Thank you kindly to Mr. Kamil Podalsky in the Czech Republic for working with us to test new helicopter headset designs! Kamil, who has a great sense of humor, brings great style to our team! Here’s his story, in his own words. We hope you also find him inspiring. Please enjoy!
In His Own Words
It all started when I was a little boy. My dad was an army helicopter pilot at the time on the Mi-24, Mi-8 and Mi-17. Almost every night before going to bed he told me about aviation and his stories of flying in the army instead of fairy tales. He was and still is a great inspiration for me. Since that time my goal was clear: I want to become a helicopter pilot. I´ve had aviation as my hobby all my life, studying books, attending airshows, watching aerial movies and always looking up at the sky when I heard the roaring helicopter rotors.
When I was 16 years old I started a pilot training to obtain a private pilot license of PPL(H) at HELI CZECH s.r.o. company (Czech Republic) and at the age of 17 I successfully obtained it. Since that time I have mostly flown overflights to various aviation events throughout the Czech Republic and surrounding states, flights for private purposes, check flights and also training flights with an instructor from mentioned company for refreshing and improving advanced emergency procedures. From my point of view the training of Emergency Procedures is never enough
because every pilot quickly and easily forgets it by non-repetition and as soon as this situation occurs for real the pilot must be 110% sure what to quickly do.
At the age of 23 I have done two more important pilot courses. The first was a Commercial Helicopter Pilot CPL(H) and a few months later Instructor´s license FI(H). As soon as I obtained these qualifications the number of flights rapidly increased and since then I have flying as main job at the Hradec Králové Airport (LKHK).
I am currently 26 years old and I am full-time pilot at HELI CZECH s.r.o. company. I am mostly dedicated to Flight School, HeliTaxi, Sightseeing Flights, Aerial Work and also Aviation Management. My greatest aviation experience to date is several years of international training of many groups of army helicopter pilots where I flew for several hundred hours as an instructor.
The Stats
My approx flight hours (fh) to 14.11.2020
Total: 1 400 fh
PIC: 1 150 fh
FI(H): 550 fh
My type rating: MD500E, BELL 206B, R44, R22 and soon AW-119 or AH-1S COBRA.
Thank you to everyone who has read this briefly written aviation story to the end and I hope that for someone it can be at least a small motivation for aviation life. If anyone has a question about my story or aviation, please do not hesitate to contact me – Instragram: @kapo_pilot / Facebook: Kamil Podolský
