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About a year and a half ago , I showed

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up uh left Maxwell , um came here for a

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transition course uh to fly the Huey .

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Uh the instruction was phenomenal uh

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through that course , uh completed it

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and then graduated and came back for

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the pilot instructor course uh angle

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on the 30 ft of instructors . Uh

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more than prepared me to go out from

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fixed wing to now teaching students at

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the undergrad level how to fly a

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helicopter .

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I remember the first time flying with

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them and I was like , wow , these are

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super experienced , talented , super

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professional individuals . I had no

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idea that they flew fix wing . I

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thought they would just be flying

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rotary this entire time . So it's

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really cool to get the experience with

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them . And to hear some of the fixing

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experience too ,

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it's a completely different animal

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going from fixed wing to helicopter .

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So uh all the same mistakes that they

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make , I've more than made myself .

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He is an incredible instructor . We

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have other great instructors here .

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They always are super patient ,

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especially with us that are really new

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to flying . A lot of us don't have any

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prior experience if we're coming here .

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We've never done this . Right . No

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one's flown a helicopter at Maxwell .

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Uh , luckily we've had a few good hires

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recently that are helicopter experience .

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But the core of us that's there now ,

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uh , I've never flown a helicopter and

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this was our first exposure to it . So ,

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without it , it , it , I mean , it

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would be a much longer process to be

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able to be a MH 139 instructor .