You will be pleased to know that I used your video as an educational lesson for my 6th grade grandson. After completing a science project recently on "Bernoulli's Principle", my grandson instantly understood how the main rotor produces lift as shown at minute 1:09. You video has inspired him to maybe someday become an aeronautical engineer. Thanks for posting this video and helping us understand how a helicopter flies.
ive been flying them for nearly 3 years and its the best feeling ever, no traffic jams, no traffic wardens or traffic signals just the open sky and there not that much more than a suv to run. just no where to land in a parking lot.
oooops after watching this i decided to hijack one and fly it, while mid air i remember i did not watch how to land it. bro your video is not complete what should i do now?
I found this video very interesting and it helped me a lot I am proud of you for making this video my future career is a wildlife biologist to protect animals around the world and I am going to pilot a helicopter thank u so much for making this video it helped me a lot
At 65 and retired Helicopter and Videos like this cause goose bums! Good think I got the pleasure to learn to fly Cessna 150 and 172. Love them choppers!
last year i had one flying lesson in a R44, it was a birthday present. i am a fsx-pilot and i found it really easy to fly... hopefully i become a real airline-pilot one day
I started flying fixed wing aircraft when I was 11, with an instructor of course. At 16 you can solo, and I did that before driving a car by myself. I had to sit on pillows so I could see over the dashboard, but as long as you can reach the pedals you can start as early as you want!
I have a brother that flew a Huey in Vietnam.He and some of the men still alive have purchased a Huey and gutted it.They are working on instruments and rewiring everything until the engine gets back.Its getting a complete overhaul.Somewhere around the Smoky Mountain's is where they want to set up a field.I love to fly with my brother.He has taught me how to fly but PTSD is still on the forefront of his mind.He left his heart and soul in Vietnam and all the gov't give him in return was ribbons.
You'll be hearing from my lawyer on this one. I watched the video twice.. TWICE! Then I crashed my 3rd new helicopter. This is becoming an expensive hobby.
***** Before the great war, I was paid to crash choppers. Not easy crashes either... these were hard. Today, I still crash. It's a living. Gravity is my nemesis.
At about 2:08 they say you need right pedal when lifting off. In America, with the M/R spinning counter clockwise you need left pedal to counter the M/R torque.
That's the theory. Hovering a helicopter has been likened to trying to balance a marble on top of a tray that slopes down in every direction from the centre, whilst jumping up and down (I don't know exactly where that quote came from or if it's correct, but I do know it's extremely difficult to master).
So, it's a bit like patting your head, rubbing your tummy, performing cartwheels and whistling Dixie all at the same time. Sheesh guys, I'm full of admiration for the skills you've acquired. I have enough trouble flying a co-axial toy.
Okay. Watched this 3 times and was all excited. Bought a brand new R-22. Drove it straight into the ground. Get a better helicopter with computers to make flying easy and fun..
@powermaks 2-6 grand is normal for a fixed wing license, rotary wing typically costs a lot more. I actually just looked up another school by me in a much larger area and they're charging about 14 grand.
@rdalben The non-turbine is just like a car engine. It uses pistons moving up and down to turn a crank which turns the rotors. In a turbine there are no pistons. It is basically a multi-stage air compressor which sucks in cold air like a fan, compresses it with spinning turbines, mixes it with fuel and continually ignites it to create even more pressure/power. The spinning turbines drive the rotors.
been meaning to book some lessons for god knows how many years.... fascination or what. been flying model planes and helis (just recently) so might have a head start.
Yep, that's called precession. You can see it yourself by taking the front wheel off your bike and holding each end of the axle (the same way it rides in the forks). Get it spinning and try and hold it horizontally level. Precession is the resistance you feel to that. Now. have someone come and push up lightly on the spinning rim with a fingertip (where the brake pads grip). The part of the rim that actually goes up will be 90 degrees AHEAD of where the finger pushed up.
I learned something new about how the collective manipulates the angle of the blades. My original thought on how the chopper lifts off from the ground was entirely different
I never build an elicopter but I'm going to try I got the lake part of it for the body part I have to make a frame for it I'm just doing it out of cardboard I guess I could go down to the Auburn on Main Street to where they sell model airplanes at and buy a motor for it to see if it works but that's really cool what you have on the computer and it shows that I've never done these kind of things in my life but it's kind of interesting thank you
More expensive helicopters do have computers help out the pilot, but usually by the time your are qualified to fly them, you've already learned enough of the hand-eye coordination / muscle memory to not NEED the computer's help.
Been flying model helicopters for a year and the more you learn about them the more you realize they don't follow conventional wisdom (i.e. it's counter intuitive!). To make the heli go forward, you are actually mechanically making it go left. The gyroscopic forces are not symmetrical and all the heli controls are based around countering and balancing it. It's more apt to say that a helicopter is held up by a field of kinetic energy where powerful opposing forces are in equilibrium.
I might already be able to fly a helicopter, I did maintenance on the things for 6 years in the Air Force on HH-60 pavehawks, although just the instrument and flight control portions / AFCS and stab, flew in them as well (btw they are NOT good to fly in if you are the type who needs to pee every 10 minutes) I wanna take lessons now :)
Narrator made a technical error. Helo rotors turn counter clockwise and the helo in the video follows that rule.. The resulting torque creates a force on the main frame resulting in a clockwise motion. During initial takeoff the narrator said the pilot applies a little pressure to the "RIGHT" pedal. That is incorrect. The pilot applies pressure to the "LEFT" pedal to turn the helo body to the left to counter the clockwise torque the counter clockwise rotating rotors are creating. I'm surprised the instructors evidently didn't proof this video for technical errors.
for the cyclic control. the generate amount of extra lift is made 90 degrees befor the actual point that u wanna lift. cause any force on a spinning disc will be expressed by this disc 90 degrees later. so when you make the aileron move the rotor tilt is made at the front and the back of the heli and when you use the elevator move the rotor tilt is made at the left and at the right. thats whierd but that is how it work. even my Rc helicopter works this way. physics !!!
@ant40099 Depens on which country you live in I suppose, but generally you only need the land owners permission to land. If you have your own field, you can land on it assuming there is not any military or emergency air traffic nearby, that might hinder you.
The most difficult parts are taking off and landing. You may have to adjust the balance of the chopper while in the air, but it hovers along quite well by itself.
Is that an acceptable departure in Australia? Just cut across the runway 3/4 the way down and make right pattern? Maybe I'm missing something here. ....
obviously it depends on the chopper but most i would imagine fly lower then the cessna , and pipers normally as well. Though curious if one needs an FAA flght plan for a chopper if you fly under a certain altitude. lower then cessna or pipers
Not sure what you're saying here. Right pedal is applied as power is applied during takeoff, except in French choppers, whose rotors turn the opposite direction, requiring left pedal application on takeoff. Expensive is relative, I suppose. The licence I got in 1990 (commercial, with a turbine endorsement on Bell 206) for just shy of $35k would cost over $100k now. About 5X the cost of a commercial airplane licence.
its interesting,and makes sense how the controls create the forces to control the copter, but does anyone else look at the mechanisms and think holy shit how delicate looking are those mechanisms, ie swash plate, rotor controls etc etc, how easy would it be for any one of those mechanisms to fail and for it to all go wrong in the air?
FYI, to obtain an FAA, Private Pilot Helicopter license (and you train in a R-22) it'll cost about $12,000(USD). Maybe double that for a Commercial license.
First, lose the square toed shoes. Second, I have a question on the swashplate. Due to the gyroscopic effect, that is, when a force acting on a spinning object will affect that spinning object 90 degrees in the direction of rotation, does the swashplate act on the spinning blades 90 degrees out?
Darn, they almost explained how the cyclic worked, but made the same mistake people always do. Say when going forward, the swash plate tilts the blades so that they are LEVEL when at the front and back. The blade on the way back has lift, and the one going forward is declined. This changes the entire TRACE of the blades path so that the entire blade set is trying to trace a forward tilt. It's a little confusing at first, but that's how it really works.
What about transitional lift? Ground effect or VRS? Ha na but they should rename it basic mechanics of the collective pitch swash plate system. Not how to fly a helicopter.
@KIRDILON The fixed wing is easier by a big shot.. but helos... they are way more fun...Anyways. The first hours in a helo can be a nightmare. After all, in a helo, you have 5 controls... and only 4 limbs. Also, any control inputs, means inmediate adjustment to the others...
You will be pleased to know that I used your video as an educational lesson for my 6th grade grandson. After completing a science project recently on "Bernoulli's Principle", my grandson instantly understood how the main rotor produces lift as shown at minute 1:09. You video has inspired him to maybe someday become an aeronautical engineer. Thanks for posting this video and helping us understand how a helicopter flies.
ive been flying them for nearly 3 years and its the best feeling ever, no traffic jams, no traffic wardens or traffic signals just the open sky and there not that much more than a suv to run. just no where to land in a parking lot.
Yes! Now I am a qualified pilot. Thanks
yeah not as fast as in the matrix movie but hey at least we can fly helicopters now and it didnt take 100 hours of practice.
marshalcraft Exactly, we saved thousands of pounds in lessons.
You never know. May save your life.
Volkswagen1990
+kamal aswal .
Much thanks for the upload. My prison escape plan is nearly complete.
+Johnny Favorite so you must be the guy who helped the guys escaped from jail in canada huh?
Nolove26 SHHHhhhhhhhh!
@Maling STHICK O he stole it
A real "FUN" way to introduce helicopters and the joy of flying them. Great Job.
oooops after watching this i decided to hijack one and fly it, while mid air i remember i did not watch how to land it. bro your video is not complete what should i do now?
I found this video very interesting and it helped me a lot I am proud of you for making this video my future career is a wildlife biologist to protect animals around the world and I am going to pilot a helicopter thank u so much for making this video it helped me a lot
How far along are you?
No way man, that hairy arm at 2:50 was clearly a real helicopter rotor blade.
HotdogAnd aHayride lol
It's funny they thought we might think it was an actual helicopter blade.
At 65 and retired Helicopter and Videos like this cause goose bums! Good think I got the pleasure to learn to fly Cessna 150 and 172.
Love them choppers!
last year i had one flying lesson in a R44, it was a birthday present. i am a fsx-pilot and i found it really easy to fly... hopefully i become a real airline-pilot one day
Very nicely made - now I finally understand how they (basically) work.
Thank you!!
This looks EXHAUSTING.
Wow, I'm glad I watched that clip. My new helicopter arrives tomorrow and now I know all I need to know about flying it.
AussieMu sicRocks
I'm hoping to start learning within the next month and could not be more excited!
I started flying fixed wing aircraft when I was 11, with an instructor of course. At 16 you can solo, and I did that before driving a car by myself. I had to sit on pillows so I could see over the dashboard, but as long as you can reach the pedals you can start as early as you want!
I have a brother that flew a Huey in Vietnam.He and some of the men still alive have purchased a Huey and gutted it.They are working on instruments and rewiring everything until the engine gets back.Its getting a complete overhaul.Somewhere around the Smoky Mountain's is where they want to set up a field.I love to fly with my brother.He has taught me how to fly but PTSD is still on the forefront of his mind.He left his heart and soul in Vietnam and all the gov't give him in return was ribbons.
Whoever invented the modern helicopter is a genius :)
Half of what makes this video so awesome is the accents
MemeMasterJackal _ uhhh... the accents!
Well made and easy to follow I'd say top 10 instruction video I have ever seen... on any subject.
I have to disagree. Information in this video is wrong. Easy to follow? Yes. Well made? No.
That was really cool! I have always wanted to learn how to fly a helicpoter!
Thank you so much for the instruction! I actually just got accepted into the Coast Guard as a search and rescue pilot.
Jx shua
WOW GREAT VIDEO VERY EDUCATIONAL 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Nice, went deep in the technology behind, had few new thing to learn from it, Thank you.
simple, straight to the basic ideas and really easy to understand how a helicopter fly
Too bad its wrong
I can imagine. Getting a ride in a Helicopter is on my bucket list.
You'll be hearing from my lawyer on this one. I watched the video twice.. TWICE! Then I crashed my 3rd new helicopter. This is becoming an expensive hobby.
They felt pity. So far number 5 has 10 successful flight hours and not a scratch.
***** Before the great war, I was paid to crash choppers. Not easy crashes either... these were hard.
Today, I still crash. It's a living. Gravity is my nemesis.
The Dollar Guy Anyone that flies both will tell you that remote control airplanes and helicopters are much harder to fly then the real thing.
Haha...That's funny
@Prranjal Shrivaastav lol ok boomer
4:44 and ready to buy my first chopper. Hopefully I find a big enough landing spot at the petrol station to fill up.
This should be titled "How a helicopter is flown" - I can promise you, you cannot fly a helicopter after watching this video. :)
Well said.
I flew a helicopter after watching this :-)
Noah Themins maybe on call of duty or bf3
Lol those 2 games will never be on my PC.
Just saying, it takes months to learn to fly a heli... You certainly won't get that with a 5 min video...
Many Thanks.Always dreamed of flying a helicopter.You have just wet my whistle.
I would love to learn to fly a helicopter, I have flown a Cessna 172 single prop plane before and that was fun.
At about 2:08 they say you need right pedal when lifting off. In America, with the M/R spinning counter clockwise you need left pedal to counter the M/R torque.
That's the theory. Hovering a helicopter has been likened to trying to balance a marble on top of a tray that slopes down in every direction from the centre, whilst jumping up and down (I don't know exactly where that quote came from or if it's correct, but I do know it's extremely difficult to master).
Got my first flying lesson in two days! Soooo excited!
Great production. keep it up!
So, it's a bit like patting your head, rubbing your tummy, performing cartwheels and whistling Dixie all at the same time. Sheesh guys, I'm full of admiration for the skills you've acquired. I have enough trouble flying a co-axial toy.
"instinctive helicopters are awesome" hahaha love that line
Okay. Watched this 3 times and was all excited. Bought a brand new R-22. Drove it straight into the ground. Get a better helicopter with computers to make flying easy and fun..
Still easier than flying a helicopter on GTA 😂
Great video! Thanks Sheldon
The pivotal bearing in the swash plate assembly is the core of flying
after this video, i'm going to try and fly a helicopter. because i now know how. thanks gizmag~
nice, thanks for sharing this. I'm working on my class one drives right now, and I'd really like to fly a helicopter eventually too.
@powermaks 2-6 grand is normal for a fixed wing license, rotary wing typically costs a lot more. I actually just looked up another school by me in a much larger area and they're charging about 14 grand.
@rdalben The non-turbine is just like a car engine. It uses pistons moving up and down to turn a crank which turns the rotors. In a turbine there are no pistons. It is basically a multi-stage air compressor which sucks in cold air like a fan, compresses it with spinning turbines, mixes it with fuel and continually ignites it to create even more pressure/power. The spinning turbines drive the rotors.
been meaning to book some lessons for god knows how many years.... fascination or what. been flying model planes and helis (just recently) so might have a head start.
"His coolness is off the fonzy scale ladies and gents, because sheldons a freakin helicopter pilot" LOL
Very good, clear basic intro.
this sounds so easy, but I bet, when you try it it is the hardest thing you have ever exeriencd in your life! respects to all pilots
still watching this in 2017!! nice
I'm blind & flew one of these in Australia, then over to Russia & across to Asia where I made chop suey with the rotors when landing - yum
wow it was great. Something learning new is awesome !!!!!!!
Very good information.
Now I know how to fly a helicopter. I was preparing to attend school for this, paying thousands of dollars... but now I know.
Best explanation I ever seen
Yep, that's called precession. You can see it yourself by taking the front wheel off your bike and holding each end of the axle (the same way it rides in the forks). Get it spinning and try and hold it horizontally level. Precession is the resistance you feel to that.
Now. have someone come and push up lightly on the spinning rim with a fingertip (where the brake pads grip). The part of the rim that actually goes up will be 90 degrees AHEAD of where the finger pushed up.
Pretty awesome video!! I'm really thinking about to become an helicopter pilot..
Whiskey Foxtrot November do it! My son wants to do the same
i have to admit that is very helpful!
make a video diary of it, i'd watch every single one. when im old enough (1/2) years imma do it too :D
OK I watched the video, now where's my friggin chopper licence!
I learned something new about how the collective manipulates the angle of the blades. My original thought on how the chopper lifts off from the ground was entirely different
I never build an elicopter but I'm going to try I got the lake part of it for the body part I have to make a frame for it I'm just doing it out of cardboard I guess I could go down to the Auburn on Main Street to where they sell model airplanes at and buy a motor for it to see if it works but that's really cool what you have on the computer and it shows that I've never done these kind of things in my life but it's kind of interesting thank you
More expensive helicopters do have computers help out the pilot, but usually by the time your are qualified to fly them, you've already learned enough of the hand-eye coordination / muscle memory to not NEED the computer's help.
R-44's have a counter-clockwise rotating system. You need left pedal when pulling collective, not right.
Been flying model helicopters for a year and the more you learn about them the more you realize they don't follow conventional wisdom (i.e. it's counter intuitive!). To make the heli go forward, you are actually mechanically making it go left. The gyroscopic forces are not symmetrical and all the heli controls are based around countering and balancing it. It's more apt to say that a helicopter is held up by a field of kinetic energy where powerful opposing forces are in equilibrium.
such a great video, why would someone dislike this?
I might already be able to fly a helicopter, I did maintenance on the things for 6 years in the Air Force on HH-60 pavehawks, although just the instrument and flight control portions / AFCS and stab, flew in them as well (btw they are NOT good to fly in if you are the type who needs to pee every 10 minutes) I wanna take lessons now :)
I'm currently in my helicopter and I need you to upload a video on how to land. PLEASE!
Narrator made a technical error. Helo rotors turn counter clockwise and the helo in the video follows that rule.. The resulting torque creates a force on the main frame resulting in a clockwise motion. During initial takeoff the narrator said the pilot applies a little pressure to the "RIGHT" pedal. That is incorrect. The pilot applies pressure to the "LEFT" pedal to turn the helo body to the left to counter the clockwise torque the counter clockwise rotating rotors are creating. I'm surprised the instructors evidently didn't proof this video for technical errors.
Nicely done "gizmag."
Great video!
wow the helicopter is beautiful. I want one
Great explanation.Now I can fly a helicopter!
I would love to learn how to fly a helicopter
for the cyclic control. the generate amount of extra lift is made 90 degrees befor the actual point that u wanna lift. cause any force on a spinning disc will be expressed by this disc 90 degrees later. so when you make the aileron move the rotor tilt is made at the front and the back of the heli and when you use the elevator move the rotor tilt is made at the left and at the right. thats whierd but that is how it work. even my Rc helicopter works this way. physics !!!
Hey, I watched this twice. Who sends me my license?
You are now officially authorized to fly any helicopter made by matchbox or hotwheels.
Great video, funny and informational. Love that Australian accent. "Deesk of Leeft"
@ant40099 Depens on which country you live in I suppose, but generally you only need the land owners permission to land. If you have your own field, you can land on it assuming there is not any military or emergency air traffic nearby, that might hinder you.
Thanks for teaching me how to fly!
-Amanda Todd
The most difficult parts are taking off and landing. You may have to adjust the balance of the chopper while in the air, but it hovers along quite well by itself.
Is that an acceptable departure in Australia? Just cut across the runway 3/4 the way down and make right pattern? Maybe I'm missing something here. ....
obviously it depends on the chopper but most i would imagine fly lower then the cessna , and pipers normally as well. Though curious if one needs an FAA flght plan for a chopper if you fly under a certain altitude. lower then cessna or pipers
Two things wrong in this video:
Pedal required on takeoff is right pedal.
Helicopter lessons are not expensive.
Not sure what you're saying here. Right pedal is applied as power is applied during takeoff, except in French choppers, whose rotors turn the opposite direction, requiring left pedal application on takeoff.
Expensive is relative, I suppose. The licence I got in 1990 (commercial, with a turbine endorsement on Bell 206) for just shy of $35k would cost over $100k now. About 5X the cost of a commercial airplane licence.
Haha! Got the pedal info backwards. Left pedal on everything but French choppers.....right pedal on the French ones.
Yep. And Russian single rotor ones too.
I want to learn how to fly a helicopter and then buy an Autogyro. I love those. I love helicopters in general.
THIS IS SOOO COOL!
When the Zombie Apocalypse starts, this is gonna make my chances to escape bigger! XDDD
When you guys are flying these things to train, do you ever crash? This brings back the bfbc2 "BAIL OUT NOW!!!" guy :D
GREAT explanation !! but, how does a turbine works different then this one ? Thx
its interesting,and makes sense how the controls create the forces to control the copter, but does anyone else look at the mechanisms and think holy shit how delicate looking are those mechanisms, ie swash plate, rotor controls etc etc, how easy would it be for any one of those mechanisms to fail and for it to all go wrong in the air?
great video thanks for the quick lesson
FYI, to obtain an FAA, Private Pilot Helicopter license (and you train in a R-22) it'll cost about $12,000(USD). Maybe double that for a Commercial license.
Is it strange to say this video was a part of my childhood?
Chuck Norris cuts his grass lawn with one of these.
i do that to with my rc Rave 90 heli
First, lose the square toed shoes. Second, I have a question on the swashplate. Due to the gyroscopic effect, that is, when a force acting on a spinning object will affect that spinning object 90 degrees in the direction of rotation, does the swashplate act on the spinning blades 90 degrees out?
Darn, they almost explained how the cyclic worked, but made the same mistake people always do. Say when going forward, the swash plate tilts the blades so that they are LEVEL when at the front and back. The blade on the way back has lift, and the one going forward is declined. This changes the entire TRACE of the blades path so that the entire blade set is trying to trace a forward tilt. It's a little confusing at first, but that's how it really works.
Awesome Video! Off the Fonzi scale, now thats funny!
What about transitional lift? Ground effect or VRS? Ha na but they should rename it basic mechanics of the collective pitch swash plate system. Not how to fly a helicopter.
@KIRDILON The fixed wing is easier by a big shot.. but helos... they are way more fun...Anyways. The first hours in a helo can be a nightmare. After all, in a helo, you have 5 controls... and only 4 limbs. Also, any control inputs, means inmediate adjustment to the others...
very good video
2:50
Thanks for the caption! I would have never noticed!
Well done!
More usefull than any other video