Good Morning !

Good morning everyone , thanks again for reading the blog !

Its been a while since I wrote last but things have been very busy around here for January, We took delivery of our new helicopter the Eurocopter EC120 B in Florida and have been back and forth to miami flying it around and training in Miami with the owner . Its a great helicopter, plenty of power for the Job its designed for and a great looking machine, makes that old Jetranger look like an R22 !. I am currently at American Eurocopter in Arlington Texas completing the Factory training course . The training is 5 days long and is required for any Insurance company to provide commercial insurance, as we will be using the helicopter for tours and charter this year then its a must, it also gives us a chance to do lots of "Touch down" autos with  a factory pilot and get that all important factory sign off. The Ec120 is not a difficult helicopter to fly but as with any Eurocopter product it has some systems that are very different from other helicopters that you really need to know. I will post more when the course is complete with some factory pictures for those of you who are interested .

Lets move on......

I want to congratulate Thomas Laub and Paul Mahoney for passing private checkrides ! Paul and Thom sailed through the oral part and both moved through the flight with Ease. Thom was one of our part 141 students and has now began his Part 141 instrument rating here at Blue Hill Helicopters . Paul was a part 61 student and will move on like Thom to complete his instrument rating part 141 .Good luck to both of them and I am sure that we will be posting success stories about the instrument ratings very soon !

Thats all for now but we will make sure we don't leave it so long next time !


BHH