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Max talks with New Zealand helicopter pilot Billy Watson about flying in some of the most dramatic terrain in the world, from Queenstown and...
Max flies the Loft Dynamics H125 VR simulator and he talks about why he believes highly realistic virtual reality may become an important pa...
Max talks with Fabi Riesen, CEO of Loft Dynamics , about virtual reality helicopter simulator training and why VR may be a practical way to...
See Helicopter News headlines and link to listener survey below. In this episode, Max talks with helicopter instructor Jay Bunning to explor...
In this episode of the Rotary Wing Show , Max Trescott replays a powerful conversation from Aviation News Talk Episode 37, featuring Califor...
Max talks with Jay Bunning about the crash of a Robinson R66, VH-KFT, in Australia that claimed the life of its pilot on October 26, 2023. I...
Max talks with Jay Bunning, CFI and creator of helicoptertrainingvideos.com , for Part 2 of their series on Helicopter Training Safety: Prev...
Max welcomes Jay Bunning , flight instructor, FAA Safety Team representative, and founder of HelicopterTrainingVideos.com , for Part 1 of a...
Helicopter Human Factors & Safety Lessons for All Pilots takes a deep dive into the psychology, stress responses, and decision-making proces...
Max Trescott talks with Ken Solosky, the NYPD's Chief Pilot on 9/11, about his experiences managing helicopter operations on one of the most...
This episode originally ran on the Aviation News Talk podcast. In it, Max Trescott interviews Dr. John Trowbridge, a physician and former se...
Max Trescott is joined by DPE Matt Johnson for a comprehensive and engaging mock oral checkride focused on the private helicopter pilot cert...
In this special episode of The Rotary Wing Show , titled Top 10 Helicopter Stories + Helicopter News , aviation podcaster Max Trescott offic...
The flying you will get to hear about in this episode is a reminder about the difference your helicopter skillset can make to people that ar...
Kylle Fenton is an Air Crew Officer (ACO) involved in air rescue and ambulance operations supporting NSW, Australia communities. He is more...
James Koens is a Check and Training Aircrew Officer on very expensive rescue/aeromedical helicopters. He also finds time to be a helicopter...
Have you applied the idea of situational awareness to weather before? Knowing what the weather was doing, what the weather is now and what i...
You have probably seen the video clip on social media multiple times – a OH-58 comes into land and as it touches down the blades contact ano...
As aircrew we spend a huge amount of time training for different circumstances and emergencies. Dealing with a burning flare in your cockpit...
Halfway through 2021, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) put out a call for assistance for information from the aviation communit...
Cattle are big business in Australia. Rough round numbers has us at 25 million head of cattle and the industry employs somewhere around 200,...
Chatter in the cabin starts to die down, you have reduced power and started to bleed back the airspeed. Outside your world is starting to sh...
How would you like to have been holding a steady hover and taking off and landing at 3 hours of helicopter flight time? Chris Ryan couldn’t...
Before this episode if you told me that there was more than an hour conversation that you could get out of talking about the governor in Rob...
If the images and text on the page of your aerodynamic textbook are starting to blur together then it might be time to take a break and try...
Helicopters make fantastic photo subjects! There is still something special about flying that captures the human spirit and the intrinsic mo...
Two US National Guard pilots are developing a new training tool to reduce the risk of and improve the fidelity of reduced visual environment...
It is not unusual for helicopter pilots to take a winding route to before they end up with a career in the cockpit. Tryggvi worked as a bagg...
Before a helicopter approaches to an oil rig there are checks and safety procedures to be followed on the rig in preparation – the deck is c...
Jerry Grayson returns to the Rotary Wing Show with an update on his next adventure following a packed career in the cockpit as a SAR and fil...
Richard (Rick) Howell started spinning spanners on aircraft in 1960 as a QANTAS apprentice. Since then he has flown all through Australia an...
Working in the helicopter media part of the industry Elan Head gets to talk to a wide range of people and over time has had the opportunity...
Electronic news gathering or ENG is the term that those in the helicopter news corner of the industry use to capture their operations. As a...
Most piston engine pilots will be at least passingly familiar with the theory behind the formation of carburetor icing. However most textboo...
As versatile as helicopters are there are still tight places where they just can’t land to get people in or out. For overwater flights, resc...
The general line thrown out there is that most helicopter pilots try to spend their careers staying away from wires – the guys and girls fly...
The pace of consumer electronics development far outstrips that of aviation equipment and helicopter installed functionality. Electronic Fli...
We first looked at night aerial firefighting in episode 65 when the capability had just finished the first trials in Australia. Now with two...
Today’s topic is First Solo flights. If you are a student getting ready for your first helicopter solo this is the episode that you want to...
We spend a lot of time training for emergencies in the air but how much do you know about what happens next or what kicks into gear if you g...
Even if you are not an avid movie goer it is still very likely that you have seen some of Fred North’s work. Fred has been involved in many...
In the market for a helicopter or just want to know some of the ins and outs of the process? Stephen Boyce has been working in helicopter sa...
Forward Looking Infra-red (FLIR) systems have been around for a while and used in a search or surveillance function normally by an operator...
Ditching a rapidly yawing helicopter into the open ocean is one of those experiences most of us would happily pass on. Jim Palmquist and his...
If your perfect day sounds like flying a glider in the morning, testing the HV curve in a Kiowa at lunch and then jumping in a Swedish jet i...
A few years can make a big difference and that is the case now in Jan 2020 for the helicopter pilot hiring market in the USA. For the first...
There are differing and some very academic definitions for what culture is. I like – “the way we do things around here”. This is a chat abou...
Have you ever taken your eyes inside the cockpit to check a notification or had your preflight inspection interrupted by a phone call? Distr...
For many military aviators their careers at some point end up being a case of ‘up’ or ‘out’ – either promoted to more non-flying roles or tr...
Hoist operations open up a wide range of additional roles for helicopters. They allow us to get people and equipment into and out of locatio...