I'm in that area a few times a year, my folks live in High Ridge and I relocated an aircraft from KSUS-KRHV a few years back. Great area! I'm very jealous of your flight instructor's set up!
Hi Matt, not sure how i came across your RU-vid, but happy i did, awesome life you living. Great admiration for the R22, we did a lot of Game capture with these around South Africa, magic machine. Happy days from Durban South Africa .
Just subbed! Love your content, even though I am all about fish keeping and don’t know jack about flying! Great video. Can’t wait to see your next endeavor!
Imagine you invite your friend over and he's like "Be there in 5 minutes" and then pulls up in the helicopter Also wanted to ask, do you have to get a permit for every place you land or you can land anywhere?
@@NinjaKiwiOfficial but aren't there some regulations too? I would like to know how big my property must be to legally land there? how far off does it needs to be from public roads etc?
I love your videos man! I have my PPL in rotary-wing I got my training in Oahu at Mauna Loa helicopters, I haven't flown for a year because I don't have that kind of money at the moment and almost done paying my debt for my PPL. But I literally wish I was in your shoes I strive to make content like yours and to have my own robby one day!! Keep up the great videos man!!
Back in the 80’s we used a Hughes 500 C, D and E over the years as our “only mode of transportation.” Later we went to an L3 (Bell with the C-30). In the 80s you could basically land anywhere in Phoenix with SKY12. It was the only jet helicopter in Maricopa county for search and rescue, medical evac, and TV news- so we always were with it 7 days a week. I wrapped out with 14,700 hours of JAFO, camera and rescue. -Circle K’s, stores, movie theaters, pick-nicks. Always had the Hughes 500. Crazy times. Jerry Foster, my partner, received the Harmon flight trophy from President Reagan at the White House. It now sits in the Smithsonian. It was 🚁 99% fun - 1% sheer terror. Stay safe 🇺🇸
Thank You young man for giving your time and flying machine to make a policeman retirement day great. Appreciate your presentation, and flying explanations of your machine.
Just started following, how is it that you can randomly land in a open field like that at the coffee shop unless the field was owned by the coffee shop and they allowed you to land on their private property....very cool!
Dude is that 7 brew? lol i fuggin love 7 brew! cool video. im growing a yearning to fly one of these things.... its like a passion came outta nowhere. maybe itll pass, but for now, im highly interested in this
Love from Germany! while the world is on their climate change trip this guy goes to grab coffee in a R22 much respect and love to the US from Germany! enjoy your hours in the air
i usually take USAF buddies 1993 Lockheed Martin TR3B Astra for for my morning dispensary run.. still has the original neon green and hot pink gravity emitters.
Hey Matt - Do you by chance have a polarizing filter on the GoPro lens? In this video in particular, I'm seeing a bit of glare on the windscreen. Would this help cut some of that out?
@@Tom-zs6bb Tell me you've never flown a helicopter without telling me. LOL Go take a demo flight at your local helicopter training center. You'll answer your own question.
@@RealRickCox I just took a look at my instructor and commercial pilot certificates and sure enough, it still includes the rating ROTORCRAFT-HELICOPTER. I'll see your LOL and raise you a ROFL! So, again, why would a Robinson or any other helicopter be 'squirrely' in ground effect?
@@Tom-zs6bb Okay. Well let's just start with the rotor design. A 2 blade rotor system is the least stable of all the designs. While it's possible to have a mast bump on any helicopter, more Robinson's have crashed because of this rotor design than any other make/model. When you combine the least stable rotor with very light weight and add ground effect... it's squirrely compared to how it feels landing a MD500E. :)
@@RealRickCox "While it's possible to have a mast bump on any helicopter" Untrue, and irrelevant. Mast bumping is only a phenomena particular to two-bladed, teetering rotor systems. Fully articulated rotor systems, such as those in the Hughes 369 series suffer the different, and less-traumatic droop-stop pounding. The way to induce either problem is to unload the main rotor. Do that in ground effect and maybe the subsequent collision with the ground won't wreck your helicopter. Ground Effect, in both airplanes and helicopters, is a beneficial phenomena and does not make an aircraft more difficult to control. In my experience, only pilots and non-pilot RU-vid commenters are "squirrely."
Nice video ! Good to see how you are making a flight, also all the detailed information how to make a flight, all the requests, conversations e.g. And the free rides... very nice to watch. Thank you ! By the way, I don't have telegram but if you send a mail adress in your message I'm happy to answer.
I have to admit, this is very 'cool' to be able to just drop in for coffee via heli! In the UK (even if I had money for such), it wouldnt be possible to do this at all!! Well, private property sure I guess!
Oh wow! My first helicopter was an R22. When I was 18 my dad begged me to go to Tampa with him and get our helicopter licenses together. Dad had asked my sister to go years earlier and she said “hell no!” I told dad I’d go with him if he bought me another horse. He promised to get me another horse and we went and got our licenses together. The funny thing is that dad has never flown a single time on his own since receiving his license. I think the solo freaked him out but he won’t admit it. Dad had already owned an S-76 but he continued to let our pilot fly us. It’s really too much helicopter for a beginner anyway. Dad bought the R22 and had it delivered. But he lost interest and gave it to me. The R22 was a fun little beginner helicopter but it lacks power and range. It’s been 20 years since I flew the R22. I’d like to have one again to teach my son with. My husband and I have presently own a Bell 206-L3. We rarely take the helm ourselves but we’re both rated for it. It is wicked powerful and honestly easier to fly than the R22. The helicopters truly fly themselves. I liked the old days when you could feel the controls and had to feather them precisely. The R22 was so much fun. Dad just ordered an ACH160 but Airbus said it will be at least 8 months until he sees it. I think he still owns an S-92 that he got a great deal on when the original buyer backed out of the sale. I am assuming that Lockheed was worried that they’d be stuck with it so they gave it to dad well below cost. It is too big though. So he hardly uses it. It won’t fit on our boat or his office building’s helipad. He owns that huge helicopter and only uses it to fly to the beach on weekends. He’s got a Ranger that he uses to fly to work each day. It’s old though.
I was wondering and I know you mentioned you have another channel that shows more fly time but I don't know what it's called. I don't know if you have a video about the preventative maion a helicopter. I know someone told me that after so many hours you have to replace the blades. I know a little about small planes but my understanding is helicopters are more crucial on maintenance/preventative maintenance and such.
