Not really. If you're a passenger and they don't tell you you wouldn't even know it until they feather it at the ground. That's when your stomach sinks a little from the sudden stop. I was actually more nervous the first time I landed a low-wing aircraft. You have to come in at high speed with those.
When I was learning to fly, many of the instructors had served in Vietnam. Autos were the fastest way to get troops in and out within the least amount of time. They were incredible pilots who saved a lot of lives.
I was 15 tango uh-60 crew cheif my aircraft commander was w dust off uh1 pilot in Vietnam. Damn good pilot as where all of them but dust off crews would go and get the wounded out in crazy places up intense fire many people owe there lives to them
@Rlaxox Think it less of a throttle, it's more like a adjuster for which angle of attack the rotorblades are at. (Collective) as it's named. To put simply and in a nutshell. The faster you get your blades to spin when going down, the better you can break when you then apply more angle on the blades closer to the ground.
@@Ash_the_aviator i don't know much about helicopters, but he seems to bank like you would in a plane. i think you *mostly* use the "rudder" (tail rotor) for rotating it
Probably because it was a simulation! It is called a 180 degree autorotation and a would-be pilot has to be proficient at it before they get their license.
That panel's got more lights on it than a Christmas tree :) I don't think anybody wants to be flying a helicopter unless they're very comfortable with autos. That plus the old adage of "Don't fly over anything you wouldn't want to land on" can help keep a whole lot of situations from getting out of hand.
I was 15 tango uh-60 crew cheif and autorotation training was the worst thing I ever did. For one crew chief job is to over see all maintenance and basically make sure everything works and we stay airborne. Not to drop everything to minimum output and see how well we fall like a rock well more like a very heavy leaf and hope all turns out well. It's a new experience in the old pucker factor.
@@robertgutheridge9672 I get the feeling. My dad was an HU-1 pilot in Vietnam and after the war he bought one thankfully he held onto it, unfortunately it’s a 70s Huey with problems. Since I fly it all the time I fix it all the time. I dread the day I make a slip and bend something serious. Since I’m a relatively low hour pilot I’m always looking for ways to gain hours so I struck a deal and my collage now allows me to land out back. I always do autorotation landings, it allows me to get on the ground quick and it doesn’t disrupt classes. When I leave around 5:30 everybody’s leaving anyway so it doesn’t matter.
@@franic_scopes9165 the uh-1 is a dam good aircraft and yes auto rotation an be done safety. From a crew chiefs point of view its always bad other than when practice and even then i never liked it my job was to make sure everything worked correctly and normally if a auto rotation is being done something whens wrong . Rew chief's don't like when stuff doesn't work
@@robertgutheridge9672 For sure! My greatest fear is an engine out in a rotor wing. I’m sure you’ve heard this a million times but a helicopter without an engine is just a brick with a stick in its head. I love it when stuff works like it’s supposed to, but still, I’ll always practice for the worst and hope for the best.
To get things straight: US commercial helicopters had a fatality rate of 0.77 per 100,000 flight hours from 2018-2022. At 100 mph average speed that‘s about 10 million miles traveled. If we estimate about two deaths per fatal accident, that‘s 1,54 deaths per 10 million miles or 15.4 per 100 million miles travelled. On US highways there were 1.33 deaths per 100 million miles travelled in 2022, in Germany 0.88.
My late husband and his friends had a helicopter and fixed wing air business in Alaska he forbid me to fly in a helicopter sightseeing in the Grand Canyon 😡 something about heat and lift and blah blah in fact he hated any kind of flying and would often drive places whilst his partners who took the jet were already there waiting for him 😂😂 I miss him and his little quirks ❤
Hot air is less dense, so lift and control is more of an issue. My neighbor was an aviation insurance broker. She said, "It's not a matter of IF they're coming down, it's a matter of WHEN!
The Grand Canyon is actually high elevation (north rim is 8,000 ft) and high heat flying. I'm a pilot that owns a plane and flies several times each week. You will never catch me on those helicopter tours of the grand canyon because I don't like the risk reward profile of those tours when I can already fly over the canyon. That said, helicopter flying is still safer than driving a car.
@@2011bluemanthis business about it being "safer than driving" Not strictly true - just statistics say a lot less likely to have an accident as little traffic in the air. However when an accident does happen its far more likely to be fatal up in the sky
For anyone curious, it’s called autorotation, it works by using the rotating speed generated from falling. Helicopters can rotate the blade pitch angle up and down, they build rotational momentum and switch the collective to convert that the upward thrust before landing. Smart Every Day has a very informative video explaining it :)
Helicopters are awesome When I was younger we ran a guide service in Arkansas and one of the ways that we learned how snow geese migrated we were able to look from a helicopters point of view how the flocks were sitting in fields and we got a better idea how to set decoys It was really quite interesting and very cool That helicopter was awesome
I remember using an autorotation device back in fourth grade during an egg drop challenge, and it worked quite well. However, I have never heard of something like this being applied to helicopters as well!
Imagine if, just before your egg touched the ground, you could flare your 'autorotation device' to use the momentum you've built up to provide lift to slow you down. You would have to time it so you run out of lift at the same time you run out of altitude. That judgment call is why pilots have to practice regularly.
There is a rotary wing aircraft called autogyro, it has a free spinning unpowered main rotor and it flies like a plane using a propeller that pushes it forward. And there is a major difference with the egg drop challenge: this is the forward motion that allows helicopters and autogyros to generate enough lift to fly rather than fall.
This was not an actual inflight emergency, but rather an autorotation practice. I would know as I am a 26k helicopter pilot. I don’t fly Robinson’s but rather MD’s and Bell ships. Regardless, if this was an actual emergency many things would be different about this video and they wouldn’t have been hovering like they were over the tower. Great explanation video, however. Sometimes no matter how you explain to a non-pilot, some never can actually understand was an auto is. This video was perfect. I’ve had 5 catastrophic turbine/engine failures, and all the overkill auto practices since the 80’s more than paid off!!! Remember: “Helicopter Pilots: Chicks Dig Us, And Guys Think We’re Cool.”😂😂🚁🚁
No shit... You speak as if this video is somehow deceptive, that or you're just looking for an excuse to say "Hey guys, I'm a pilot too. Look how smart _I_ am".
@@xenophagia Did you read my entire comment?? I was very complimentary to the video especially where I said it was “perfect” and that it was a “great explanation video.” I made no insinuation that it was deceptive. And I wasn’t trying to showboat. I was trying to add some clarification. There are a lot of people out there who don’t understand and will still have questions. But I guess for people like you, you have to bastardize it and make it something negative. What a shame.
So, I was on a helicopter tour one time. At this time, me and the other person in the tour thought that if there was an engine failure, a helicopter would fall to the ground like a brick, so we were a little concerned when our pilot said "Wanna flip off the engines and simulate an engine failure?"
@@DavidAlanArnold Am I right in thinking that it's safer losing your engine(s) in a helicopter, than it is in a fixed-wing aircraft? I know a lot of fixed-wings are designed to glide with less than all the engines, or none, but I vaguely recall seeing a video saying a helicopter descends almost as normal but a lot of planes kind of fall like a brick.
@@gopnikolai7483planes don’t fall like bricks. Their glide ratio is not great depending on the plane but the forced landing scenario is well rehearsed. But best avoided in fixed or rotor.
@@DavidAlanArnold, when I was in my 30's I did some helicopter lessons. We autorotated a couple of times, but not from that altitude. Still not my favorite thing to do in a chopper.
@@Levi-wk2hgnot on this helicopter. This is an reciprocating internal combustion engine helicopter, not a turbine helicopter (one dead giveaway is the "manifold pressure" gage, which isn't present on a turbine helicopter). This type of heli does have a clutch that needs to disengage when the engine quits or ramps down.
@@xenophagia Yeah, I know. Lots of people saying that it was an actual engine-out. It isn't. Just pointing that out for the people thinking it's something else.
We had to practice these many times in flight school. As long as the transmission isn’t F’d it’s FAR safer in a helicopter than a plane when the engine fails.
I completely disagree with that...in an airplane you can glide to the next airport...only maintaining best glide...a helo, your glide is pretty much like a brick...and you have to maintain airspeed AND rotor speed (not too fast, or too slow). Throwing a 180° turn in the mix makes a lot of work for the pilot.
Gonna have to agree w xbpbat here… being able to calculate glide slope and range is a major advantage imo. I guess you could put a helo down anywhere, but I live in a big city and the only places I’ve heard helos landing when suffering a power loss is a river and it’s never turned out too good so take what I say w a grain of salt.
@@Flinn8I've been in a car when the engine quit unexpectedly on two occasions. Same car, actually. The first time, the serpentine belt turned itself into shreds, belt-driven alternator stopped, engine stopped, and the driver (not me) rolled the car to a stop on the shoulder. The 2nd time, I was driving. We were in a huge traffic jam, and I was either creeping forward at a couple miles per hour or completely stopped. The alternator had probably completely given up a little while earlier, but the first sign I had of that was when the engine stopped because neither the alternator nor the battery was able to keep the spark plugs going.
😂 no, it really isn't. You get ONE chance to auto rotate a helicopter to the ground. Given decent altitude in a fixed wing aircraft, you can be selective in your landing spot and bleed height off or save it as required. Also, if you screw up the landing, helicopter crashes don't often end well at all.
the rotors have enough energy to CLIMB after your engine quits. it's just that if you did that you'd use up all the RPM very quickly, so instead you dive which if anything adds energy to the rotor, then you have a few seconds at the end to flare and use that energy to make a normal landing.
@@TheBigO-k6gin favor of your comment, the pilot doesn’t know it’s going to fail so you have a reaction delay. Then it realllyyyy depends on what’s underneath of you lol.
Just blip your collective towards the last moments before touching down 'gently'...given you've maintained as slow of a decent with zero pitch and rotor freewheeling. Blip a bit off the ground...gain a little upwards thrust from the momentum in the rotorhead...and you're golden. Terrified...but golden. It's just that simple lol(yea right)
Basically it’s conservation of energy. The energy from falling is put back into the propeller which can then be discharged to slow the decent. That’s why quad copters and drone type helicopters will never carry people
Octacopters are superior to helicopters because they have redundancy --- 2 or 3 rotors can fail and the aircraft can still function --- learn something!
I was only 8 yrs. Old but I remember the pilot saying this is what happens if the engine quits as he shuts engine off, we went straight down like a super fast elevator he started engine back up then we landed safely, what a rush !
@@DavidAlanArnold...I taught golf in Boulder , Colorado for 15 years and was self taught. My students were generally older men who had taken lessons a lot over their playing careers. ...To a man they all said I was the best instructor they ever had. I was surprised how well I could teach. I think a lot of it was "genetic"...I could tell by the physics. But teaching or learning in a chopper is intimidating. , even though I have flown in them a number of times. ...the most memorable was through the canyons of Mesa Verde Park in South West Colorado in 1987.
I have a helicopter pilot’s license. My first day with my instructor (in a helicopter that I swear was right off the set from M.A.S.H.) we autorotated. Literally, he stalled the helicopter 5 mins into the first flight. (Probably because I asked “what happens if the engine fails” about 3 second before he shut it off). 😂
I have a question for you then as someone with a heli license. Do you know about the 2018 New York City helicopter crash? Did it end badly because they hard landed into the water? If it wasn't for straps the passengers couldn't unbuckle, would they have been likely to survive the crash? Hearing about that incident made me scared to fly on any single jet powered helicopter.
Look how a gyrocopter (or autogyro) fly. Of course on an helicopter you don't have a push or pull horizontal engine but descending gives you enough speed to maintain the auto-gyration of the rotor. And yes, a soft, smooth, kiss-landing is very possible. the key is to have the rotor absolutely free spinning...
i’m no helicopter pilot but when mine in gta engine cuts out from too much bullet fire or flying into objects I have found it is perfectly safe to land a helicopter with no engine and also not that hard!😊
@@miumiu75IRC the hydraulics don’t lose pressure with engine failure immediately, you stop replenishing but you still have enough to for the minute or so it takes to land
@@jeffstepp-ou8rethat is EXTREMLY unlikely even less likely than the prop on an airplane being damaged, don’t let fear hold u back lmao that’s called being a pus sy
Autorotation apply when the engine is down, set the level control to full nagative pitch to keep the main rotor speed sprint up, find the ideal landing place and heading to the wind, until the altitude remains around 30 feet from ground pull the level control fullly up with positive pitch condition to complete the autorotation landing .
That was a lot better autorotation landing than what took place in the movie "San Andreas." LOL. NO doubt about it! Granted The Rock's character was doing it in a mall parking lot and a person walked right into their path at the last minute, while this guy had a pretty clear area to land. I'm sure that played a part. Plus there were no Hollywood finger prints on this landing, where San Andreas was all about the drama. LoL However I'm still glad there was no crashing through shopping mall store ceilings and fuel leaks going all over the pilot and passenger. Great job! 😊👍
Amazing. It may seem like a silly question, but I don't know anything about helicopters. So does this mean that when the engine fails, even with the engine turned off the helicopter can "glide" like a plane? If so, why do many free fall accidents happen?
Right?! Like the 2018 New York City helicopter crash which was due to engine failure. Is it because they didn't have anywhere to land and went down into the water?
The same reason why fixed wing aircraft stall: the lack of forward velocity. The helicopter has to move forward to stay in the air without engine power.
I think that depends on how hard you land, we flew into the Anchorage airport and we didn’t land we literally slammed down on the runway. I immediately said WTF? And started puking there was a medical emergency in our corridor and I can remember am EMT asking me if I needed medical attention. No one from this airline would help me I asked for help and to fill out an accident report the pilot locked himself back in the cockpit and the stewardess fled down the stairs. As an ex safety person I can tell you definitively you don’t admit fault but you don’t leave someone who’s broken their back twice and neck 3 times puking on the plane by themself.
I've been a crewmember in UH-1N, SH-60B and a "guest" in a few MH-53's while undertaking this procedure. The worst was the 53, you can't pick a point of reference on the ground. In my defense, the Marines blew chunks first. The joke among helo pilots, "what does the NATOPS manual say to do in case of ANY circumstance while flying a helo? LAND the S.O.B.!"
I always thought losing all engine power in a plane was safer than a helicopter because I figured they would fall like a brick rather than glide but they glide pretty nicely with the autorotation
Auto-Rotation is such a tricky concept to explain to new pilots. Like the blades do spin, but it’s because of the wind passing through it. You use that characteristic to use said blades to slow down and resist the wind as it spins, essentially turning the helicopter into a glider with what is essentially spinning wings.
So, forgive me i havent gotten into helicopters this much, but the velocity of the blades and air resistance as you fall allows you to continue to control how fast the helicopter decends?
When the engine quits, so does bowel retention.
😂😂😂
its gonna come out when you smack the ground any way so why not lol
Lmao 😂😂😂
Almost spit smoothie across the kitchen after reading this comment. Thank you for making my day lol
Not really. If you're a passenger and they don't tell you you wouldn't even know it until they feather it at the ground. That's when your stomach sinks a little from the sudden stop. I was actually more nervous the first time I landed a low-wing aircraft. You have to come in at high speed with those.
When I was learning to fly, many of the instructors had served in Vietnam. Autos were the fastest way to get troops in and out within the least amount of time. They were incredible pilots who saved a lot of lives.
Ft Rucker Alabama?
I was 15 tango uh-60 crew cheif my aircraft commander was w dust off uh1 pilot in Vietnam. Damn good pilot as where all of them but dust off crews would go and get the wounded out in crazy places up intense fire many people owe there lives to them
I doubt that
@@ThatSB if went to flight school in the late 80s thru mid 90s ur instructor was most likely a Vietnam vet pilot
@Rlaxox Think it less of a throttle, it's more like a adjuster for which angle of attack the rotorblades are at. (Collective) as it's named. To put simply and in a nutshell. The faster you get your blades to spin when going down, the better you can break when you then apply more angle on the blades closer to the ground.
“We are fuuuuuu -alling out of the sky”
NGL he had us in the first half! 😂
Lol I heard the same thing! We are faaaa*ked
I also heard that. lol.
Lol I think you're projecting. It's only you thinking it 😄 he said "falling" as normal and ever
@@Affinity111yea well id be thinking we're fuuuuuuu cked
Same hahaha
A 180° as shown is tricky. Gotta find that head wind.
Practice makes perfect
K my. 😅
I think you turn with rudder
@@Ash_the_aviator i don't know much about helicopters, but he seems to bank like you would in a plane. i think you *mostly* use the "rudder" (tail rotor) for rotating it
@@icantliveanymoreyou're both correct, combining roll (banking), yaw (tail rotor) and pitch is the best way to achieve a turn this tight
I have over 3000 rotary wing hours. I loved doing autos. When I was learning how to fly, we even did low level night autorotations.
Aw did you aye 🤔🤥
This guy sounds super chill and confident as he falls to the ground with no engine
Probably because it was a simulation! It is called a 180 degree autorotation and a would-be pilot has to be proficient at it before they get their license.
They did it by choice I'm pretty sure, that wasn't an engine failure. I mean they're right at the airport..
Engine is idling.
Good job they were right above an airport as well, that probably helped 🫢
Now I know what Bill Burr is talking about whenever he brings it up
That panel's got more lights on it than a Christmas tree :)
I don't think anybody wants to be flying a helicopter unless they're very comfortable with autos. That plus the old adage of "Don't fly over anything you wouldn't want to land on" can help keep a whole lot of situations from getting out of hand.
I want to.
:)
I was 15 tango uh-60 crew cheif and autorotation training was the worst thing I ever did. For one crew chief job is to over see all maintenance and basically make sure everything works and we stay airborne.
Not to drop everything to minimum output and see how well we fall like a rock well more like a very heavy leaf and hope all turns out well. It's a new experience in the old pucker factor.
@@robertgutheridge9672 I get the feeling. My dad was an HU-1 pilot in Vietnam and after the war he bought one thankfully he held onto it, unfortunately it’s a 70s Huey with problems. Since I fly it all the time I fix it all the time. I dread the day I make a slip and bend something serious.
Since I’m a relatively low hour pilot I’m always looking for ways to gain hours so I struck a deal and my collage now allows me to land out back. I always do autorotation landings, it allows me to get on the ground quick and it doesn’t disrupt classes. When I leave around 5:30 everybody’s leaving anyway so it doesn’t matter.
@@franic_scopes9165 the uh-1 is a dam good aircraft and yes auto rotation an be done safety.
From a crew chiefs point of view its always bad other than when practice and even then i never liked it my job was to make sure everything worked correctly and normally if a auto rotation is being done something whens wrong . Rew chief's don't like when stuff doesn't work
@@robertgutheridge9672 For sure! My greatest fear is an engine out in a rotor wing. I’m sure you’ve heard this a million times but a helicopter without an engine is just a brick with a stick in its head. I love it when stuff works like it’s supposed to, but still, I’ll always practice for the worst and hope for the best.
To get things straight: US commercial helicopters had a fatality rate of 0.77 per 100,000 flight hours from 2018-2022. At 100 mph average speed that‘s about 10 million miles traveled. If we estimate about two deaths per fatal accident, that‘s 1,54 deaths per 10 million miles or 15.4 per 100 million miles travelled. On US highways there were 1.33 deaths per 100 million miles travelled in 2022, in Germany 0.88.
So helicopters are approx 15x more deadly than cars?
We don't drive miles in Germany
@@strobi0001 lmfao It's just a unit of measure. So yes, you do in fact drive miles in Germany. You just call it 1.6km.
@@SCUBAdfq welcome to the internet!
Good education for them.@@SCUBAdfq
Wow, i would barely notice that if i were a passenger, such a good pilot!!
He's a GREAT pilot.
Definitely a good pilot, but you would a *_absolutely_* notice lol.
My late husband and his friends had a helicopter and fixed wing air business in Alaska he forbid me to fly in a helicopter sightseeing in the Grand Canyon 😡 something about heat and lift and blah blah in fact he hated any kind of flying and would often drive places whilst his partners who took the jet were already there waiting for him 😂😂 I miss him and his little quirks ❤
Yeah you get better performance flying in colder weather
Hot air is less dense, so lift and control is more of an issue. My neighbor was an aviation insurance broker. She said, "It's not a matter of IF they're coming down, it's a matter of WHEN!
That’s sweet
The Grand Canyon is actually high elevation (north rim is 8,000 ft) and high heat flying. I'm a pilot that owns a plane and flies several times each week. You will never catch me on those helicopter tours of the grand canyon because I don't like the risk reward profile of those tours when I can already fly over the canyon. That said, helicopter flying is still safer than driving a car.
@@2011bluemanthis business about it being "safer than driving"
Not strictly true - just statistics say a lot less likely to have an accident as little traffic in the air.
However when an accident does happen its far more likely to be fatal up in the sky
For anyone curious, it’s called autorotation, it works by using the rotating speed generated from falling. Helicopters can rotate the blade pitch angle up and down, they build rotational momentum and switch the collective to convert that the upward thrust before landing. Smart Every Day has a very informative video explaining it :)
Every student that flies a helicopter has to learn this eventually during training. I've done it. Wasn't necessary but I was learning.
Here in Australia I had to be proficient at autorotation before going first solo.
*Is necessary.*
What a skill!
Wasn't necessary - YET!!😂
*It is definitely necessary*
Helicopters are awesome When I was younger we ran a guide service in Arkansas and one of the ways that we learned how snow geese migrated we were able to look from a helicopters point of view how the flocks were sitting in fields and we got a better idea how to set decoys It was really quite interesting and very cool That helicopter was awesome
that's a great story!
This happened to me when my dad told the pilot he was a parachute jumper in ww2 , at 1964 worlds fair, New York, wow I'll never forget it
And you landed safely?
@@DavidAlanArnoldno he’s dead… RIP
The pilot was German
@@sammy808hi🗿
@JOHN-um2 who’s joe
Wohh dattt's so smooth😵💫🫠🤍
I remember using an autorotation device back in fourth grade during an egg drop challenge, and it worked quite well. However, I have never heard of something like this being applied to helicopters as well!
Imagine if, just before your egg touched the ground, you could flare your 'autorotation device' to use the momentum you've built up to provide lift to slow you down.
You would have to time it so you run out of lift at the same time you run out of altitude. That judgment call is why pilots have to practice regularly.
It's the same principle
Works in 4th grade and in life.
There is a rotary wing aircraft called autogyro, it has a free spinning unpowered main rotor and it flies like a plane using a propeller that pushes it forward.
And there is a major difference with the egg drop challenge: this is the forward motion that allows helicopters and autogyros to generate enough lift to fly rather than fall.
I’ve wondered this forever. THANK YOU!!!
This was not an actual inflight emergency, but rather an autorotation practice. I would know as I am a 26k helicopter pilot. I don’t fly Robinson’s but rather MD’s and Bell ships. Regardless, if this was an actual emergency many things would be different about this video and they wouldn’t have been hovering like they were over the tower. Great explanation video, however. Sometimes no matter how you explain to a non-pilot, some never can actually understand was an auto is. This video was perfect. I’ve had 5 catastrophic turbine/engine failures, and all the overkill auto practices since the 80’s more than paid off!!!
Remember: “Helicopter Pilots: Chicks Dig Us, And Guys Think We’re Cool.”😂😂🚁🚁
Ha. Apparently, the R44 does it really well.
That's some bad luck
No shit...
You speak as if this video is somehow deceptive, that or you're just looking for an excuse to say "Hey guys, I'm a pilot too. Look how smart _I_ am".
@@xenophagia Did you read my entire comment?? I was very complimentary to the video especially where I said it was “perfect” and that it was a “great explanation video.” I made no insinuation that it was deceptive. And I wasn’t trying to showboat. I was trying to add some clarification. There are a lot of people out there who don’t understand and will still have questions. But I guess for people like you, you have to bastardize it and make it something negative. What a shame.
So, I was on a helicopter tour one time. At this time, me and the other person in the tour thought that if there was an engine failure, a helicopter would fall to the ground like a brick, so we were a little concerned when our pilot said "Wanna flip off the engines and simulate an engine failure?"
Sometime return to the field by autorotation just to keep in practice.
He did it this day to get quickly down to the airport.
@@DavidAlanArnold Am I right in thinking that it's safer losing your engine(s) in a helicopter, than it is in a fixed-wing aircraft?
I know a lot of fixed-wings are designed to glide with less than all the engines, or none, but I vaguely recall seeing a video saying a helicopter descends almost as normal but a lot of planes kind of fall like a brick.
@@gopnikolai7483planes don’t fall like bricks. Their glide ratio is not great depending on the plane but the forced landing scenario is well rehearsed.
But best avoided in fixed or rotor.
You like flying kites too huh ! 😂
Its like those little zip tie fan toy thing for kids that shoots a spinning rotor into the air and slowly descends.
Something I always wondered, but never researched. Thanks!
Nicely done
Thank you. He has done so many of these.
@@DavidAlanArnold, when I was in my 30's I did some helicopter lessons. We autorotated a couple of times, but not from that altitude. Still not my favorite thing to do in a chopper.
😂😂😂😂авторотация 😂😂
Только вот уметь надо пользоваться 😂
Very important that the clutch between the engine and blades is disconnected though
There's a freewheeling unit, the blades are not directly connected to the engine.
Just say you get all your helicopter knowledge from Indian channels next time
Yes. Very important. Helicopters are setup for that reason.
Hay una rueda libre.. aparte son motores a turbina casi que no genera resistencia si perdes motor
@@Levi-wk2hgnot on this helicopter. This is an reciprocating internal combustion engine helicopter, not a turbine helicopter (one dead giveaway is the "manifold pressure" gage, which isn't present on a turbine helicopter). This type of heli does have a clutch that needs to disengage when the engine quits or ramps down.
autos are so much easier when you have wheels, its like landing a towed glider.
Very interesting 😂👍💥
Thank you for watching
You sound Like the fz150 guy
Hopefully, the transmission doesn't seize and we can auto-rotate down to someone's back yard .
There’s still usually a lot of forward momentum in an autorotation to make it a smooth landing. Gotta be a big yard!
Yes!
😂😂After landing dude realizes that it was ownedby a drug mafia
The engine didn't quit, he just pulled the throttle back to idle. You can see on the gauges that you still have oil pressure and manifold pressure.
The fact it happened just over the airport wasn’t a clue? My dude this is a demonstration of an auto-rotation 👏
I saw that too.
@@SportyMabamba It's still an auto rotation.
No shit. It's a demonstration, and training. It's still an auto rotation. Why make it unnecessarily dangerous?
@@xenophagia Yeah, I know. Lots of people saying that it was an actual engine-out. It isn't. Just pointing that out for the people thinking it's something else.
Time to rewatch Smarter Everyday helicopter vids
We had to practice these many times in flight school. As long as the transmission isn’t F’d it’s FAR safer in a helicopter than a plane when the engine fails.
I completely disagree with that...in an airplane you can glide to the next airport...only maintaining best glide...a helo, your glide is pretty much like a brick...and you have to maintain airspeed AND rotor speed (not too fast, or too slow). Throwing a 180° turn in the mix makes a lot of work for the pilot.
Gonna have to agree w xbpbat here… being able to calculate glide slope and range is a major advantage imo. I guess you could put a helo down anywhere, but I live in a big city and the only places I’ve heard helos landing when suffering a power loss is a river and it’s never turned out too good so take what I say w a grain of salt.
Y’all are all wrong, the safest place to be when the engine fails is in a boat with paddles
@@Flinn8I've been in a car when the engine quit unexpectedly on two occasions. Same car, actually.
The first time, the serpentine belt turned itself into shreds, belt-driven alternator stopped, engine stopped, and the driver (not me) rolled the car to a stop on the shoulder.
The 2nd time, I was driving. We were in a huge traffic jam, and I was either creeping forward at a couple miles per hour or completely stopped. The alternator had probably completely given up a little while earlier, but the first sign I had of that was when the engine stopped because neither the alternator nor the battery was able to keep the spark plugs going.
😂 no, it really isn't.
You get ONE chance to auto rotate a helicopter to the ground.
Given decent altitude in a fixed wing aircraft, you can be selective in your landing spot and bleed height off or save it as required.
Also, if you screw up the landing, helicopter crashes don't often end well at all.
very interesting, little question though, what it the use for the Pix E5 recorder in font of you ?
I knew that autorotation could slow down the fall but I had no idea you could make a soft landing like that
the rotors have enough energy to CLIMB after your engine quits. it's just that if you did that you'd use up all the RPM very quickly, so instead you dive which if anything adds energy to the rotor, then you have a few seconds at the end to flare and use that energy to make a normal landing.
Most times it is a very hard landing and most engine failures result in coptor crashes.
@@TheBigO-k6gin favor of your comment, the pilot doesn’t know it’s going to fail so you have a reaction delay. Then it realllyyyy depends on what’s underneath of you lol.
@@andrewo.9412 It depends a lot what altitude and speed you have. If it's lower 50-60m, you will be dead with high probability.
Just blip your collective towards the last moments before touching down 'gently'...given you've maintained as slow of a decent with zero pitch and rotor freewheeling. Blip a bit off the ground...gain a little upwards thrust from the momentum in the rotorhead...and you're golden. Terrified...but golden. It's just that simple lol(yea right)
Wow. Does that work at any height the helicopter is capable of flying to?
Full touchdown auto rotations are scary.
almost nobody pracitices full down autos in a robinson.
Yay we are safe!
Airplane comes in for a landing: 💀
Basically it’s conservation of energy. The energy from falling is put back into the propeller which can then be discharged to slow the decent. That’s why quad copters and drone type helicopters will never carry people
They will never carry people huh ?
@@jeromb1909 not outside of recreational use
Octacopters are superior to helicopters because they have redundancy --- 2 or 3 rotors can fail and the aircraft can still function --- learn something!
@@fredwerza3478 yeah and what happens if you lose all power Einstein?
Respect to rotary pilots. Skills through the roof, but as a fixed wing, I gotta say that y’all are crazy!
That is incredible. Young (me) when I was 6, I would dream of crashing in a
helicopter 🚁. Then, I got over that.still
pops up occasionally.
I was only 8 yrs. Old but I remember the pilot saying this is what happens if the engine quits as he shuts engine off, we went straight down like a super fast elevator he started engine back up then we landed safely, what a rush !
Dream or scream?
Amazingly done calm. Great training
I flew in the R-44 Raven just the other day at an air museum
Great Machine
That’s super cool, Helis scare me tho, after Kobe went I was like nope
A friend was an instructor pilot on army choppers . He taught auto rotation to many pilots. Fort Rucker.
That training can save your life.
@@DavidAlanArnold...I taught golf in
Boulder , Colorado for 15 years and
was self taught. My students were
generally older men who had taken
lessons a lot over their playing careers.
...To a man they all said I was the best
instructor they ever had. I was surprised
how well I could teach. I think a lot of
it was "genetic"...I could tell by the
physics. But teaching or learning in
a chopper is intimidating. , even though
I have flown in them a number of times.
...the most memorable was through the
canyons of Mesa Verde Park in South
West Colorado in 1987.
@@michaelcelani8325 "I taught golf..." 🤣
I have a helicopter pilot’s license. My first day with my instructor (in a helicopter that I swear was right off the set from M.A.S.H.) we autorotated. Literally, he stalled the helicopter 5 mins into the first flight. (Probably because I asked “what happens if the engine fails” about 3 second before he shut it off). 😂
I have a question for you then as someone with a heli license. Do you know about the 2018 New York City helicopter crash? Did it end badly because they hard landed into the water? If it wasn't for straps the passengers couldn't unbuckle, would they have been likely to survive the crash? Hearing about that incident made me scared to fly on any single jet powered helicopter.
Call me crazy but I would like to experience that😊
It’s fun to watch. Kinda nerve-wracking in an actual emergency.
Look how a gyrocopter (or autogyro) fly. Of course on an helicopter you don't have a push or pull horizontal engine but descending gives you enough speed to maintain the auto-gyration of the rotor. And yes, a soft, smooth, kiss-landing is very possible. the key is to have the rotor absolutely free spinning...
i’m no helicopter pilot but when mine in gta engine cuts out from too much bullet fire or flying into objects I have found it is perfectly safe to land a helicopter with no engine and also not that hard!😊
Wtf
SMOOTH!!! Sharp piloting
Okie so when the engine stopped, you have to lower the collective lever, right? But how about steering the helicopter?
Steering Stick still working in his right hand.
@@DavidAlanArnold so the hydraulic system is still working as long as the rotor spins?
@@miumiu75IRC the hydraulics don’t lose pressure with engine failure immediately, you stop replenishing but you still have enough to for the minute or so it takes to land
This looks like a R44 or m b a R22. No hydraulics used
@@barnowlgaming221As long as you have rotor RPM, you have hydraulic power. The engine doesn't drive the hydraulics.
Great in theory but in practice for me is out of the question!!!
If a blade flies off you're done.
We kept our blades
@@DavidAlanArnold I figured that , but helicopters make me nervouse.
@@jeffstepp-ou8rethat is EXTREMLY unlikely even less likely than the prop on an airplane being damaged, don’t let fear hold u back lmao that’s called being a pus sy
@@jeffstepp-ou8refr, same with me. To many moving parts. unreliable and dangerous imo
I think fixed wing is a lot safer
That has to be one of the best successful auto rotations I ve ever seen. Great pilot
Autorotation apply when the engine is down, set the level control to full nagative pitch to keep the main rotor speed sprint up, find the ideal landing place and heading to the wind, until the altitude remains around 30 feet from ground pull the level control fullly up with positive pitch condition to complete the autorotation landing .
There isn’t negative pitch in this helicopter
The helicopter is an amazing invention! All the physics involved is just crazy!
Controlled descent, resembling the delicate fall of a flower.🌼👏👏👏
Very well done!🎉🎉
He's a great pilot.
For anyone more interested in this, it’s called auto rotation and it’s a really cool maneuver for engine failure
Having the tail rotor still attached somewhat increases the chances of a successful outcome! 😮
Gammak💞🙂💫
That little helicopter has some neat avionics setup. I fly fixed wing planes never spent much time around helicopters.
That was a lot better autorotation landing than what took place in the movie "San Andreas." LOL. NO doubt about it! Granted The Rock's character was doing it in a mall parking lot and a person walked right into their path at the last minute, while this guy had a pretty clear area to land. I'm sure that played a part. Plus there were no Hollywood finger prints on this landing, where San Andreas was all about the drama. LoL However I'm still glad there was no crashing through shopping mall store ceilings and fuel leaks going all over the pilot and passenger. Great job! 😊👍
Amazing. It may seem like a silly question, but I don't know anything about helicopters. So does this mean that when the engine fails, even with the engine turned off the helicopter can "glide" like a plane? If so, why do many free fall accidents happen?
Right?! Like the 2018 New York City helicopter crash which was due to engine failure. Is it because they didn't have anywhere to land and went down into the water?
The same reason why fixed wing aircraft stall: the lack of forward velocity. The helicopter has to move forward to stay in the air without engine power.
You have to be extremely lucky to pull that out, no matter how skilled you are.
I like this guy's channel
Great pilot ✅
Engine quits - you land. And walk home....
I____f:
U have enough speed or altitude.....😉
I think that depends on how hard you land, we flew into the Anchorage airport and we didn’t land we literally slammed down on the runway. I immediately said WTF? And started puking there was a medical emergency in our corridor and I can remember am EMT asking me if I needed medical attention. No one from this airline would help me I asked for help and to fill out an accident report the pilot locked himself back in the cockpit and the stewardess fled down the stairs. As an ex safety person I can tell you definitively you don’t admit fault but you don’t leave someone who’s broken their back twice and neck 3 times puking on the plane by themself.
Absolutely Positively
It's not flying, it's falling in style
If this is an actual emergency it was marvelously handled
It's not.
What! I had no idea. So much more respect than I aleady had for pilots
Very nice effort clean and I admire the beautiful emergency landing
amazing job
Kobe needed this pilot 😂
I've been a crewmember in UH-1N, SH-60B and a "guest" in a few MH-53's while undertaking this procedure. The worst was the 53, you can't pick a point of reference on the ground. In my defense, the Marines blew chunks first. The joke among helo pilots, "what does the NATOPS manual say to do in case of ANY circumstance while flying a helo? LAND the S.O.B.!"
I totally thought he was gonna say “we are…fked” 😂
He’s speaking as if it’s a bed time story
BAT 21 has taught me auto-rotation. Haha
"Now we're falling from the sky" 😭 he sounds as if he's done this a million times
how high do you have to be to use this? how much success at low elevation?
The magic of autorotation. Beautiful.
150 ft above the deck a pop up ad comes on the screen and it's one of those stubborn 40 second infotainment mamojamos.
Man, the chopper dropped like a damn rock. No thanks!😂
Fisicks yo....👍👌👍
Basically, helicopter blades acts as parachute if engine fails.
Thank you for sharing!!☺☺
Was it a power recovery or full touchdown auto?
No thanks!!! Great job man
That's a very cool maneuver.
Que excelente vista ❤
Awesome pero deberías traducirlo al español!
Can you use autorotation to do other things that arent emergency related?
Yes. Fast Descent. Pilots do them from time to time for practice as well.
@@DavidAlanArnoldyou popped up in my feed again! Thanks for answering 😊
Who else remembers Neil deGrasse Tyson saying you would just fall like a rock 😂
Now do this in a Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey!
I always thought losing all engine power in a plane was safer than a helicopter because I figured they would fall like a brick rather than glide but they glide pretty nicely with the autorotation
Professionals: we will slowly do autorotation sequence to have an emergency landing...
Video game players: EVACUATE AT ONCE!!!!!!!!
Auto-Rotation is such a tricky concept to explain to new pilots.
Like the blades do spin, but it’s because of the wind passing through it. You use that characteristic to use said blades to slow down and resist the wind as it spins, essentially turning the helicopter into a glider with what is essentially spinning wings.
So, forgive me i havent gotten into helicopters this much, but the velocity of the blades and air resistance as you fall allows you to continue to control how fast the helicopter decends?
Do all choppers have auto rotation capabilities? 😊