Another check ride passed first time at Blue Hill Helicopters !

Yet another check ride was passed here at Blue Hill Helicopters on Friday. Johann Sweitzer has been waiting for a good weather day for what seems like weeks !

Friday turned out to be a great weather day and Johann arrived early to complete the remainder of his planning and a weight and balance. The examiner (Don) arrived soon after and they quickly worked through the ground portion of the private check ride. The ground room door opened with a smile and they grabbed headsets and took the golf cart out to the helicopter .

A 1.3 flight later and they both returned with smiles, Johann had performed perfectly and passed with flying colors !

Well done Johann from all of at BHH and good luck as you move on to the instrument rating.

Open House April 16th 2011 !!!

What a fantastic open house ! We could not have asked for a better turn out at Blue Hill Helicopters .
We had students which we had not seen in years ! It really feels like the economy is improving and people are wanting to get out and fly again. At one point we could not have fitted anybody else into the offices, over 30 people both new and old students waited to talk to somebody about starting to fly again or beginning a new course of training.

One student arrived in his new ferrari 458 (of course I drove it ! )

The next big arrival of the day was our very own Mark Musgrove. Mark started his career at Blue Hill and still maintains a presence to give industry advice to students, something no other school in the area can offer ! Mark works for Air Methods at Umass Worcester and fly's the Eurocopter EC145 . He landed the helicopter at Norwood for everybody to see and to meet the doctors that crew the helicopter.

Thanks to everyone who attended the open house , it was an amazing day despite being very cold on the ramp ! 

We would also like to thank the new Part 135 operator at Norwood airport, Boston Executive Helicopters   Chris Donovan brought his AS350 out of his newly refurbished hangar for everyone to see, some people managed to get a free ride !

House Hunters International..

Many of you may remember us talking about a video shoot last summer. This video shoot was for HGTV and a show called House Hunters International. The show aired in February this year and featured our own Adrian Mansfield with a part time student Matilda. Matilda was being featured on the show as she was moving to Poland and needed a house .We got some great publicity and will be tracking Matildas progress in Poland where she will continue to fly !




Be sure to stop by our open house on Saturday at the Norwood airport and meet Adrian and the other instructors Jon and Jenn.

Mark Musgrove will also be here on Saturday with the Lifeflight EC145 from Umass Worcester, you can talk to Mark and get a hands on look at the helicopter and the equipment.

Thanks and have a great day

BHH