How Do You Get Trained To Fly a Kodiak & What’s Next?
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2023
- I’m over at Park Water Aviation in Spokane Washington, home to the only Kodiak Simulator and only Factory Authorized School for the Kodiak. This year I’m doing my recurrent training which is essentially a 3 day course consisting of ground school, simulator training, and then flying in Park Waters Kodiak.
Great video, Rich such a great guy must be great learning from that calibre or pilot
It’s been amazing having him as a mentor pilot and a friend.
Awesome experience, thank you for sharing it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Proud of you Amir
Thank you!
Thanks for the video!
I’ve been flying a Beech Debonair for 35 years…I would not know how to start a turbine!
Half of our flights in our aircraft is some sort of training..good job!
Thanks for watching!
Hey Amir, great video and Happy New Year. Here's wishing you and yours a great year and ever increasing success in your practice, as well! I really enjoy hearing about your ventures with aviation and your Kodiak. Question - are you a ham? Your t-shirt cracked me up! Where'd you get it? (I'm KF5VA)
Much appreciated and wishing you success as well! My buddy has a shirt company and I had a few made for all the really experienced clown pilots that follow me on Reddit 🤣
Send me an email paythecrazymd@gmail.com and I’ll send you one.
Thanks for sharing this! I am a low hour pilot still pursuing the PPL and plan on purchasing a Kodiak through my business. I would
Love to pick your brain one day!
Glad it was helpful! I’m living proof that it’s all possible if you put your mind to it. I’d recommend talking to Rich Manor at OCR and following his RUclips channel FlyingWithRich
@@kodiakmd thanks alot! I follow rich
Hello again, may I ask a question, when you are low and slow doing your approaches to the short strips, how much does AOA have to do with how you fly your approaches? In other words are you flying IAS or AOA primarily? Thank you and have a great day, great videos.
I’m kind of flying both. But obviously you don’t want the AOA to get into the red. You can get really slow with the Kodiak (40’s) and still be far away from stall.
Misinery Bush Pilot Ryen from Papa New Guinea reports in his video "What Happens When You Fly thru Too Much Rain", that he lost all pitot static information in Kodiak 100 while flying through very heavy rain. Perhaps steam gages with a separate pitot static system would be a good backup for Kodiak.
The Kodiak has 3 separate systems. I find it odd to lose all 3 of them even with heavy rain. I think Ryan operates his Kodiak at the maximum limits and it is an older series. There could also be an issue with his Kodiak that’s been addressed. I’ve had other minor problems that needed to be fixed. I’ve operated mine in rain a few times and also icing with no problem. However I’m living in Southern California and we generally see about 10 days a year where it rains. Thanks for watching!
thank you for taking the time to share, it was very interesting. I know you get a lot of grief from the armchair experts about flying the kodiak with low flying hours....ignore them, they are just jealous. Enjoy your flying, you deserve to be where you are :)
Happy you’re enjoying the content. The comments people leave aren’t really for me or about me. The comments are more so about something they aren’t doing or haven’t done in their life. I don’t let it get to me. I’m sure very few of those commenters got a PPL, IFR, and a Turbine Kodiak in their first 12 months of flying. Stay tuned for some more cool videos and thanks for watching!
Thank you so much. What were the iPhone sized devises on the dashboard?
Not sure what you are referring to? Do you mean the props on the screen?
I think he meant the AOA HUD on the dashboard Doc
AOA indicator?
Thanks for the transparency in your journey. I have enjoyed watching your progression and your lessons learned along the way. Start to finish, it looks like your cash outlay to get you to this point is approaching $500k? or is it less than that? (Beautiful Kodiak BTW)
If you count the flying time I’ve done in the Kodiak for training that’s probably very likely. I know it sounds like a crazy number but I now basically have about 400 hours dual received with most being a CFII, twice to Parkwater for training, etc. My goal wasn’t to find the cheapest way possible. It’s been to find the safest way to train with the best pilots in a plane that burns jet fuel. Thanks for watching!
@@kodiakmd Thank you for the quick response. I was including you costs for the time in the Kodiak, fuel, maintenance, hanger, etc. I think there are many folks out there who want the experience of the safest way to train with ideally being in a larger turboprop. You have done a great job on showing what that really costs. Did you run into any problems getting a hanger to store the Kodiak?
If you are counting the monthly fixed costs of the Kodiak plus my flight training then I’m definitely north of $500k by a lot.
That shows “the customer is right” when you can get a plane without a license, they are willing to train you so you could be ready once you were qualified to fly.
I had the unique opportunity of being the first person to attend Kodiak school without having my pilot's license, and it was an incredible experience. The staff and instructors were extremely accommodating and helpful throughout the training program. I created a video to share my journey and highlight the training program.
Thank you for taking the time to watch my video and for your support. If you have any questions or if there are specific aspects you'd like me to cover in future videos, please let me know. I appreciate your engagement!
Good job . . .
Thank you so much 😀
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What a shirt!
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is this only available to kodiak owners?
I think anyone can pay for the course and do it. I’m sure you can call them for more info.