Onya mate, I also was a fixed wing Jock with many hrs. mustering... Cattle, Camels, Donkeys, Sheep, Etc. in the Pilbara WA when I was young...then I went to Ozark Missouri and leant on Bell 47s, when I went solo in a Bell 47D with a 210hp Frankland donk...leant to milk that sucker no coalition box on this unit I had 8.6 hrs. Hoobs time...off I went, Ill never forget it!, Fly Safe mate.

Very cool, and a great job by both student and instructor. All instructors should be that good.

"dude said Yep" 10,000 times.

That was awesome. Thanks for putting it together.

Huge respect! I have sat down maybe 3 separate times now to try and get my head around PPL books and online theory - the stuff just won't stick in my mind, Maybe it's time for some personal training!

Its a Volkswagen not a Helicopter. Sketchy.. yikes

well done mate

Visual learner- nothing wrong with that

Using an R22 would have been a little cheaper, but a small point.

This is awesome, as a fixed wing instructor myself it's always been a bucket list item to get a chopper licence. Congrats!

I wanna come play

More Pitts content pleaseeeee!

I did my solo cross country flight at 10 hours in the Hughes 300

Great vid. Lockhart is a great little town too

You did well mate, nice work. Finesse on the controls as I was always told. Wow what a small word! Neil taught me how to fly back in 2006/2007 at HTT Bankstown where I completed my CPL-H. He did my R44 and B206 endorsements as well. He's a great bloke, very patient and above all a great pilot. So great to see he's running his own show now. I remember one day he had to jump start an R22 off my VZ commodore ute, the chopper was in the carpark at HTT, had been there for a while, when they went to start it the battery was flat, we used my car to jump start it so Neil could fly it over the fence so it could go in the hangar. If you see him again tell him Steve says G'day.

The Robinson haters are always good for a laugh. There is nothing wrong with Robinson helicopters, they don’t just fall out of the sky like the haters want you to believe. Almost all Robinson incidents are due to pilot error, operating the aircraft outside of the published limitations. Doesn’t matter what you fly, if you respect the machine and exercise good airmanship you’ll be fine. It’s far more dangerous driving your car to and from the airport.

Yeah this is the last type I would train in

If you knew anything about Robinson R44 helicopter safety issues you’d NEVER get in one, much less as a BRAND NEW pilot!

That is so dang cool! Now I need to do it too!

Finally the video I was hoping for. Thanks, nice work explaining “how to” in a condensed form.

Cograts brother well done!

I have been flying Radio Control Helicopters and Airplanes for 10 years. I remember going to get my Heli License I thought it was going to be a walk in the park because I was such a good Radio Control Heli Pilot. Man was I wrong. Everything I knew about flying a Radio Control heli made it harder for me to grasp flying a real helicopter even though I had more knowledge than the average person. It eventually clicked and I was a fast learner. It was me being cocky thinking it uses the same side of the brain to fly. But because the helicopter moves while you are in it. It makes your brain work so much harder. Radio control you are not moving the helicopter is moving while you are stationary which made it weird at first. Lol. You did great, Jocko. Much better than I did in the beginning. Is there anything you crazy Aussies can't do? You probably even eat Great White Sharks for breakfast. lol

My friend in Florida, Tom Howell. was the main helicopter pilot for LBJ while he was POTUS. According to Tom he wrecked the first helicopter he flew while learning to fly in the Army. Tom was in the Army still and from Texas and that is mainly why he got the gig. He said he flew into LBJ's Texas Ranch many times. He later became a Texas based State Farm Agent who got a lot of sales from "boiler room" telephone calls. Those agencies are actually owned and can be passed down. BTW - Kris Kristofferson was quite the helicopter pilot too.

Great work, good series. Slope landings would have been good to see.👍

Well done brother ,only thing for me is this , I would never ware a hat with evil symbolic symbols on it = bad carma .Cheers

Congratulations, great video...am looking to get into it as well in the near future hoping my IQ is up to the task at hand 😂 Will be much difference from turning wrenches my whole career. Hat's off to you brother 🎉

Your first hover was *vastly* better than mine, nice job!

Great to see. Jacko. Going from a pitts to a helicopter. That is hard. The sensitive of a helicopter. Give it a boot full of rubber and full side stick. Cnt do it in a heli. Enjoy your flying. Great Chanel

Excellent video. I'm definitely going to have to do a rotorcraft add-on someday. Right after I come down under and fly that S-1-11B ! 😂

Haha “It’s nice to have 2 inches spare”😂

Dont get in a Robinson mate.

My dream job but disabled not happening so I build & fly drones from small ones for mustering & large drones for spraying. Got my recreational 25kg license & about to do commercial, definitely know how stressful it is Jacko so much information & passing exams. Awesome video mate.

Haha 2 inches would be nice

Fukn awesome job mate. And in a very short time💪

I’ll never forget my first hover it was gusting 50 kts and my instructor gave me the controls and made me learn the hard way it took me a bit but after about 30 mins hovering I could hold it nice and stable

Congrats, mate 🙂 Nicely presented video, too, great insight into what's involved in licensing!

Nice work mate!

So sick

Teach me how to flip. il sweep floors clean anything you need just to learn ! You're a legend, mate!

i recently got a 2 stroke and it’s smoking a ton why does it do that? and is it a good or bad thing?

Hey jacko, do you have any tips on building a 6 foot tall fmx ramp for hitting on 85s or have one I could buy?

i had a 250f ive rode supercross tracks and liked it better than a 250 yamaha its easier for a novice intermediate rider to handle just because of the powerband on the 250

the 60hz hummm gives me willies. please do not touch the boxes or the wires, do not get within a foot of those big wires and boxes. High voltave can arc and cook you through the rubber without touching it. you never know if there is a ground issue or short issue with those boxes so please dont get near the stuff. those look like open fusable links in your face there, with who knows what kinda voltage but I would stay a couple feet away at least with open contacts like that

I watched it lke 15 times and me anxiety gets much worse each time

So sick. Me and my old friends used to ride fmx. It was amatuer stuff though. I miss it so much. We used to do all the basic tricks, double cans, heelclickers, nothings, no handed double cans, supermans, indian airs, holy mans, and my favorite to do were cliffhangers. I used to get pretty extended on those tricks despite hitting smaller jumps lol i had an '08 kx250f. I made an fmx seat with grab holes and everything. Started making wooden ramps. I was obsessed with fmx. I stopped riding cause i didnt have money to maintain and fix my bike when i was a late teen, ended up getting addicted to drugs and alcohol and one of my "friends" rode my bike without my permission all the time cause i didnt have a place for it at my parents. I left it at another friends house. He ended up taking parts off of it. I sold it as a project bike years ago. Now im 31 and not a day goes by where i don't think about fmx. Hell, even just racing or trail riding sounds like a dream. Watching this both sikes me up and makes me depressed lol

I have a 450 and it’s massive. I’m going to sell it and get a smaller bike for me

That’s sick bro

Epic

Yuuuup mate! Excellent from India

As the Germans would say, "gooude n tight" lol