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Not to good with posting hope this works.

My little bro is a helicopter pilot and took us for a ride over the christmas holiday this us coming in for a landing at my acreage.  The machine he flies is an R44 piston engine.

 

 

 

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THis one is from inside the R44

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Currently he doesn't own one but he's working on it. I've been up with him a few times and even flew it on my own for an hour or so, the owners call it an initial flight, usually they use this to evaluate new prospective pilots, I was told I did very well for someone who had NEVER been in the air before. They would've accepted me for further training (students are selected) ......but flight school for commercial pilot (helo) is very expensive($55,000 CDN) for 4 months worth of training.  Some day soon I'll get it .... I hope.

 

PS    It is very Cool!!

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I'm sure he'd like hearing that.

But actually it's kind of a entry level chopper. I'm told it'll set you back a cool 1/2 million CDN. :0

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