Helicopters Won’t Just Drop Like A Rock If The Engine Dies
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In fact, you have a better chance at surviving in a helicopter when the engine fails than you do in an airplane. Helicopters are designed specifically to allow pilots to have a reasonable chance of landing them safely in the case where the engine stops working during flight, often with no damage at all. They accomplish this via autorotation of the main rotor blades.
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You're telling me I have to read a manual when I buy a helicopter
X-TRME TV Dammit
I know right, urgh. Can't they make a brief video instruction or something? Reading is for nerds!
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You'll prolly get killed if you don't. 😋
Well I hope you do!
Do you use this voice when you talk to your friends?
Red Whovian I'm his number 1 hater
Red Whovian his voice is my bleach
+What Did I Just Make Edits you use his voice to clean stains off of your clothes?
J0n p3r3s yes
lol why are guys so harsh against him
I know this only because I play Arma 2/3 and have landed them without engine power in those games.
same
Yup. So satisfying too. My favorite part of playing a pilot
Arma 2 is a Military simulator. I bet you feel pretty stupid. Simulation - "the representation of the behavior or characteristics of one system through the use of another system, especially a computer program designed for the purpose."
I fly Hawks and think arma is pretty realistic. minus the control touch ability....
control touch ability?
Gearbox failure on the other hand is a much more serious thing than engine loss.....
a friend of mine works on rigs told me that...... the blades just break off THEN you fall like a rock
Ian Colquhoun what's gear box failure?
Ezee Posse FM ok, what exactly is the gear box and what does it do?
Reduces engine rpm to rotor rpm. The bearings for the output shaft take the entire weight of the helicopter. Failure of the gearbox loses drive, and so long as the pilot is quick, the rotor can be configured like an autogyro, and the hekicopter can be converted to a glider. Failure of the support bearings or any part of the suspension system of the rotor is regarded as a significant probem, unless the (small) helicopter has a ballistic 'chute system, because it is usually followed by and immediate splatdown..
I agree with you.
You know, if you just showed a video of helicopter landing, it would have been a much shorter video
Anyway, a short 10 seconds video of it would have been nice, and had visualized the whole thing more.
After all, he had all the diagrams already in the video.
+Stan Albatross +Stipan Lisica
He didn't explain it fully imo. He did mention most of how it works but. A video wouldn't help you at all because what you do is basically a completely normal landing. I have been in a helicopter with an instructor and asked him to do an autorotation landing. He throttle down to idle and we just slowly glide down towards the ground. While you glide down you build up rotation momentum in the rotorblades. Just like if you hold a fan up and swing it through the air without it being powered it will start spinning. When we get close like a couple meters (1 meter = ~3 foot) above ground he would just pull the collective pitch up using the built up rotation to slow down and make a soft landing. If this was video'ed from the outside it would just look like a normal landing.
If you watched until the end of the video. He provides a link to watch this in action.
Stipan Lisica yup
and you would have learned nothing, nice
Working in the North Sea I was supposed to be on a chopper that actually had to do this maneuver into the sea, but luckily my plane to the airport from which it departed was delayed. Everyone aboard was fine, no one was even harmed. Got to listen to the audio log from that incident, and the helicopter pilot was so calm going down, it seemed like it was just a routine landing. Amazing balls on that pilot...
My father was an officer for the VNAF during the Vietnam war. When I was a kid my favourite pastime was listening to his war stories, it is something that taught me deep respect for veterans. My favourite story was his time learning to fly the Hueys delivering soldiers to the frontlines. Once I asked him what happens when the engine dies midflight, and he responded that it is the most difficult test for a helicopter pilot. I don't remember all the details, but he went through the procedure of landing the vehicle safety and saving everyone on board. One of my favourite memories that I hadn't thought of in many years.
Gotta give it to Rockstar with GTA V. Doing this has saved me quite a few times when power to my helicopters gets knocked out. The propellers keep spinning, slowing the decent, and even dropping from above the clouds, I've almost always walked away from a fairly stable landing. In spite of all the BS they've done to the game over the last couple of years, this is on thing that I have to applaud them on.
it's been 5 years my lad hows GTA V goin for ya?
@@WOTI9999
Aged like a fine milk. The BS became too great, even for me.
@@ZeroFighter based
This was (is) reasonably accurate, I was a crew chief on a UH-1N I the Air Force and a lot of factors play into how smoothly an auto-rotation landing is accomplished, starting with how well the pilot is trained, weight on board, altitude at engine failure, forward airspeed and badly everyone on board just shit their pants.
Here trying to see how or why Kobe's helicopter go down
Green Buzz flames engulfed the helicopter due to yhe engine...ಠ_ಠ
@@roymuzuwa7108 Was it? I heard the pilot was circling around before it crashed
Is that confirmed I heard they were blaming it on fog
@@DrGreenBuzz Dunno, still being investigated. I heard that too and it does get really foggy overthere. The flight report stated that it was circling the area prior to crash. Could be they were trying to avoid nearby houses or maybe lost in the fog. Check out Adrian Wojnarowski espn reporter twitter feed.
He didn't cut the engine off. The blades was still spinning and the copter was on fire b4 it fell for some reason.. Untrained pilot?? What was he doing while it was spinning? He didnt use Autorotation. How many hours did he have flying?
so I'm on my first week of commercial heli pilot course, and have 4 hours of flight time already and have done (assisted) over 10 auto rotations already haha, I love them, the flare is the best part, definitely loving learning how to fly!!!!
Who else is here after Kobe died 😪
Me 😢
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RIP Kobe
AZA'MA'AL YAH-SHA-AHLA shut the hell up. Why must their be external forces being the cause of things and not ourselves?
@AZA'MA'AL YAH-SHA-AHLA trust you? GTFO lol
Suggesting helicopter autorotation is more safe than a gliding airplane is off by a mile. Objectively inaccurate
@@derickrk Planes can glide for surprisingly long though, whilst helicopters can't.
@@derickrk that's true
….and plane.
As both an airplane pilot and helicopter pilot I would take an engine failure in a single engine airplane any dayover one in a single engine helicopter.
Who’s here after Kobe Died😭
:/
His pilot should be fired
@@nuclearthreat545 he is in fact fired. Literally. But seriously tho the rotors probably locked up.
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me smh
RIP Kobe Bryant.
Learning about autorotation because of Kobe's helicopter
Same
Albanian Eagle apparently the pilot was trying to clear something, thought he cleared it and started to desend. I dont think to land the thing. Considering it was all debris there was no engine failure. But youre right they will release full and hopefully accurate report soon.
rest in pieces
The premise that helicopters are safer than airplanes during an engine failure is false.
While it's true that helicopters can autorotate, they can only do so in a very fine window while flying above a certain altitude and going over a certain speed.
Get an engine failure while hovering, flying slow or flying low and you will not be able to autorotate. Also the reaction time for initiating autorotation is very low in the best of cases. It's one thing doing autorotations while practicing engine failures (and expecting it) and completely another reacting to the unexpected event in less than ideal conditions. Statistics on crashes and successful autorotations tell a different tale than your video.
You never hear about close calls with helicopters but you see a lot with planes 🤔
Totally agree Riccardo! The guy in the video was trying to use one piece of data to make an overall assumption about whether a helicopter or airplane is safer. The answer is much more complex than just looking at engine failures, like you were saying. Before watching this video, I was researching whether helicopters or airplanes were safer. Turns out, both are extremely safe. Apparently airplanes and helicopters are safer to use for transportation than car travel. Statistically, driving your car through a parking lot is more risky than riding in an airplane or helicopter. When looking at all the data between airplane and helicopter safeness, airplanes are considered safer.
Exactly my thoughts.
"Above a certain altitude" this literally applies to fixed wing aircraft as well, no different
I was a helicopter power train repairman in the army. I had a hard time understanding a high energy rotor system, one of our test pilots started an OH-58 helicopter throttled up to flight rpm let it stabilize throttled down to ground idle pulled up the collective lifted up the aircraft spun it 360 degrees and set it down with only the energy stored in the rotor.
I have been in helicopters many times that auto-rotated.
I had an old Vietnam vet Airforce mechanic describe this to me once. He said he had to always ride with the pilot after repairs to check the systems. Testing this system was always the scariest part he recalled.
"Stored kinetic energy" is called potential energy. Today YOU found out
In short the main rotor in flat pitch becomes a wing, allowing forward flight-then flare w/ level touchdown. Sometimes w/ enough forward speed they slide down the runway a bit.
really helicopters just beat the air into submission.
A guy that I worked with who was a Huey pilot in Vietnam said that with practice and if the machine wasn't heavily loaded you could set a Huey down on auto gyro and lift off and set back down as many as four or five times.
At first I was scared of autorotation (no power) landings. But after I got used to them I really enjoyed them and did an excellent one on my commercial flight test.
This would help in GTA
thinking about it already is a thing when your helicopter dies mid-flight if you notice the rotor blades still move when the engine is not working. so surprisingly they put the physic in place for such things to happen. and if you pull up on the yoke when this occurs the helicopter travels further.
I have flew many hours in GTA 5 online in helicopters and planes. I have successfully landed many helicopters by doing the methods stated in the video above. saving myself and my passengers
My helicopter's engine died a few times and I could land safely in the streets.
SquidCookies I preformed the landing methods mentioned in the video successfully and never blew up.
it does i do it all the time
In London we have to follow the river Thames so if the engine dies we land in the water
Or a high tension cable "poof!" lol
You don't land in the water, you "water" in the water :D
londonistan*
That's only for single engine helicopters. dual engine helicopters can fly freely over London I believe.
I heard something like that.
The content and information of your videos is really good! The only recommendation I would give is perhaps getting a better camera since it kinda looks like you have a phone's beauty filter in terms of resolution, other than that your videos are perfect. (subbed already) Best of luck
I used to fly RC helicopters and i've done a few no power landings either from a low voltage cutoff or from the motor sliding back. I've landed hard, or tipped over, but thankfully always upright (broke a few skids tho). But i still don't get how you're supposed to land with no tail servo, mainly because i've never had to do it. Is it simply a matter of action/reaction where no motor instantly removes all torque? Come to think of it, removing the torque means the helicopter will now spin the other way along with the main rotor wouldn't it?
So plane stores kinetic energy from its speed while helicopter store kinetic energy from rotor rpm
As an airplane pilot and helicopter pilot I would say that most of the stored energy is altitude. In both cases we trade altitude.
@@robertgary3561 I said kinetic energy and altitude is potential energy.
I would say in both cases you’re using altitude to build and maintain speed/rotor. Airplane speed and rotor speed will decay quickly if you don’t trade altitude to maintain it.
RIP Kobe Bryant
I watch your videos when I can't sleep because 2 minutes in I immediately pass out
At one time I worked at a place where a neighboring organization had a number of helicopters. They had their pilots practice autorotation landings often. However, they would appear to "glide" in for that landing. Naturally this would be hard on the skids, so they had liners on the skids which they changed often.
I am intrigued that another contributor wrote in here, likening the autogyro to a autorotation landing. Though I have been told that the blades on an autogyro were not adjustable. Anyway, my old Dad talked about these a lot, so I had an idea what the pilots were talking about when I was introduced to autorotation.
Fascinating! As all of aviation is.
still waiting for giant quad-copter with fly by wire as easy as that drone controller.
Who found themselves here after trying to understand what happened to Kobe Bryant’s helicopter
We just started a community😀
how does the pitching action work? if I have no power what is controlling the pitch of the helicopter? Is this assuming a still have the ability to tilt the rotor? If tilting the rotor is even a thing... I have no experience with helicopters...Thanks for the answer in advance.
Hovering steady is pretty damn hard to do when your first learning. It's extremely easy to over correct on a little mistake and you end up swinging around all over the place. Actually flying a helicopter once in the air and moving is pretty easy.
3:46 ending an argument with 'but still' is very weak.
I don't believe that anymore since Kobe and Gigi were instantly killed in their own helicopter!
Too bad, cause it's true
It`ll be nice to see actual video or animation demonstration of what we are learning. More so when its a technical subject like this one - Nice channel :)
This was literally like "today I googled something and talk about it"
"stored kinetic energy"... so.... potential energy
Ok, but what about the stabilizer thingy in the back? Without an engine, it'll stop spinning, and the friction from the main blade on its axis will spin the helicopter out of control right?
Sammy197 I believe that the two rotors are connected somewhat like a car's wheels are, but I'm not completely sure
They're connected. The main rotor, when it's in a state of auto-rotation, provides power to the tail rotor through the transmission system.
Wrong, since the main rotor will be free wheeling then there is no torque forces trying to twist the helicopter about it's axis.
helicopter will start to rotate due to torque that motor produces. that is why you have to shut down motor if rear rotor stops working (it is mentioned in video).
SW6,
Semi-wrong.
It will rotate the other way, because of the DRAG that the blades have against the air, and especially if there is some gearbox problem where the blades aren't disengaged or the gearbox seizes.
I learned how to do this long ago in Operation Flashpoint, the predecessor to Armed Assault (ArmA) series.
I already know quite a bit about autorotation and the amazingness of autogyros.
Still wanted to hear you explain it.
Kobe bryant brings me here
I'm watching this because of what happened to Kobe.
Thanks for explaining it. I have always wondered how it works.
Today i found your channel. Great!
So this is why battlefield 1 doesn't have helicopters
maybe it's because it takes place in ww1...
CaptainCrape
Maybe it's because you just fell into a troll trap =D
Candi Soda Trolling only works when you get someone really pissed.
Or when you actually think someone was being serious :)
Candi Soda Are you even well versed in the art of trolling?
can you please just get in a helicopter fly it up a bit then turn the engine off.. film it then upload.
This channel has come a long way in its presentation, but the facts were always solid!
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Who here after hearing about Kobe Bryant
@Crystal Kirkland. I am. Such a tragedy. 😢😢
He is talking rubbish ; Choppers are never safe
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I started hearing about him after he died
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It's been a crazy week. ;-)
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Great video! If someone knows what an autogyro is, they would better understand that a helicopter can "glide" so to speak. The autogyro (autogiro) was essentially a plane with rotors that would spin and produce lift with forward motion. They were developed pretty early in the age of flight.
guys dumbed up it's basically a pin wheel in the wind at a certain angle the wind will catch the blades and make them spin
Here's a very recent video from Smarter Every Day. Explains *and* performs.
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Scooped! (At least on the video side. Script written in 2012 :-)) *shakes fist vigorously in general direction of Alabama* ;-)
I didn't mean to accuse you. By no means! sorry if I gave the impression. O:-)
Oh I didn't think that's what you were doing. I will say, I'm a bit jealous of Destin actually getting to ride in such a helicopter doing that. Much more fun way of explaining it. :-)
He also has a license to fly this thing.
Is there anything Destin can't do? :-) Mindboggling that NASA hasn't selected him yet for the astronaut program. :-)
Kobe brought be here SMDH..
This was very enjoyable and well done.
How can an engine die when it is not alive in the first place?
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Who else is watching because of Kobe's tragic accident?
I've known for years, ever since I was a wee little lad and got myself involved with model aeronautics, more notably 3D helos.
However, I can see why people would seem to think that helicopters are incapable of landing like this. How a helicopter really works seems to elude people, and most I've talked to seem to just assume they fly kind of like airplanes that can stop on a dime and hover in place. There's much more to a helo than that. Hell, 99% of the people I've had conversations with don't even know what collective pitch is or even have a faint idea of how it works!
Pretty cool that he added the link for us to see autorotation.
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The time the pilot has to react to the engine failure, although trained, is what makes helicopters drop like a rock. I've known experienced helicopter pilots die, because they simply weren't quick enough. Dependent on the model, this time is a matter of seconds. In the air, when you get an engine failure, your immediate reaction is what's happened, concluded it's an engine failure, possibly why has the engine failed and can I restart it, and/or, act upon it. By the time that has gone through your mind, you are too late. No, it is not more likely you survive an engine failure in a helicopter than in a plane. The plane will fly without the pilot doing anything. For an example, in the very common Robinson Beta R22, you have only 1.6 seconds to react. Count it out loud and see how quick that is and how when surprised by an unexpected scenario like the engine failure this time will be hard to beat even for experienced pilots
thats why they usually hold onto the collective when they fly helicopters..and msot of the time, there are warnign signs that something is about to go wrong such as alarms going off or a spike in oil pressure/temp or something like that
Austin Wright you cannot always be holding on to the collective. It's unrealistic. You need to note things down for example when ATC gives you a long clearance. Worse, if you're an instructor you're going to have papers to manage and your student won't know how to handle the incident.
Matt Woolford
im well aware of that, but most of the time you usually have a co pilot, but engine failures are rare so long as the engine is properly maintained, i would honestly rather be in an helicopter when the engine quits than a plane, since most planes dont glide too well and some really will drop like a rock, sure most plane crashes can be survived but the issue is, finding a place to land..but due to proper maintenance you have no real need to worry about either crashing, and ive seen more people walk away uninjured from helicopter crashes even at low altitudes, though i dont keep track of the stats..
Austin Wright not true at all. Unless you are in an F18 where it takes 20 or so computers to keep it airborne, any commercial jet is designed to be able to fly on one engine even if the performance is reduced. For those with single engines, gliding is often very easy to achieve. Even if a plane was not capable of such a feat as flying in a single engine (which they are), or in the case of dual/quad-engine failure, the pilot would still be able to glide it well. If the pilot was not able to glide it well for whatever reason (which in itself would have to be an achievement) the plane would descend at a fast, but not severe rate of descent, gain lift from the airflow over the wings and actually ascend rather than descend before it loses lift and begins descending again and so on. There is a lot of time for a pilot to react, a pilot can react more safely because even autorotation in a helicopter puts you down 10 times harder than a normal landing where gliding a relatively normal, possibly slightly hard landing would be achieved depending on how well you handle the descent. An amateur would still be able to land it well on flat grass. Planes naturally by build want to fly whilst helicopters force their way into the sky by brute-engine-force. :)
i know how airplanes work while gliding, it isnt too hard but you have alot of drag unless you feather the propeller, and an airliner if it loses an engine on climb, theres a high chance it will struggle to get back to safety due to the weight, but in cruise it isnt as bad, but losing both engines they will be forced to land and there arent too many places for a tubeliner to land, a small cessna possibly, but you have to remember a small hill can be the end of the aircraft as it hits the ground it will slide, the gear are more likely to collapse in a landing and if thats the case, you better hold on..if a 4 engine airliner loses 2 engines she wont have the ability to stay up and will not always have the power to climb, if it loses any more than that it is going down for sure but on a propeller driven aircraft, just pull the rpm lever or flip the switches or press the buttons to feather the props and you will be able to glide decently, but you dont glide that well...so in a way yes you drop out of the sky, you put your nose down and even then if you make one mistake your shit outta luck because you cant gain airspeed without losing altitude
You actually don’t have to autorotate if you lose tail rotor thrust. Turning is then done using collective, and in certain situations, the throttle, changing the different torque directions.
That tragic helicopter crash in Glasgow in late 2013, fuel ran out iirc, was a no-power landing and a crash.
I’m here because of Kobe RIP
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My old airplane instructor was a reserve helicopter pilot and told us the time he had to do autorotation landing in the Army after an engine problem.
This is badass, but I think that when most people say that helis drop like rocks, they're probably talking about a full catastrophic engine failure. like propellers shearing off and stuff that would make autorotation impossible.
What's that old joke about helicopters fighting the ground? I heard it at Ft. Benning, GA many years ago in jump school when training to repel from a helicopter. Fun fact: repelling pushes the hovering helicopter away as you lower yourself to the ground. Still, the feeling was unexpected!
"when training to repel from a helicopter" That is awesome. :-)
Hey I live near there in columbus, in the Benning hill area
KOBE BRYANTS PILOT COULDNT DO THIS HE SHOULD BE FIRED
That's exactly what I thought! It's early but reports are saying the engine was out.
The pilot died too
@@orcs_blood1793 The pilot was in contact with the tower so it's safe to say he alive and conscious before crash
he was fired, literally
Miura everyone in there died
It's called auto rotation. Negative pitch keeps the rotors spinning. Adding positive pitch along with a flare close to the ground counters the decent before landing.
Is it a bit like how maple seeds fall to earth?
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What do you mean. Airplane engine failure/ crashes are way more survivable than helicopter crashes
Nope. Let me explain this quickly. Planes have to glide when crash landing. Meaning they need a long stretch of open and flat ground to land on. Helicopters are far more agile, smaller and they can still move around a lot while descending. They are able to find very small spots to land with little problem. So basically a heli can land on a small street next to your house while a plane would need a very large highway. Plane=large flat area to land and cant maneuver much. Heli= small agile and can land pretty much anywhere.
Also one thing I forgot to mention... When crash landing in a plane, you are going much faster then you would be then while flying a heli. That is the main reason it is safer to be in the heli
Ethan Cole but that's why airliners have more than one engine. Plus a lot of small planes can land in 50 feet. The ability to glide gives the plane a chance to reach an airport where rescue is immediate. Also planes are way safer than helicopters. You are way more likely to survive a crash in a plane than a helicopter
Star Excelsior thing is. the helicopter does not need to reach the airport. Yes the plane may have 2 engines, but in the crash landing senario all engines could be dead.
Helicopters can glide, I have heard that some have a better glide slope than fixed wing, the point is a fixed wing must maintain forward air speed in order to touch down safely. A Cessna 150 touches down at about 60 MPH where as a helicopter could touch down at 0 MPH.
I think he means, an aeroplane total engine failure almost always results in a crash landing. A plane can only perform an unpowered landing if there is a suitiable place to land, ie if you are close to a runway. A helicopter engine failure can be easily turned into an unpowered landing as opposed to a crash. Yes plane *crashes* are more survivable than chopper crashes (which have a close to 100% pilot kill rate) but if 100 planes and 100 choppers experience total engine failure at cruising altitude, 99 of the planes but only 1 of the choppers will crash.
Learning to fly at the moment. Helicopters will drop like a rock if RPM dips too low. In the R22 you have 1.5 seconds to dump the collective and pull aft on the cyclic before it drops. R44 is 4 seconds. The higher the weight class the safer it is.
You left out a very important detail. Autorotation cannot be initiated if the helicoopter does not have proper combination of airspeed and altitude. That is, if the power fails below a certain altitude without enough forward airspeed, it will not be possible to trade speed and altitude for increased rotor speed to autorotate, and thereby cushion the landing. Helicopters are very vulnerable when in hover below minimum autorotation height. If power is lost in that situation, they will start to decend rapidly, and will not recover before striking the ground. This is why when taking off helicopter pilots try to gain forward speed as quickly as possible.
I'll just say this whole kobe thing is funny and I think the shitt they showing on the news is false.
My ass! I would much rather be in a airplane than a helicopter if the engine was to die.
twn5858 false sense of security you got there
Arjen_hoi nope, large airliners can glide very far without their engines
They can glide far... in a straight line. It's incredibly touchy to do a landing maneuver since the slightest mistake will make you permanently lose control and you'll probably need to land at much higher speeds, which might be enough to overshoot or obliterate the plane even on an otherwise successful landing. Unlike the chopper, the plane will need to maneuver onto a landing strip.
yeah me too, unless you are very low and no place to land. This thing in helicopters only works if it isn't to high.
Anyone here a pilot? It would be nice to hear from someone who knows what they are talking about instead of people who think they know what they are talking about.
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there is a few other things considering the Autorotation, such as adjusting the Angle Of Attack on the rotor blades, etc, but othervice nice explanation
This sounds like it would actually look good in movies.
That makes sense because there would be a lot a failure in chopers
They won't drop like a rock; they'll drop like a helicopter.
Yeah, they told us that too (auto rotate). I saw dozens go down, and every one that lost an engine, hit the ground like a sack of wet cement. I was shot down twice myself. Not everyone walked away from either crash and I was injured in the last crash.
crusty old fart your name is interesting and it could be very descriptive of you.
Ian I practice to support that image.
this auto-rotation stuff seems too tricky to do during an emergency. Why doesn't an onboard computer automatically take over, perform all the math, and does all the optimal maneuvers? It is crazy to have to rely on humans.
Because lots of helicopter does not have a flight computer or capable of auto pilot like planes
I never thought about it, but this makes sense. I think water landings should have been covered though, because that sounds like death.
yeah that sounds way easier than a slight down pitch of the nose in an airplane while scanning the horizon for a place to land...
Students learn autorotation first, not last. I am a helicopter student and if there is ever an engine failure during training or solo flight, I will be very glad to have learned this manuver in the very beggining.
Helicopter pilot here - I have no fucking clue how to shoot a auto. I've done like 3. 😂
So is this what happens to helicopters in battlefield
i think there is a key component of this that you have left out either. contrary to what most people think lift for ascending and descending in a helicopter isnt controlled by throttling the engine in fact the engine throttles up to a sustained and efficient point and the pilot controls lift by controlling the angle of attack/pitch of the rotor blades themselves the greater the pitch the more lift generated this is called collective pitch. in the event of an auto-rotation landing the pilot pitches the heli forward and lowers the pitch of the blades as far as they will go so they can spin freely and faster storing energy and during the flare he increases the pitch of the rotors spending the stored energy to create a bubble of lift to land on
GODdamn I’ve been keeping up with him since 2018 and I forgot how much he needs a beard. Love you Simon
Love this channel!!!!
sounds like someones listening to music on their headphones while you were recording
Bro 1 million subscribers,wow just a few minutes ago. Congratulations
RIP KOBE