Can You Learn to Fly a Helicopter in Just 10 Days ?
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- I recently did my Helicopter private license with the legends at Hughes Helicopters. After watching the footage i realized how often i say 'yep' when concentrating. 😆
Follow along the ride and let me know what you think.
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My dream job but disabled not happening so I build & fly drones from small ones for mustering & large drones for spraying. Got my recreational 25kg license & about to do commercial, definitely know how stressful it is Jacko so much information & passing exams. Awesome video mate.
Sounds good mate. Drones will be big in agriculture area in a few years 👌🏽
Congrats, mate 🙂
Nicely presented video, too, great insight into what's involved in licensing!
Cheers mate it’s a mission
Fukn awesome job mate. And in a very short time💪
This is awesome, as a fixed wing instructor myself it's always been a bucket list item to get a chopper licence. Congrats!
Finally the video I was hoping for. Thanks, nice work explaining “how to” in a condensed form.
Excellent video. I'm definitely going to have to do a rotorcraft add-on someday. Right after I come down under and fly that S-1-11B ! 😂
Well done Jacko. Another aircraft under your belt. We would love to see you airborne in something closer to a motorbike. Come join us brother buzzing around on our paramotor's. Were the closest you can get to being a motorbike in the sky. Cheers brother 🤟
Very cool, and a great job by both student and instructor. All instructors should be that good.
That is so dang cool! Now I need to do it too!
Your first hover was *vastly* better than mine, nice job!
Awesome video! Exercises look amazing!
"Up a shit creek in a barbwire canoe" I'm going to remember to include the barbwire canoe from here on out! 🤣.
That One heck of a good first hover! But did the guy say, "pretty good for four hours"? Anyway, I've tried hovering an r44 during a couple intro flights and was bouncing around pretty good after just a few seconds from gaining controls each time. Straight and level, easy. Autorotation, easy (that said, I didn't take it to land, only about 100 ft off the deck). Hover, has to be one of the hardest "do-nothing" tasks that exists.
Onya mate, I also was a fixed wing Jock with many hrs. mustering... Cattle, Camels, Donkeys, Sheep, Etc. in the Pilbara WA when I was young...then I went to Ozark Missouri and leant on Bell 47s, when I went solo in a Bell 47D with a 210hp Frankland donk...leant to milk that sucker no coalition box on this unit
I had 8.6 hrs. Hoobs time...off I went, Ill never forget it!, Fly Safe mate.
unreal mate! 8.6hrs you would have only just figured out how to start the thing 😂
I have been flying Radio Control Helicopters and Airplanes for 10 years. I remember going to get my Heli License I thought it was going to be a walk in the park because I was such a good Radio Control Heli Pilot. Man was I wrong. Everything I knew about flying a Radio Control heli made it harder for me to grasp flying a real helicopter even though I had more knowledge than the average person. It eventually clicked and I was a fast learner. It was me being cocky thinking it uses the same side of the brain to fly. But because the helicopter moves while you are in it. It makes your brain work so much harder. Radio control you are not moving the helicopter is moving while you are stationary which made it weird at first. Lol. You did great, Jocko. Much better than I did in the beginning. Is there anything you crazy Aussies can't do? You probably even eat Great White Sharks for breakfast. lol
Great to see. Jacko. Going from a pitts to a helicopter. That is hard. The sensitive of a helicopter. Give it a boot full of rubber and full side stick. Cnt do it in a heli. Enjoy your flying. Great Chanel
Congratulations, great video...am looking to get into it as well in the near future hoping my IQ is up to the task at hand 😂 Will be much difference from turning wrenches my whole career. Hat's off to you brother 🎉
You did well mate, nice work. Finesse on the controls as I was always told. Wow what a small word! Neil taught me how to fly back in 2006/2007 at HTT Bankstown where I completed my CPL-H. He did my R44 and B206 endorsements as well. He's a great bloke, very patient and above all a great pilot. So great to see he's running his own show now. I remember one day he had to jump start an R22 off my VZ commodore ute, the chopper was in the carpark at HTT, had been there for a while, when they went to start it the battery was flat, we used my car to jump start it so Neil could fly it over the fence so it could go in the hangar. If you see him again tell him Steve says G'day.
That was awesome. Thanks for putting it together.
Haha “It’s nice to have 2 inches spare”😂
Pressure is on and stress of trying to fly but still time for dik jokes lol
Nice work mate!
Cheers mate. Need to come up soon
Great work, good series. Slope landings would have been good to see.👍
Huge respect! I have sat down maybe 3 separate times now to try and get my head around PPL books and online theory - the stuff just won't stick in my mind, Maybe it's time for some personal training!
Good Stuff Jacko, it looks hard I always wanted to see how it is in Australia Learning to fly a helicopter, I think in Vietnam they went to war with less hours lol😮👍🤙🇭🇲
Great vid. Lockhart is a great little town too
Cograts brother well done!
Neil makes me want to come from the UK and learn to fly with him.
My friend in Florida, Tom Howell. was the main helicopter pilot for LBJ while he was POTUS. According to Tom he wrecked the first helicopter he flew while learning to fly in the Army. Tom was in the Army still and from Texas and that is mainly why he got the gig. He said he flew into LBJ's Texas Ranch many times. He later became a Texas based State Farm Agent who got a lot of sales from "boiler room" telephone calls. Those agencies are actually owned and can be passed down.
BTW - Kris Kristofferson was quite the helicopter pilot too.
The Robinson haters are always good for a laugh. There is nothing wrong with Robinson helicopters, they don’t just fall out of the sky like the haters want you to believe.
Almost all Robinson incidents are due to pilot error, operating the aircraft outside of the published limitations.
Doesn’t matter what you fly, if you respect the machine and exercise good airmanship you’ll be fine.
It’s far more dangerous driving your car to and from the airport.
I did my solo cross country flight at 10 hours in the Hughes 300
well done mate
Legend
Are you from Lockhart?
incredible in auto rotation the 44 doesn't go down as fast as the 22 with the 44 I've never flown it too expensive to learn anyway congratulations to both of you very good.
"dude said Yep" 10,000 times.
Using an R22 would have been a little cheaper, but a small point.
More Pitts content pleaseeeee!
Well done brother ,only thing for me is this , I would never ware a hat with evil symbolic symbols on it = bad carma .Cheers
If you knew anything about Robinson R44 helicopter safety issues you’d NEVER get in one, much less as a BRAND NEW pilot!
The saftey issues are the meat servo.
Nah mate
Visual learner- nothing wrong with that
Yeah this is the last type I would train in
Dont get in a Robinson mate.
Why is that ‘mate’
@Tomshuski350 too dangerous. Too many deaths because of a poorly designed rotor system.
@ there is nothing wrong with them, they get their bad rep from people pushing the limits on them and improper maintenance in the right hands they are one of the best helicopters ever made
@Tomshuski350 If you think a gust of wind coming from no where is the pilots fault, okay. If you think a bird coming from no where okay. If you think turbulence and down draft are the pilots fault, okay. A lot of the crashes are not due to people being reckless, but from being startled. If you had a car that did a front flip from hitting the brakes too hard, you wouldn't want to drive it. Sure if you drive sensibly you will be fine, but if the time comes and you hit the brakes hard from panic or reaction, well game over. Taking off in a Robinson is the same as a pilot in a good helicopter ignoring a fault saying, she'll be right.
@ with a good pilot gusts of winds dont affect the helicopter, staying light on the controls and not over correcting if you get thrown around ive flown many hours in gusty winds and turbulence never had any moments where i went ‘oh shit’ always stayed super light on the controls there is nothing wrong with robinsons as long as you have a sensible well trained pilot and the machine is in top condition.
I’ll never forget my first hover it was gusting 50 kts and my instructor gave me the controls and made me learn the hard way it took me a bit but after about 30 mins hovering I could hold it nice and stable
Takes a while to get it to sink in
You are lying
@ ?
I call bullshit on 50 kts mate, especially gusting 50 kts. No instructor in their right mind would have a student out in those conditions. Gusting 50 kts…That’s a classroom day.
@ no mate its really good to learn if shitty conditions as your not always going to be flying in perfect weather
Can't you say anything else but "Yep"?
Its a Volkswagen not a Helicopter. Sketchy.. yikes