Real Helicopter VS RC Helicopter 

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You need a real RC helicopter not a cheap eBay toy.. look up Bert from BK Hobbies down there in Florida. He will walk through a true radio controlled helicopter..

Did you know that the rotor on the real deal is just a big cooling fan for the pilot? When it stops spinning in the air, the pilot starts to sweat immediately. Ba dum tss.

This video is the best overall explanation of function and control of all rotorcraft....Wow!

I was an instructor at Ft Rucker in many aircraft including the TH-55 (Hughes 300). Great aircraft, fun to fly. If you can fly it you can fly any Helicopter.

Hovering was a constant battle for me until I hit 20 hours or so. Not that I was bad at it, but it took a ton of focus and active trying the entire time before that. When flying helicopters, everyone has the same experience: You fight the controls for a bunch of hours and then at some point, it just "clicks*. Like your brain finally creates the nueral pathways required to fly overnight. I went from standard fighting the bird (Robinson R22) around the 20 hour point and then went to fly the next day and suddenly felt like a hovering master. It quite literally happened overnight. It wasn't until after I talked to my CFI about it when he told me yep, that's how it goes, and that's around the normal amount of seat time it takes to happen. So even if it feels discouraging at times, like maybe you aren't getting the hang of it, just stick with it. It'll click at some point and you'll become one with the machine.

I am lucky enough to have flown a 'Twin Squirrel' a couple of times (obviously with my pilot owner beside me). From what I remember flying a helicopter is 'a dance'. You are always making micro adjustments & at no time are you static. But then you feel the rhythem & & it just flows... Boy did I sleep well after those flights...

Instructor knows his stuff cool calm & a great collective, exhausting first lesson just relax & feel the torque you're going to love this just like Garrett does, well done😊

Jimmy, I have travelled the world, worked in remote places where few people ever go (Arctic, desserts, jungles, etc) and flown in many different small to large aircraft. Mostly, everywhere I worked, I had to fly in choppers, again small to large and most in between. Of ALL the very near misses that I experienced, many of which were miracles that I survived, most were in helicopters! Please take care, I enjoy your channel more than most , because you are such a crazy guy, and I would hate to see you “buy it” in a chopper…….

Thanks for including is in your first lesson. Ever since them first videos, you Jimmy, have made an immense positive in the world of aviation. Wow!

Nice video! 👍 It was interesting to see the mechanics of the heli in detail. Also, great job flying it too!👌

I’m gonna be another one to suggest trying a collective pitch RC helicopter

Best description of rotorcraft flight controls I've ever seen. Learning to hover is a real workout and took me longer that 45 minutes. After watching you I started to tense-up a little. Likely bringing back memories from over 50 years ago in Army flight training. You did great!

Jimmy, as a helicopter pilot and former Army flight instructor, I must say your instructor is excellent. And you did very very good. Most students don't pick up hovering that fast. The best advice I can give you is to relax. You can't hover if your not relaxed. well not very well anyway. You did good. You'll be soloing in no time.

WOW--there is alot to flying one of those things---well done, Jimmy !!!

Torque pedals Jimmy.. even on a RC helicopter models, usually on the opposite joy stick controls of the remote, you have to ‘counter act’ the high torque on lift off, this is also with real helicopters, when lifting off the ground. And with real helicopters, when you take off, and the revolutions of the main blades is set, with the proper engine revs’, its collective, torque and stabilise with cyclic..

i think i might be a little disappointed in the modification made to the toy helo, did you file the appropriate paperwork and have the aircraft inspected by an authorized child ? - i bet you didn't - what could possibly go wrong !! DID !! respect to you Mr Fixed Wing gone Rotary, the concentration on your face, (might be wind) and 'by jove i think he's got it' - makes me proud - got me thinking of all them young lads in Vietnam

Jimmy that was awesome job. I ran a highlead yarder it had 13 levers two foot pedals 3 brakes throttle and a whistle you talked to the crew with signals. The guy who taught me said you get this right you can fly a helicopter it definitely is the ultimate multitasking lol

One of my Helicopter instructors once told me that learning to fly a helicopter, is like trying to pull a red hot metal rod out of your arse with bear hands.

I was in one of these (N1666S) back in 2011 over Duluth MN / Lake Superior. it's such an amazing aircraft. Excited to see more videos!!! Congrats!

Jimmy, I taught advanced rotary for a number of years…best advice in a non-pc manner, “hold the cyclic like your gentleman’s sausage! Gentle grip is all you need!’

I think the RC copter is called a fixed pitch .The real looks like fun I got to fly a simulator but have never flown a real one.

You need a collective pitch r/c helicopter

Looks like a Hughes - 269 A or B model. I trained in both the B and C model Hughes helicopters and the Bell 47 - G2 as well. ,Anti - Torque pedals is the correct term to use (up here). Well done JW.😊

The most beautiful helicopter

I always told my new students we were going out to do some hover rodeo. They would understand afterwards 😁

Jimmy is now flying Helicopters, He'll be making more BAD DECISIONS! LOL

Awesome after that short a time. From what I've seen most people need about 5 hours to start getting the 'feel'. Now go flying in an aircraft, you will be so much smoother.

glad to finally see some helicopter content!!!!!

My father spent a year building a RC Cessna 182 in 1974. We had a RC runway close to home. His buddy took it up landed no problem. My father put it in the tree line in 1 minute He laughed rebuilt it. Crashed in again 6 months later in 2 minutes. He said hell at least I'm getting better 😂 what a simple man no anger ever just😊

That choppa has been working out, its got an awesome 6 pack! And an HSI! Really nice instrument panel! Looks like a awesome challenge and a LOT of fun!

I used to own an helicopter rebuild shop. Then one day my pilot didn't show up to do a test flight, so it was up to the mechanics and myself to do it. Having never flown a helicopter myself, it was quite a hair raising experience, I will never forget it.😂

That guy's a GREAT instructor. They do say flying a Heli is more feel than anything else. Carpe Diem! !! !!!

A friend of mine would fly his remote Helicopter in a hangar on our Army base it was his no wind practice area. 😂

My son in law let me drive an excavator, each hand does multiple things and so do the feet. After I started to get the hang of it I realized if I needed to do something I just did it. If I tried to think it through I couldn’t. While I never left the ground it’s got to be a little like what you were doing. Love it.

You should do some rc plane stuff they are really cool

You are so much better to own that Helicopter Then JH Diesel was. He would have hurt him self. You did a awesome job Jimmy. I started out flying a toy Helicopters . I can fly them so easy. Then I got into drones. I always wanted to fly a airplane a toy one. I would love to learn to fly a real airplane. Its a dream of mine. I am in a wheelchair. I love watching your channel so much.

Dang, Jimmy. I thought you would be wallowing all over the place, but you pretty much had it down quickly. Bravo!

You make me laugh Jimmy. You have such a zest for life. Love the channel. Keep on being you.

I see you cut down the offending tree that ate the toy helicopter

Because his young mind has no limitations James. That's how he's so good at the RC copter.

dont forget that carb heat! icing conditions even in the summer has taken a lot of good people to the ground.

Great job Jimmy. You are 1 of the two percent that can coordinate all three controls and perform a hover in less than two hrs of training. Big pat on the back to you from me. BobP CFI Helicopter.

Good job mastering the real thing. I can imagine the helicopter requires you to forget all you know about flying a plane.

"Pull that out, it gets quiet"😂😂😂 Funny story. I had that happen to me once. And no, Im not a pilot. A pilot was deminstrating to me how safe helicopters are. And yes, I would rather have ingine failure in a helicopter. And yes, i would rather have prop failure in a plane.

"Pull that out, it gets quiet"😂😂😂 Funny story. I had that happen to me once. And no, Im not a pilot. A pilot was deminstrating to me how safe helicopters are. And yes, I would rather have ingine failure in a helicopter. And yes, i would rather have prop failure in a plane.

That RC helicopter is one with a fly bar and it doesn’t look like an RC model that is full collective. In other words, the blades are angled and the more power you give it, the more lift it has. Whereas a full collective model, is just like the real ship. You can spool the blades up completely and until you give more collective, it will just stay on the ground. The amount of input required is just so TINY or else everything goes haywire. Once you first get it though, it’s like riding a bike.

Good job Jimmy. How is he better at flying that RC copter better than you? Because he's smarter. LOL

Jimmy made me laugh at 5pm on a Friday. Kudos kid never been done before. Former US ARMY UH-60D Blackawk commander WO-3. Love your vids.😢

Behind the cabin, the wall facing aft. on starboard side has room for, maybe another fuel tank, is that the case?

Tons of knowledge ❤

The problem with the RC was you didn't say "Clear Prop"!

My flight instructor told me if I wanted to learn to fly a Chopper, you need to forget most of what you have learnt on a fixed wing.

Good instructor, good student. I built & flew rc helis for a few years in the 80s. Full size pilots that tried my rcs always said full size were easier to fly.. Just remember to give respect to those little rotating blades, they can be dangerous as lawnmower blades.

Jimmy, you need o get a "hobby grade" RC helicopter with full collective, etc. Good luck with your full scale chopper.

Jimmy's probably about .. um ... 80kg? The instructor is probably ... um, ... 95kg? Standard fuel 16.9 gal, 46 kg. So that's in an R22 with a useful load of 181kg, so they must have been about 5kg under gross for the lesson?

You cannot expect to fly a small classical configuration rc helicopter without a gyro stabilized tail rotor servo. Then you stand behind it and you try to feel the yaw control having put the helicopter on a slippery surface. If you are satisfied, then you try to hover. Skid extensions also help in that stage.

Time for Jimmy to watch out He's going to lose his channel to his youngest. 🤣😆🤣 30:35

Helicopters like small inputs, Jimmy go look up Vario helicopters they make real big scale helicopters my favourite brand did you sell a gas turbine helicopter RC get your buddy at the race track to teach you how to fly it 😂

One almost identical to your rc one. Piece of crap. Went up once. Gravity did the rest and it was over.bgood luck.

Well done. Jimmy! I am very impressed. After being with instructor 45 minutes. :-))

Good on ya Jimmy! Finally had a go at rotary wing! Love your videos and the ending was funny. :"how are you flying that thing better than me!"

I found the real deal much easier than the RC version specifically because when you're sitting in the aircraft you have positional and directional reference. With RCs it's all over the place depending on which way it's pointed. Also the feedback you get from the controls is a BIG help.

Jimmy what was those ready to eat meals you were showing some time back. And would like the affiliate link to help

Full size is easier....be cause you are inside the ship and can feel and see whats going on. That's how I learned to fly full size. Started with an RC model and survived that...lol. I transferred to helping me fly full scale Bell 206L

Jimmy as you watch your video you see the instructor rested his hand on his thigh to help steady his hand.

The Schweitzer helos are really cool!

Im pilot, i fly both almost 30 years ago and i have to say Rc helis are more difficult to fly

Death is not the worst thing that can happen. If death, insurance pays out and loved ones are taken care of. That ain't bad. Worst case scenario, the spine cracks between C5 and C6, keeping your brain's autonomous functions intact, but severing your ability to move your own limbs, and all your loved ones keep bringing things around that they think you like, that you can't do anymore, so that would be absolute hell. If I ever become a vegetable, I don't want anyone talking about anything I like. I want them to talk only about what they like so that I can learn about them and their hobbies that they can do.

Fun fact Jimmy the stinger is for power lines as well as ground contact the more you know

Suprisingly the first time i flew a helicopter the same thing happened😅

Great compliment from your CFI, Jimmy. 🌏🇦🇺

I remember when I got my hands of a helicopter for the first time, it was Tarmac's A109 Mk2. The Pilot, Derek, was an ex Royal Navy Helicopter Pilot and Instructor on Wessex Helicopters. I was doing the exact same thing with the controls, over compensation. In the trip around the circuit I was fine, in the hover, that was a different matter. I was using the with of the runway, Derek said, "Don't worry, in the Navy I've seen pilots use the whole length of the runway trying to hover". He told me a wonderful story about his instructing in the Nave on Wessex. The Wessex was/is a powerful machine, he was with a student, when the student lifted into the hover, Derek pulled an engine when the student was not looking; no reaction from the trainee. Derek and the student flow the sorty and when they landed Derek said to the Student " Do you want me to turn this off, you obviously don't want to use it". Derek said the student felt a right "Donky", especially when the rest of the squadron found out about it. That a good " I learned to fly from that", don't let your brain tell your eye what they are looking at.

When you finally get it, it’s fun to watch your hand move without really thinking about it. Stay with it, to hover is divine!

Pretty sure someone has mentioned this already, but.... It's always a good idea to kinda trim your rudder before you take off with RC helis 😅 Ask me how i know lmao 🤣

I had a similar experience to Jimmy with a helicopter. I was already a commercial, instrument and multi engine airplane rated pilot. We were doing some major work on our Twin Beech and there was a helicopter at the same location. I took a 15 minute flight in the helicopter. It was one of the most confusing things in aviation that I ever had. None of the flight controls worked the same in the helicopter as it did in an airplane. For example. you push forward on the control stick. The airplane goes down, but the helicopter goes forward. That was the one flight I took in a helicopter. I am glad I had the experience, but did not do any more helicopter flying.

Nice! Learning to fly is the most dangerous part.

So are you going to replace that painting of Cletus?

Well Jimmy, you went from barely sitting up, crawling, to actually taking a few baby steps. Great Job ! Love it ! 🙂

Being an Army Aviator, you have a bunch of guys green with envy for your little helicopter. I remember waiting to refuel at Ft Rucker watching all of us new guys bouncing up and down hovering waiting for fuel, as the week went by we all smoothed out.

I like him, he reminds me of Ryan mcbeth.

The toy copter. "It's gone up in the tree". Head smack. Lol! Great video Jimmy. I really enjoyed seeing in detail what it takes to fly a real helicopter.

Its because your input seems delayed in a heli. Cyclic is like balancing a marble in the middle of a plate. It rolls one way and you tilt to correct, but the marble (heli) still needs to slow and stop from the preveous input before rolling to your current input.

Sorry to say you need a better rc chopper to compare dude 👍🏼

YOU MY BROTHER OF A DIFFERENT MOTHER.

Wooooooooooow.. sounds like someone swinging a cat by its tail!

Here's a proper challenge: Get a real RC helicopter with collective pitch, cyclic and tail gyro (not a mickey mouse toy helicopter) and then compare. Once you can do a stable nose-in hover with the RC heli then compare flying them. Otherwise it's just comparing apples and... peas.

I have 40 hours of rotary time. Long story, but learning to fly straight and level or make turns is easy. It is hovering that will kick your tail rotor. And the pedals are officially anti-torque rotor pedals.

The rc copter has no engines on it. It has electrical motors. Engines require fuel. Rest of the video is very good.

Well , the r c helicopter is definitely a child's toy. What you should compare it to is a professional Grade r c helicopter.

The rc helicopter is a toy - not hobby grade. And while incredibly rare - rc helis can also kill. One I know of - back in 2013 Roman Pirozek was killed instantly in Brooklyn when he was struck in the head by the RC helicopter rotor blades. It was pretty gruesome if you google / read the articles.

Is the rotor speed governed, or do you have to keep it in the green by means of a throttle on the collective?

Jimmy, I think yall need to respect those toy helicopters a lot more 😮 those blades can really do some damage.... Nicely done I hovered and turned on my first lesson and yes it gets complicated easy to start swinging like a tier swing .. 😂 I still like fixed wings better... FIXED BECAUSE THE OPPOSITE IS BROKEN 😂 I kid helicopters are cool but to complicated much more maintenance and more money Jimmy...

That sheet metal strap holding the tensioner looks sketch af.

Jimmys crazy world 😉🙃😁👍

Amazing teacher / instructor.

I fly full size airplanes and helicopters and RC. electric propeller and electric jets. I made a half-hearted try to use a PC RC simulator to fly RC helicopters and decided to stay with airplanes. The transfer from full size to RC helos without a collective was a tortured path, so I passed on it.

That RC is a fixed pitch and not as hard as a collective pitch and they are not as close to the real thing because lift is controlled by rotor speed and not blade pitch. I have flown RC Helicopters for many years and also different sizes of them also.

The way you described flying the bird as just 'thinking' about what you want it to do, is kind of like how I 'think' about what I want the excavator I occasionally run, when digging ditches or a swimming pool hole. I do it so infrequently, that I couldn't tell you what each stick does, but when I grab them, the machine just kinda does what I'm thinking about. Now, my best friend is a 40 year union operator, & he's watched me run a excavator, he's commented that I make three different movements at one time, much like an expert, professional operator would. I say this, not to brag on my dirt moving talent, or that I could somehow begin to attempt to fly one of those mystery machines, known as a helicopter... But rather, to express that I understand what you mean by just 'thinking' about moving the helicopter... It's almost like by grabbing the stick(s) you become "One" with the machine. I suspect that's how our brain actually works, when doing extremely complicated things, such as pitching a baseball, football, shooting a gun... So many tasks that we take for granted, but our brain just kind of knows what to tell our muscles what to do, after a relatively short amount of time & focut. Good luck, and be safe..

Hey Jimmy, that is NOT a real RC heli...it's a junk toy. Flies nothing like a real heli. I'm a full scale pilot with a little 300 time and I've been flying FPV and RC heli's since 1985. The closets rc that feels like the 300 I've flown is the VARIO XLV. I live in Palm Bay if you wanna try the XLV or perhaps the XLTurbine with a three blade, 2.5M rotor. BTW, a motor is electric and an engine is spark-bang-fart!