Rick did it !

Rick Venditti came to Blue Hill Helicopters this summer in the hopes of learning to fly a helicopter , we told Rick  he had certainly come to the right place !

On August 19th Rick completed his first solo in the schweizer, with no limitations he took the solid little training helicopter around the pattern for a few laps . Ricks next trip out will be solo from the ramp with no help from his instructor Kilian.

 Good luck and well done Rick !

Solo !

Hugh joined Blue Hill Helicopters after one of our open houses, he has worked hard to get to a solo standard and on August 15th he did it !

Well done Hugh, now you can continue on to the next level of  solo cross country !

Some questions to ask your flight school !

So..... you decide that you want to go to flight school, you did your research and chose your school . The school seemed friendly and they had good equipment . The instructors explained the courses and you found yourself working your way through the private license.

BUT WAIT ! Do they have an instructor with the experience to do the touchdown autos required for the CFI ? yet again does that instructor have the requirements to be able to sign you off for a CFI check ride ? This requires 24 months as a flight instructor and 200 hours of flight instruction given as a minimum, many instructors do not have the experience to do this and many schools bring in outside instructors just to do this , this can really disrupt the flow for the student.

Blue Hill Helicopters has several instructors on staff to take you through the CFI. We can safely complete your CFI rating without bringing in outside contractors.

Our newest instructor "Johann Sweitzer" has been in several blogs already, this month he completed the CFI and moved on to a job with Blue Hill Helicopters ! Johann trained exclusively from start to finish with Blue Hill and finally he gets to sit in the left seat and teach , Well done Johann .