My First Time at the Controls of a Helicopter!

[MaidenFan]

Edited January 4, 2012 by Perry

[Simmo W]

Nice. Pity there's no voice audio, couldn't hear you swearing!

[Zach Decou]

Great looking landings Perry! My first time at the cyclic won't be so pretty (based on my x-plane performance). Couldn't see your permagrin. I'm sure you had one! Probably still do.

[MaidenFan]

  On 1/5/2012 at 11:51 AM, Zach Decou said:

Great looking landings Perry! My first time at the cyclic won't be so pretty (based on my x-plane performance). Couldn't see your permagrin. I'm sure you had one! Probably still do.

Ha! Thanks! I'll tell you what.....those many hours of heli practice in XP sure payed off!

[flyinhawaiian]

  On 1/6/2012 at 12:35 AM, Perry said:

Ha! Thanks! I'll tell you what.....those many hours of heli practice in XP sure payed off!

Its amazing how much xplane practice translates to the real world. I used it all the time in both my instrument and multi-engine training and it was legitimately helpful. Nothing will give you that seat-of-the-pants feel like the real thing, but knowing the hand-eye coordination, use of controls, and procedures is probably 90% of the battle in teaching new students. Great job Perry and I hope you're able to pursue it more!

[MaidenFan]

  On 1/6/2012 at 5:06 AM, flyinhawaiian said:

Its amazing how much xplane practice translates to the real world. I used it all the time in both my instrument and multi-engine training and it was legitimately helpful. Nothing will give you that seat-of-the-pants feel like the real thing, but knowing the hand-eye coordination, use of controls, and procedures is probably 90% of the battle in teaching new students. Great job Perry and I hope you're able to pursue it more!

Exactly!