A big issue for me in fixed-wing flight training was getting the hang of the controls: being aggressive when needed but not over-controlling. Things clicked one day doing steep turns over Glen Valley when I started to feel one with the plane, almost an avian exoskeleton rather than a pilot and an airplane. My instructor noticed and told me "whatever you had for breakfast today, eat more!"

A Helicopter forum member said *"to develop control sensitivity, glue a paddle onto a broom handle and balance a golf ball on it while miming lifting the collective and moving the pedals"* Would you be able to make a video on exercises/muscle memory/ coordination drills you could do while at home between Helicopter lessons? Im sure youve come across a few. Cheers mate!

Wishing you and BC Helicopters the best for a fresh new year hopefully less challenging than 2020!

You are outstanding at explaining the topic at hand, Thank you very much!

I'm practicing English and helicopters with your videos 😉 ... Thanks for your prononciation "loud and clear" 😁 ... Happy flights and cheers from France! 🚁

Good advice sir.

Great advice , relaxing on the controls is so key !

I love the quality on your videos. Image and sound quality is extremely important and you are doing a Fantastic job with that, among with all the other good things you bring up here. Big respect for you Mischa!

Thank you for the explanation

Misha, all the best for 2021. As usual your advices are so usefull. My predered one: manage the radio, it can save your life. I have the chance to fly a very busy airport. It helps a lot.

Another great video from Pilot Yellow. Wish I'd seen a vid like this when I was learning to fly 30 years ago.

5 good points... Excellent advice (as a current helicopter trainee)

Excellent presentation as always. 🌏

Grazie per questi tuoi 5 consigli!!!

Love this new color!

Thanks for the tips

A lot of good advice and it goes for both helicopters and planes.

I start flight school this week. Your videos have been a huge help. Wish I could have you as my IP.

Good job Mr instructor,your good guy and explain everything nice.

Already subscribed and following, love your channel. I am currently "studying" at home for my PPL(H) and find your videos help a lot. Keep up the good work ❤

Yes... Very Good Thank You...!!!

Thank you sir for posting

This video could not have come out at a better time for me! I am very interested in becoming a student pilot (rotary wing) I have a lot of connections and family members that inspired me to get into aviation. (It mostly all shifted towards rotary wing when I went on a helicopter tour around Honolulu in an md500). Next weekend I am going out to my local airport for a consultation with a flight school and this was perfect timing for this video.

Another great video... Thank you im jst starting to fly .... 💪💪💪🙏🙏🙏

Thank You.

Great clip!

This instruction is the same as what I was taught by an instructor about half a century ago. Ultimately, the Bell47G2 will allow cyclic control to perform precise hovering with just the index finger of the right hand.

Using the finger tips instead of a full fist grip makes such a difference for me, that death grip is real

Yes this was educational and useful

What I found, an this was a very long time ago, was that I just had to "think" what I wanted to do. Somehow, magically, the controls just moved the right direction and the right amount and the helicopter did the right stuff for me. Think about it.

You can't imagine how would like to subscribe a course for the Pilot helyc. license right there at BC school, i start to look at your videos to keep my english ketch ability up to date and i found myself totally involved in this beautyful activity, ok next life i will do the pilot, i am from Italy and i am sixty years old.......:-). But in the mean time let me dreaming fly with a new HIll Helicopt.........in the next 20 years ;-) , ciao

Good

I feel like I just listened to my own broken record of the last 12 years ;) all great tips.

do any choppers have a system where if you release all controls, it will automatically center everything

I'm impressed and would like to know how to fly a helicopter 🙏🙏👍👍

I buddy nice to see you.hope you are well. All the best for the rest of 2o21.philip wants to buy a helicopter or plane I have not decided yet. I fancy the helicopter because it can do nearly everything and land all most anyway. With a plane you have the runway and the speed and the height. If you live near the runway it would be better. If I bought a helicopter I would need a helicopter pilot to teach me to become a top pilot. Do you no what I mean. Take care buddy phil.

Do you think that flying in a simulator like X-Plane can also be a good training befor starting to learn flying in a real flightschool?

Hey. Good videos. Where you live. I'm in Toronto canada

How to contat with you sir I m intrested in your course

Firing up the heli next to you in the middle of a video? You didn't even flinch. Better talk to that student... haha!!!

I really wish Mischa would address the use of simulators. He seems to studiously avoid the subject but maybe that's an unfair comment. But - everything I hear from actual helicopter pilots is that they are great for developing and maintaining skills. I appreciate that they are never going to replace actual flight time in the real thing but I am surprised BCHelicopters doesn't have a few for their students when they can't fly due to bad weather. I know that a great simulator for the Cabri was developed for XPlane 11 by VSKLabs even with the GELP paint and markings and that Mischa was aware of it. Mischa if you read this comment can you please cover this in a future video ? A simulator is the closest some of us oldies will ever get.

why do people say the r22 is a death trap?

So I could go to liveatc.net and actually here you on the radio talking to your local tower? Is there a flight sim that you would recommend for helicopter training? I know nothing is the same as reality.

Where is this School??and how Much $$

I'm surprise no mention was made on practicing on a simulator at home.

Good morning hi yellow pilot pls can u make a video greeting 60th birthday willie Revillame he always watch your KZfaq video pls u can google him He is a pilot now adores you so much thankyou so much GODbless 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

My knuckles are Brown 😁😆

I'm looking into getting my license... is it true that it will be virtually impossible for me to get a job as a helicopter pilot without 1500 to 2000 hours? I can afford to get my commercial license, but there is no way I can afford an additional $600k+ to get the hours on my own.

The most important tip is how to land

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