly in will be great fun.
Absolutely cracking video Rory, to think all those years ago I used to say you looked like Sebastian Vettel in your sunglasses! Great job with the Helo's and a treat to watch your progress - thanks for taking the time to edit it all and share with us. Bravo buddy.
Thank you very much. I’m delighted you’ve stuck with me all this time!
Hi Rory, another fabulous video… regardless of flying GA / Helicopters / Microlights ..the RT is the same which I have been taking a keen interest in. 👍👊🏼
Excellent- I’m delighted you enjoyed it and found it useful. You’re right about the RT.
Excellent- I’m delighted you enjoyed it and found it useful. You’re right about the RT.
It’s so cool that in a helicopter, you can just land anywhere (within reason). Great video 😊
Thanks very much. I agree - it’s seriously cool.
As usual fantastic content Rory I really do enjoy your videos I'm not a pilot but still find them fun and informative please keep them coming
And all the best to the THREE of you
Thanks very much on both counts Terence. 👍
good to see you both up in the air rory. made my weekend lol.
Excellent stuff. 😁👍
@@RoryOnAir pity that the england team lost in footy though there will be other times and yes i think you two should go up every week lol
Great video to near my location 🙂👍🚁
Cheers Mark.
I guessed the mixture guard, was the carb heat next to the mixture in older Robinsons? would be easy to pull the wrong one out...Nothing guarding the mixture in the Cabri :)
Yes, I guess it might well have been in the Raven 1 versions. And you’re right about the mixture Cabri. I guess having it up on the roof means you’re unlikely to go there in the air.
A lovely video as always Rory and congratulations to Lizzie and You on your recent news, coming from someone who has 7 & 4 year old daughters i can tell you your mad 😆
Crickey, sounds like you’re busy. Thank for watching. 👍
why only 7000 subscribers. such a great channel! Great videos
Thank you very much. The channel is growing - but these things seem to take time. Thanks for your kind comment. 👍
So jealous! 😀
Other than yourself I think Lizzy is my favorite traveling companion also. I like her comments and she definitely ands to the beauty of what we are normally look at (Your Mug). Another great video sir. I agree that the other passengers warrant their own video. Looking forward to that one indeed.
Blue Sky's and Tailwinds
Thanks very much David. You’ll enjoy Dulcie and Nick in a couple of weeks - they absolutely loved it. 👍 I’ll pass your comments to Lizi too.
I always misspell her name. My apologies to you both.
@@davidallen9526 don’t worry! Everyone gets it wrong.
I agree, it is always nice to see Lizi together with Rory. She is always so calm and collected (or at least comes across like that). Looking forward to the next flight!
@@patrickaalto thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. 👍👍
Another great video, really enjoying them and thank you for sharing. What happens after you have built the rest of thoes 32 hours?
Never been in a helicopter before, but tempted to book an intro lesson at my local airport in Gloucester to have a go after your videos! Not sure I can stomach the heli costs for a full license though! The microlight could be tempting.
Well I’d urge you to give both helicopters and microlighting a try - they are both superb. I’m hoping to become an instructor next year so we’ll see how things go. Glad you enjoyed it!
What a way to travel ! Another enjoyable video, Rory and Lizi ;-) Do you hire the R44 for the day and if so what's the ballpark figure for the day with fuel ? As always, best wishes to you and Lizi, always enjoy your content.
Thank you. You can book it for the day but you only pay for the time the rotors are turning. It’s about £500 an hour.
Great video wishing you and Lizzie a smooth journey to parenthood and does a baby seat fit into the R44?
Thanks Jon. No isofix points but I’m sure I’ll sort something. 😁
Ahhhh yes this is what helis are about what a cool trip. Great job too! As a pilot, film maker and safety conscious husband! Bingo
Thanks very much - I’m going to put ‘safety conscious husband’ on my CV. 🤘
So she should be your favourite cockpit companion !! 😀 Another cool video! Really nice to see the R44 climbing away from the Race Course. Presumably your friends took the footage! For what it's worht, I'm putting in some hours in the BELL 47 G2 Helicopter - in Flight Simulator 2020 of course! the Team at FlyInside have created a wonderful model of this great helicopter, one of the first for MSFS2020 and she's a challenge to fly! But I did manage my first spot landing on the helipad of the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai!! It's in one of my videos! Hope Lizzy's pregnancy is going well. All the best to you both. Lee
Thank you, glad you enjoyed this one. Yeah, my aunt filmed our departure on her phone. Sounds like you’re having fun with the sim. 👍
G,day Rory and Lizzy from Sydney Australia.
Nice flight in the R44 over England's green fields. I will be ever so observent of the displaced lime cover.Moreover, I now understand - ATC basic and traffic service, thankyou.
I do apologise, as to how many weeks along now it is for Lizzy. "There's a worldwide virus pendemic" so we are a little busy
Hopefully, we should have it cleaned up as soon as possible, and return to normality: I'm terribly sorry.
Best wishes.
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Thanks John, glad to be able to clear up the basic service thing a bit. Lizi is now 22 weeks. Cheers
Do you guys have a concept of CTAF in the UK? Those blind radio calls are common around a lot of smaller airfields although we follow the American call format.
No, I can’t say I’m familiar with CTAF. Blind calls to small fields is common though.
Hi Rory, nice video as always. Last time I went to Old Sarum they were about to close permanently, but I had heard that had been overturned? Brize? They're usually pretty helpful, my dad and his mates used to fly from a farm strip one field away from their zone and about three fields from Fairford's zone, back in the day, heading south or west Wroughton, Lynham, Kemble were all active military bases. A favourite trip was Thruxton and back, with Boscombe and lots of military bases enroute. There was no going around 🤔😉🤭🤭 Back in those days Boscombe was like Area 51, especially being close to Porton. In fact I thought it still was, especially as the first Jumbo load of SARS2 sufferers was diverted there early 2020, then bused to Liverpool, instead of landing at JL Liverpool their original destination?
Lovely stuff - sounds like good fun. 👍👍
Old Sarum didn’t get the planning permission they wanted to build houses on part of the airfield and said it wasn’t viable running it as it stood, so it closed and all the businesses onsite relocated. I understand that the parachute school there have taken a private lease for it, so its effectively a private airfield now - the pilots notes on SkyDemon confirm this.
Have to say my last experience there was poor. No welcome at all, a long queue in the cafe to pay my landing fee, and then we were ignored. The noticeboard had an announcement that they were “now open to 7pm for summer evening flying” (wow, my airfield is open until its dark, so 10pm in the peak of summer). We drank our tea and went to Lee on Solent who were much nicer
@@geoffreycoan yeah, I’m glad we had to go to the racecourse in the end - they were tremendously helpful and it was nearer my family’s house than old Sarum. Always a shame to lose an airfield though.
Just about saw my house as you overflew BDN!
Excellent! I’m pleased you saw something familiar. 👍
@@RoryOnAir you were close to our Farm Strip as well!
@@davidwookey3792 nice one - is that near Salisbury?
@@RoryOnAir yes, just to south of Racecourse
@@davidwookey3792 awesome, I actually think I saw a strip on my way to Abbas. I might ask to drop in there next time I have a plane rather than a heli. 👍
You approached and departed the race course in the same direction, what was the wind?
The wind was almost zero so we approached into what little wind there was and I departed downwind as it was a clearer, safer area.
Hey Rory, what was your schools thinking on the startup checklist, running through a physical list vs going through by memory? Love the videos, keep em coming!
Hi, yes we use written checklists all the time. I was using one on this trip as usual - better than forgetting something. Thanks for watching. 👍👍
Hey Rory. I know were in a pandemic right now and the market is terrible, but when things are good, is there many job opportunities for helicopter pilots in the midlands? I know for fixed wing airline pilots sadly the jobs are usually saturated and very competitive, especially for new graduates. Do new graduates also struggle to find jobs as helicopter pilots? And assuming, like most if you start of as an instructor how hard is it to then progress into more advanced positions?
Hi Jack, the honest answer is I really don’t know until I try myself. I’m going to go down the instructor route and then hopefully when I have some more hours I’ll be able to transition onto bigger aircraft. We shall see - watch this space as I will keep people updated on my progress.
Rory - when on these 'hour-building' flights - do you have to pay to hire the R44, as it is not a work flight, and who pays for the fuel and any landing fee costs ?
Yes, I pay to hire the machine for time flown. Fuel is included if it’s within range, but if I have to buy more I can claim some back. I pay all fees and charges.
@@RoryOnAir Thanks for your honest reply - I was just curious. Bet you can't wait to start actually earning money flying helicopters !!
@@wackyack3165 absolutely- that will be quite a moment!
Hi Rory. I’m a new subscriber, really enjoying your videos, I’ve now watched them all since you quit your job at the bbc.
I’d like to follow in your footsteps, (if I don’t get one of the Bristow scholarships). I’m told you self funded your cpl. Are you self funding your hour building before instructors course?
I can just about afford to pay for the integrated course, living costs for the year and perhaps a R44 type rating but realistically I won’t be able to fund hour building. What would you suggest I did?
Many thanks
Lyle
Thanks Kyle, welcome aboard! I did indeed self fund all my training. I’m almost at the end of my hour building and then I’m planning to do an FI(H) course. That’s a tough one as it depends on so many factors that are personal to you. It’s important to have a plan all the way through to getting a pilot job, but you don’t need to have all the money ready right now. Rory
@@RoryOnAir thanks for you reply Rory. Have you had to self fund all of your hour building? Or just part of it? It’s the part that’s worrying me, because as a farmer if I had to go back to farming after doing my CPL to fund hour building it would take me about 5 years. The CPL and living costs would stretch me to the end of my savings and parents help.
Lyle
@@lyletregoning4717 yes, I’ve had to pay for all my training and hour building so far. It’s a lot of money and it’s wise to have it ready so you don’t get stopped mid way through. You could avoid hour building if you did the CPL and the IR but that’s expensive too.
@@RoryOnAir thanks Rory. Might see you soon at the Helicentre.
@@lyletregoning4717 good stuff. Good luck either way!
Oops. The question was actually about 'Traffic service'.
why so much vibration? surely that's not great. great video however.
What can I say - helicopters vibrate a lot. I don’t think it’s anything to worry about really. Thanks for watching!
No runway. Cheating!
It’s the way to go! I love not needed a runway.