Flying SOLO after passing the commercial helicopter skill test | Cabri G2
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- čas přidán 5. 02. 2021
- I fly solo in the helicopter just a few days after passing the commercial helicopter skill test. On this navigation flight I take a similar route to the one I was given to fly on my skill test for the CPL. I depart Leicester and track North East towards Cottesmore, then head South to Desborough before flying West towards Bruntingthorpe. After a quick look there I return to Leicester. Thanks for watching!
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Hello again Rory. Just watched your latest video. I must say your obvious enthusiasm for and enjoyment of what you are doing is such a great tonic in these very challenging times. As one of your viewers who has been with you from the start, be sure that I will continue to watch your progress closely. Keep in touch. Very best wishes from a chilly (but snow free) Manchester. Paul
Thanks very much Paul - I really appreciate you being so supportive all this time! We have had a dusting here but it's melting already. Cheers, Rory
Cottesmore was my 1st posting in the RAF. Loved every second.
Excellent stuff - I fly over there quite a lot.
Rory huge congratulations on getting your commercial license! Thoroughly enjoyed watching your progress throughout and this flight. Great to have views over Leicester from the air. I work in and out of Leicester regular with my job and as I mentioned great to see from up above! Best wishes for the future. George 😊👍
Thanks very much George - I’m glad you enjoy watching my flights. Lots more to come. 👍
Mega confidence taxiing off the runway. Well done.
Thanks! 👍
@@RoryOnAir I don't have a licence yet, but I know it good.
The smile and grin was unmissable Rory.
It’s just such great fun. I still can’t believe I can actually fly a helicopter. 😃
Nice one Captain. Nice flight and really pleased your little blue wallet has arrived. Great that you mentioned MainAir at Barton and everyone who has been involved with your flying to date. P.S make sure Lizi pays for the first lunch 😂👍🚁
Ha ha - I think I owe Lizi a lot more than a free lunch for all she has endured while I worked for the little blue wallet. :) I'm delighted you enjoyed this one. Mainair are a super school.
Great. Video. Again! Nice to hear about the importance of microlights and how they played a big part in your heli stuff. Love it
Cheers mate. Yeah, it’s true. Someone mentioned it to me in the comments here on the last video so I thought I’d give credit where it’s due!
Great stuff as usual Rory, Peter
Thanks Peter. 👍
A very smooth flight! Well done
Thanks very much. I do my best!
Congratulations on your fantastic achievement Rory! Your smile is almost as wide as the four bars on your shoulders.
Ha ha - thanks you’re very kind. It does feel rather good!
Great to see you in the air again Rory. Looking forward to your next video. Stay safe and virus free.
Thanks very much Malcolm - I’m doing my best to remain virus free!
Congratulation Rory. Well done.
Thank you. 👍
Well done !
Cheers Steve.
Fab video thanks Rory, great to see you getting back up again and hope it's not too long before we can all get flying again!
Cheers Jason - I hope all the GA guys and girls can get going again soon too. It's more fun when there are lots of people and aircraft about.
@@RoryOnAir Thanks Rory - can't believe it's just over a year since I popped down - who could have predicted the kind of year 2020 turned out to be? Can't wait to get flying again and come down to see you and your colleagues flying and check out the 109 Grand. Hopefully you'll get your FI rating fairly quickly so we can go flying, would love to have a go in the G2 :-)
Well that would be very cool! Yes, oh how things have changed. Crazy really.
Great flying and parking!
Thanks very much. 👍
Well done 👍
Cheers. 👍
Another great video Rory, envious ? just a little.....
Ha ha - sorry Gareth! At least you can watch here. 👍
Congratulations man.
You've achieved a lot.
I can't afford it..... So I built a VR helicopter.
You can see it on my channel if you like 🙂👍
@@CraigMansfield cheers Craig. Glad you enjoyed it! I’ll have a look. 👍
Great to be with you again Rory. You looked much more confident in this video. Helicopter flying is obviously a comfortable jacket you are enjoying wearing!
Thank you - that’s kind of you. I do feel more confident as each flight goes ok. I have so much more to learn but I’m just happy if I can keep getting the basics right.
You look so comfortable and confident.
Cheers Gary, it does feel great to be able to do it by myself now. The training has been excellent and I think that shows.
Yeah, well done Rory. No need to ask if you enjoyed that. Keep up the good work and keep posting vids.
Thank you. Yes, it was great fun. I have a lot of hours to build before I can do an FI course so there’s plenty more to come. 👍
A really interesting flight Rory, and very professionally handled! I use Bruntingthorpe regularly as a VRP back into Tatenhill.. just up the road from you. A terrible shame the Vulcan isn't there any longer, but an interesting airfield all the same! I'm looking forward to the curry evenings at Leicester when they get up and running again. 👌👏
Well I keep meaning to go to one of those curry evenings so hopefully we’ll catch each other at some stage this summer. I’m glad you enjoyed this flight. I must come back to Tatenhill - I’d like to check out the helimed chopper! 🚁👍
Its great to see how professional and confident you are now....Very well done .....At least you can fly your heli..... I am not allowed to fly my RC ones even standing in my club airfieild away from everybody.
Thank you! All down to great training and a lot of hard work. I hope you get back to the RC flying soon.
I passed my skills test for PPL(H) last week. Now waiting for the CAA to process and send out my licence so that I can go and start flying solo. Is quite a long time since I was last out on my own.
Congratulations Graham - great work. You should have it within the next 10 days or so I would guess.
@@RoryOnAir And it arrived this morning :)
Fabulous video as usual Rory and well done.
Airwolf next !!
Ha ha - Thanks Nigel - well we can dream can't we!
Indeed you can!! When do you get to drop the “”student” bit when calling ATC?
@@G0RXA Oh you'll have to have a look at the next video... ;)
That’s what I like, a “cliff hanger”!!
Awesome Rory - you really should be proud of what you have achieved. Great effort.
Thank you very much - I’m delighted you enjoyed the video. 👍
@@RoryOnAir you never know Rory one day you might be landing on my Helideck on the Ship.
@@FlightMariner well that would be seriously cool. 👍🚁👨✈️
@@RoryOnAir ❤️ maybe catchup one day. All the best Rory
Great to see you aloft. I was fat finger typing a question about why you were announcing yourself as student, and hey presto you tell us. You can’t teach that. Looking forward to watching the rest of your journey.
Thanks very much Jed. Lots more exciting heli action to come!
Well done Rory, looking forward to meeting when we can.
Thank you - me too! That machine of yours is awesome. 🚁👍
hi rory great to see you up again hope you are safe lol and keep up the good work.
Thanks very much. 👍
@@RoryOnAir your welcome and can you just mention the brain heammorrage society they need all the help they are excellent what they do and can not thx them enough.
@@aceace5457 I will do my best to remember - I’m sure they do a wonderful job.
@@RoryOnAir thank you rory i be watching happy flying.
love to see you go to Canada and fly with the yellow pilot
I’d love to do that too - I know I’d learn loads of useful stuff.
Great vid, can you do a start up and pre-check video?
I’ll have a think about doing that, yeah. 👍
@@RoryOnAir Great, I used to work at Goodwood as a helicopter engineer. I love the pre-flight stuff and start up check lists, i got most of my pilots licence on Enstrom before the company went bust, i have flown Enstrom, Jet Ranger, Gazelle, and R22. Also Heughs 500. Great channel keep up the good work.
@@paulmajor1545 thanks very much Paul. Sounds like you’ve flown some cool birds. I’ll have a look at the startup and see if I can make something of it. 👍
Old habits etc....look at all those stripes ! Although I suppose we should always be students for the opportunity to learn 👍😀. Great work Rory, what next?
Ha ha - yeah it might stick but actually until the physical licence paperwork arrives from the CAA you still need to use a student call sign. Since I filmed this the little blue wallet arrived so I won’t need the word ‘student’ anymore. 👍
Nice to see you finally have the CPL(H) Rory, congratulations! Are you planning on leaving it there, or progressing and getting the full ATPL(H)?
Thanks! I plan to go all the way in due course. Probably FI, teach and build hours, IR, MCC and then eventually get the ATPL unfrozen. 🤞👍
@@RoryOnAir I look forward to watching the rest of your journey!
Here in Australia they have started to issue your license electronically with QR codes attached. Saves a bunch of waiting time since your PPL/CPL's are issued instantly now. I'm not sure if its better otherwise but hey.
That sounds pretty cool. It wasn’t a huge issue and I have the licence now but the quicker they can issue it the better I think. 👍 Thanks for watching.
3:43 is when you need the insta 360, awesome video as always Rory
Yeah, I know, it’s a great camera but it’s such a nightmare to edit on my 2013 iMac. I need a new machine badly. Maybe a tech company could sponsor me? 🤞😉
@@RoryOnAir If you can edit 4 shots on the screen at once on a 2013 iMac, I would love to see a tutorial on this and the voice sync in bang on. Maybe a few tutorials from your previous radio experience to get some more YT revenue for a new mac?
@@ChrisMeuzelaar1 that’s not a bad idea Chris - I just feel like an amateur trying to improve each time so I’ve always shied away from ‘how to’ editing videos on here. But if people would be interested...
@@RoryOnAir Definitely, I'm a complete novice and only just switched to a macbook M1 air with FCPX, how to edit and film aviation videos would be excellent, especially with your sound back round :)
@@ChrisMeuzelaar1 ok cool, well I will see if I get any inspiration. 👍
Good job! Was wondering why you still used the "student" call sign which you cleared up shortly after.
Yeah, that’s a temporary measure. 👍
@@RoryOnAir Next time you can use Heli Commander!! ;)
@@peenergysolutionslimited8903 ha ha ha - that would be cool! 😎
75 more hours needed before you can train for Instructor rating? When will your CPL enable any revenue to be created in the interim.
Nice videos, brings back many memories, i trained in your airspace many years ago. from EGNF.. Good luck Rory...
Thanks very much. Technically I could be earning with the licence now. If you had a heli and wanted me to do air tours or fly you from A to B I could do that now, but most people don’t want to employ brand new pilots so the instructor route is normal.
Great video thanks Rory. When will you be able to take Lizzie up with you?
Hopefully very soon. We’re waiting for restrictions to lift enough so probably March I think.
March is a bit optimistic! I was about ready for the skills test before it all closed down again. Now hoping I can get it all done before I have to start taking exams again because they might start being out of date.
@@grahammills8733 well we have to hope don’t we!
Hi Rory, nice to see you in the air again. Really interesting stuff.
I like Bruntingthorpe, I well remember seeing the 'Rolling Thunder', jet fast taxi events, awesome.
If you become an instructor, does that help with hour building towards a commercial pilot job?
Also have you covered off IFR and night ratings etc yet?
Thanks Muso. Yes, instructors can log around 600 hours a year at some busy schools (Helicentre Aviation being one such busy school) so it’s a great way to gain experience and log time while helping others achieve their own flying goals. I have a night rating but no IR - that’s a big course itself.
Thanks Rory, interesting stuff, good luck with it all. I suspect commercial firms expect a pilot to have thousands of hours? I always fancied flying for Santini Air lol!
@@musoseven8218 yeah, they are very experienced pilots. Check out fred_north on Instagram
Thanks Rory, I think that instructing can be very rewarding too. I read a story whereby a woman with stage four cancer, was told by her oncologist, to find something to occupy her mind (there was little hope for her, even with her continuing treatment). She took a trial flight in a helicopter, then took lessons, beat cancer and, iirc is now a commercial helicopter pilot! Remarkable!
@@musoseven8218 that is an amazing story! Good for her. Wow. 👍
Congratulations - the closest I'll ever come is a simulated Cabri but if you ever fly the Cabri in XPlane11 or any other sim I'd be really interested to hear your comments about how close to real life a sim can be (or not).
Thanks Reg. If I get the chance to fly a Cabri sim I will let you know.
Is progressing to FI a natural step towards hours building for the full CPL? Ohhh a couple of VC10s on the deck at Bruntingthorpe, brings back memories.
Yes, it seems to be a good way to go because you gain a lot of hours and experience quite quickly. I’d like to visit Bruntingthorpe at some stage actually.
@@RoryOnAir I used to work and fly on the VC10's but that's another story ;)
@@GolfFoxtrot22 more than just one story I’m sure! Save that for an airfield cafe. 👍
@@RoryOnAir I'll buy the brews, you need all the cash to keep that skyblender going ;)
@@GolfFoxtrot22 ha ha - don’t even joke about the 💵 😳
Hey Rory, do you still need to use "Student" in your call sign, or is it just force of habbit?
Actually no, although a ‘Helicentre’ callsign is a force of habit. Until the physical licence paperwork arrives from the CAA you still need to use a student call sign. Since I filmed this the little blue wallet arrived so I won’t need the word ‘student’ anymore. 👍
Very professional Rory :-))))) Looking forward to seeing you bring the Augusta to Barton :-)
Now wouldn’t that be something!?
@@RoryOnAir I can be patient :-)))))
Why 'Student golf....' your not a student now or am I missing something? Well done!! How many hours do you need to build before Bristow do a type rating for you?
At the time of filming, my licence was still being processed by the CAA so we do a briefing with an instructor and fly on the student callsign. My paperwork has turned to no so I won’t need to use it again. As for a type rating - that would be amazing if that happened but I guess we’ll have to wait and see!
#thumbsup
Not a student callsign anymore surely Rory? :)
Well I did this trip about 10 days ago when my licence was still being processed by the CAA. I’ve got the blue wallet now so yeah, no more ‘student’. 😁
G, day Rory on air from Sydney, Australia.
* the green fields of England are softening and bring relaxation.
*When you hear a registration number close to yours over the radio it really makes me lift attention. (I used to think O' s#+t).
* are you in the ballpark for employment on a private, government or media helicopter?
P.s If flying over any old military airfields, I would like to hear some commentary.
🇭🇲🍷🙊
Hi John - thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed seeing England’s green and pleasant land! We very rarely fly that close to active military airfields but I’ll see what I can do in the future!
Which model helo?
It’s a Guimbal Cabri G2
Solo? not with 367 others watching from your shoulder! You can now do this whenever you want!!!! Any ideas on where next?
Ha ha - it’s funny actually as I do feel like you guys are up there with me sometimes. 😁 What next? More to come soon on that...
Super! Rory in Kitchen
Ha ha - is the kitchen your choice viewing area?
@@RoryOnAir no wife is watching crap in the living room and she kicked me out as I was complaining 😒
@@rorymcloughlin2023 well I’m delighted you’ve got your priorities right.
Well done, but why wear epaulettes for solo flying/training? Bit odd
Ha ha - why not? I have worked very hard to get them and now that I’m qualified as a CPL I like wearing them so 🤷🏼♂️👨✈️ Thanks for watching.
@@RoryOnAir just seems weird on a private flight. I don't know anyone regardless of ratings who wears a uniform for a private flight. But congratulations on the CPL regardless
@@sheldonholy5047 Well it is a private flight but it is also me hour building towards a professional career as a pilot. I just like wearing them. :) Thanks.
I'd do the same.
@@scottlittlewood4527 cheers Scott!
How nice mmmm
Thanks very much Sarah. 👍
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Ha ha - straight in there! See you in 20 mins when you’ve watched it. 😁😂
Excited much? ;)
Ha ha - just a bit!
Great work..brings back memories when I qualified as a Kamikaze pilot..trouble is I only was able to do it once..😂
😂😂 thanks for watching.
hmm so wheres all the money come from ... rory?
Ha ha - I got one of those Nigerian lottery win emails that actually turned out not to be a scam. 🤣😉
@@RoryOnAir ha ha ill inform the inland revenue
Why are you going "full kit wanker" for a student solo..?
Well I’m not a student anymore - I’ve just passed the skill test and earned a CPL - hence the bars. This little trip is a celebration.
@@RoryOnAir Ah my bad, I apologise! Hope you at least got the reference and didn't think I'm actually calling you a wanker;) Congratulations then! I'm too much of a coward to fly with my wings spinning above me!;)
I have just looked it up as I'm not a football fan so I didn't get it. I assumed it might be an inbetweeners reference but it appears I was wrong. Thanks for clarifying and for watching. :)