First of all, I passed. So the above statement is incorrect. 2nd, sure, I'll just adjust my knee board while trying to control the aircraft while there's a set of perfectly good hands sitting in the other seat. Apparently you don't know what safety first means. And THIRD, This is NOT my flight school. This is where is did my CHECK RIDE. Completely unfamiliar with the area. Before the checkride, he said HE WILL HANDLE THE RADIO NAV FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE CHECK RIDE. Thanks for your comment.

Good video Josh, thanks for sharing. He was a good examiner, the best ones look at the big picture, make you relaxed, and don't nitpick the small stuff. Great job passing your checkride. Good luck with your future flying.=)

Thanks for all of your video efforts to show people what it is like for a check ride. Also thanks for letting me hitch-hike onboard with you, the ride was fantastic! The autorotation scared the Hell out of me though, not your flying it, just I didn't think there was clearance above the buildings. That could be the camera's view though & I am sure in person it was all fine. Great job well done & congrats on passing.

I want to take my checkride with this guy, very relaxed compared to the stories I've heard about some of them up here.

Surprise B1 bomber @ 3:20 bottom left. cool stuff!

Thanks for the high-quality video with good audio ( interphone+radio ).

Awesome Flight Video, to share your check ride with all of us, wow. When I got my Private Pilot Fixed Wing Certificate, I was so nervous but your were so cool. The Marines will be getting an awesome Helicopter Pilot, Thanks Again.

Dude. That was the most lax checkride I've ever seen. And I'm not hating on you, good for you. Out here, on my checkride, the DPE did not do a SINGLE thing. As a matter of fact, he said that if he did, automatic fail. In other words, for proving single pilot resource management. If I'd have asked him to take control while I fixed my knee board....lol...noooope. I look at it this way, in the real world if you're flying somewhere alone and you don't have your info on your knee board where you can see it...what would you do? But I'm not being a dick buddy, congrats on getting your ticket. :)

Hi, Passed checkride last year at another airport in CA. This tube helped me a lot, thanks! Trained a lot at LGB and CPM. Our authority(JCAB) offers complex class ratings for helicopter. .Piston or turbine .Single or multiple engines .Land or sea (float equipped) So my 1st PIC flight is on R66 :)

Very cool! I have my check ride in a few weeks and watching this is a HUGE help! Thanks for posting! Congrats!

was stationed @ Santa Ana w/the blimp hangers Marine Air Wing, we spent all our ups and downs heading for the hills or off to get our feet wet. looked a lot different in the 70's.Great narration and views, kept wanting to join in the conversation, natural CFI

You really made that look professional. Congratulations.

Joshua Hamby, thanks for posting, I am starting school in January with Central Oregon Community College and Leading Edge Aviation. I am starting off with about 1 hour flight time. Best of luck on your next ratings!

Congratulations! thinking about getting my add on..being an airline pilot is boring, I need this excitement and something different. and most certainly in GA! fly on! nicely done!

Good luck on it. Don't let your nerves get to you and you'll be fine.

Thanks alot. He was a very calm examiner. He's a Robinson test pilot. My instructor flew with me from Carlsbad up there for the checkride, then flew back with me.

yeah, so many people Jerry (Silver State Helicopter) injured destroyed careers, families and lives and now he is a deputy in a reservation, " Upholding the Law?"

the military is a great way to go. im a Marine now, going into the army to fly as a warrant officer. since you're getting your degree, you can go fly for any branch as an officer. otherwise, if you do some enlisted time, you can use your gi bill and go to awesome programs like Guidance Aviation that will get you up to CFII on the governments dime. if not the military, it will be very expensive.

I loved flying the R22. It has its limitations, but fun.

Wow your DPE sounds like a really cool guy. I flew out of Chino but I've also flown to Long Beach and Compton. Seeing your video sure brings back a lot of memories. Congrats on your check ride.

grate job congratulations that was cool ride thanks for taking me along. beautiful day to fly and the sky was all your .

Great job Josh! Hope you are still flying. I was an Army DUSTOFF pilot and enjoyed flight school very much. You appear to have the same passion for flying. Keep going, and disregard any negative comments you will see here. Flying is a virus. Once bitten, you are always infected! Good luck with your next ticket, which should be your commercial. (THAT is a fun check ride!) Know your EP's!!!!!

Nice check ride and video! Gathered that the examiner is a Pilot with Robinson.

I saw a designated examiner fault a student for immediately pulling pitch and not stopping at a hover doing a maximum performance take off. He said if you get in the habit of just yanking the collective up... and one day you do it from grass or mud (soft field) and a skid sticks in the mud you will have a dynamic rollover so fast you won't know what happened. But it looks like you did a great job! Every examiner is different. Mine flew Chinooks in Vietnam and is a super cool guy.

Good job! How long did you train before your check ride? Did you fly fixed wing prior? Thanks for the vid.

thaks for filming this it helps me out so much right now! Im about to do mine and I feel alot better! thanks

Thanks alot Mark. I plan on getting the fixed add on when I can. I love flying in general. Thanks for the compliments.

Awesome video, great checkout ride, wx viz unlimited. Nice control work, very smooth. I fly fixed wing, our military base is closed to general avi, I was a member there for 22yrs

That was awesome! I watched it all. What a great DPE you had, helpful and taking care of much of the comms. Wish you'd had a still photo at the end with you and the Robbie and your temp certificate. Great video. Happy skies to you!

now, if only I could afford another flight. very envious of those words, "you passed".

24:00 nice auto. quiet scary :) and looked quiet akward settup for the quickstop

Wow your check ride was laid back, wish mine was like that

Thanks for full version Joshua. Champion! David

I agree with you on safety first and foremost. If he wanted the navs, let him go for it. Great job.

Great to see your beautiful video

Nice Job Joshua! You were very calm. Those Robinson Instructors (DPE'S)are the best.

Hey thanks alot. I'm about to go fly for the Army soon. Gettin paid for hours is the dream. lol Congrats on the flying success. Turbine time is precious.

Thanks alot. Civic was a great school. Had a great instructor.

Nice vid. Congrats on getting your ticket. That's high on my bucket list!

I graduated high school, 3 years later, joined the Marine Corps. Paid out of pocket for the private pilot license, now i've just gotten out 5 years later. I only have a PPL, so I don't have a job. I'm going to school in January to finish my ratings. My advice, do a term in the military, get your GI BIll, and use it to pay for flight school. Unless you have a couple hundred grand to throw around.

well done josh...I do my add on check ride this coming Friday!!

Congrats! It's just the suction cup mount for GoPro. it's attached to the front wind screen and angled as far back as possible.

Congratulations Captain,You Flew So Well that its hard to tell who the instructor was

Awesome video! I did many trips to that airport from SNA when I was learning. Cool to see it on youtube.

Congratulation on your checkride,am not a heli pilot but i enjoy every minute.wish you the best.i wish i could get heli lincense but i dont fit in the R22.

Thanks for posting; I really appreciate it!

It was an unfamiliar area. He said before the flight that he would handle the radio for the most part.

Man, this brings back memories. Hopefully your examiner wasn't suck a stickler on the verbal exam. Mine was grilling me for 4+ hours!

I appreciate it. Yea I don't get how or why people decide to dig for negative things to say. I put this up to give people a heads up as to what to expect from an FAA checkride. Thanks again tho.

Great to see your video

Very nice! I was so nervous! Hahahaha... Oh, wait... it wasn't me flying!

Very nice job and congrats on your exam. Seemed like a really nice examiner, and he was obviously comfortable chatting because you were doing so well. I had to chuckle when you asked if you were doing okay after 45 minutes of flying! I am curious..when you asked about directions to get out of there at the end, did that mean that you flew out by yourself when you were finished? Awesome video, thanks for posting.

Congrats on passing your checkride Joshua. I wish I could have joined the army too and fly, but when you have medical problems.... I have heard civic helicopters is a great school to learn at.

Congrats !!! Keep flying that way !!

Hi one of the best vids I have enjoyed on this site you have handled that well , only thing I did not notice was the flare in the auto but it was a run on , , I couldn't see why the instructor needed controll at any time for any thing you could not had done. ,but maby he wanted to approach his way tight , but well done , if it was me I would dump the r22 s for a better model but that's only my preference .thankyou

It is always a big day. I was lucky enough to learn from day one in a turbine, but it was complex which added a lot more emergency procedures. My commercial check ride was very stressful, but what a feeling when you land and find out you passed. My oral was 4 hours long. Killer, but if I can do it... so can you. Just be sure you have a plan if you want to do this for a living. The amount of hours you need is financially unreachable for most unless you have a hookup. Educate yourself first!

Very cool examiner, nice job flying!

felicidades buen trabajo , the shoppers are nice and enjoyable machine for flight.

Good stuff, I know its an older video but I will be taking my check ride in the next few months and this helps take some of the nervousness out of it! haha

Yea he's still doing them. My school is actually Civic Helicopters in Carlsbad.

no problem at all. you're gona enjoy it.

You must have trained at Civic if you were flying 111PB!!..So am I now, having changed flight schools after about 20 hours...great vid!

No pressure, don’t screw up, check ride failures impact your career.

Yea. Some instructors don't agree with the video. I actually had the suction cup mount in the wind screen and angled backward.

Thanks and thanks. You're right Robinson is a great helicopter. I don't know what people's problems are. I upload a video to help people with their checkrides and I get stupid comments from people.

Congrats.. Great video... Taking mine in two weeks ...

thanks for checkin it out. LA is a fun area. REALLY busy compared to SD county. You should fly down here some time. Let's Bravo airspace lol. We're out of Palomar, Civic Helicopters. I'll definitely check your channel and subscribe.

Awesome, well done and thanks for posting!

Sorry for typos haha. iPad typing not that great!

My original plan was to go Army after going through ROTC in college, but since I have asthma, I'm not able to. So it looks like the civilian route is all I'm able to do unfortunately.

Man major congrats man!!!!!!!! I'm amazed how instead of a major congrats people are busting all over you.

Congratulations.Great video.

“Just head for that building straight ahead”

Thanks alot! He was a great fellow.

I know its been 5 years but, thanks!

Great flight dude! I watched the whole video :)

Is a check ride required for all pilots? If a pilot has their own bird (wishful thinking) and flies regularly and accrues sufficient flight hours, does the check ride become unnecessary?

Thanks much. Yea it was Doug. Great guy. I didn't know he did the low g procedures. Wish I would have known, I would have gotten him to do it lol. Nope he didn't mind me filming it. I just asked him before we went, he said, no problem.

Nice vid man, but which flight school do you attend where the examiner takes controls while you adjust knee board, and makes your radio calls for you? Examiner touching controls = check ride fail.

A checkride is required for all American pilots who wish to fly legally within the US. A Private Pilot certificate is what you will have earned at the conclusion of a successful checkride. #Aviation

Great vid. Keep up the good work. Fly safe.

One week till I take mine in the Cabri. Looked like a very laid back checkride which is awesome. Hoping for something along those lines. Did yall not do confines or pinnacles?

Haha I've parked right in that same lot. Fixed wing though. Nice ride.

Lol I was in 2/3 with your bro. Been watching your vids today and just looked at the name. Im going to helicopter school in a few months and just been watching random vids...small world

Thanks.

interesting- thanks for sharing- didn't think you could get a view forward/outside and still get you and the person in the left seat in view mounted whilst being mounted on wind screen- I'll experiment with this angle whenever I'm allowed to film again..all the best

It was Doug Tompkins. Great guy.

Didn't think most DPE's would be okay with a Camera on board, but cool!

I did my training at Civic Helicopters. It's good training.

Good Shit....Certificate issue, $15,000.00 spent... :)

Great job.

Good video. I have a question, how did you record the radio talk? I have check all over and I can only find audio hardware to record in fixed wing.

GREAT JOB MAN!!!!!! FEELS GOOD YEA?

It's a great time. Thanks alot.

Nice job thanks

Thanks for posting this. Are you using your heli license professionally these days?!

hey Josh congrats! I'm taking mine tomorrow so I'm studying yours lol! By the way, what camera did you use to shoot this on? And does it also record audio from the radio? Thanks!

congrats, got my nervs going just listening, I remember mine

good vidd.......once you understand the fundementals, i guess its just a case of putting it all together.....

Awesome!