Day 4 - Advanced Helicopter Autorotation - Vertical Descent to my spot
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2019
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This is a video of the 4th day of training. Building on the previous days of knocking off years of dust, extended glide, crabbing, sidewards flare, and the hard deceleration to a zero speed auto.
Today was much review but also showed me a few autos where we had nearly a vertical descent to our touchdown spot. Something I wasn't too comfortable with saw with my own eyes that if that was my only option that it was very doable. A must if landing in a very confined spot.
We started to have some minor engine problems to ended the flight and had the issue fixed.
All these techniques are used to help make me learn how to make my spot EVERY time.
This video's purpose is for education, hopefully helping people see some techniques that are outside the box of the traditional training environment. I wish I had learned these techniques 3,600 hours ago when I first learned. The videos are not intended to replace actual instruction for a good instructor.
Fly safe and Keep Learning!
If you go out and do a series of full-downs with progressively higher flares, one thing you discover is how much leeway you have as regards dropping the aircraft straight down (or nearly so) onto the ground. At least in a training scenario (two dudes, half-tanks) at our sea-level-ish airfield it feels like you can begin a flare at ~70', finish that flare at ~40' AGL, and (as long as you leave the RPM above 100% by running it up during the flare and then ~*leaving the collective full-down during the "fall"*~), you've got plenty of rotor inertia to touch down. I don't even mean "survivably," I mean gently, like often-ends-up-softer-than-a-power-on-landing levels of gentle. At higher gross weights, higher DA, or on a dead-calm morning maybe less-so, but having done a bit of that kind of practice I'm now way less concerned about coming into a flare with the textbook 60+ knots or making sure I get down to ground level before I flare. As long as I've made it to a land-able spot, my RPM is up, and I'm low/zero-ish groundspeed by the end of the maneuver, I'm happy. I used to want to fly the 44 like it was a 22-- always keeping the speed up until pretty close to the ground, and then wanting a solid flare to almost zero rate of descent before finishing up. Now I'm happy to just let the thing coast in at pretty low speeds, flare higher up, build that RPM up and just let the inertia catch me at the bottom. It's made me so much more confident flying the aircraft out in the real world, since I know I can come in over a lot of everyday obstacles and still stick it into a confined landing spot survivably.
Your instructor in these videos seems super cool-- it's really fun to watch.
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Its like practicing dying........ ;-)
What a beautyful place! Were is it?
What did the "waggle" end up being?
Where is this??