Not as bad as I thought especially since you can get your own hanger. Guess I can tell Amazon to go ahead with the order.

4 minutes of information in over 10 minutes.

I 🎉 love this one

I may have missed it but I didn't see the formula of what it is a general cost to run a helicopter. At least with a superyacht they say to expect an annual cost of 10% of the yacht's purchase price. Not really a good vid about the real costs of owning a private helo!

New “Selling price” does not include an interior. An interior can cost as much as the helicopter.

I have known a few people that own helicopters but they are always the owners of flight schools. But the question in the video is "how much does it cost to own a private helicopter" right? I'm not sure that I've ever known anyone that only one just for their own private recreational purpose. Let's put it like this. One time I was at this flight school in this guy came over not for a check ride but for like a review flight. Apparently this guy was part owner of a flight school somewhere else and I don't know why he was down where he was and why he needed a review flight right then and there. Perhaps he was making stuff up? And the flight world there's a lot of people that talk a lot of crap and make a lot of stuff up. Still he had an interesting story about how he was one day a long time ago like 20 years ago sitting around with a bunch of people talking about how he could afford to own his own helicopter. I said to him "well you turned out to be wrong huh?" He said "did I? Listen to the story. So we were sitting around talking about the cost of owning a helicopter and if you factor in all these different things what would it cost over like 10 years. And I go ahead and throw out a number that on your own Robinson r44 would probably cost about $500,000 over 10 years. The people there in the circle start arguing with me that "well that's the basic cost of buying one so that couldn't be accurate right off the bat" but then I mentioned "no I have found one for like $250,000 I've seen it used" so then they suddenly start going into why that still couldn't be accurate that only a helicopter would cost only $500,000 over 10 years. They start going into the cost of buying it and then the cost of maintenance then the cost of the parts keeping it airworthy otherwise the FAA grounds it then you need to overhaul it after a certain amount of hours etcetera the cost of fuel the cost of hiring a pilot and if you're the pilot and then the cost of having enough flight hours to be able to maintain at least a Private Pilot rating etcetera etcetera etcetera and it was like one of those cartoons where you get a calculator and the first number you punch in goes to $100 then the next set of numbers goes kching kching kching and goes up to like $1,000 then the next set of numbers goes ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching and goes up to $10,000 then the next set of numbers goes ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching and goes up to like $100,000. By the time we were done looking at the cost of fuel the cost of Parts the cost of Maintenance the cost of airworthiness and inspections and overhauls the average number for owning and maintaining an r44 looked about a million dollars every 10 years and maybe that was even a little modest but depending on how much you fly it could be less than a million dollars it could be more but somewhere around that for 10 years of flying and maintenance to own your own helicopter. Now I'm part owner of a flight school and I can verify that it pretty much is that expensive." But I asked him "but still according to that you were wrong that you would ever be able to own your own if now own your own right?" He said "well I guess you would have had to have been sitting there and heard the tone and the premise of the conversation. I am 1/5th owner of a flight school so we own several. But when we were talking we were sitting around batting the idea of being a single Playboy multimillionaire that has nothing to do but sit around and fly people around in their own private helicopter like supermodel girls. I myself do not own my own private helicopter that I just take out for fun whenever I want. Me and my family own a fleet of them but they are so expensive to operate and maintain the only reason we can afford them is because we run this business and this business to make tons of money it has to make tons of profit to be able to afford the overhead costs. 😂 so there you have it I still don't feel like I ever was able to just "own my own private helicopter" we own several in a fleet that's part of a business." So there you have it. Maybe the guy was making stuff up I don't even remember if you told me his review flight was for Private Pilot or commercial or CFI but his story is one that sounds very mirrored to me by many other people I have spoken to. I don't believe I've ever known anyone that just own their own private helicopter although I've heard of it. And maybe I haven't didn't know it I mean I've met a lot of people in the flight world. Like I've met a ton of people. Most everyone says the same thing that they have "never own their own private helicopter for totally recreational use." I have heard of the two blades of a Robinson r44 being replaced and costing $50,000. 33 ft in rotor diameter. Right there in the first page of the POH. You would have to pay for the parts then you would have to pay for the labor. Hey mechanics want to make good money too. This is not including fuel costs and overhauls and insurance. Then remember you have to ensure the pilot or if you're the pilot you have to ensure yourself and the lower the amount of flight hours you have the higher the insurance costs. Those blades wear out as you go flying. According to principles like Newton's third law and Bernoulli's principle lift is created by the airflow over the blades and underneath the blades where the are travels faster over the shorter surface then the longer surface creating higher air pressure and producing lift. Let's not forget though that you can't produce lift without drag. As your lift increases your drag increases that's induced drag. But skin friction is the big one that's part of profile drag. It means the air molecules themselves are going to wear out the blade and the blade itself has to be replaced. Going flying in the rain? The little raindrops will wear out the rotor blades. I'm not assuming that you have a IFR capable aircraft either flying through heavy storms. I'm talking about a light drizzle. The engine Powers the transmission creating RPMs and those rotor blades spin around really fast. As they speak to the are anything they come in contact what's including the air itself creates friction and wears out the surface. You have to take the Coriolis effect into account. Now let's take everything else into account changing the oil changing the hydraulic fluid replacing components. Everything you see when you go through that pre-check list is something that could be worn out and needs to be replaced at some point. And we are not talking about the overhaul which is basically rebuilding major components of the helicopter possibly even including the engine or even parts of the frame and let's not forget the Avionics which is very expensive. An overhaul often can be up to $200,000 or even more and that's a 44 estimate and not a R22 estimate. So it could be cheaper. But we're not talking about a bell 206 turbine either. A turbine engine can be somewhat cheaper than a piston it could be more reliable and cheaper to maintain. But by that what I mean is it doesn't break as much. When you factor in the cost of fueling a turbine helicopter or overhauling the engine now you're talking about significantly more money than a piston. So yes only the fewest of the fewest people actually own and maintain their own private helicopter for private use. I don't want to see you have to be like a "billionaire" to own one just for fun but let's just say that you basically need to have an extra million dollars that you just don't ever need if you plan to own a helicopter and maintain it and keep it airworthy I can hire a pilot with the skills to fly through airspaces and keep up with weather VFR minimums and navigate airspace communicate on the radio or pay to maintain a license and rating to do all this stuff yourself. Otherwise most people will own helicopters collectively in terms of maintaining and managing a business that is either a flight school or flies for some other purpose. I myself don't know if I've ever known someone that owned a helicopter for their own private use "just for fun." It's possible though I've met a lot of people. Realistically those things need to make a lot of money. Even if you were to buy a fancy sports car for like half a million dollars and it would be ridiculous to maintain it and have to buy specific Parts just for that very rare sports car like a Ferrari or Lamborghini or a McLaren or a Porsche that wasn't entirely intended to drive on the streets but more on a racetrack that somehow became Street Worthy I would think it would be cheaper to maintain and operate that car then a helicopter. You can keep it in your garage and just once a month to drive around the block a few times. A very very wealthy block I assume with very many houses that would go between $5,000,000 and $20,000,000. A helicopter though is a light frame with tons and tons of moving parts were the engine Works in whatever piston or turbine fashion and the transmission transmits the power to the main rotor and the tail rotor system and it can wear out so fast the poh even specifies a shut down time where you run the engine and keep the blade spinning at a low RPM for a few minutes before you totally shut down the engine to keep are going through the rotor shaft which cools down all the Temps a little before turning off the aircraft entirely which slows down where on the engine and preserves the life of the helicopter for a little longer. Very very expensive though. Not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. Flying is not for the poor man whether you're the pilot or the passenger or the owner. Or even the designated examiner. 😂 everything is expensive as crap.

short summary of the video: I'm broke

Coby Bryant loved them. Helicopters are the most aerodynamically and fuel inefficient aircraft in the world. They serve few purposes. Search and Rescue, War, Medevac, short ferry flights and taxis for corporations and the super rich.