Commercial Pilot and Open House

Again its been a month since we took the time to blog, Part 141 Re-Approval took a lot of our time and is now fully complete with the only approved simulator course in the north east. With other flight schools losing approval due to lack of experience to maintain a chief pilot or zero graduations.....
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Summer is trying to arrive and we are busier than last year, maybe that's a good sign that the economy is improving and people are again thinking about having fun !

Francisco has been a student for some time at BHH, He does not fly often but has been a solid student and always studied hard. Francisco balances a full time Job as TSA agent and his shift allows him to receive flight training on weekdays.

After obtaining his Private and Instrument ratings with BHH he took his Commercial check ride this week and passed first time, Well done Francisco !!! He will move on to his CFI next week .

Don't forget we have an open house this Saturday the 28th at the BHH office, 125 Access road, Norwood MA 02062. We will have sandwiches, drinks and our Simulator here for people to view. We will be talking about how to obtain ratings and save money in your training.

See you there !

More to come........

BHH

More Solo's !

A while ago we mentioned Scott Gannon completing his first solo in the Schweizer or Sikorsky 300 as it is now known. We did not have pictures at the time but finally they are here !.

Scott is the perfect student, he always studies and arrives on time. Scott has been a super fast learner and I am sure will make the perfect instructor when he is finished.

Scott got his solo done in very low time, unlike the Robinson Helicopters there is no restriction on when a student can complete their first solo flight, so if your a fast learner like Scott you can save some time.

Scott is completing his solo cross countries right now and will soon be on to the all important checkride !

Congratulations Scott and have a great day !


The BHH Team

An example to us all.......

Adrian Mansfield started with Blue hill helicopters almost three years ago, We were looking for an instructor and I called Adrian. He was down in Florida at the time after just completing his training at Bristow Academy, the biggest civilian school in the world with over 50 Schweizer helicopters.

Adrian and I arranged a date and he came up for a two day interview, I collected him from the airport and we headed to the school, chatting about England on the way and how I did not miss it and he did !

We went over some ground school in the classroom and Adrian did great , we flew and I knew at that point he would be teaching at Blue Hill. Adrian and I arranged a date for him to start and he made the drive from Florida a week later and to my house until he found a place to live. Adrian fitted in well and soon built some great relationships with the students and myself, although we butted heads at times ! Many people have moved through the school under Adrians careful guidance and received licenses from Private through CFII.

Here we are three years and 1800 hours later in Adrians logbook and he is more than ready to move on to his next adventure. We would love to keep all of our instructors forever but they must all move on to the next stage, thats why we teach. Adrian will be making the trip to Las Vegas to fly tours in the Grand Canyon and the las vegas strip. He will be flying the EC130 initially then the AS350, I am sure he will impress and help more of our CFII's to move on to the next level.

I can honestly say that I am proud that one of our instructors has again been hired into the industry, It says a lot for the school and the standards and reputation we keep, we will keep you updated on Adrians progress in Las Vegas !!!!

Steve 

Solo pilots and fresh 141 simulator courses approved !

Firstly, we must apologize for lack of blogs, recent weeks have been taken up writing new simulator inclusive courses for our fresh part 141 school approval, these will be approved for use at the end of the month !  January has seen several new student pilots and some are solo already !, Firstly Scott Gannon soloed in the schweizer and closely followed by Carlos Almirani this weekend. Scott has moved right along and already completed some of his required cross country work. Unlike the Robinson helicopter , the schweizer has no restriction on hours when a student can solo, so you wont be held back if you are talented ! Carlos was already a fixed wing commercial pilot with tail wheel and aerobatic experience under his belt, he showed his skill with three perfect patterns under Kilian's supervision on the runway.

Congrats Carlos and Scott, We promise to update you all with the latest on the fresh 141 approval and the inclusion of the sim in the programs to save you money !

The BHH Team

Santa is real for the non-believers !

Yes its true, Santa Claus is real ! we know this because he was in our offices at the Norwood airport!

Santa was here on a mission .... He needed a helicopter to drop gifts off in the local area , sometimes he needs to make early deliveries to people who wont be around on Christmas day!

Santa is also very very good with making things with baloons and he even made the instructors at BHH a baloon helicopter!

Santa had a safe flight and delivered many gifts from the air. We were lucky that the Schweizer helicopter is able to carry a lot of weight so we could carry santa and his gifts!

Merry Christmas from everyone at BHH and thanks to all of our friends who are also our customers, good luck in 2012.

The British school of Boston

Thirty one children greeted us on Thursday morning, yes 31 ! They arrived in two minibuses from The British school of Boston.

Martyn Langley called us several weeks back about a project that the children were doing on airports, they had been working on how airports operate and how aircraft fly. We decided that a visit to the airport would be great for the children and they would be able to get up close to the helicopters and a private citation jet .

They arrived at 9.30am and we split them into three groups , the first group went over to the jet and were amazed at just how big it was ! They took turns at sitting inside and pretending to be rock stars ,well the teachers did anyway !

We showed everybody the Helicopters and they had fun pressing buttons and talking to each other on the intercom in the helicopters. Thanks to Kilian, Adrian and Johann for the help in keeping things from getting broken !

It was an amazing sight seeing thirty one children sat on the floor in the offices eating lunch ! We gave them all pens and keyrings and they went back to the British school to talk about what they had seen !

More blogs to come , plenty going on here at Blue Hill Helicopters including a first solo from Scott Gannon , Great job Scott , as soon as we have the pictures we will Blog about your journey to going solo !

We would also like to welcome our new edition to the team Kilian Szulmirski, he joins us from Germany and will be one of the new CFII's here at BHH. Welcome Kilian.

Happy holidays everyone and dont forget it is not to late to get a gift certificate for christmas. We can send gift certificates for helicopter flights or for the simulator .

All at BHH

Johann sweitzer Instrument pilot !

Once again Blue hill helicopters reports a check ride pass! Johann started with BHH and completed his private then moved on to instrument . He passed his Instrument check ride on Friday and is keen to start on the commercial program ASAP !

Johann completed 15 hours of his requirements in our FLY-IT simulator . Saving him time and money and allowing him to fly in any weather ! and we have had some bad weather the last couple of months !

On this occasion Johann used the Schweizer C model for his flight test but the simulator is approved to complete the instrument check ride in. Johann has been ready for the check ride now for several weeks but with scheduling conflicts and weather he could not complete it until Friday. He was however able to maintain his ability with regular sessions in the simulator and aced the check ride.

BHH is now offering contract positions for the use of our simulator and the first regular user will be announced in the next few weeks, a very large helicopter operator indeed !

Keep checking our blog for the latest news and events from BHH , several students are getting ready to solo in the next couple of weeks !