I got talking to an old Sikorsky guy once. He told me he was flying with another pilot, who told him 'you fly like my granny!'. His reply: 'how old's your granny?'

Few years ago I watched an R44 taking off from a dolly. The pilot rocked it forward on the skids, rotor tips missing the ground by not very much. Once he cleared the dolly, he did a quick stop low to the ground and then did a hard 180 degree pedal turn, nosed it over and departed the airport. To make matters worse he had passengers taking them on a sight seeing tour. I really thought I was going to hear metal crunching and parts flying on that one.

I have used HOGS videos sense years ago now , and what I noticed about Kenny and other CFI's is how he stress safety , and the hover takeoff is his favorite, if you watch any helicopter videos almost almost nobody ever does that I think I can say nobody ever does a hover takeoff lol, that's great I love Kenny for teaching safety but it's just something that caught my attention, it's better safe then sorry right ? Great stuff Kenny .

Former Air Safety Officer and Hughes 500/ Bell UH 1 H / Bell 212 Argentine Air Force pilot. Very good stuff. 100% agreed. correction on my previous comment: "Only take controlled risks only to stay away from unexpected/ unknown dangers".

Yea this is so true, the more risky the things are that you do the more people think and say “ wow he/she is such a great pilot” but the truth is the safe pilot is the one that knows their machine and follow the rules and respect the machine and their limitations.

Eventually I'll get my private certificate,. That boring two part take off will always done , thanks for all the safe minded piloting content you've always produced.

Blue Thunder supposedly did 1 back flip to get behind another helicopter.

That was very informative and interesting 👍. Thanks for your vid and I look forward to watching more of them. Great stuff 👍🇦🇺

Thank You James Scheller-- 🐝🐝🐝

Love the safety talk I’m getting my CFI right now check ride EOM safety is my number 1 slow is smooth smooth is fast

Fantastic T Shirt!

Be aware of helicopters with a pilot max weight limit!

Helicopters are one thing you should take seriously with no shortcuts. mistakes and screwing around get you killed

Thank you, good points all well presented. I wonder what are your thoughts on some of the movie industry flying we see online these days? Those guys all claim every flight is rigorously planned out in advance, and practiced many times, but they seem to live in the avoid curve most of the time. They’re generally very experienced folks, and am sure most film directors have no interest in seeing helicopters flown ‘normally’, but I can’t be the only one feeling uncomfortable watching some of those manoeuvres…. Appreciate different folks have different attitudes to risk management, which governs all of life for sure, but as you say we don’t want ‘newbies’ thinking this flying is normal….. I’ve grown increasingly uncomfortable watching some of the helicopter (and fixed wing) related social media content. In a previous life of around 6000 hours operating mainly twin turbine helicopters we would always lift into the hover, check power reserves, t’s & p’s, Nr, all lights out on the caution panel, and only then transition into the manufacturer’s approved take off profile. These profiles of speed and height above ground were designed to keep you, your passengers and the aircraft safe in the event of a malfunction during the take off. Landing profiles were flown for the same reason. And it didn’t matter whether you were full of ordinary passengers just going to work, high powered company management, or a medical case needing a hospital, we stuck to the profiles. Better a few seconds late in this life, than way too early into the next 😊. Oh yes, and the older I get, the lower and faster I used to fly!

What’s risky is robinsons boom strikes.

Lol, the internet really is just a "For entertainment purposes only" platform. 😆

Nice shirt, now name 3 songs GO!

Let risky flights to avoid real risks

Just because the maneuver can be done in a helicopter doesn't it should be.

There is a KZfaqr that is in a r22 and he lands in his little hometown in the Midwest and gets McDonald’s or a burger or ice cream and has well over 100k followers that mostly think it’s the coolest in the world but I can’t fathom as a helicopter pilot/airplane pilot myself that is any good for our industry. I would imagine his insurance company would pull the plug on him if they saw it. What are your thoughts if you seen this particular KZfaqr?

This video could be cut to 2 minutes if you stopped repeating yourself, using filler words, and rambling off. Almost unwatchable dude.

Boring, repetative.