Original Message

My helicopter ATP ride was one of the easiest of my career. The brief was a little long, but that was mostly because the DPE passed along alot of practical knowledge and stories from his career. The ride itself was an instrument take off with vectors to holding followed by a localizer followed by an ILS followed by a couple of autos. He threw a settling with power demo and a hyd failure in the mix. Honestly, the hardest part was the very bottom of the ILS, as short final was over a lake, ans it got a little bumpy. But really, it was pretty low-threat.