IIMC Rules to Live by
The moments immediately following “lost visual cues” are critical. Here are some rules to live by to maintain helicopter control as you establish an instrument scan: 1. NEVER turn AND descend when you are...
Author: Adam Young
Establishing an Instrument Scan
Today, I will discuss jump starting the instrument scan when you lose visual cues. Other services use a more granular step by step process for establishing an instrument scan. The Unusual Attitude Recovery EP...
The Most Important Step in our Emergency Procedures
In the first post I presented the two most important sentences in our flight manual, “The most important single consideration is helicopter control. All procedures are subordinate to this requirement.” In the second post,...
The Most Important Sentence in the Flight Manual
What do you think the most important sentence is in the flight manual? A Bold face procedure? This is “considered critical.” It is not a bold face procedure. A warning? This is defined as...
What Makes Us “Exceptional”
There are three attributes of Coast Guard rotary wing aircrews that few other helicopter aircrews can match, the combination of which separates our community from most other rotary wing communities: As “Forging Airmanship” iterates,...
Iron Sharpens Iron
If you’ve read some of the OPI posts, you know I like metaphors. “Iron sharpens iron” is one of my favorites. Anyone who has achieved an exceptional level of performance knows it cannot be...
It is not Supposed to be Easy
I am repeating myself intentionally. Our work provides us with plenty of challenges – government shutdowns, COVID, budget woes, asset sourcing difficulties, family moves, etc. Each member is also tested, individually, due to unique...
Create
Most of the time, the aviators I was charged to lead actually showed me the way. They didn’t need to hear me preach, but as I have mentioned before, OPI was as much for...
Styrofoam weights
Other pilots have heard me say, you can be a 1000-hour pilot, or you can fly the same hour 1000 times… I wrote to the team: My goal was to support them in becoming...
WIN
To operate from a position of integrity we must have discipline to optimize our finite resources (in this case time, energy, focus). Brian Johnson equation review… (time x energy x focus x “what is...