Helicopter Pilot Makes DEADLY Mistakes Flying Airplane!

A group of helicopter pilots tried to fly an airplane and things didn't go the way they planned and they crashed after takeoff. This story is about hazardous attitudes, the reckless mistakes made, and the shocking truth about why they crashed!

#aviation #flying #pilotdebrief

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Pilot's Reckless Mistakes Kills Instagram Star

Dad Flies Drunk - Gets Son Killed!

Cirrus Training
I know that some of you might be curious where you can find a good instructor or want to know more about Cirrus training. I would recommend you talk to the folks at PRP Aviation down in Florida. Anthony and Gus are former F-15 guys and they run a great program! This is NOT a sponsored video and no one asked me to make this recommendation and I won't make any money from it. I just want to provide my viewers with a resource that might be helpful. There are certainly other Cirrus training centers throughout the country and I would highly recommend any Cirrus pilot connecting with one of the training centers to ensure you're getting the best training possible.

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[pilot-debrief]

If you are curious about Cirrus training...this incident happened during a time when Cirrus deaths were their highest levels. This led to Cirrus completely overhauling their training and making special transition courses/training for Cirrus aircraft. This drastically reduced the number of deaths while simultaneously increasing the number of CAPS saves. This is NOT a sponsored video and I won't make any money from it, but if you want a recommendation for Cirrus training, I've added some info in the video description.
Links to the videos I mentioned in this story:

[FlyWithMe_]

“The stall warning horn has been sounding for 3 minutes!” - “Relax — we got a parachute.”

[jeff]

I like Hoover's ability to point out mistakes without being demeaning.
It emphasizes that we can make mistakes without being bad people.

[Tucker-Man-]

“Don’t assume that people know what they’re doing.” Advice for life lol

[darksidemachining]

Excellent Video. Am a commercial helicopter pilot with over 15k hours and only a little over 500 hours in fixed wing. Though flying a helo is second nature, flying fixed for now is like being a 16 year old with a new drivers license… we all know what that was like. A key difference between the two types of aircraft is that the helo can be landed on a postage stamp in the event of an engine failure but am constantly scanning for long unobstructed landing zones in the fixed. Am constantly learning from your debriefs and they have helped immensely in keeping focused and precise while flying fixed. This particular debrief hit more at home because of the involvement of the helo pilots.

[danasimcho]

All four pilots were guilty of complacency. Even the two in the rear could have questioned the flight at any time. You summed it up perfectly when you stated, "the rules and the limits are written in blood".

[eugeniustheodidactus]

The minute you said 4 men in that little Sirrus, _my "aircraft overweight" alarms-bells rang._

[theoldar]

It's crazy to think that 4 CFI's would deliberately takeoff overweight.

[jimihendrix]

''...four grown men, fishing gear...'' You forgot the cases of beer (and maybe water, food etc.)

[emilysmith]

How does a helicopter pilot skip doing weight and balance?! The weight limits for helicopters are WAYY tighter than for airplanes, so I would think every helicopter pilot would always do a weight and balance. Being a helicopter pilot myself I sure do!

[injusticeforallmaheu]

I love your debriefs . Not a pilot but honestly your common sense crosses many margins in life . I think we should should live with less abandon .

[howesfull]

"Don't do anything dumb, dangerous, or different." Part of the standard Tweet solo briefing from the SOF!

[glizbpr]

Awareness buys you time, time buys you options - until it doesn't. Thank you for providing awareness.

[Theeporkchopxprezz]

Whoa! Talk about chills when you said Eric Vallente. Eric was the pilot on the crash that killed my brother. I say, the more I watch this channel, I will never fly on a private plane.

[joelmulder]

The worst thing is that W/B is so trivially easy to calculate nowadays.
You just plug some numbers into foreflight, and it tells you if you’re gonna fly or crash today.

[danepatterson]

Some pilots seem to think that aircraft fly because of their will instead of the laws of physics. How do you ignore max weight? When your stall warning is blaring for 3 minutes, how do you fail to increase power to the engine? I'm reminded of Air France 447 where the PiC did not seem to understand how stalls occur

[atypocrat]

Flying will expose you. Your imperfections. Your faults. Your errors. Your weaknesses. The lies you tell yourself. And nobody is perfect.

[hokiepilot]

I fly an SR20 and can add a few things:
-Correction: the SR20 model they were flying is only 200hp. This was a deliberate design by Cirrus so pilots didn’t need a high performance endorsement (any plane with >200hp)
Though since 2017 the SR20 came with 215hp
-In order to take 4 adults (pilot + 3 pax), I need fuel at tabs (a little less than half full on each wing) and 0 bags. And on a hot day with altitude? Forget it.

The SR20 is an amazing plane but it pales in comparison with a 22 or 22T in useful load…the 20 with full fuel and some bags is a 2 adults airplane.

[johnrogers]

I watch your videos with great interest and find them very informative. I'm not a pilot, but an avid flight simmer. Back when I was around 18 years old (long ago now), I flew with a group of friends - members of an amateur sports team, from Mpls. to Chicago. The flight down was uneventful, and being young, the thought of a problem never occurred to me. On the flight back we were racing a storm front that was heading towards Mpls. and the pilot was only VFR rated. To speed our departure, we didn't refuel for the flight back.

Enroute the one of the tanks ran dry, the engine sputtered and you could feel the plane lose its lift. The pilot managed to switch tanks and get the engine back up to speed. We were vectored to a small airstrip in southern MN where, after a failed attempt at landing and a go-around, the pilot managed to land the plane. After refueling, the storm had moved in - and the pilot was trying to convince everyone that he could fly under the clouds and follow the roads back to Mpls.

After I refused to fly with him under those conditions, he enlisted two IFR pilots to come down in a second plane, and each pilot took a few of us back in those planes. Our plane was first to land at the destination airport outside of Mpls area. The second plane was unable to locate the airport beacon in the weather and eventually had to divert to another nearby airport and land there. I often wonder what would have happened had I agreed to fly and we all took off with that inexperienced and non-IFR pilot. I lost all interest in real-world GA flying after that unsettling experience. I think perhaps my decision saved lives...including my own.

[davidp]

“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”