That was a beautiful thing to behold!!! Takes alotta balls to bring one all the way down on stored energy and the flair was spot on and the skid slide was just pure showing off!!!!!! Touchy.......
Sad, hydraulics failures carrying loads like water are difficult at best to pull off. My condolences to the aviators family, the knock on the door is never expected.
Very well done! I was an Army Huey I.P. For 25 years. Loved every minute teaching the younger guys all of the emergency procedures....autos, anti-torque failures, hydraulic failures, etc. Like the man said..”best job I ever had.” 👍🇺🇸
@@akilajayasundara2221 I’m sorry Akila, but I retired as an instructor and evaluator from the Army in 1997. If I could turn back time, I would very much enjoy teaching you every contact maneuver in the book. I’ve performed thousands of Autorations in my career….Straight in Autos, 180 degree Autos….360 Autos….and one night just for fun I did a 720 degree Auto…and neither of us were dizzy upon touchdown. 😊😊😊🚁
@@jaroslavpuk Hello Jaroslav. I wish that I could tell you in text how to perform a left or right or a fixed tail rotor failure; however, the procedure is much more involved than can be simply explained in text. If I could go back in time and we had access to a proper helicopter I would really love demonstrating the maneuvers to you and let you train to be competent and confident in your skills. I really enjoyed training my students to where they finally “get it” with every maneuver. Thank you for bringing back some favorite memories for me.
Hello Sir, how are you? I hope you are doing good. How many hours did you fly? I joined Army Aviation just a month ago, and I am an under-training Bell-412 Co-Pilot. How many years did you spend in Aviation? And why did you retire? Did you not pursue your career after retirement? I am asking these questions, because my instructor is a Retired Army Aviation Pilot, and he is also very famous in entire army, and has a profile like yourself. Regards From Pakistan
@@jimjab3631 dude, I didn't say that the engine was off. The engine was on idle and during autorotation, the power is not delivered by the engine, it is delivered by the airflow that is turning the rotor. So an autorotation landing is always done without engine power, even when the engine is running. Otherwise it is not an autorotation landing.
Actually it was an autorotation , basicly the blades rotate using the air that its falling through, think of it like a parashute , so it wasnt "stored energy" it was just turning your rotor blades into a parashute
Yes engine was running, but when Practicing instead of shutting down the engine they just throttle to idle. At the end of the video you can hear it start to idle back up. Probably going around and doing it agian.
Autorotation is not really rotor inertia. Air flow keeps propeller blades rotating, and they act as wings. Airspeed make air flow. Altitude is converted to airspeed with proper pitch. So helicopter act like gyroplane glider, as far as it has enough altitude.
@@semibiotic Airflow keeps the rotor running, true. The less collective you give it, the faster it's rotating, but at the same time, the quicker you go down (and that's where the airflow comes from). Just before the touchdown you have to arrest the descent, so you have to use up the energy stored in the rotor. When you flare, you cut most of the flow to spin up the main rotor. Then you also have to pull the collective up to transition to momentary hover then to landing. At that point the rotor starts slowing down FAST. The only thing that keeps it going is the moment you raked up while going down and spinning the rotor up.
@@semibiotic Inertia determines the time before which it is too late to enter an auto rotation. For example in a low inertia aircraft such as the Robinson R22 you have precisely 1.6 seconds after engine fail to do full down collective and aft cyclic. In the Robinson R44 you have roughly 4 seconds because it's slightly heavier and more powerful and so on.
Wanna see inertia....a 206 Ranger can land, kill the engine and have enough to lift off, 360, and land again. So yep....there is some weight on top of that cabin.
@@defunction3372 A lot of shots go into making a video. This is one of the shots that we would like to include. If we don’t get their permission, it doesn’t mean we won’t make our video. It just means it wouldn’t have this shot in it.
Not What You Think Obviously, but you aren’t asking for permission to make a video, you’re asking for permission to use this clip and saying thanks in advance which implies you’re sure they’ll say yes and you are gonna put it in a video regardless
Stunning capture! May I feature this autorotation landing in one of my next episodes? Of course with a link back to your original video. All the best to you!
on training, you don't have to shut down the engine. Doesn't mean it's being used for lift. Engine RPM and Rotor RPM are two different things, operating independently
What a beautiful auto. Well done! Looks like a 205 or a later model UH-1? Love these aircraft so much, so iconic, the blade slap. Could watch one fly all day. Thanks for video!
The tail rotor is on the left side so it's not a 205 or a late model UH-1H. The tail rotor was moved to the right side on later model UH-1Hs so this is probably an older UH-1H.
Could someone please explain what happened. He landed but it looked it was still running and blades were rotating. So did he loose power to the blade at some point? I don’t know.
Hawken, look into how a helicopter enters autorotation, about sprague clutches that allow us to disconnect the rotor from the engine while it is still in operation. If the pilot did not stay within known parameters they can actually do a power recovery, slowly increasing engine rpm from idle until the rotor regains its operating rpm. Believe me, when the engine suffers a catastropic failure, there isn't any engine noise left, and there is nothing there to bring back. A real auto is a one time deal. Been there, did that, 8/8/1988, 600 feet AGL and a 270 turn to the only landing area below. Very little ground run....we all smiled at the bar that night.
Al, do some investigation into a helicpters aerodynamics. When in autorotation, the flow of air changes from coming into the blades from the front to an upward flow of air thru the blades. Amazing what we could do with that inertia in a Huey and....if we get a little low in rotor RPM and the altitude, a little turn to the right helps rebuild it. Amazing job this pilot did...
Many factors such as Pilot failing to control a VRS (Vortex Ring State).Mechanical failures also contribute to crashes...To round things up,no vehicle is Imune to crashes..Especialy Aircraft in General..
Mech failure, timing is a big one, flare to high and a down you be a coming. Just like a fixed wing....loose an engine, you glide to your destination, flare to high and you drop....too low...you get the picture.
How do planes crash when they can glide? You have to have a safe place to land that you can reach. You have to have enough altitude and forward speed to autorotate the blades and store enough energy in them to stop your descent when you reach the ground. Engine failures when hovering too close to the ground to autorotate are often fatal. Mechanical failures in the main or tail rotor system are often fatal. Hitting trees, buildings or the ground too hard is often fatal.
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Came for the autorotation, stayed for the Huey chop chop
You're on the wrong video, there is no chopping sound as the heli is under no power - it's autorotating.
@@floatingchimney chop chop
@@floatingchimney I think they mean after the landing. He starts to throttle up and you can hear it start to chopity chop
Ah, chop Huey, wonderful dish.
This is / was the most mellow, smooth & soft looking Autorotation I’ve ever seen!.
Seriously: huge compliment Mr. 🚁 -Pilot!!!. =)
That was a beautiful thing to behold!!! Takes alotta balls to bring one all the way down on stored energy and the flair was spot on and the skid slide was just pure showing off!!!!!! Touchy.......
He made it look like that thing weighs 10 pounds.
Sadly this helicopter crashed killing the pilot on 19th August 2020 fighting fires in California, Pilot reported a hydraulic issue before crash
Sad, hydraulics failures carrying loads like water are difficult at best to pull off. My condolences to the aviators family, the knock on the door is never expected.
Was it the same pilot as in this video?
@@jaroslavpukNo. Different pilots. Mike Fournier, 52, of Rancho Cucamonga, California.
Both the fixed and rotary fire fighting aviators have a dangerous job. As a CA resident, they have my gratitude and in this case condolences.
August 19th is my bday…. Can’t believe she crashed
Landing on a chicken wing and a prayer. The man at the helm is a master of his trade.
As an aircrew member I can tell you that no matter how many times you've done this evolution before, you will always pucker up harder than last time.
Damn lol
Very well done! I was an Army Huey I.P. For 25 years. Loved every minute teaching the younger guys all of the emergency procedures....autos, anti-torque failures, hydraulic failures, etc.
Like the man said..”best job I ever had.” 👍🇺🇸
Can i be your student please?
@@akilajayasundara2221 I’m sorry Akila, but I retired as an instructor and evaluator from the Army in 1997. If I could turn back time, I would very much enjoy teaching you every contact maneuver in the book. I’ve performed thousands of Autorations in my career….Straight in Autos, 180 degree Autos….360 Autos….and one night just for fun I did a 720 degree Auto…and neither of us were dizzy upon touchdown. 😊😊😊🚁
Hi Terry, how anti-torque failure is solved, please?
@@jaroslavpuk Hello Jaroslav. I wish that I could tell you in text how to perform a left or right or a fixed tail rotor failure; however, the procedure is much more involved than can be simply explained in text. If I could go back in time and we had access to a proper helicopter I would really love demonstrating the maneuvers to you and let you train to be competent and confident in your skills.
I really enjoyed training my students to where they finally “get it” with every maneuver.
Thank you for bringing back some favorite memories for me.
Hello Sir, how are you?
I hope you are doing good. How many hours did you fly? I joined Army Aviation just a month ago, and I am an under-training Bell-412 Co-Pilot.
How many years did you spend in Aviation? And why did you retire? Did you not pursue your career after retirement?
I am asking these questions, because my instructor is a Retired Army Aviation Pilot, and he is also very famous in entire army, and has a profile like yourself.
Regards
From
Pakistan
INCREDIBLE THE PILOT!! CONGRATULATIONS !!!
Very good pilot, such a smooth landing, better than some others do with engine power. :D
4TaktRollerNeinDanke, no one is better than anybody. all helicopters are good.
@@anthonytheriault7401 huh? Lots of people are better than other people what are you even saying
The engine was on
@@jimjab3631 dude, I didn't say that the engine was off. The engine was on idle and during autorotation, the power is not delivered by the engine, it is delivered by the airflow that is turning the rotor. So an autorotation landing is always done without engine power, even when the engine is running. Otherwise it is not an autorotation landing.
@@E39Passion haha he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about and just wanted to sound smart
Those big rotors grab a lot of air !!
Wow, he used almost every bit of energy stored in that rotor, beautiful.
Actually it was an autorotation , basicly the blades rotate using the air that its falling through, think of it like a parashute , so it wasnt "stored energy" it was just turning your rotor blades into a parashute
Definitely an experienced pilot.
Beautifully done. Love the inertia
That is hilariously smooth! So much energy in those blades!!
ig thats the engine providing the energy to be more precise, fuel
Gotta love that rotor inertia!
Yes engine was running, but when Practicing instead of shutting down the engine they just throttle to idle. At the end of the video you can hear it start to idle back up. Probably going around and doing it agian.
Autorotation is not really rotor inertia. Air flow keeps propeller blades rotating, and they act as wings. Airspeed make air flow. Altitude is converted to airspeed with proper pitch.
So helicopter act like gyroplane glider, as far as it has enough altitude.
Momentum, not inertia. Big difference.
@@semibiotic Airflow keeps the rotor running, true. The less collective you give it, the faster it's rotating, but at the same time, the quicker you go down (and that's where the airflow comes from). Just before the touchdown you have to arrest the descent, so you have to use up the energy stored in the rotor. When you flare, you cut most of the flow to spin up the main rotor. Then you also have to pull the collective up to transition to momentary hover then to landing. At that point the rotor starts slowing down FAST. The only thing that keeps it going is the moment you raked up while going down and spinning the rotor up.
@@semibiotic Inertia determines the time before which it is too late to enter an auto rotation. For example in a low inertia aircraft such as the Robinson R22 you have precisely 1.6 seconds after engine fail to do full down collective and aft cyclic. In the Robinson R44 you have roughly 4 seconds because it's slightly heavier and more powerful and so on.
Jesus!! You looked like you were coming down like an anvil! that was AMAZING!!
most graceful autorotation landing I've seen on RUclips
Fantastic auto! Textbook!
He buttered that beautifully!! On our base, Navy with (H-1Ns), we got to see this alot.
Great landing.
So smooth. Nicely done.
Made the mistake of educating my aunt on the fact her son does this regularly.
Death machines...the lot of them! Lol
Smooth... very impressive
-Got to Love a LOT of rotor energy..... R22 is like a hope and a prayer....
Great job. Viet Nam vet 68-69, 282 AHC, BLACK CATS
@ochaleklaw just practicing autorotations.
@john mcgee hard to count from the air
@john mcgee CW2 Smith, Gun Pilot, Maroon FLT 81-17, I will fly with you anytime 👍
@@saintchuck9857 🌟I would love to take [John 💩 McGee] on a check ride....
Ahhh, Fox Field. Nice cold, breezy winter morning and a whole lot of desert. Excellent flying!
One of the nicest autorotations I’ve ever seen. Very little runout.
"Mom, can I get a DC-3?"
"We have DC-3 at home."
DC-3 at home:
I've done full down autos in the R-22. Didn't look anything like this. Lol...Nice job!
Can anyone really make an R22 auto look anything like this? :)
That was a very nice landing right there, used to do 12 a day with the students and the best job I ever had in life
Full down auto? More like.... normal approach to landing. Haha! The energy those rotors retain!
wow. so cool
So that's how you do it!!
Daaamn... he used everything those blades had stored. They were starting to go pear shaped right at the end.
looked like max collective .....
Whoa... N711GH. Just realized this is the same helicopter that went down fighting a fire in central CA last month, killing the pilot.
Holy that was Impressive
fond memories, excelent chopper
Skilled pilot!
There aren’t many things in life more fun than a 360 auto to the Right Grass at Camp Pen in a UH-1n.
Smooth as a "baby's bottom", thank you high intertia blades.
Kobe and his entourage sure could have used him.
Damn, what a landing 💪🏻
Really good landing!!
I wonder how many Vietnam veterans have this typical Huey sound on their heads up until today so many decades later.
😨 Wow , I haven't had the old
" Pucker Factor " for 50 years.
V.N. 71-72
Touched down like a legend
beautifully executed!
Made it look so easy yet terrifying to me
Flawless
Helicopters are so bad ass
Wow, I didn't expect that this 2 blader has such a big rotor mass inertia that it can smoothly hover before TD
Wanna see inertia....a 206 Ranger can land, kill the engine and have enough to lift off, 360, and land again. So yep....there is some weight on top of that cabin.
That was amazing
BRAVO!!!
Just a another landing under full power. Hardly a full down autorotation.
Totally agree
Now that's smooth.
Could I have your permission to use 10 seconds of this footage in one of our videos?
Thanks in advance!
Why ask if you’re just gonna do it anyway
@@defunction3372 A lot of shots go into making a video. This is one of the shots that we would like to include. If we don’t get their permission, it doesn’t mean we won’t make our video. It just means it wouldn’t have this shot in it.
@@NotWhatYouThink came here from watching your video and enjoyed it, thankfully you found other footage
Not What You Think Obviously, but you aren’t asking for permission to make a video, you’re asking for permission to use this clip and saying thanks in advance which implies you’re sure they’ll say yes and you are gonna put it in a video regardless
@@defunction3372 bruh
unreal, like butter.
Very nice flare
beauty auto!!! excellent!!!
Autorotation is basically magic.
Damn fine landing
Doesn't get much prettier than that.
Man, I want my pilot to autorotate landings from now on.
Like a boss! 👍🚁
Stunning capture! May I feature this autorotation landing in one of my next episodes? Of course with a link back to your original video. All the best to you!
Yes you can. And I appreciate the link!
Wow that was clean
Incredible. I'd love to have this skill, this and being able to park a Huges 500 inside a dog house
"Chuck, that's not you!"
Do it again!!!
Brilliant 🚁👍
Looking like the Huey 412 model
Sounded like the engine was running.
on training, you don't have to shut down the engine. Doesn't mean it's being used for lift. Engine RPM and Rotor RPM are two different things, operating independently
The engine is not driving the blades during an autorotation practice landing. If the engine is not running, then it is no longer a practice landing.
The helicopter is in neutral
Masterful
It's like a military technique called hit and go, to land an army and get going as fast as possible ....
Very impressive.
Bravo!!!!!
Great pilot
Nice Landing
This looks like the intro to M.A.S.H.
Whoa..those blades have so much inertia
What a beautiful auto. Well done! Looks like a 205 or a later model UH-1? Love these aircraft so much, so iconic, the blade slap. Could watch one fly all day. Thanks for video!
To me it looks longer than a 205. But I might be wrong.
The tail rotor is on the left side so it's not a 205 or a late model UH-1H. The tail rotor was moved to the right side on later model UH-1Hs so this is probably an older UH-1H.
No, Mikey! Don't slow down!
Well, that sure ain't Chuck.
That was SLICK.
Ha Ha great PUN Rampage....only a huey driver would get it....
Could someone please explain what happened. He landed but it looked it was still running and blades were rotating. So did he loose power to the blade at some point? I don’t know.
Hawken, look into how a helicopter enters autorotation, about sprague clutches that allow us to disconnect the rotor from the engine while it is still in operation. If the pilot did not stay within known parameters they can actually do a power recovery, slowly increasing engine rpm from idle until the rotor regains its operating rpm. Believe me, when the engine suffers a catastropic failure, there isn't any engine noise left, and there is nothing there to bring back. A real auto is a one time deal. Been there, did that, 8/8/1988, 600 feet AGL and a 270 turn to the only landing area below. Very little ground run....we all smiled at the bar that night.
Two things you can’t do. Run out of rotor speed or run out of ideas.
Or altitude, just remembering 65 ,
If there is no engine power how does the blades rotate ?
Al, do some investigation into a helicpters aerodynamics. When in autorotation, the flow of air changes from coming into the blades from the front to an upward flow of air thru the blades. Amazing what we could do with that inertia in a Huey and....if we get a little low in rotor RPM and the altitude, a little turn to the right helps rebuild it. Amazing job this pilot did...
The blades are rotated by the air coming from below and remember angle (pitch) of the blades can be changed to make this possible
How do helicopters crash when there is autorotation?
Many factors such as Pilot failing to control a VRS (Vortex Ring State).Mechanical failures also contribute to crashes...To round things up,no vehicle is Imune to crashes..Especialy Aircraft in General..
Mech failure, timing is a big one, flare to high and a down you be a coming. Just like a fixed wing....loose an engine, you glide to your destination, flare to high and you drop....too low...you get the picture.
How do planes crash when they can glide? You have to have a safe place to land that you can reach. You have to have enough altitude and forward speed to autorotate the blades and store enough energy in them to stop your descent when you reach the ground. Engine failures when hovering too close to the ground to autorotate are often fatal. Mechanical failures in the main or tail rotor system are often fatal. Hitting trees, buildings or the ground too hard is often fatal.
Ide fly with that pilot anytime !!!!
Autos were fun.
Why does it sound like a piston engine? Isn’t the Huey turbine?
I think maybe you're hearing the tail rotor. It makes more of a buzzing sound.
Excellent fdar
Esa maniobra se ocupa como entrenamiento ante una eventual falla de motor, en altura
very tidy job
Beutiful landing..🥰🥰🥰
I thought it had to be a relatively uncontrolled descent to be an auto rotation. Looks like a hover and soft landing under power
If you do it right, that's exactly how it is supposed to look ;)
chop chop and a beaitiful flair
What does full down mean?
Full touchdown, meaning all the way to the ground. Sometimes pilots will do a power recovery after the flare and fly away rather than land.
Nice flare.
Beautiful... look how much pitch the pilot pulled at the very end.
what sorcery is this>?!!
Yes Virginia, helicopters can glide.