@@therealjimmysworld well, with this promotion, I say goodbye to this channel. I cannot support a channel who takes promotions from such a terrible organization.
Jimmy, if you thought airplanes were expensive .. welcome to helicopter world! I was a helicopter mechanic for over 20 years on Bell 206's, OH-58's, and UH-60s. The maintenance and costs are insane! Not to mention that helicopters are NOT airplanes.. whole new animal!
Interesting that you pointed out that a helicopter is not an airplane. 100% true of course, but I have heard Vietnam vet UH-1 helicopter pilots (slicks, sniffers, and gunships alike) refer to their machines as airplanes. Makes me wonder how that tradition got started. I don't know if Cobra pilots did the same thing or not.
I have maintained a lot of these. You don't mess around and let things go. Also keep up with your (TIMES.) When you do the 24 month re grease/inspection you can find a lot.
Helicopters are a Blast to Fly. LOST my Brother in March 5 2019. He flew a MD500 flying Utility Maintenance “Cutting Limbs near power lines in the Mountains”. Sprag Clutch broke due to a Motor Mount that broke and over stress the Sprag Clutch. He was low level and wasn’t a whole lot he could do when it started spinning. I know he hit the pickle button to drop the saw and went for the trees instead of wires NTSB ruled Helicopter failure on 5 points. My Brother was cleared, “No Pilot Error”. He was a Damn good Pilot. CFII and Chief Pilot. Im a fixed Wing Pilot so we would kid each other, Me, the old Helicopter cant fly it just beats air into Submission was my favorite. All this said, don’t take maintenance for granted, the motor mont that broke was “SUPPOSED” to be checked every annual, but was very hard to get without removing Motor. I believe the Maintenance Log was Penciled whipped, but I can’t prove it. Also during NTSB examination there was rust that had been sprayed over on the Mount that broke. ???? Any how Jimmy, enjoy. You’re living the Dream. 🛫🚁 I’ve done my duty. My mission. Tell everyone. Johnny K 🚁
Being an A&P, I suspect they removed the grease fittings not to cause inconvenience, but to force an inspection. Even though its just routine maintenance, just the process of removing, cleaning, and regreasing would uncover possible disasterous problems.
Not that 13 years is much but in my 13 years only places I have see syn-tec used is on splines usually adapter splines from drivetrain systems. Never a grease fitting for syn-tech. WTR grease though yeah fittings
Look at you and Griz bringing in the expertise and knowledge.... and then advertising knowledge at Hillsdale College..... go Jimmy, go..... love the episode.... what a fun to fly helicopter. Do we get to see you in your Golden Eagle soon? Love this content and glad to see safety first in all things. Bob
Congrats on the solo Jimmy, I remember my first solo back 1996 in the same aircraft type, the excitement, the adrenalin rush, im almost 20 years down the track and the feeling never leaves you.
Congrats on your solo, I was a machine gunner on a Sikorsky H-34 for 6 months during 2 tours in Vietnam. It was interesting. T. Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired Vietnam 1965-66/1970-71
Way to go! Congrats on your solo. You're going to be a well rounded pilot by adding a rotary cert., not to mention adding some new places to fly that that a fixed wing can't go to.
I used to do training in a huge 300. So this video brings back memories one time, while doing practice autos at Whiteman airport, near Sun Valley California, when I chopped the throttle engine quit, I told instructor you got it and we did a full down on the taxiway & skidded to stop. Know I know what skids are for! any landing and you walk away from is 😊 good landing, the instructor said.
Finally.. back to the actual content that got me following this channel. Now keep it up. When ya gonna tell what’s the deal with the mig and some of the other planes
Brings back memories! I learned on the 269 and was cut loose just after 6 Hours of instruction. Back then I was young and took to flying helicopters easy. It is definitely much more challenging than fixed wing ten fold. On my first solo I literally thought I was going to die. My instructor was heavy so when I pulled up into my first solo hover the controls were completely different. The centers had changed due to a new CG plus the heli was much mor nimble with 250 pounds less weight. She was a blast to fly when solo and light. Nice heli but I will only fly turbine helicopters now.
Hey jimmy, it was great meeting you at sun and fun. Had the booth next to where you gave a presentation. The maintenance shop I run works on a lot of schweizer helicopters if your ever looking for maintenance we are at F45 in west palm beach. Happy flying.
Jimmy, so glad to hear that you've discovered Hillsdale online courses. We need more fully informed citizens in our Republic. You should also checkout The Hillsdale Dialogues with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Arnn President of Hillsdale. They cover all of the Western Civ History and Philosophy, if you go back far enough in the series. I've been listening sense it's inception, to many years to count. Love your channel always entertaining!
We as Army aircraft mechanics as we remove components like splines drive shaft we always clean all the splines and inspect for wear on splines then pack them back with grease. Specialty old grease can get filled with old weird stuff
I wonder why your left seater was wearing an HGU 56P flight helmet with an ANVIS mount and battery pack on it? He must be either local police or national guard pilot. And Jimmy, you’ve got to hunch over some to allow your right forearm to rest on your leg. It makes the small minute cyclic corrections much easier.
life made real easy when you got someone who really knows how things break when mishandled, you can learn so much in short time, and always useful to have the long arm of a broom handle, essential
LOL. No kidding about the grease. I have an Enstrom 280FX and every time our mechanic greased up the main rotor hub, that thing was spitting orange grease all over the place at the first flight after maintenance.
Jimmy! You’re now a rotor head! Congratulations. It’s a different world, similar in many ways to fixed wing…but you know what I’m sayin. I really miss my days in the UH-1H but I had a chauffeur. Former Brush Monkey.
My friend Jerry Foster used to fly one of those in Phoenix for Channel 10 news. He would visit elementary schools, film news and save lives here in the valley. Sadly he passed away last year but if you’re interested in his life story you can buy his book. It’s called Earthbound Misfit. And yes he was a fan of Floyd. I learned a lot about that helicopter in this video. Nice job👍🇺🇸
As an automotive guy, if someone told me my driveshaft was sloppy, making a clunking noise, and their solution was to pack in grease, I wouldn't believe them.
Now I am wondering if the FAA would allow you to make the modification of replacing the rivets with grease fittings to make it easier to pack the bearings full of grease
And the first thing you do after you fix whatever it is, you’re working on is make the following statement to your friend, “hold my beer and watch this. “
It makes sense that Switzer removed the grease fitting on the shaft to force a visual inspection of the bearings as well as to fill with grease during the annual or time-by-hour inspections.
He did mention that with the fittings you could grease it about every 25 hours. You can still do your one or two year inspections but making it easier for more frequent grease intervals makes it less likely for wear between inspections. I'm not a pilot and I don't fly but I do know maintenance on equipment is very similar. An example I would use is my mower deck spindles needing grease after so many hours. In that case I do not need to disassemble the spindle every time I grease it and it would only need to be done when the bearings start getting noisy. Obviously in this case you would need to have a scheduled service inspection.
@@davidclemens1578 Comparing the service of a spindle bearing on your lawnmower to the tail rotor shaft bearings on a helicopter is like comparing a watermelon to a strawberry. The safety factor is not the same. Eyes on the critical components for an aircraft in many cases, can only be performed when the components are disassembled, cleaned and inspected directly. I understand the 25 hr service and the benefit of having a 'quick service' fitting to add the grease on routine maintenance however, In my opinion, and in this case, just packing grease back in the component without disassembly leaves too many unanswered questions of the actual status of the components. Such as... why is the assembly missing so much grease and what damage occurred due to lack of the proper amount of grease. Lose the tail rotor.... you're in for one hell of a ride that will not end well. Lose a component on a lawn mower, you can go grab a beer, sit in the pool and think about it. I'd rather perform a thorough inspection more often and find nothing wrong than take a chance and have everything go wrong. Especially not knowing the maintenance history. But that's just me though. I do fly and I've been a mechanical and electrical technician for automotive, marine and aviation for 37 years. Things break at the most inopportune times.
Go right now to hillsdale.edu/jimmy to enroll. There’s no cost, and it’s easy to get started.
Man, I miss flying helicopters. I can't wait till I can afford lessons again.
@@therealjimmysworld well, with this promotion, I say goodbye to this channel.
I cannot support a channel who takes promotions from such a terrible organization.
Way to go Jimmy. Hillsdale is a great school.
@@Outrightpower thanks karen
@@Outrightpower bye bye 👋 you won't be missed
Take it easy on my helicopter Jimmy 😂
Excited to see you finish your helicopter ticket Brother.
Hey look rebuild rescue. noice bro
Jimmy, if you thought airplanes were expensive .. welcome to helicopter world! I was a helicopter mechanic for over 20 years on Bell 206's, OH-58's, and UH-60s. The maintenance and costs are insane! Not to mention that helicopters are NOT airplanes.. whole new animal!
@@hawkuser604 what’s your opinion on his statement about grease having to be all over the tank as an indicator for sufficient lubrication?
@@hawkuser604 my brother flew OH-58’s.
Interesting that you pointed out that a helicopter is not an airplane. 100% true of course, but I have heard Vietnam vet UH-1 helicopter pilots (slicks, sniffers, and gunships alike) refer to their machines as airplanes. Makes me wonder how that tradition got started. I don't know if Cobra pilots did the same thing or not.
I have maintained a lot of these. You don't mess around and let things go. Also keep up with your (TIMES.) When you do the 24 month re grease/inspection you can find a lot.
Congratulations, Jimmy! Solo man! I love watching your videos, keep them coming!
Love the TH-55/H-269 Shweizer! My favorite helicopter and I have thousands of hours in Large, turbine helicopters. Great trainer and super fun to fly!
It is GREAT that this was noticed and fixed on the ground, else it could have been much worse.
Loved the detail of the maintenance - thanks!
As opposed to fixing it in the air?
Even with all the silliness that you bring Jimmy (which is part of the fun), it is great to know that you still do things by the book.
Why he is still alive.
I didn't think he had a choice
stuff is in the book for a reason....
AQP for GA ......
and all that stuff WILL HELP YOU STAY LIVING!!!
The 'silliness' makes these videos unbearable to watch
Helicopters are a Blast to Fly.
LOST my Brother in March 5 2019. He flew a MD500 flying Utility Maintenance “Cutting Limbs near power lines in the Mountains”. Sprag Clutch broke due to a Motor Mount that broke and over stress the Sprag Clutch. He was low level and wasn’t a whole lot he could do when it started spinning. I know he hit the pickle button to drop the saw and went for the trees instead of wires
NTSB ruled Helicopter failure on 5 points. My Brother was cleared, “No Pilot Error”. He was a Damn good Pilot. CFII and Chief Pilot. Im a fixed Wing Pilot so we would kid each other, Me, the old Helicopter cant fly it just beats air into Submission was my favorite.
All this said, don’t take maintenance for granted, the motor mont that broke was “SUPPOSED” to be checked every annual, but was very hard to get without removing Motor. I believe the Maintenance Log was Penciled whipped, but I can’t prove it. Also during NTSB examination there was rust that had been sprayed over on the Mount that broke. ????
Any how Jimmy, enjoy. You’re living the Dream. 🛫🚁
I’ve done my duty. My mission. Tell everyone. Johnny K 🚁
Thanks!
Thank you!
The homestarrunner light switch rave was a forgotten memory jump scare!
Yeah, but “The system is down.”
Strong Bad!
Something I learn today! Beautiful helicopter and Congrats on solo! 😊
The lack of grease fittings may be a good way to ensure that the tail rotor is taken apart and inspected.
Excellent!
That is exactly why it was deleted, visual inspections were being ignored for the easy way.
@@marvindebot3264 that was my guess.
Being an A&P, I suspect they removed the grease fittings not to cause inconvenience, but to force an inspection. Even though its just routine maintenance, just the process of removing, cleaning, and regreasing would uncover possible disasterous problems.
But they could specify an hours time to grease and a time to inspect; save a huge amount of manhours?
Not that 13 years is much but in my 13 years only places I have see syn-tec used is on splines usually adapter splines from drivetrain systems. Never a grease fitting for syn-tech. WTR grease though yeah fittings
@@johnnunn8688they do 😂 there’s flight hour based inspections and servicing and those are def apart of the flight hour maint
Look at you and Griz bringing in the expertise and knowledge.... and then advertising knowledge at Hillsdale College..... go Jimmy, go..... love the episode.... what a fun to fly helicopter. Do we get to see you in your Golden Eagle soon? Love this content and glad to see safety first in all things.
Bob
More of this content please! Heli Yeah!
As a Heli-only pilot, loving more helicopter content on YT! Great content - and showing the real side of being an owner-pilot too! Thanks!
Way to go Jimmy! I didn’t expect the solo at the end! Very nice 👍🏻
Congrats on the solo Jimmy, I remember my first solo back 1996 in the same aircraft type, the excitement, the adrenalin rush, im almost 20 years down the track and the feeling never leaves you.
Thank you for your service, young man!
Congrats on your solo, I was a machine gunner on a Sikorsky H-34 for 6 months during 2 tours in Vietnam. It was interesting.
T. Boyte
GySgt. USMC, retired
Vietnam 1965-66/1970-71
Way to go! Congrats on your solo. You're going to be a well rounded pilot by adding a rotary cert., not to mention adding some new places to fly that that a fixed wing can't go to.
TH-55A. What a great/fun Helicopter to fly. Flew it in Army primary flight training in 1969. Above The Best!
I used to do training in a huge 300. So this video brings back memories one time, while doing practice autos at Whiteman airport, near Sun Valley California, when I chopped the throttle engine quit, I told instructor you got it and we did a full down on the taxiway & skidded to stop. Know I know what skids are for! any landing and you walk away from is 😊 good landing, the instructor said.
lol the Cheat reference.. yep .. there was a pirate radio techno station out in the country up here and techno was the shop jam for years.
Finally.. back to the actual content that got me following this channel. Now keep it up. When ya gonna tell what’s the deal with the mig and some of the other planes
Congrats Jimmy on your helicopter solo.
Love this chopper. If I ever cut off my beard I’m doing a stash like you. Perfect.
Brings back memories! I learned on the 269 and was cut loose just after 6 Hours of instruction. Back then I was young and took to flying helicopters easy. It is definitely much more challenging than fixed wing ten fold. On my first solo I literally thought I was going to die. My instructor was heavy so when I pulled up into my first solo hover the controls were completely different. The centers had changed due to a new CG plus the heli was much mor nimble with 250 pounds less weight. She was a blast to fly when solo and light. Nice heli but I will only fly turbine helicopters now.
Hey jimmy, it was great meeting you at sun and fun. Had the booth next to where you gave a presentation. The maintenance shop I run works on a lot of schweizer helicopters if your ever looking for maintenance we are at F45 in west palm beach. Happy flying.
Heck yeah bud! Amazing to see you flying that copter! Makes me want to finish my hours and fly
Jimmy, so glad to hear that you've discovered Hillsdale online courses. We need more fully informed citizens in our Republic. You should also checkout The Hillsdale Dialogues with Hugh Hewitt and Dr. Arnn President of Hillsdale. They cover all of the Western Civ History and Philosophy, if you go back far enough in the series. I've been listening sense it's inception, to many years to count. Love your channel always entertaining!
Yes Jimmy you close to the Rubicon Trail when you were in Auburn (KAUN). Trail runs from the Rubicon Springs to Lake Tahoe.
Dude I’m so so dang proud of you and your accomplishment! I wanna see more!!!
Awesome Jimmy ! !
That had to feel good piloting that chopper by yourself !!
We as Army aircraft mechanics as we remove components like splines drive shaft we always clean all the splines and inspect for wear on splines then pack them back with grease. Specialty old grease can get filled with old weird stuff
Man what a deal.thank God it didt kill ya Jimmy.be thankful in all things
Great video Jimmy. Cool to see you flying that beast solo. Keep up the excellent work. Safe skies my friend 🇺🇸🛩️
I wonder why your left seater was wearing an HGU 56P flight helmet with an ANVIS mount and battery pack on it? He must be either local police or national guard pilot. And Jimmy, you’ve got to hunch over some to allow your right forearm to rest on your leg. It makes the small minute cyclic corrections much easier.
Jimmy, I am so happy for you praise God.
My first in a Bell 47, felt like trying to control a Bowling Ball. Keep up the good work Jimmy.
The Hiller Killer here lol. Rotorcraft are just so much fun to fly though! I stuck with airplanes.
Bro, I'm 51 and I'm there with you *100%* on the 90s techno. Hell yeah brother! I really enjoy your channel!
EDIT: and synth...😎
synthwave is life 🍻
life made real easy when you got someone who really knows how things break when mishandled, you can learn so much in short time, and always useful to have the long arm of a broom handle, essential
Jimmy, what 90s beats are you into? There's ALOT of us out there - you're around my age, we all loved it back then no reason not to still love it haha
LOL. No kidding about the grease. I have an Enstrom 280FX and every time our mechanic greased up the main rotor hub, that thing was spitting orange grease all over the place at the first flight after maintenance.
1:31 looks like the belts could be replaced. Maybe it was a shadow but a couple looked split or coming apart 🤔
Fng awesome learning to fly helicopters. Opens up more possibilities. Good job Jimmy.
Awesome Jimmy!!!! Helo pilot!!!🎉
Congrats on the solo. Awesome accomplishment.
Jimmy! You’re now a rotor head! Congratulations. It’s a different world, similar in many ways to fixed wing…but you know what I’m sayin.
I really miss my days in the UH-1H but I had a chauffeur. Former Brush Monkey.
Way to go Jimmy ! Sure helps to have friends like Joe who obviously are experts and you always learn the best from the best ! Cool runnings !
tighten it till it strips and back it off two turns!
Great to see you solo in the Copter. Totally different experience than flying airplanes. Well done Jimmy!
Congratulations on your Solo Jimmy, Was my dream to fly Helicopters in the 70's when in Highschool... Dream never came true, unfortunately.....😢
My friend Jerry Foster used to fly one of those in Phoenix for Channel 10 news. He would visit elementary schools, film news and save lives here in the valley. Sadly he passed away last year but if you’re interested in his life story you can buy his book. It’s called Earthbound Misfit. And yes he was a fan of Floyd. I learned a lot about that helicopter in this video. Nice job👍🇺🇸
The Rubicon (river) is in northern California. The entrance to the trailhead is is Georgetown.
Jimmy CONGRATULATIONS on your solo!
Thank you for your service Joe!
Congratulations, hard work pays off.
Thank y’all for y’all service 🇺🇸
Never let go of the cyclic low above ground??? Glad it's fixed. Safe flying Jimmy
Nice job Jimmy, it will be cool to see all you RUclipsrs fly helicopters.
Congratulations on your first helicopter solo!
Impressed with your solo young Jimmy :>)
Bro your workshop routine is just like mine down to the techno. big cup of water, endless edm and get in the zone. also dear strongbad.
So cool to see Cleetus' chopper making others goals attainable.
Im a heli maintenance apprentice in Aus and that grease gets soo messy sometimes its a pain but also works really well
Hello from Minnesota!! Great episode!
Congratulations Jimmy on your solo.
Congrats on your solo man! Good job👍
As an automotive guy, if someone told me my driveshaft was sloppy, making a clunking noise, and their solution was to pack in grease, I wouldn't believe them.
The Prodigy - Poison (95EQ) has been my chill track this week.
Hell Yea Brother! Congratulations on the solo.
Ole Sling Wing Jimmy. LOL.. Awesome video
Hey Jimmy, I appreciate the HomeStar Runner reference!
That’s awesome jimmy, almost a heli pilot!
Solo ! Congrats !
FINALLY!!!!! Bring on more HELICOPTER CONTENT!!!!! Can i get a clear PROP!!!!!
Wow Jimmy looks like you have it figured out... great job
Ford uses a similar if not the same drive shaft grease
Jimmy, could you place a grease fitting in to service the tail shaft ?
And YOU GOT this from CLEETUS..... THAT WAS NOT NICE!!!! YOUR REPUTATION PRECEEDS YOU......HIS IS LEGENDARY!
Good job flying the helicopter Jimmy.
Congratulations on your first solo flight.
Hahaha the HomeStar Runner reference!! 😂🤣
Thanks for sharing Jimmy!
Awesome solo flight.
Now I am wondering if the FAA would allow you to make the modification of replacing the rivets with grease fittings to make it easier to pack the bearings full of grease
Helicopter drive shaft lubricant is $90.00 per tube. If it is for aircraft use, quadruple the price. If it has FAA approval it is expensive.
And the first thing you do after you fix whatever it is, you’re working on is make the following statement to your friend, “hold my beer and watch this. “
Good job! Propping the end up to grease the cup would have simplified it.
Jimmy, well done!! Single engine doble engine chopper!! Next tail drager??
Congrats on the solo!! Great video.
It makes sense that Switzer removed the grease fitting on the shaft to force a visual inspection of the bearings as well as to fill with grease during the annual or time-by-hour inspections.
He did mention that with the fittings you could grease it about every 25 hours. You can still do your one or two year inspections but making it easier for more frequent grease intervals makes it less likely for wear between inspections. I'm not a pilot and I don't fly but I do know maintenance on equipment is very similar. An example I would use is my mower deck spindles needing grease after so many hours. In that case I do not need to disassemble the spindle every time I grease it and it would only need to be done when the bearings start getting noisy. Obviously in this case you would need to have a scheduled service inspection.
@@davidclemens1578 Comparing the service of a spindle bearing on your lawnmower to the tail rotor shaft bearings on a helicopter is like comparing a watermelon to a strawberry. The safety factor is not the same. Eyes on the critical components for an aircraft in many cases, can only be performed when the components are disassembled, cleaned and inspected directly. I understand the 25 hr service and the benefit of having a 'quick service' fitting to add the grease on routine maintenance however, In my opinion, and in this case, just packing grease back in the component without disassembly leaves too many unanswered questions of the actual status of the components. Such as... why is the assembly missing so much grease and what damage occurred due to lack of the proper amount of grease. Lose the tail rotor.... you're in for one hell of a ride that will not end well. Lose a component on a lawn mower, you can go grab a beer, sit in the pool and think about it. I'd rather perform a thorough inspection more often and find nothing wrong than take a chance and have everything go wrong. Especially not knowing the maintenance history. But that's just me though. I do fly and I've been a mechanical and electrical technician for automotive, marine and aviation for 37 years. Things break at the most inopportune times.
So cool that you got to solo in her. Now!!!!! let's go have some fun!!!!!!! Elvis Be Dammed!!!!!!!!!! ;-)
Home star runner! Been a minute since I've heard that song! The system is down!
Congrats on your first helo solo flight!
Funny looking BELL helicopter.
Looks like a Hughes 300 to me..or a shweizer.
The cheat! That strong bad episode is my all time favorite lol
Soloing must have been a blast !