Kim Blair recurrency flight

A talented young lady who obtained her pilot’s license alongside a great friend (her father Rob Blair) during covid. Sadly, Rob passed away this past January in a helicopter incident. Like a trooper, Kim reached out to me to get a chance on the controls again despite the tragic loss of her father. A great time at DJ Murray airstrip.

And you don’t mind if I take some videos of us you do whatever I can give you all of these there to everybody this is Kim Blair pilot extraordinaire but yeah it’ll do it all on its own well that’s easy I mean the 206 is pretty easy 206 is pretty easy

Then you get to the Long Ranger where you have have to MK the throttle like you’re moving it a little bit and then this thing which is idiot proof that’s where I come and play here yeah then it hits 62.8 n and it sits here in idles turn on a

Jen I think these are all they might be yeah you know you can throw on another boost we got Gyros and avionics all right I’ll take pictures off and like I say you can you can start you can ride along you can do whatever you like okay you’re going to take off

Or you want me to take off why don’t you take off yeah okay okay so we’re going to crank it up and we’re just going to watch the torque uh as we always do okay okay you know somewhere you always say below 30 so you’re just rolling up the

Throttle now just rolling it up slowly and it’s going to get to the fly position F and you still got you there’s like an indent there just like there is on the tool sck so there that’s that’s that’s it so we’re good to go basically you’re good to go you’re good to go

Uh DJ Murray traffic Bell 407 golf Mike bravo charlie is about 2 miles south uh we’ll be joining a left hand uh downwind uh and Landing towards the South doing uh some touch and goes and one thing you found about this lots of right pedal when you drop

Collective like it’s uh you really uh yeah it really swings the ball okay okay it’ll come it it just flies a a little different than everything else very it’s very similar look at you got her in sight right down the pipes short final 16 I love for

Flight yeah you know I one thing that I uh really wish my dad had that day oh I would the day that I had it it’s I think it’s I wouldn’t want GPS that4 and I’ll be entering a left we won’t worry about this time coming in a little hot yeah well it

Depends where you’re going to touchdown so pick us next time we’ll say pick a spot and let’s head for the spot right okay we got we got lots of spots here we’ll do kind of mid wind’s kind of from the so anyways there so that’s kind of good circuits

Are good cuz it’s like teaches gets you out of your bad habits which [Applause] is yeah you’re there man excellent off Trafficway I’ll be climbing Runway heading uh to Circuit he next circuit to the southeast where’s the wind coming from I feel it well it’s kind of sort of at your 11:00 10

11:00 you’re there you’re there all right folks this is when it gets exciting when it gets real quiet in here [Applause] that’s a low rotor picking it up picking it up it’s at 100 the gutter again checking it coming in coming in checking again rotor down again and come back to a

Flare power on and we live to see another day all right let’s drop the throttle oh there we go here we go danger danger Danger 60 knots runway in sight check the RPM just over a 100 down again coming in coming in and easy flare oh we made her again so have you ever had to do one in real life yet never never you know what they say they damage more helicopters practicing than they actually

Do having to do it eh so so your Dad decided okay I want to go flying and then well how long after that you say hey wait what about me no I kind of I was the uh devil in his ear cuz he wanted to get his license and then he

Got really sick there okay uh and said you know I’m going to sell the bird blah blah blah and then he started to feel better so I said well why don’t you give it a shot yeah uh and then he enrolled and he said I enrolled you too so we

Enrolled at the same time oh okay good for you and I was like what I’m doing it and he’s like yeah you’re going to do it with me I’m like okay do it you know it get my dad wasn’t feeling so great he wasn’t he was far from good

In terms of his health and the helicopter stuff gave him a lot of Vitality and yeah he gave him a lot a lot of his self confidence back I I call him every once in a while he was bad to return calls cuz he wasn’t feeling good and I called

Dereck up but Derrick said yeah know he’s going through man he’s going through you know and I said okay well I’ll leave a message I’ll leave a message and then the time he call back yeah he he likes playing so yeah for