I first flew the Bell 407 back in 1996 in the Gulf of Mexico for Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. (PHI), and it is a pure joy to fly! Much like the 206 Jet Ranger, it evolved as one of the best workhorses in the light helicopter class as it is quite fast, has smooth and responsive handling, and can carry a large payload for a decent distance before refuelling. I've got about 1,000 hours as pilot in command in this type of aircraft and it is certainly one of my favourites! If one ever gets a chance to ride in one or fly one, a big grin is sure to be the result! It is one of Bell Helicopters best machines to come along in years.
Question: what are some of the costs associated with owning a rotary wing? Ie, pricetag, maint, licensing (annual?), inspections etc? Thx, always been curious. If I could do it over, I would have gone (should I pass) AH64 pilot instead of Infantry. Always been fascinated by them. Something worth mentioning to others that a lot of people don't know, is that you have to be a fixed wing (airplane) pilot 1st then move on to rotary wing training after....
Kind of cool to see the rotor disk coning in slo-mo pulling power for hover. That tail rotor turning into the rotorwash must be very efficient. This ship is a far cry from my old OH-58 days. back in the day.
No hover check if everything ok... dangerous. That and lift and shift off the deck. I appreciate it's a new piece of kit but still, best practice is to at least bring her into a stable hover to check if the engine pukes and you have time to bail.
@@volcommadness Yep. Doing the math that there are four blades and it usually takes 60 rpm for our eyes to be fooled by a stationary blade, the blades are revolving at 15 times per second.
Because it is supposed to be an entry level type of chopper, although now a days they have a smaller entry-level. The 429 is the one with this option, for more money :) of course. The high skids is also an option. Regular skids are standard.
Clearly a private machine sitting there burning fuel that long. We have four minutes from pushing the starter to lift off in a 407, or we are wasting the customer's money. And that is plenty of time to do your checks and get airborne.
@@av8or248 I would love to, I want to become a helicopter pilot and I would love to fly it at least once. I think it's a great experience for people like us.
i really don't undestand the 159 dudes who disliked this video... It's HD, the sound isn't saturated (only at the end bc of the wind but that's an helicopter so don't expect it to be silent...) and we see the full start-up, warmup and take-off... These type of videos are rare on RU-vid. Now we have a lot of bad quality, smartphone recorded videos , with a lot of wind sound during the entire video, etc..
Maybe they're Airbus fans and not Bell fans. I'm an MD902 fan myself but also appreciate the 407GX along with the 429 are the best machines Bell has ever come up with, from performance and engineering, to appearance and style. And this one is a beauty.
Why do helicopters always wait so long to take off? For example: this one got from cold start to idle RPMs in about 45 seconds, and then starting from 3:38 the RPMs went from idle to flight speed in about another 30 seconds. This chopper could have been in the air within 1 minute and 15 seconds of a cold start, but instead spent about 8 minutes before lifting off. I mean you come out of the house jump in your car start it and go. But any helicopter I've seen taking off never seems to do that, it just sits there for several minutes idling, then brings the rotors up to full speed and spends another few minutes like that, before taking off.
What a beautiful aircraft! People who are complaining about the "fuel wasting" 8 minutes really dont know anything about flying and all that comes with it.. If its buzzy it can take some time before your cleared 2 proceed.. Those 8 min are barely enough to waste any fuel.
Ramnath...you say 7 minutes wasted burning fuel...ever hear of a pre-flight checklist before departure....without that, you would probably crash and burn if something that should have been checked didn't get checked. Lighten up!
the dumbest question on all youtube videos of planes, copters etc. why do they look like they slow down or spin backwards or don't spin at all? ever heard of a thing with video cameras called frame rates? if it gets in sync with the speed of the rotation of said blades, propellers, rotors etc. it appears to stop, spin backwards or slow down. maybe google it next time. oy vey.
