R44 Helicopter Panel Overview

Lots of people have been asking me to give them more information about the helicopter itself, so here's my first plain information video. In it, I give you a guided tour of my helicopter's instrument panel, from top to bottom. Airplane pilots will recognize a bunch of the instruments, but there are also a few that are helicopter-only. Keep in mind that this is just an overview -- I don't go into deep detail about any of the instruments or knobs that I discuss. The video has two parts -- I got a phone call from a client and had to fly while I was in the middle of recording it -- so you get the added benefit of seeing the instruments actually reading something near the end. Can you spot the blades still spinning?

I've also gotten requests to show what my helicopter looks like, so I included a photo in the beginning. I should mention here that the intro music was created for me years ago by Mac author Bob Levitus; I'm only using a tiny piece of the opus he composed and recorded for me. (Maybe I'll use the whole thing as background music for a flight in the future.)

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