Almost Dynamic Rollover

In a smooth surface, pavement joint play it's roll.

[@PriceActionResearch]

This is a weight and balance issue. He fills both the main tank and the aux tank. Does his preflight pretty well. Then gets in the helicopter and starts it. Then tries to hover. The back right stays on the ground because of the Center of Gravity. The cause of the right aft skid on the ground is because he didn't do "1" thing correct after filling the helicopter with AVGAS. That "1" issue is Determining is "Loaded Weight" and "CG" with either the computational, graph and/or table method. Which is apart of the preflight. This is the step all pilots seem to think they can skip. After about one minute of flying, he figures out his "CG" and gets comfortable. Then his second takeoff is a lot nicer because he figured out where the "CG" is while being in the air.

[@RaivoHein]

Todd, there were very simple reason after all. Pilot intention was move copter to the right and during TO, cyclic was hold also bit righ. That is ok. What went wrong is that aft right skid stuck between pavement stones joint.

[@PriceActionResearch]

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[@justsomeguy7730]

I'll never forget what my flight instructor told me, and no other helicopter pilot should either: EVERY pick-up and set-down is a slope takeoff/landing.

[@geminiadventures8028]

Looks like the rear point of the starboard side skid may have gotten momentarily snagged in the paver joint or on whatever that black spot happens to be. This could've gone bad.

[@BobABooey.]

I guess you don't have an editing feature on your videos. Unless you've never flown solo in a Robinson, the nose is pretty light and can feels strange to a lot of newer pilots who are not comfortable pushing so far forward when you pull pitch. A couple of sand bags on the front seat would help out.

[@justsomeguy7730]

Skip to @15:35

[@davidwarkentin9848]

This is not "almost" a dynamic roll over. This was a pilot in a hurry who wasn't so graceful picking up.

[@rsrt6910]

Really? 26 minutes long and that wasn't even an "almost" dynamic rollover, that was either a very bad pick up or way too much collective for his low rotor rpm test.

[@jalan9700]

@15:55