Those Flybar heli’s are very easy to fly… inside a large room, with no moving air. But if there’s more than just a little bit of wind, they’re about useless. The gyroscopic function of the flybar is always trying to keep the rotors level. That’s great if all you want to do is Hover. But if you want to travel in a direction other than Up or Down, you need control of Pitch. And that’s difficult to achieve when the flybar is constantly compensating. So when wind starts to blow you off course, you have to yaw into the wind, and pitch forward as hard as you can. And unfortunately, those types of swashplates just don’t allow for enough pitch authority.
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!
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.
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..
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😊
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.
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.
I’m a union backhoe/excavator operator for the last 20 years and I took some helicopter lessons. Man is helicopter way harder. But you’re right, I have not thought about how to control the excavator in years. It just happens
What is that object above instructors head, in cockpit? Interesting your neighbourhood does not have fences between/ around the houses...how do you keep pets and kids secure? Looks like there is space on starboard side for another fuel tank. Great video, thanks!
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.
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.
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 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, 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!’
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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…….
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
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.
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😊
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 got to fly an R44 as a part of an introduction to flight training session I received as a gift. It’s crazy how small the inputs are to fly, very slight and small movements! Such a very precise machine!
@@johnnunn8688 Incorrect. Look up the difference between rotorcraft/rotory-wing aircraft and fixed-wing aircraft. They're both types of aircraft, but different types entirely.
Another great one! I'm impressed with your quick learning....I think you have transitioned quickly from SEL....into complex, multi engine it has really been great to see how safely you have moved and your help transition looks to be just as smooth.... you give the rest of us hope. Thanks for sharing another great one.... also fun to see your "cameraman" fly the toy better than.... kids can be so aggravating..... lol
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
@@johnnunn8688 A collective pitch R/C helicopter will have a swashplate to provide the ‘collective’, a fixed pitch doesn’t have a swashplate (this model doesn’t), so it’s fixed pitch. On a fixed pitch heli, height is controlled by the engine throttle.
So fun, recently got a few finally getting somewhat comfortable flying them, honestly don't know if I ever be able to do the crazy tricks some of the people do with them, but at this point I'm happy with the fact that I can actually keep them in the sky without crashing 😂, well sometimes anyway. They are so tricky to fly it boggles my mind watching the pros fly them like they do!
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.
Try a marble on glass, servos in each corner. That's a cyclic control, without all the other controls mixed in as well. Full 6 degs of freedom control it's fun and rewarding once mastered. (Power, Lift, Torque, Directional Control (Cyclic)).
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
Jimmy, you did really well to get to that stage. Get the CFI to take you on a full flight envelope including low level endorsement style flight. You will be surprised what that little heli can do safely within it's limits.
Jimmy, that was awesome! I haven’t flown for quite a few years but I have about 500 or so hours in helicopter and 2500 fixed wing. And hot air, balloon, balloon, and who knows what else. But I haven’t flown for years. My youngest son wanted the helicopter and we I got a fairly expensive one similar to what you did except it wasn’t a toy per se. My youngest son mastered it in 10 minutes . But he also spent hours on the simulator before the helicopter arrived in the mail. Amazing what kids can do
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..
I'm not a pilot due to health reasons but love aviation and heard these are hard to fly due to NOT having a governor and also read that helicopters are safer to fly because if engine stops you can almost land anywhere and don't need runway space to land like a plane that needs road, field etc.
I'm impressed with your flying there you land that thing pretty damn well. there's some really good simulators out there man I would try to get on one of those things to get better at flying the helicopter
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.
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 🤣
"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.
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.😂
The dreaded "dead mans grip" I remember it well back in 1996 when i first learned to fly helicopters, and yes in a similar helicopter, a H269b ( H300 ). I went on to do150 hours for a commercial license, in that same aircraft. Well done jimmy, aweome job in 45 minutes flying, now im looking forward to seeing your first auto-rotation. That's definitely gonna be a popcorn 🍿 moment, for sure 😂
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@@therealjimmysworlddid not cleater use to on the helicopter,, well where's the turbo 🤪
SELL the helicopter tooo dangerous
Those Flybar heli’s are very easy to fly… inside a large room, with no moving air. But if there’s more than just a little bit of wind, they’re about useless. The gyroscopic function of the flybar is always trying to keep the rotors level. That’s great if all you want to do is Hover. But if you want to travel in a direction other than Up or Down, you need control of Pitch. And that’s difficult to achieve when the flybar is constantly compensating.
So when wind starts to blow you off course, you have to yaw into the wind, and pitch forward as hard as you can. And unfortunately, those types of swashplates just don’t allow for enough pitch authority.
@@calvarycustoms6681 very clear way to tell jimmy He needs to sell It! save the money buy a bell 500 later .come on Jimmy wake up
Yeah, sell it too build a panic room, and live in fear, do that!😅@@lifehealth489
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!
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.
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..
How does he do that, is he a ghost?
lol ..thats wher i just bought my set of theta swash servos from for my strike 7...bert is very reasonably priced
Better yet, get a helicopter simulator.
EBay crap makes for better RUclips viewing though. Guessing it was intentional.
Yes
This video is the best overall explanation of function and control of all rotorcraft....Wow!
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😊
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.
Amazing teacher / instructor.
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.
An excavator doesn’t go down and crash if you screw up, unless you drive it off a cliff!
Very good parallel. A good excavator operator can pick the wallet out of your back pocket!!
I’m a union backhoe/excavator operator for the last 20 years and I took some helicopter lessons. Man is helicopter way harder. But you’re right, I have not thought about how to control the excavator in years. It just happens
You think long...You think wrong.
What is that object above instructors head, in cockpit?
Interesting your neighbourhood does not have fences between/ around the houses...how do you keep pets and kids secure?
Looks like there is space on starboard side for another fuel tank. Great video, thanks!
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.
Also all electric things does not work on electric it is a scam it work on a smoke when it escape the item stop working
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.
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!
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.
glad to finally see some helicopter content!!!!!
Well Jimmy, you went from barely sitting up, crawling, to actually taking a few baby steps. Great Job ! Love it ! 🙂
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.
Hey, jimmy, this is a great motivation. I would love to take lessons. It is my ambition to own one day.
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!’
selling it better too dangerous , holding the cash like grandma in a firm grip is all you need .
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.
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.
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.
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...
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!
The Schweitzer helos are really cool!
Dang, Jimmy. I thought you would be wallowing all over the place, but you pretty much had it down quickly. Bravo!
Nice video! 👍
It was interesting to see the mechanics of the heli in detail.
Also, great job flying it too!👌
Glad you enjoyed 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.
WOW--there is alot to flying one of those things---well done, Jimmy !!!
dont forget that carb heat! icing conditions even in the summer has taken a lot of good people to the ground.
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…….
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
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.
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😊
It seems sometimes, rc planes seek out trees and are drawn to them. From my personal experience.
Nice! Learning to fly is the most dangerous part.
You should do some rc plane stuff they are really cool
I always told my new students we were going out to do some hover rodeo. They would understand afterwards 😁
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 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!
I got to fly an R44 as a part of an introduction to flight training session I received as a gift. It’s crazy how small the inputs are to fly, very slight and small movements! Such a very precise machine!
Great compliment from your CFI, Jimmy.
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Hope I get an instructor like him. He seemed like a great guy.
Love all your content Jimmy. Love seeing your kiddos too
Great video Jimmy, glad to see you get the lessons going and we all look forward to your success getting you certification!
Good job mastering the real thing. I can imagine the helicopter requires you to forget all you know about flying a plane.
A helicopter IS a plane.
Not really @@johnnunn8688
@@johnnunn8688🤔
@@johnnunn8688 Incorrect. Look up the difference between rotorcraft/rotory-wing aircraft and fixed-wing aircraft. They're both types of aircraft, but different types entirely.
Well done. Jimmy! I am very impressed. After being with instructor 45 minutes. :-))
Luv the way he said keep the blue up above, that always helps!
The most beautiful helicopter
That guy's a GREAT instructor. They do say flying a Heli is more feel than anything else.
Carpe Diem! !! !!!
I've heard the best instrument to use whilst flying a helicopter is your butt. It's far more about feeling and balance than a fixed wing
Another great one! I'm impressed with your quick learning....I think you have transitioned quickly from SEL....into complex, multi engine it has really been great to see how safely you have moved and your help transition looks to be just as smooth.... you give the rest of us hope.
Thanks for sharing another great one.... also fun to see your "cameraman" fly the toy better than.... kids can be so aggravating..... lol
Jimmy, you need o get a "hobby grade" RC helicopter with full collective, etc. Good luck with your full scale chopper.
Nicely done. That brought back a lot of memories from my time in a 300c.
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
You need a collective pitch r/c helicopter
That’s what he has, or it wouldn’t go straight up, Shirley?
@@johnnunn8688 A collective pitch R/C helicopter will have a swashplate to provide the ‘collective’, a fixed pitch doesn’t have a swashplate (this model doesn’t), so it’s fixed pitch. On a fixed pitch heli, height is controlled by the engine throttle.
So fun, recently got a few finally getting somewhat comfortable flying them, honestly don't know if I ever be able to do the crazy tricks some of the people do with them, but at this point I'm happy with the fact that I can actually keep them in the sky without crashing 😂, well sometimes anyway. They are so tricky to fly it boggles my mind watching the pros fly them like they do!
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.
Try a marble on glass, servos in each corner. That's a cyclic control, without all the other controls mixed in as well.
Full 6 degs of freedom control it's fun and rewarding once mastered. (Power, Lift, Torque, Directional Control (Cyclic)).
I’m gonna be another one to suggest trying a collective pitch RC helicopter
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.😢
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
Logbook entry: Loose nut connected to the cyclic. Fix: Removed Pilot. :) Great content Jimmy. Fly safe!
Jimmy is now flying Helicopters, He'll be making more BAD DECISIONS! LOL
Tons of knowledge ❤
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.
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!"
You make me laugh Jimmy. You have such a zest for life. Love the channel. Keep on being you.
Looks like fun Jimmy. Good for you!
Nice work Jimmy. Cleet is proud.
Cleet off loaded that to Jimmy, unbelievable
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.
I had faith in you, Jimmy. You didn't disappoint.
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.
Because his young mind has no limitations James. That's how he's so good at the RC copter.
A friend of mine would fly his remote Helicopter in a hangar on our Army base it was his no wind practice area. 😂
You're doing it, Jimmy!
Jimmy, I think he did his home work. Nice flight in the heli.
Good job young man!
Jimmy, you did really well to get to that stage.
Get the CFI to take you on a full flight envelope including low level endorsement style flight.
You will be surprised what that little heli can do safely within it's limits.
Awesome Jimmy!
Suprisingly the first time i flew a helicopter the same thing happened😅
Jimmy, that was awesome! I haven’t flown for quite a few years but I have about 500 or so hours in helicopter and 2500 fixed wing. And hot air, balloon, balloon, and who knows what else. But I haven’t flown for years.
My youngest son wanted the helicopter and we I got a fairly expensive one similar to what you did except it wasn’t a toy per se.
My youngest son mastered it in 10 minutes . But he also spent hours on the simulator before the helicopter arrived in the mail.
Amazing what kids can do
Great job Jimmy👍
So that helicopter shutdown noise is just a tensioner. Neat
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..
I'm not a pilot due to health reasons but love aviation and heard these are hard to fly due to NOT having a governor and also read that helicopters are safer to fly because if engine stops you can almost land anywhere and don't need runway space to land like a plane that needs road, field etc.
great teacher!
I see you cut down the offending tree that ate the toy helicopter
I'm impressed with your flying there you land that thing pretty damn well. there's some really good simulators out there man I would try to get on one of those things to get better at flying the helicopter
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.
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 🤣
Nerve wracking 😮
"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.
I like how Jimmy is playing with his toy and his wife is just working away.
1:10 the rc heli is missing a swashplate, likely designed for forward flight only
another nice video
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.😂
The dreaded "dead mans grip" I remember it well back in 1996 when i first learned to fly helicopters, and yes in a similar helicopter, a H269b ( H300 ). I went on to do150 hours for a commercial license, in that same aircraft. Well done jimmy, aweome job in 45 minutes flying, now im looking forward to seeing your first auto-rotation. That's definitely gonna be a popcorn 🍿 moment, for sure 😂
Helicopters. Belt & braces 😮
Definitely the unsafest way to get off the ground. Bet your brain was totally frazzed!
Fab vid though. Great content.
Behind the cabin, the wall facing aft. on starboard side has room for, maybe another fuel tank, is that the case?
I had a skydiving instructor similar to you. His name as Truman Sparks, I'm Mr. Hicks. Far Out man.