How to not be broke & learn to fly! 1) Focus on clearing debts- credit card debts, car finances, any kind of debts. 2) Stop spending un-necessary money. I.e, getting chips for lunch when you could make a sandwich. 3) Look at your income and expenses. You will find you have disposable income (money free to be spent) 4) book 1 flying lesson. Can find places that will do it for £150 ish per hour. Expensive? Yes. With that free money you could do one a month and will need around 30 to get licensed depending on the plane. I make that to be just over two years. Don't have a plane, look to get a job flying the planes you learned in, tours, something- build up your hours and experience. Now there may be floors in what I've said, but none that will fall through. So start dreaming with your eyes open mate, walk, don't talk ☺
Not only a great instructor, but a great student too! :-) ..I like the "comments" you make when training! Things like "turns like a big sloppy truck". I'm sure these things are very helpful hints to people looking to get a "feel" for it even before starting their 1st day of training! A student's perspective is just as important as an instructors information.
Great to see the difference between Helo and fixed wing flying techniques. I respectfully guess fixed wing a lot easier to handle vs heli flying. Using FSX as a learning tool, I find flying helo's much more difficult. I can see how the helicopter skills transitioned into fixed wing in an excellent way. Great job flying, exciting to watch, and ... was educated and entertained all in one.
These types of videos are awesome, giving people such as me who are pursuing pilots licenses to get a feel of what to expect through their first few maidens, awesome content thank you!
I’m doing the same thing now - rotorcraft to fixed wing. Funny to come across your video since I’d watched many of your previous R22 vids when I was training in those. Only done one lesson so far but I concluded that my instructor must think helicopters are way more similar to FW than they are... we flew the pattern 4x before he touched the controls. Didn’t die so I call that success.
It just depends. If you are going to be flying a Robinson aircraft you must have 200hrs in a helicopter to instruct in them. It would then not be to your advantage to get you fixed wing license first. If you were to fly any other helicopter besides a Robinson then it might be in your best interest to get all your fixed wing ratings first then then do a heli addon. I have trained many airplane pilots to fly helicopters and there haven't been any issues in regards to bad habits.
In 1969, I drove through Canada to Alaska. I entered at the Coutts station going on to Lethbridge, etc. I had a .38 revolver and a .32 special rifle with me. Upon declaring them, they wrapped the revolver up in a heavy clear plastic bag, tied if off with a string, and returned it to me. I thought for sure that they would put some kind of official seal on the string, but nothing. Not even an imprint of the Queen. They did nothing with the rifle. The same routine was done on my trip back. I remember that on the way back, we were supposed to stop at the Canada port, but we hit it at night and it was closed. All that freedom is now gone, even for Canadians as I understand.
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To become a private pilot, you need 40 registered hours and be able to pass the private pilot test. To become commercial, you need to pass the commercial test and have 200 hours of flight time
I would like to fly rotor craft professionally but would like ti also fly airplanes/fixed wing recreationally- should I do all my heli trainng from private through to CF!-I first and then add on airplane or do my airplane private first and then add on heli private, commercial, instrument etc theerafter? (I think doing airplane first would be more cost effective initially but don't want to bring any airplane habits that could be deadly in a R22- like pushing a low G pushover for example..
Great video! Looking forward to the series as you progress. Being a student again will make you an even better instructor and broaden your experience base.
Im planning to be a pilot when I grow up. I wanna be ahead so this helped me! Can you teach me what everything does in that plane? Is that a Skyhawk or a C172
I'm sorry you had that experience. A good instructor can and does make ALL the difference. I had a great one, and thanks to him, I enjoyed many years of flying. Don't stop flying! If you can, get out there and get back up in the air. Your log book is always good. Take a check ride and get back up there if possible. Best wishes.
+Fusion322 I would talk with other career pilots and talk with them about what it takes, life style, job path, etc. Take a demo / intro flight. If you still would like to learn then prior to officially starting to train get your 2nd class flight medical certificate. Depending on what you would like to learn to fly finances are a huge obstacle for many people. Choose a school that can guarantee a job after completion with all of your training. I see way to many people go to schools that can't hire everyone they train. Send me a message if you have more questions.
+Fusion322 You just get on google, and look up flight school near you. Pick one close cause you will be driving there a LOT. They will usually take you up and talk you through it for about 80 - 100 bux. fly you around the pattern for 30 mins... see if you're terrified... if its something you want to do, I recommend that you do it... its an expensive hobby, but its the BEST one, he he... The adrenaline rush alone is worth it. Its a roller coaster with a steering wheel.
Yeah...there was a guy named Tony Darwin who was a licensed pilot turned drug smuggler. Made millions, had several mansions, one in Australia. Then his girlfriend ratted him out to the DEA when he wouldn't give her more money, and he did 10 years and had his piloting license revoked. This was in the 1970s, you'd get a hell of a lot more than 10 years, especially if you smuggle imports from Columbia (i.e. cocaine). Also if you have a history of getting busted, no drug business is going to want you after that (liability), and you won't be able to obtain decent legitimate employment due to a record. Might want to rethink that, buddy. People have made just as much movie pirating movies.
SOOOO FUNNY! The absolute most difficult thing for me is not trying to steer the plane with the yoke. I took two lesson flights. I realized I needed more help / practice in simply taxiing. I bought xplane 11, a powerful computer, a yoke, foot pedals and a throttle control that work with the PC and Xplane 11. It was the best money I ever spent to finally get used to steering on the ground with my feet. I also got an Oculus Rift. For about $1500, I overcame a LOT of the stupid things that you need to learn that you don't need to rent an actual airplane and pay for lessons to learn. Now, if I could only remember the aviation "alphabet". :-)
Yes it just looks like a see through black circle but, the reason it looks like that is because of rolling shutter ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mQ0hS7l9ckY.html
Here in Canada the age is actually 14. So you can be licenced to fly a plane 2 years before you can be licenced to drive a car. I know, I can't make any sense of it either. Piloting an aircraft is not difficult but it does require a certain level of knowledge and perfecting certain skills that have no place outside of aviation. For example, let's say that you closed your eyes for a minute and then sensed that you were falling over. Naturally you would take action to prevent you from falling but as an IFR rated pilot this is a sensation that you must be able to overcome. If you fly into clouds or it's a particularly dark night with no ground lights you will become disoriented. Your body/brain will tell you that your plane is gradually banking or pitching more and more the longer you go without a horizon to orient yourself. So a pilot must tell his/her body/brain to shut the hell up, ignore any instinctual feelings we have, and place all of our faith in 1 tiny gyroscope operated instrument which, to us, seems to be malfunctioning since it contradicts what we are instinctually feeling. Now that may sound easy to do but trust me it's not. And you don't want to find out just how hard that is to do when you're flying blind at a couple of hundred km/hr 2 miles above the ground.
This is my biggest dream than being a Flight Stewardess😭 just a dream because i know i won't be able to reach those dreams.. My family can't afford it :(
Kate Herrera Labro uhh isn’t being a flight ATTENDANT free ? Was for my sister at least, now a pilot on the other hand yeah that’s going to cost you 75k+
You did a bang up job,you could could fly a washtub-- Great job! just mabe one day i can try to fly if i same my money.Thanks Mike see you in the next video, BE SAFE.
I always wanted to learn to fly but didn't think I could because of that 1hr bottle to throttle rule. I enjoyed my whiskey. Now that I've quit for the past year there isn't anything standing in my way.
