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@@carternicholas6171 No. 212 with the Single Eagle kit.

@@Thedoctv He wanted to persevere his starter’s life. I think it would’ve been better to just open the throttle as well. Thank you for checking out the video!

Ooh, I’ll do that next time! Thanks for watching!

I'll letchya'll deliver a fresh made lemon merang pie here to my place when ya talk off, lol🍋🥧😋🤣🤣🤣🤣 fly safe👍🏻

Appreciate it. Thank you for watching!

Yep. Lol. When he doesn’t to drive to the airport to fly, we fly his helicopter up to him. Thanks for watching!

It sure is! Thanks for watching!

He’s still around, he’s just in between helicopters right now. Thanks for watching!

@@hondo500e Right on! Enjoy seeing your videos of our local area and the different helos you get to fly in. One of these days I'll make it to the Julian Pie Company.

It’s a pretty rare STC kit. The company that made them didn’t last long. Definitely an interesting look. Thanks for watching!

I find flying much easier with a governor.

Not that I know of, but we are always trying to find new places to go though. Thanks for watching!

Yup. It ended up getting replaced the week after. The issue that day was the battery wasn’t even plugged in since the last flight.

I know!! Such a bummer, so sad that the pilot died.

It does! In this case it’s just the “Enstrom wobble.” At high rpms while on the ground in the enstroms they start rocking on the struts. It looks just like ground resonance, however nothing is flying apart.

@@hondo500e But I think to stop ground resonance, you should immediately close the throttle, and to avoid ground resonance, there should not be one skid/wheel on the ground at a time, am I right?

@@greatbritishscarface7464 Yep. If you’re on the ground and it starts happening you can either pick up into a hover if you have the power, because once you get airborne it fixes itself. Then if you don’t have the power, roll off power completely and my instructor said get the blades stopped ASAP. I watched a pilot unintentionally slam an Astar down while trying to land on a cart, it got into ground resonance so he just picked up again and it equaled itself out.

@@hondo500e And another thing, to stop ground resonance when landing, you take back off immediately.

Thank you for watching!

Yeah I agree with ya. We had a mechanic that rigged it that way where the RPM sat up at 2100RPM with the engine running and the clutch not engaged. It since then has been fixed and it sits way lower than 2000 RPM now. Also using a new mechanic now so that always helps.

@@hondo500e Ahh - you were on idle and still got 2000rpm? Yeah - good idea to adjust :) Really nice helicopter! Thanks for video!

It’s an amazing ship. I’m also kind of going down the fixed wing path now, hopefully one day I’ll get back in a 500.

Ah. I don’t know. Lol I was just along for the ride as a cameraman. I just have limited astar knowledge.

I’ve seen it get to right about 20% on a good day. When the battery is worn down a bit or the battery was off the charger for a day it’s been about 13%.

Thanks very much for the quick reply! I’m writing a simple turbine simulation so might have some “odd” questions I can’t find online if you don’t mind :)

@@NZ255 No problem! Thanks for watching.

It’s an old school gps receiver for the Garmin 696. The owner said it was once a top notch piece of equipment. Thank you for watching!

Enstroms are a little bit different airframes. The blades will freewheel once we fire up. But they don’t get up to idle speed until the clutch is engaged. The Enstrom pistons have a manual clutch, a handle that you have to pull up and into a lock to engage.

@@hondo500e Yep, been flying mine for a few years now. Must be a minor build difference…mine blades don’t move until I engage the “squealer!”

@@patrickjennings7362 Haha that’s nice! Where are you located? We’re always looking to see other enstroms flying around.

@@hondo500e Sadly, east coast, very close to DC. I’m moving up to New Hampshire soon and from there to Colorado after I fully retire.

No sir. This guy just has his own few chevrons.

Yes.

Actually it’s a 212 Single Eagle which once was a 212 twin, but has gone through the conversion process. It’s not uncommon for this conversion, I’ve been told. But you are correct no single engine 212 has been sold from Bell. Some one spent a pretty penny converting this machine. Thank you for watching.

Enstrom do not use a governor so manual throttle is required, however you can upgrade to a correlator which will twist the throttle for you when raising/lowering the collective which is the next best thing to a governor, requiring only minor adjustments in flight

Thank you for watching! This is in Santa Ysabel, California.

Thank you for watching!