Great video, just a few things you forgot to mention is that with Robinson, it’s 2200hrs OR 12 years. Meaning you can buy new. Fly 100 hours over 12 years and now your basically brand new helicopter needs a complete overhaul. And that any $60000 R22 will either be timed out or nearly timed out. That said you are right in that it is still the cheapest certified helicopter. Cheers man stay safe
I got my private single engine VFR in 1976, it cost me a little under $2,000. Using a Cessna 150 ($15 / hr. ). The instructor was $12 / hr. A 172 was $22 / hr. A Ramco champ (Old cloth wing, tail dragger) cost was only $12 / hr. I learn how to fly a T-34 Beechcraft (old Navy trainer, retractable, variable pitch prop, around 220 knots) at $40 / hr. I was 16 at the time just working in a restaurant bussing tables. It took me close to a year to get my VFR.
@@matthew-oc5oe Bro didn't buy the helicopter, he rented it per his hourly figures. Big difference. 16 yr olds today could do the same thing. It costs 10x as much, but they probably make 10x as much as Larry did.
Ater paying for all our life's expenses we have about $1000 per month left over. Thats with no children and only one kitty. We are relatively well off in terms of vehicles, and toys, but lower income for the area. Most apartments nearby are $3000+ per month and more like $4000 when you pay for parking and utilities. Paying $25,000 to get a pilots license eats up more than 2 years of our monthly income surplus or fudge room in our budget, but what if one of the cars needs a repair? I save and invest the extra we save to multiply the earnings a little bit faster than inflation eats away the value of the currency (USD2024 or Dollars)
Spent around 15,000 hours in turbine helicopters. The cost was astronomical. Back in the 80’s we factored in $350,000 a year for maintenance and operation. (search and rescue choppers take a beating). That’s 1980s money. We burned through 2 Hughes 500s and 3 Bell long rangers in a decade.
@@MajorCaliber Ha! When I began flying, 1986, the Bell 206 was the trainer. Not as many opportunities in my area to train in turbine aircraft. Many R44's around here for training
I know nothing about helicopters and you couldn't pay me to ever fly in one but the engineering to make one fly is amazing and your presentation was to the point and gave me a great appreciation on the subject, thanks !!
I fly a R22 in Australia and muster cattle with it at a property in the Northern Territory only thing with the Robinson design is in certain circumstances you can cause a negative G mast bump and cut your tail boom off with the main rotor blades a pilot a few years ago did this at the station I work on did this while mustering and didn’t make it
@@Paradoxical124 with insurance inspections ,fuel,parts etc it’s about $620 Aussie dollars a hr as they are getting old we have 9 R22’s and 4 R44’s and a new R66 which has turbine engine
I'm working on a single seat experimental here in OZ. Should handle similar to an md500, or a little better. Next will be a two seat diesel that handles similar to an md500.
Most likely family money. Not trying to say he's spoiled, but if he bought this with only his earned money before becoming a pilot, then I don't think he'll be changing careers I can tell you that if he's making that much money. Edit: So I found out the helicopter is owned by Time Kepp with "Sky River Helicopters" which is a helicopter tour company. I'm guessing it's being leased right now but that's TBD.
I think the proper definition would have been ‘it’s a sandbar’. Years when I flew out of Creve Couer and Spirit, a bunch of the Cub pilots used to fly the Missouri and land on the sandbars.
Thank you for posting and kudos to you for trusting such thin tubing. It obviously works given how many are out there, but as a Bell Medium guy, you'd never convince me to ride in one. Regardless, respect to "one of us"!❤
I took an introductory lesson in one of these. I had some familiarity with it from MS Flight Simulator, though of course that's not the same thing. One big difference is that the sim doesn't prepare you for the wind - you're being blown around like a mosquito. I also hated the weird controller bar...it looked different from the one shown here - it was T-shaped, so both instructor and student could have a go at it. The doors had been removed, so with the incredibly narrow width of the thing, half of me was hanging out. At one point I realized I had the chopper at a left-leaning attitude - I was basically trying to keep from falling out!
It depends if you’re operating within controlled airspace. If you’re in uncontrolled airspace it is good practice to make periodic calls on the local area frequency. Usually this includes aircraft callsign, location, altitude, track and destination.
If you request a VFR flight following from ATC, it is actually safer. They can alert you to surrounding traffic which can be hard to spot otherwise. You can cancel it before you land or get out of range. The more people that request also help their numbers to get better equipment, which keeps everyone safer.
We use to use R22 for detailed lidar flights for topography. Now we have drones. Although our drones cost more, better end product using an iPad. Actual flight time was much better though.
First, I love watching your videos. Hamburger in a helicopter. Retiring school resource officer... in a helicopter. Cruising for a bruising... in a helicopter. Pretty cool. Depending on where you are, time-building can be challenging. Often a lifestyle change (that means "pack your stuff up and move") is more economical and easier than purchasing a helicopter. But hey. I love your videos. They remind me of a dream I once had. Keep living the dream! Ehud FAA Commercial pilot - rotorcraft Tucson, Arizona (Yes, in the summer DA is 5000-7000ft)
Private pilot with about ~80ish hours in Robinsons (mix of 22 and 44 but mostly 22 time). Thanks for the breakdown, looks more or less close to what I have been seeing here in NC. Rather than going with a 22 I am considering buying a 44 and renting it to our school so it makes some money while I am not flying it and it doubles as a time builder for when I am. I love flying the 22, it's what I usually fly due to how cheap it is per hour compared to the 44 but I would love to buy a used 44 and see if I can get to 1000 hours with it without breaking the bank. How many hours do you have left on that R22 before it needs a major overhaul? Just curious. It's a sweet bird and looks in mint condition. Cheers from Raleigh, NC!
I wanted to learn here in the uk prices are much higher and not doable for me unless i sold my house and lived in the heli lol. Had a trial lesson though and loved it. But in reality i get my kicks from motorcycles, embt and drone racing and enjoy life. If i ever come into serious money though i know id be getting into a heli.
Easily get there on that particular sandbar with a Supercub and many other airplanes. That being said, I appreciate your video. I'm interested in adding a rotorwing aircraft and license to my fleet and certificates.
I am just a private pilot fixed wing. Cessna 150 then 172 currently 182 . I would more than likely kill myself in a helicopter, they are too unforgiving when mistakes are made. But my hats off to you and your Helicopter fly high Sir
You'd be fine as long as you remember that there are different reactions for the different aircraft. For example, a pushover is normal procedure for a fixed wing. A pushover for a helicopter will most likely detach the main rotorblade from the helicopter and get you killed. You pull back on the cyclic and lower the collective instead. ;)
@@jrs4ex do you know why American and European audience is 100x better than us cuz you guys came around to share on social media while our guys just doing cringe and spamming stuff 😬
Small experimental home built airplanes cost around $20K for the kit, engine, and under FAR103 no pilots license or sports license required, but the aircraft weight limit of 254lbs, which means very thin aluminum, fabric coated, or very thin pre-preg carbon in Teflon vacuum bags on molds into a large enough pressure cooker *autoclave* // thankfully some of the kits supply nearly everything that bolts together like an erecter set, nuts and bolts with cotter pins safety so they don't unscrew and come undone causing parts to disconnect midflight. Fokker Mark VIII kit less than $8000 with everything needed. 1 seater, so a sky toy, but that is the cheapest thing I can find other than a used paramotor.
The only way to get to the most remote spots is by hiking or canoe. On many areas like the BWCA aircraft or motorized vehicles of any kind are not allowed.
I owned one of the early R22s when they cost $90k plus and you flew it home from California. Insurance was $10k per year with a $10k deductible. I learned in a Bell47d, a very stable platform. The R22 is much harder to fly and much harder to do autorotations in. Little boys, little toys. It was fun when I was doing it but you aren’t going far in an R22. Nice video.
@@pre38 I owned a helicopter for fun and not as a commercial pilot. My understanding is that you need very deep pockets to get a commercial rating now especially turbine and instrument time. Are there jobs that make it worthwhile? I don’t know. My private pilot license in a Bell 47 cost $6,000. Those days are gone.
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to shoot video and still photography from the R22, Hughes 300 and Bell 47. I loved them all, particularly the Bell. But then as a fixed wing pilot I’m enamored with anything that flies, regardless of whether the wings are fixed or spin. What types of commercial work do you do?
I'm on an island that's surrounded by water.. you gotta understand guys he was once on an island surrounded by urine, he's just glad it's water this time.. great video though bro.
@ I went back and listened and he was talking about insurance categories, but he didn't give specifics, but I'm pretty sure he said "hull" as opposed to "whole." It appears he's speaking to the initiated not a general audience so he's not explaining terms. I'm an aircraft mechanic so I'm quite familiar with aircraft terminology and hull is not a term used in aviation, however I did a little digging and found that it is a term used in insurance. It's specifically used in marine and aircraft insurance. It carried over to aircraft from maritime insurance. They see a ship hull and a fuselage as the same thing. The category in insurance is termed "hull and liability." He also listed "damage" as a category. Here's where it gets tricky and I'm not sure if he knows this because he appears to be new in aviation so he still has much to learn; but insurance has a legal aspect to it so they don't carelessly use terminology. Notice it's not called aircraft insurance, because that would entail insurance for the whole aircraft. Aircraft are delineated into two main categories Airframe and Powerplant. The insurance companies may only be covering the airframe or "hull" as they call it, and not the powerplant. For example, if the pilot has an emergency landing due to engine failure and the fuselage is damaged all to no fault of his own then the insurance may cover the "hull" damage but not any engine damage! Funny enough, I'm pretty sure the rotors are part of the airframe inn helicopters as wings are in fixed wing aircraft! This kind of makes sense that insurance would have this mindset because there probably aren't many boats sinking due to engine failure but hull failure, well, that's always the case. Of course, he could have just answered my question though! That would have been nice! I thank you for trying! Somehow in this world we'll work things out of we work together! 🙂✈️
@ You're welcome! Thank you for pointing out that I may have misheard him. I know that can happen and I wanted to know what He actually said. I thought you may have been correct and then after I listened I was sure you heard him correctly and I didn't so I listened several times, but then I started to see it wasn't making sense in the context so that's when I started digging! Your reply helped me to learn something new so thank you!
One such thing interesting to make a note “view” . Glad you got one for yourself & Appreciate your work to inspire to have one though.God bless you 😇🙏🏻
If I understand your reference to depreciation of $63/hr, do you mean after 2200 hours (the TBO? or airframe useful life?) it costs $138K to go through the bird and zero the time? A little googling I did says you can reman the motor and go through the rest of the bird... replace rotor blades, etc. and keep it airworthy... so is that ~$138K?
In Europe and in the UK prices are higher to own one of them. And R22 takes just one passenger so they are great for training but not much for commercial use. Then you need the R44 that costs more. I also considered buying one but I find Porsches more fun still and more usable fun.
Thankyou for the video. I am more interested on how to get the turbine certification process. Plus, is there any difference in certification for a single turbine engine (R66) v/s a twin Turbine engine (Bell 429)and others like them.
That's not an issue, Mostly insurance requirements Certificate is good for everything rotary wing under 12,500 lbs . . . Piston or Turbine , Single or Twin - US No type rating , Some countries require a rating in each type ie: R-22, R-22 Standard, R-22 Hp, R-22 Alpha, R-22 Beta and Mariner . US you can fly all of them, In Japan you'll need a type rating in each,
Without getting too personal, are you independently wealthy? I'm 50 and recently took a check ride in a 22. I was planning on doing the same.thing and getting my private pilots license. It was fun and I would love to do it and could justify the costof getting my license, but I'm prob too old to try it to make a career out of it and the cost Is prohibitive to get the recommended hours before any company would hire you. You have youth on your side.... .My son wants to fly helos, so he is going to go to college thru ROTC and try to go thru Army Avation route. Good luck and happy flying. At least we can live vicariously thru you😅
You could go for gyro copters which are a lot cheaper in all respects or, like me, you could fly a paramotor which is almost the same sensation but costs about $1500 to learn, *10k for the wing and paramotor and then about $10 for gas for about 3 hours of flight. My paramotor easily fits in the back of my car when transporting it or somewhere in my garage when storing it. I'll admit it's not the safest form of flight but it is exhilarating and doesn't break the bank.
Just for people that would like to know. If you want to get both Privet Pilot License (PPL) for airplane (Fixed Wing) and Helicopter (Rotor Wing) then get the airplane first because it can help cut combined cost because 20 hours of your fixed wing counts toward your rotor wing.
I spent maybe around $80-90,000 getting all of my helicopter ratings up to CFII. I get paid to build my flight time as a flight instructor. There will never be cheaper nor faster way of building flight time in a helicopter. But I have to admit, your method does seem like a ton of fun!
how much money does one need to have in the "helicopter bank account" in order to afford this on the high end with the purchase of the helicopter and all the fees?
It's actually a lot cheaper than i thought tbh. Pretty cool that it's possible to do this if you're motivated and interested enough. Price of watching Matty do it on UA-cam: free. 😎
Get your license then rent one. Also there is annuals you have todo that can range from $2-$5k a year that's if they don't find anything. That's even if you don't fly it.
There is a counter rotating backpack harness style helicopter ultralight that varies the speed of one or the other rotor to vector control steering without a tail-rotor, like some RC toys. I remember an electric model from Japan that was $6000, but could only fly for about 5 minutes before juicing the battery pack, known as a short hop device. Furthermore, electric car shaped quad rotor like Ehang 184, but kits, using commercial drone motors on all 4 corners like wheels on a car, varying the speed of the motors to control lift and vector steering, pitch, yaw and roll. Look up DIY personal flight devices or DIY flying machines.
Getting your fixed wont be super effective for getting roto, its a different skillset other than the map and radio stuff which. everything mechanical is different from how you do eyes out of the cockpit.
Don't forget about composite-fx/mosquitos! They are FAA regulated helicopters. Only caveat is that they only seat one person. Cool people, made in Trenton, Florida!
Im so glad i was directed to your channel a few months ago. Enjoy both you and your content. Thanks.
Great video, just a few things you forgot to mention is that with Robinson, it’s 2200hrs OR 12 years. Meaning you can buy new. Fly 100 hours over 12 years and now your basically brand new helicopter needs a complete overhaul. And that any $60000 R22 will either be timed out or nearly timed out. That said you are right in that it is still the cheapest certified helicopter. Cheers man stay safe
Exactly! I also did the math....
Thanks for the detail
How much is an overhaul, assuming 2200 hours and using his depreciation rate of $63 that comes out to $138,600...is that correct? Holy cow
@@camaro6810 According to the Robinson website… $207,000 base price not including upgrades for the r22 overhaul.
I got my private single engine VFR in 1976, it cost me a little under $2,000. Using a Cessna 150 ($15 / hr. ). The instructor was $12 / hr.
A 172 was $22 / hr.
A Ramco champ (Old cloth wing, tail dragger) cost was only $12 / hr.
I learn how to fly a T-34 Beechcraft (old Navy trainer, retractable, variable pitch prop, around 220 knots)
at $40 / hr.
I was 16 at the time just working in a restaurant bussing tables. It took me close to a year to get my VFR.
Yup nowadays the economy is so bad
Bro bought a helicopter at 16 bussing tables and kids these days can’t even afford rent 💀
@@matthew-oc5oe Bro didn't buy the helicopter, he rented it per his hourly figures. Big difference. 16 yr olds today could do the same thing. It costs 10x as much, but they probably make 10x as much as Larry did.
Try 100x as much. Kids can't afford it unless they saved for 5 years assuming they can save 20k a year which likely isn't possible.
Ater paying for all our life's expenses we have about $1000 per month left over. Thats with no children and only one kitty. We are relatively well off in terms of vehicles, and toys, but lower income for the area. Most apartments nearby are $3000+ per month and more like $4000 when you pay for parking and utilities. Paying $25,000 to get a pilots license eats up more than 2 years of our monthly income surplus or fudge room in our budget, but what if one of the cars needs a repair? I save and invest the extra we save to multiply the earnings a little bit faster than inflation eats away the value of the currency (USD2024 or Dollars)
Spent around 15,000 hours in turbine helicopters. The cost was astronomical. Back in the 80’s we factored in $350,000 a year for maintenance and operation. (search and rescue choppers take a beating). That’s 1980s money. We burned through 2 Hughes 500s and 3 Bell long rangers in a decade.
Enjoyed watching video. From one Robinson owner to the other. Be careful and always respect the helicopter. Fly safe and enjoy!
Friends don't let friends fly Robinsons! #SafetyRecord #GetA_Bo105
@@MajorCaliber Ha! When I began flying, 1986, the Bell 206 was the trainer. Not as many opportunities in my area to train in turbine aircraft. Many R44's around here for training
49% of all accidents and 54% of fatal helicopter accudents. Some organisations will not allow staff to fly in robinson
Thanks for sharing! Very interesting!
Glad you enjoyed!
I know nothing about helicopters and you couldn't pay me to ever fly in one but the engineering to make one fly is amazing and your presentation was to the point and gave me a great appreciation on the subject, thanks !!
I'm a retired Army 64 pilot. Flown thousands of hours and didn't die once!
Yup, you know nothing about flying.
As small as the helicopter is, it's still a lot of money
That's a rich man's game. But it looks like a tone of fun.
Goid sibg working 9 too 5 working day nit Gering any ware
I fly a R22 in Australia and muster cattle with it at a property in the Northern Territory only thing with the Robinson design is in certain circumstances you can cause a negative G mast bump and cut your tail boom off with the main rotor blades a pilot a few years ago did this at the station I work on did this while mustering and didn’t make it
How much does that cost you to operate hourly?
@@Paradoxical124 with insurance inspections ,fuel,parts etc it’s about $620 Aussie dollars a hr as they are getting old we have 9 R22’s and 4 R44’s and a new R66 which has turbine engine
@@mrbigw100 I’m Australian too, and I am looking into using something like a small Robinson for personal use. Thanks for the insight!
I'm working on a single seat experimental here in OZ. Should handle similar to an md500, or a little better. Next will be a two seat diesel that handles similar to an md500.
Also check the accident rate of Robinson helicopters...
What type of job do you have to pay for all this?
I am a pilot. I bought the helicopter to build time for my career.
@@mattylp8 well, i think you misunderstood. They are asking what you did to afford your helicopter, private pilots license, etc. 😊
ikr, he certainly isn't taking out student loans. i guess i'll just have to stick to microsoft flight simulator.
Most likely family money. Not trying to say he's spoiled, but if he bought this with only his earned money before becoming a pilot, then I don't think he'll be changing careers I can tell you that if he's making that much money.
Edit: So I found out the helicopter is owned by Time Kepp with "Sky River Helicopters" which is a helicopter tour company. I'm guessing it's being leased right now but that's TBD.
@@NorthAviation_he just said he’s a pilot. That’s his job
This is AWESOME!! Thank you for sharing ... The sense of freedom and the landscape views ... Beautiful!
The ability to fly is man’s greatest accomplishment. We take this for granted. It’s a beautiful thing.
You could also get there with a STOL aircraft and paramotors, both of which are cheaper.
Our flying club R22 got rolled over and written off during training at Liverpool U.K. many years ago, was almost brand new too!
"I'm on an island surrounded by water"
Isn't that kinda the definition of an island? 😆
That's like "worlds smallest in the world" haha
You could be in Iceland and be on an island surrounded by lava 😮
I think the proper definition would have been ‘it’s a sandbar’. Years when I flew out of Creve Couer and Spirit, a bunch of the Cub pilots used to fly the Missouri and land on the sandbars.
Thanks for contributing nothing to the world except fulfilling your ego w this useless ass comment sir.
I personally prefer islands in the sky.
Awesome....thank YOU so much for showing us...all the costs of owning a copter such as yours...
did not realize how expensive insurance was, how often do you have to renew your license, is it yearly?
Insurance is really expensive! I renew my pilots license every 2 years(Bi-annual flight review).
isnt that expensive, i was paying 500ish for a car monthly , so i take 750 for a helicopter any day!
@@bladi-senpai9398500 monthly for a car? I pay 480 a year in the best possible insurance plan, love small cars haha
Outstanding vids, watched a few other pilots vids online but watching yours renewed my interest big time 👍
Thank you so much! Great information! I’m just getting ready to start my R22 lessons, and recently purchased the HOGS book.
Brilliant! Many thanks for sharing this from Edinburgh, UK. 👍🚁
Looks like fun and it's an expensive venture, totally enjoyable video, thank you!
Looks fun! Reminds me a little of flying my ultralight back in the day. Fly safe
About to use my GI BILL. Thank you for making this. This is the chopper I want buy first also. Great video
This is a great video. No BS.
Thank you for posting and kudos to you for trusting such thin tubing.
It obviously works given how many are out there, but as a Bell Medium guy, you'd never convince me to ride in one.
Regardless, respect to "one of us"!❤
I took an introductory lesson in one of these. I had some familiarity with it from MS Flight Simulator, though of course that's not the same thing. One big difference is that the sim doesn't prepare you for the wind - you're being blown around like a mosquito. I also hated the weird controller bar...it looked different from the one shown here - it was T-shaped, so both instructor and student could have a go at it. The doors had been removed, so with the incredibly narrow width of the thing, half of me was hanging out. At one point I realized I had the chopper at a left-leaning attitude - I was basically trying to keep from falling out!
how much communication with atc do you need if you take off from your house and land at some random place like an island like you showed?
It depends if you’re operating within controlled airspace. If you’re in uncontrolled airspace it is good practice to make periodic calls on the local area frequency. Usually this includes aircraft callsign, location, altitude, track and destination.
If you request a VFR flight following from ATC, it is actually safer. They can alert you to surrounding traffic which can be hard to spot otherwise. You can cancel it before you land or get out of range. The more people that request also help their numbers to get better equipment, which keeps everyone safer.
You could get a bush plane on that sand bar without a problem. Nice video.
We use to use R22 for detailed lidar flights for topography. Now we have drones. Although our drones cost more, better end product using an iPad. Actual flight time was much better though.
"I'm on an island that's surrounded by.... water"
Yep, that's an island! :)
been here since 10k im pretty sure. love the videos man
Good video! Keep up the work
Thanks Ducky!
First, I love watching your videos. Hamburger in a helicopter. Retiring school resource officer... in a helicopter. Cruising for a bruising... in a helicopter. Pretty cool.
Depending on where you are, time-building can be challenging. Often a lifestyle change (that means "pack your stuff up and move") is more economical and easier than purchasing a helicopter.
But hey. I love your videos. They remind me of a dream I once had. Keep living the dream!
Ehud
FAA Commercial pilot - rotorcraft
Tucson, Arizona
(Yes, in the summer DA is 5000-7000ft)
Private pilot with about ~80ish hours in Robinsons (mix of 22 and 44 but mostly 22 time). Thanks for the breakdown, looks more or less close to what I have been seeing here in NC. Rather than going with a 22 I am considering buying a 44 and renting it to our school so it makes some money while I am not flying it and it doubles as a time builder for when I am. I love flying the 22, it's what I usually fly due to how cheap it is per hour compared to the 44 but I would love to buy a used 44 and see if I can get to 1000 hours with it without breaking the bank.
How many hours do you have left on that R22 before it needs a major overhaul? Just curious. It's a sweet bird and looks in mint condition. Cheers from Raleigh, NC!
I know of a few! Message me on Instagram!
I just found your channel. This is so cool! I appreciate all that you are explaining to us. 🚁
My sister worked at Robinson in Torrance for years.
Some of the testing they did was crazy for the FAA
I wanted to learn here in the uk prices are much higher and not doable for me unless i sold my house and lived in the heli lol.
Had a trial lesson though and loved it.
But in reality i get my kicks from motorcycles, embt and drone racing and enjoy life.
If i ever come into serious money though i know id be getting into a heli.
You can come to Canada for most training if it is cheaper. Then use your training to get whatever UK credentials needed.
I could absolutely plant my bone stock Cessna 150 on that sand bar lol
And there it would stay forever.
So neat. Great info. Thank you for this video!
Great video!
Thanks Brad!
Amazing video matt would love to see more videos from you
Thanks for the insights! I’m not looking to buy one 😂 but still interesting to know!😊
Great review Mr Matt, I'm inspired by the helicopter thing.
Easily get there on that particular sandbar with a Supercub and many other airplanes. That being said, I appreciate your video. I'm interested in adding a rotorwing aircraft and license to my fleet and certificates.
I am just a private pilot fixed wing. Cessna 150 then 172 currently 182 . I would more than likely kill myself in a helicopter, they are too unforgiving when mistakes are made. But my hats off to you and your Helicopter fly high Sir
You'd be fine as long as you remember that there are different reactions for the different aircraft. For example, a pushover is normal procedure for a fixed wing. A pushover for a helicopter will most likely detach the main rotorblade from the helicopter and get you killed. You pull back on the cyclic and lower the collective instead. ;)
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I want to visit Hyderabad looks like an amazing place and I love biryani.
Nah man biryani is overrated 😂 yeah but pulao is bessstttttt❤@@jrs4ex
@@rajsharma7226 I also enjoy a good chicken ghee roast pulao but hold the nuts and raisins.
@@jrs4ex do you know why American and European audience is 100x better than us cuz you guys came around to share on social media while our guys just doing cringe and spamming stuff 😬
Nice numbers videos!
Small experimental home built airplanes cost around $20K for the kit, engine, and under FAR103 no pilots license or sports license required, but the aircraft weight limit of 254lbs, which means very thin aluminum, fabric coated, or very thin pre-preg carbon in Teflon vacuum bags on molds into a large enough pressure cooker *autoclave* // thankfully some of the kits supply nearly everything that bolts together like an erecter set, nuts and bolts with cotter pins safety so they don't unscrew and come undone causing parts to disconnect midflight.
Fokker Mark VIII kit less than $8000 with everything needed. 1 seater, so a sky toy, but that is the cheapest thing I can find other than a used paramotor.
The only way to get to the most remote spots is by hiking or canoe. On many areas like the BWCA aircraft or motorized vehicles of any kind are not allowed.
I owned one of the early R22s when they cost $90k plus and you flew it home from California. Insurance was $10k per year with a $10k deductible. I learned in a Bell47d, a very stable platform. The R22 is much harder to fly and much harder to do autorotations in. Little boys, little toys. It was fun when I was doing it but you aren’t going far in an R22. Nice video.
@@helicopter2992 meow
Would you recommend starting a career as a commercial helicopter pilot right now?
@@pre38 I owned a helicopter for fun and not as a commercial pilot. My understanding is that you need very deep pockets to get a commercial rating now especially turbine and instrument time. Are there jobs that make it worthwhile? I don’t know. My private pilot license in a Bell 47 cost $6,000. Those days are gone.
Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to shoot video and still photography from the R22, Hughes 300 and Bell 47. I loved them all, particularly the Bell. But then as a fixed wing pilot I’m enamored with anything that flies, regardless of whether the wings are fixed or spin. What types of commercial work do you do?
Did you complete your fixed wing first ?
Nice video. You could get to that island with a STOL or a seaplane too!
short and to the point. i like it
I'm on an island that's surrounded by water.. you gotta understand guys he was once on an island surrounded by urine, he's just glad it's water this time.. great video though bro.
When did they start using maritime terminology for aircraft i.e. hull instead of fuselage?
I think he said whole as in damage to the whole helicopter, rather than Hull but I had to replay it to listen 3:13
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I went back and listened and he was talking about insurance categories, but he didn't give specifics, but I'm pretty sure he said "hull" as opposed to "whole." It appears he's speaking to the initiated not a general audience so he's not explaining terms.
I'm an aircraft mechanic so I'm quite familiar with aircraft terminology and hull is not a term used in aviation, however I did a little digging and found that it is a term used in insurance. It's specifically used in marine and aircraft insurance. It carried over to aircraft from maritime insurance. They see a ship hull and a fuselage as the same thing.
The category in insurance is termed "hull and liability." He also listed "damage" as a category.
Here's where it gets tricky and I'm not sure if he knows this because he appears to be new in aviation so he still has much to learn; but insurance has a legal aspect to it so they don't carelessly use terminology. Notice it's not called aircraft insurance, because that would entail insurance for the whole aircraft. Aircraft are delineated into two main categories Airframe and Powerplant. The insurance companies may only be covering the airframe or "hull" as they call it, and not the powerplant. For example, if the pilot has an emergency landing due to engine failure and the fuselage is damaged all to no fault of his own then the insurance may cover the "hull" damage but not any engine damage! Funny enough, I'm pretty sure the rotors are part of the airframe inn helicopters as wings are in fixed wing aircraft! This kind of makes sense that insurance would have this mindset because there probably aren't many boats sinking due to engine failure but hull failure, well, that's always the case.
Of course, he could have just answered my question though! That would have been nice! I thank you for trying! Somehow in this world we'll work things out of we work together! 🙂✈️
@superdude1759 wow Man thanks for looking that up and getting to the bottom of it. Great reply. Thank you.
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You're welcome! Thank you for pointing out that I may have misheard him. I know that can happen and I wanted to know what He actually said. I thought you may have been correct and then after I listened I was sure you heard him correctly and I didn't so I listened several times, but then I started to see it wasn't making sense in the context so that's when I started digging! Your reply helped me to learn something new so thank you!
One such thing interesting to make a note “view” . Glad you got one for yourself & Appreciate your work to inspire to have one though.God bless you 😇🙏🏻
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The R22 and R44 have documented issues with delamination of the rotors. What is your opinion/thoughts on that?
The stainless skinned blades were problematic - They were phased out , Never had an issue with the ones I flew.
@@HongyaMa Appreciate the reply. Retired mil pilot, safe flying. Cheers.
Ole Crew Chief OH 58, UH 1 CH 47
and Commercial Helicopter / 133
Flew nearly everything under 12,500 lb@@scottyscave
Does something this size do well in a situation where autorotation is needed?
Are there any videos of this size performing the maneuver?
How about the Hughes 269 or Schweizer 300, those seem smaller than the R22.
Both are bigger(I believe)
Chopper pilots have balls of steel. Much respect 🫡
Great video and sweet heli. Enjoy!
How do they know you got more time flying do you record yourself every time?
If I understand your reference to depreciation of $63/hr, do you mean after 2200 hours (the TBO? or airframe useful life?) it costs $138K to go through the bird and zero the time? A little googling I did says you can reman the motor and go through the rest of the bird... replace rotor blades, etc. and keep it airworthy... so is that ~$138K?
Why didn’t you get your instructors certification to help build hours? That is what I have seen to be the most common path for commercial pilots.
New Sub! I took a Ride in a R22 years ago. SUPER FUN and COOL! And it ain't cheap....
Great video - thank you!
How do you move the helicopter to the hanger?. I assume you can't just lift it.
It’s a Robinson R22, they’re a death trap! Lots of accidents due to failures.
Great content. So, what sort of commercial activity can you do with an R22?
In Europe and in the UK prices are higher to own one of them. And R22 takes just one passenger so they are great for training but not much for commercial use. Then you need the R44 that costs more. I also considered buying one but I find Porsches more fun still and more usable fun.
On aircraft24 I found R22 even at $60k , what is the catch?
@@jirrovemost likely needs a rebuild
So... where can you land? i dont expect you can go grocery shopping with it?
Thankyou for the video. I am more interested on how to get the turbine certification process. Plus, is there any difference in certification for a single turbine engine (R66) v/s a twin Turbine engine (Bell 429)and others like them.
That's not an issue, Mostly insurance requirements
Certificate is good for everything rotary wing under 12,500 lbs . . . Piston or Turbine , Single or Twin - US
No type rating , Some countries require a rating in each type ie: R-22, R-22 Standard, R-22 Hp, R-22 Alpha, R-22 Beta and Mariner . US you can fly all of them, In Japan you'll need a type rating in each,
@@HongyaMa thankyou
The more engines you have the more gas you burn the more complex maintenance and service is.
@@RowanHawkins Oh im sure it is. I was just wondering if you needed an additional certification to fly with two turbines rather than with one
Without getting too personal, are you independently wealthy? I'm 50 and recently took a check ride in a 22. I was planning on doing the same.thing and getting my private pilots license. It was fun and I would love to do it and could justify the costof getting my license, but I'm prob too old to try it to make a career out of it and the cost Is prohibitive to get the recommended hours before any company would hire you.
You have youth on your side.... .My son wants to fly helos, so he is going to go to college thru ROTC and try to go thru Army Avation route. Good luck and happy flying. At least we can live vicariously thru you😅
looks like joining USAF can save fortune on pilot training... there's a third way of getting on the island if you can swim good and LONG.
If you have a ppl for plane is helicopter something I can add like an endorsement or rating ?
You can add a helicopter to your ppl, but it is not enough endorsement
You could go for gyro copters which are a lot cheaper in all respects or, like me, you could fly a paramotor which is almost the same sensation but costs about $1500 to learn, *10k for the wing and paramotor and then about $10 for gas for about 3 hours of flight. My paramotor easily fits in the back of my car when transporting it or somewhere in my garage when storing it. I'll admit it's not the safest form of flight but it is exhilarating and doesn't break the bank.
Just for people that would like to know. If you want to get both Privet Pilot License (PPL) for airplane (Fixed Wing) and Helicopter (Rotor Wing) then get the airplane first because it can help cut combined cost because 20 hours of your fixed wing counts toward your rotor wing.
Thanks for the video! People talk about how expensive it is to own a horse or a boat. Try a plane. A relative has a Cessna 172.
I spent maybe around $80-90,000 getting all of my helicopter ratings up to CFII. I get paid to build my flight time as a flight instructor. There will never be cheaper nor faster way of building flight time in a helicopter. But I have to admit, your method does seem like a ton of fun!
You have two hopes of getting me up in an R22 helicopter. And both of them are Bob Hope
how much money does one need to have in the "helicopter bank account" in order to afford this on the high end with the purchase of the helicopter and all the fees?
It's actually a lot cheaper than i thought tbh. Pretty cool that it's possible to do this if you're motivated and interested enough.
Price of watching Matty do it on UA-cam: free. 😎
Yep....your on an island.....hope you don't break down or have any maintenance issues!
Get your license then rent one. Also there is annuals you have todo that can range from $2-$5k a year that's if they don't find anything. That's even if you don't fly it.
A lot more than my cherokee 180. I do have a few hours in the r22 and loved it.
That insurance is a deal breaker LOL.That's just insane so say the least. The insurance will end up costing more than the aircraft itself!
Keep up the great work i love your videos
There is a counter rotating backpack harness style helicopter ultralight that varies the speed of one or the other rotor to vector control steering without a tail-rotor, like some RC toys. I remember an electric model from Japan that was $6000, but could only fly for about 5 minutes before juicing the battery pack, known as a short hop device. Furthermore, electric car shaped quad rotor like Ehang 184, but kits, using commercial drone motors on all 4 corners like wheels on a car, varying the speed of the motors to control lift and vector steering, pitch, yaw and roll. Look up DIY personal flight devices or DIY flying machines.
Is it the same as flying a water plane? What's the cost for owning and operating those?
When you land outside your hangar, does it roll or do you have a dolly to move it in?
Do you fly professionally for work? Or how did you manage to afford lessons? I'm thinking of getting my PPL but want to start with planes first
Getting your fixed wont be super effective for getting roto, its a different skillset other than the map and radio stuff which. everything mechanical is different from how you do eyes out of the cockpit.
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Bird strikes a concern in that ? Great video.
This was incredibly informative and very interesting.
Can you put a parachute on it?
Don't forget about composite-fx/mosquitos! They are FAA regulated helicopters. Only caveat is that they only seat one person. Cool people, made in Trenton, Florida!
2:07 and now you got a shield 😂😂
Great video! Do you fly other types?
do you fear mast bump in this whirlybird?