SURPRISE ENGINE FAILURE 

As someone who used to teach at university and as a current pilot, I can say that the instructor's personality is perfectly suited to teaching anything. He provides lots of positive reinforcement along with constructive criticism and the message, "you can do it!" This kind of instruction is not only pleasant, but the most effective too, enabling the student to learn well and quickly, and to become independent.

I’ve never had a desire to learn to fly a helicopter until watching these videos.

happiness is a confidence inspiring instructor :)

You're a great instructor your patience goes a long way when training your students I learned a lot thanks for the share

YOUR INSTRUCTOR IS WISE FULL OF PATIENTS AND VERY INSTRUCTIVE AND POSITIVE AND REWARDING

Awesome! You're an exceptional instructor! If I lived closer, I'd come fly with you!

EXCELLENT IN STRUCTURE PLEASE CONTINUE PLEASE KEEP SHARING ALL YOUR BEAUTIFUL, PATIENT, KIND, INFORMATIVE , THANK YOU ALL FOR SHARING LOVE IT ALL

This guy has an amazing temperment for the job. Best instructor ive seen and i watch these all day long.

Excellent teaching. I would take training from this pilot in a heartbeat. Awesome 👏

Wow, that is incredible. I never knew or would've thought that to be possible. And what a great instructor, how could you not feel confident and comfortable being trained by someone so calm and clear with their instructions. Makes me want to start helicopter flight training.

Brings back memories of yesteryear. Thanks so much.

This just gets me more excited to learn to fly

Terrific piloting skills by both. I like the way the instructor does not overload the student with the radio mayday, IFF 7700 and complete systems call outs but rather focuses on split in engine rpm to rotor and rotor in the green. Great teacher.

Wow -- you make it look easy... very chilled pilot!

As a ex Huey pilot, I think that was very good! Your a great flight instructor and your student did an excellent job. Cheers.

Well done both pupil and instructor. Henry😀

Very intense training session, great student and Mischa, you are a superb teacher, well done!!!

"this is gonna be the last one for today and of course that means its gonna be the best one" *nervous laughter*

Good instructor. Reassuring and allows the student to self analyze his flying.

I’m a fixed wing Private Pilot and have always wanted to fly choppers. But only with you. You are a fantastic teacher.

Wow! This instructor is a real pro. Very good job with very good feedback to the student. Also, nice to see someone with such experience and full control. Wish I could start flying!

Great instructor / student dynamic.

This is something i want on my discovery flight. This just looks fun. I know it is worth learning and staying safe. Safety is key in everything we do. Dalton you did awesome. I can see you enjoyed it.

Worked on autos today. Takes a bit to get used to hurdling toward the ground! Nice job!!

You are a super great teacher. Enjoy watching your videos.

This instructor is good because he's happy and like a good friend in a sense. This takes away the nervosity thus making the teaching part allot better. I'd love to fly with this instructor, he'd be a great teacher for me!

Pretty cool! Always fun seeing the beautiful area you get to fly in.

I’m a low hour pilot and I haven’t been working recently and these are great videos to keep me sharp! I thank you for that!

I'm retired RCMP, now living in Arizona, spend lots of time in RCMP Air 3 up on the Okanagan, never wanted to fly one, was always a passenger on work related flights but you are a freaking AMAZING teacher... you make me want to come back up just to learn to fly with you.

Really appreciate your tutorials, thank you. Nice work.

Good job Dalton. Obviously benefitting from a pilot instructor you like and respect. Love the video pilot yellow. With Dalton making those autos look so easy you have me feeling even a 53 year old truck driver could do it. Inspirational. Thank you.

I've always been interested in helicopters love your program

This guy is a great instructor!! Top class!!

Stumbled across your video and see myself as the trainee.... Love how you handled a new pilot with questions on what he needs to do better or what was missing instead of drilling him on this or that. A pleasure to watch and very informative as well. Thatnk u for the time it takes to make the videos.. Sincerely, new sub 👍

Nice work Dalton... Excellent instruction. Thanks for sharing...

Brilliant work Mischa as ever Very exciting to watch. Thanks

Really great training. Mischa is an excellent instructor.

Great job! Love watching Pilot Yellow handle!

Smooth technic. Excellent!

Excellent instructor! And great landings!

Excellent instruction. Engaged and easy to learn from.

Stressed out driving instructors could learn a LOT from your teaching attitude, Mischa. Great work again to Dalton. That would be a scary exercise to perform. By the way, that is a really sweet little chopper!

Good instruction. Love watching this. Watching you train pilots inspired me to land my mavic without return to home. Not the same but for me it was. Thanks for the great video and edit. Hopefully Sailing Doodles will meet up with you. Guess he is Vancouver but maybe heading south by now.

GREAT instructor.

Great teacher!

Nice work and great coaching/ instructing!

Nice ,Thanks Mischa

Well done, both of you!

Excellent A R Guys

EXCELLENT MENTORS MAKE EXCELLENT PILOTS LOVE YOUR VIDEOS PLEASE CONTINUE TO SHARE EVERYONE WELL DONE WELL INFORMED

This reminds me of flight school and forced approaches in a cessna (so stressful lol). You're an awesome instructor man. I wish I lived in BC as I'd come take a few courses.

Excellent instructor very positive, and calm. I am a AGI for fixed wing pilots but this instruction for helo was very interesting makes me want to come out and fly. Great job. My name is Rex. I will keep watching I get some teaching pointers.

Very exciting stuff, and it all happens so fast. Amazing to see pilot and instructor both so cool and professional. I thought car driving instructors were brave, but thats nothing compared to teaching heli pilots. Got my 1 hour trial lesson in an R22 yesterday - it was amazing. Dissapointing though that I had booked for a Cabri and someone had pranged it, and they hadn't pre-warned me. We even did an autorotation down to about 200 ft which was a nice suprise.

REALLY LIKE YOUR STYLE AND POLITE NATURE --- YOU'RE ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS --- HATS OFF TO YOU -- ONE LOVE - BEST!

Great instructor..

Nice job. I wish I could fly helicopters. The instructor seems very patient, and wants his student to learn.

nicely done! great instructor!

great instruction! very personable...way better than my old grumpy instructor was.

Great instructions 👍 great instructor👌& super vlog!!! Wonderful leading towards professional hands on training by an qualified, boni-fided, certified, & dignified trainer! "Hoping to receive my sport's flying Gyrocopter certificate soon"!🤗

You are good instructor.I am learning GABRI G2 as well in CANADA.I learn a lot form your video.Thank you .

I really like your teaching style. I wish it could be me learning to fly!

That's an awesome instructor.

Hi, Could you please explain the "Rotor" and "Motor" part of your checklist and what you are looking for? Thanks

great instructor!

Fun video, instructor was very good and so was the student. Well done

Great instructor for sure!

Very nice. a lot to keep an eye out on those full down autorotations but must be satisfying to know you can land safely in an engine failure.

great instructor nice job

Amazing with the power recovery on the simulated engine failures did not think this was possible. Transitioning into this aircraft soon in Florida.

Looks like it’d be a blast to fly with you. Great instructor and student.

Now i know what happens in a heli when the engine fails. Great Vlog

Now let's see you do it in an R22... Ooops there it is... great video thanks for posting.

Looks great with the GoPro behind you

I just turned 18 and I dream to become a pilot but I live in a remote area of Australia and have no access to a instructor or training grounds but I love watching these videos and still developing a understanding for situations and the language used. it so so cool and keep the awesome videos coming.

Awesome videos! What are you using for your camera/mount setup?

Quite nice!

Looks like my kind of fun!

Very good and Very Informative and Interesting. Thank you Guys Well done.

Great patient instructor. I will choke on those. Scary but necessary.

I'm not a pilot but i'm curious as to why you have to push the left pedal when you gather the the collective in the flare when its a clockwise rotating rotor. My brain is going surely its the right pedal? Please correct me as to why this is?

Hello from New Zealand Down under...love your videos, make a great pair

Great Vlog! Well done Dalton.

Outstanding video!

Positive instructor

Looks nice, guys! Finally got the chance to fly a Cabri a few weeks ago: the rotor inertia was really impressive. I did a number of hover autos, and the instructor was kind enough to demo a touchdown straight-in. With 12-14kts down the runway, he had enough inertia to do a mid-flare check to stop the forward speed, then touch it down... probably not something I'd try in an R22. The hover autos felt almost as relaxed as doing them in a 44-- maybe a bit less hang time, but not much less-- definitely a large improvement over the 22. Wasn't wild about the flight controls, instrumentation, or the overall performance, though. Four of us went down to fly the Cabri, and although everyone was commenting on how stiff the cyclic felt (it didn't really bother me), the thing that threw me was the collective / throttle: I don't know why it's set up so that it feels like you have to turn it several full rotations to get from power on to power-off for an auto. I really prefer the Robinson throttle where you can go from normal flight all the way into the detent with one twist of the wrist. I also couldn't figure out why the first inch of collective travel constantly felt like you'd forgotten to release the friction, then subsequent travel loosened up and felt normal. Weird. The pedals (which everyone loves to talk about) I actually found just fine: you definitely need larger inputs than you do in a Robinson, and there's a bit of a muddy-feeling deadzone in the middle, but it feels like it has a good amount of tail authority and it doesn't seem as affected by LTE wind azimuths as a tail rotor. Unfortunately we didn't have a big area for testing hovering flight (I'd have liked to try scooting it sideways at 30-40kts), but it seemed to handle spot-turns in ~14kts of wind with no problem angles. I was a little taken aback by the performance (or rather, the lack thereof)-- with two relatively small guys on board plus an hour and a half of fuel (including reserve-- fuel for a one-hour lesson) we were pulling 95-100% power just maintaining a normal hover height while easing into forward flight. In terms of power-to-weight it felt almost like the old, beat-up R22 Beta that I did my training in... hovering and takeoff consistently used all the available performance, and the thing never wanted to fly faster than 80kts. A new Beta II would absolutely run circles around the Cabri, although it's trickier to fly and not as crash-worthy. I just thought that a composite aircraft with a 360 would have a little more margin for training work. I also wasn't a fan of the instrument setup: we've got Aspen panels in one of our R44s and although they seem feature-rich, everything's too small and difficult to read IMO. I also wasn't wild about their VEMD (or whatever Guimbal call it) implementation-- the non-linear sweep rate on the NR gauge, or the positioning of the clock-faces, for example. I love that they have a FLI-equivalent indication (I hate that on the Robinsons, you're always referring to charts and tables to update your manifold pressure limits, and they don't even include a bug you can set on the gauge), and the various fuel state indication modes were quite clever. I ~*was*~ a big fan of the layout of the Cabri-- the clamshell cowlings and general accessibility of the engine compartment are phenomenal. The 22 is pretty easy to inspect as well due to the naked back end, but the Cabri is miles ahead of the 44 in that regard... so easy to pre-flight. The rotor head seems very nice as well. All told, though, I'm happy to be flying an R44 at the end of the day. I was also surprised to find that the Cadet (at least in our market) is actually cheaper to fly than the Cabri. That seems crazy to me: there's no way that given the choice between a Cadet at 350/hr and a Cabri at 375/hr that I would choose a Cabri. The Cadet is bigger, safer (at least in terms of power margins, rotor inertia, etc-- I'm sure people will still yell about mast bumping, but that really doesn't frighten me very much in the 44), cheaper, and has A/C. Plus, there are other Robinson products (normal 44s, R66) for students to easily and simply transition to once they've finished their training-- the Cabri is a dead-end unless you've got the cash for a turbine-powered Airbus product. Just my $0.02 USD :) I'm sure if I spend more time in the aircraft, some of its eccentricities (particularly the panel stuff) would become second-nature, but the performance was a little disheartening and overall the aircraft felt like a bit of a mixed-bag: some features are great. Others, not so much. How has the reliability / ease of maintenance been for you guys so far? The one I flew was having issues with the auto carb-heat system, and the guys were saying they found the aircraft was kind of a pain to work on-- something about having to glue and un-glue bits of wiring harness all the time. Is yours having a good run so far?

excellant instruction

Coming back from GW1, Houston to KS, only bird not to have its engine replaced ('58 C's), about 10 minutes in the air, bang!, auto rotated all the way down, f'ing scary, stayed upright but basically destroyed the bird. Hurt my back, hasn't been right since. So practice, practice, practice those auto's....you NEVER know.

I'm still yet to find an instructor that will let me practice full-down autos, both in the UK and the US. Kudos for teaching this and giving your students the experience!

Amazing that auto in min 4:54 great work ! Keep it coming guys !

Oh, and good job to your student!

Love your videos. I am still learning so I have yet to try an autorotate. Fear, I guess. (But, it's only a sim.) Anyway, great lessons. I learn a lot from watching. Thank you.

This is really awesome, I know it’s not considered for training purposes but I really learned a lot on this video, I’ve already watched 3 others. You have me as a subscriber now🙌

beautiful❤️

Great instructor! I like the vlog

Great job. I've never had the opportunity to do a full down and I have 24 hours.

This is great!

What's your opinion of the Mosquito kits? The G2 is super nice but at around 1/2 a mill it's outside of most "normal" people's price range?

Ah I've just seen another video before this with Dalton and yourself, looks amazing! I've recently got it in my head that I'd like to persue helicopter pilot training. I'm currently a tank crewman in the Army and was pushed forward to go for an Officer's Commission, the course of which I start in 9 days. I thought it would be a great opportunity to cross deck to the Army Air Corps but sadly the British Armed Forces like many other Armed Forces won't allow people in Aviation if they can't pass the Ishihara test whereas the CAA (our version of the FAA) has other tests which means it may still be possible to persue flight privately. I really hope that I can do it, my Colour Vision deficiency is so mild, I can tell the difference in colours in lights and on screens and in the real world, I just can't pass the ishihara test (lots of dots with numbers and patterns) because its an extremely sensitive test that is designed to tell whether you do or don't have the condition, not measure its severity. This being said, they let Prince William fly helicopters in the Air Force and he is relatively colour vision deficient by his own admission.

That was awesome

You better watch out there with the fantastic instruction or student will become the master. Lol great job the both of ya. 👍