Hovering Autorotations! - Helicopter Flight Training VLOG #8

[@christopherrasmussen8718]

I’m glad the instructor is cool with the videos. He’s a neat guy.

[@bishop51807]

More business for him, free ads.

[@GerbenWijnja]

@Patrick Brennan I always loved Santini Air's paint job!

[@jimwilliams2682]

Over 38 years ago, hovering autos in the TH-55 were my bugbear. Mr. Mitchell, my instructor, made me do probably 20 a day until I got them. At the end of the TH-55 stage, we alternated doing them until one of us did a bad one. He won most of the time, but I did win a couple. I'm really enjoying watching your journey in copters. For the record, instruments kicked my butt and I ended up as a B-52 Navigator. Yes, I was USAF at Fort Rucker. It was a trip!

[@markbeard3536]

My Stick Buddy was USAF Academy 2LT, me being a WOC, I ask him who he pissed off. He said it was his first choice. We had a great time and did lots of hovering autos. Our IP was Richard Love (yes, that was his real name). Class 85-21, Maroon Flight.

[@jimwilliams2682]

@@markbeard3536 82-28 for me. AF guys in the class, 1 1LT, 7 2LT.

[@jimwilliams2682]

@Max Wylde The instructors at Mother Rucker, both Active Duty and civilian, were great!

[@marcs990]

MOVER. This is the best VLOG series you have ever done. It’s feels so immersive watching this n it feels like I’m there with you. Also you have an EXCELLENT instructor. Also you’re a natural n will solo in no time I’m sure. Thank you so much for the hard work u put into these vids. Best of luck from across the pond in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 👍 🇺🇸

[@AmyAnnLand]

Agreed. I love watching this series too. There is a minimum amount of dual instruction hours required before he can solo.

[@marcs990]

Amy Ann agreed Amy, he has most of the basics such as comms n navigation plus understanding the environment so he can naturally concentrate on his flying. He has a great instructor as well. Thx for your message

[@harpoon_bakery162]

Man that instructor is good. It's worth half the admission just to watch him.

[@Impulse21s]

You can really tell you're getting confident with the controls. What a difference from a few weeks ago, super impressive how fast this is coming to you! Great Job, Mover!

[@SomethingSeemsOff]

It really is impressive how fast he's learned so far.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

He's clearly getting "gooder" :)

[@shaneb3300]

Thibodaux guy here. Love your vids and been subbed for a while. Thanks for your service, Mover. As a “local” it has been awesome to watch your Helo flights around Lakefront, Slidell, NASA, Luling, Destrahan, etc, etc. Love your instructor. I would fly with him or you any day of the week.

[@ThatPilotDude]

Brings back memories of watching students trying their best to spread the skids on the TH-67 and 58D.

[@AmyAnnLand]

It always brightens my day seeing these pop up in my notifications. Hope you have a great holiday weekend.

[@CWLemoine]

You too! Doing any flying?

[@AmyAnnLand]

@@CWLemoineThank you! I'm working tomorrow and the fourth but I will be flying on Sunday. I might even use that flight to test the waters on vlogging. Although I clam up on camera so not sure how it'll turn out. 😄

[@CWLemoine]

Nice! Great idea! If you get serious about it, make sure you record the audio too www.mypilotstore.com/mypilotstore/sep/11806

[@AmyAnnLand]

@@CWLemoine Thank you!

[@owensparks5013]

Wow, less wind and rapidly growing skills is making for a craft that so much more stable in yaw than just an episode or two ago. Outstanding 👍

[@Garythefireman66]

Another great episode. So much fun to watch, and you've edited it so well, there's no lulls in the action. Thanks for taking us along.

[@jasonbergeron6347]

Learning is occurring! Enjoying the series Mover.

[@Wallygjs]

Ace job,those small drops look more scary than the autorotates from higher up. I think the instructor is a great guy letting us watch your progress it's unmissable.

[@charlesormond964]

Looked like a tough lesson day. Thank you, Mover, for sharing your copter flight training!! Awesome

[@raykrv6a]

You are looking smoother today. Nice job.

[@resurrectionautorebuilders8465]

Hovering auto's were my nemisis. This video is bringing back a lot of unpleasant feelings! LOL! Kudos on the improvement on the 2 stage pull up. I think it "clicked". They looked a lot smoother, especially as the lesson wore on. Keep 'em comin', Mover! I'm loving this vlog.

[@toddie4usa1]

I actually look forward to these videos everyday. Piper is watching them too 😍

[@dfhj4556]

Two real pro's taking care of business..

[@JOEM747]

Didn't pay attention where you were until I saw the FBO. Went through Nav training down in Pensacola and took the T-6 over to Lakefront once. Cool airport and fun flying until we broke.

[@johnelvidge1336]

Mike Babb was my instructor at Rucker, my stickbuddy and I called him 'Grandmaster Babb'. Since I was an old 67N Mr Babb and I would challenge each other on the 'garbage parts' in the recycle bin next to the hanger. I was trained by a W-4 to know all the acft parts so he could embarrass other pilots. Mr Babb was very impressed by my knowledge, probably why he passed me. ;-)

[@Kiwi_Dave]

Best helicopter at autorotations. The iconic UH-1

[@Chucky90tt1]

I am a couple of hours into my R22 training and really find these vids helpful. Great job sir!

[@BrittMac422]

Hey Mover, finished my Rotory ad on about 4 hours ago, just got home. Good times, and I'm glad you seem to be enjoying yourself.

[@michaelvorderkunz2936]

Great stuff Mover keep up the hard work. Can't wait to see the first helicopter solo video.

[@boilermaker7754]

He is getting you ready to solo sooner than later, been there done that...my legs were shaking so much I thought I was wagging the tail of the helicopter.

[@HotshotForever]

I remember these days, most of my training was in a S300C, but later doing hover autos in a R22 I learned to push full right pedal the instant you hear the RPM drop. This worked pretty well, until I flew a Cabri G2

[@HotshotForever]

@dissimetry The Cabri is pretty nice, smooth and quiet, I enjoyed flying it. And the first time I did a hover auto in it I prove from a 18" hover you can do 180* right turn before landing. Startled the instructor and myself just bit. But the instinct to shove full right pedal on RPM drop doesn't work in a clockwise rotor system.

[@bjornegan6421]

@@HotshotForever lol

[@budrohammbone2806]

I am really enjoying your Rotary Wing 101. I can see by the comments many others are, as well. Nice Work !!

[@kapnk066]

I used to fly radio control helicopters back in Atlanta years ago. We used the terms "planks" vs. "rotary wing", not "fixed wing" vs. "helis". The "plank" guys had it easy and tended to be the older modelers. Mover, thanks for putting yourself out there with the rotaries, much respect!

[@SomaFlly]

man thats some epic autorotation trianing, thanks alot for the vid Mover!

[@markbeard3536]

I just subscribed! I watched all of your helicopter training VLOGs. Takes me back, I learned to fly in the Army in a TH-55. Currently an airline guy, but I am thinking about getting current in helicopters again. I forgot how much fun they were to fly. Great VLOG and good luck in your training!!!

[@PDBreske]

I’m watching as I write. When I trained in the UH-1 in the late-80s, the instructor would roll off the throttle with zero warning and only a “hovering autorotation” verbal command as he was killing power. We were never taught this was training for a tail rotor malfunction. If the TR goes out in a hover, no one will have the reflexes or knowledge to recognize the problem in time to roll off the throttle before impact with the ground. Your best best is just to avoid rolling over and get it in the ground safely-ish. We WERE taught to do this maneuver in the event of an engine failure, which will manifest exactly the same as the instructor shutting off the engine power. In that case, you will still have tail rotor control that you’ll have to finesse in order to keep the nose pointed straight ahead, hence the requirement to maintain heading +/-10 degrees. Loss of tail rotor would easily wipe out that heading control in the blink of an eye. Now, once we transitioned to the Blackhawk track, we never trained for a dual engine failure outside of the simulator. Why not? Because it happens so rarely (I don’t think it has ever happened before I graduated flight school and I don’t know of any helicopter dual engine failures since then) that it wasn’t worth the risk to train for it in a real helicopter. And the Blackhawk can usually fly with one engine out anyway, so even a single engine failure was a “land as soon as practicable” emergency procedure.

[@do8472]

Really enjoying following your training. Thanks to both of you!

[@DjMikeWatt]

Ha! With the knock off Airwolf music! Love it.

[@sersp]

Stringfellow Lemoine flying Airwolf!

[@thegroundeffect83]

I had that same question where you'll hear the controllers talking to other aircraft but won't hear them talking back at the Class C I operate out of. I was told that if they're not very busy, they'll have one controller working multiple frequencies. So you may have clearance and ground grouped together. Or clearance and tower. When the controller transmits you'll hear them on both frequencies they're covering, but not the aircraft they're speaking to unless you're on that frequency as well. Those hovering auto rotations looked hard and intimidating. Keep it up!

[@KenNewberry]

Here at SFO they simulcast tower / ground and clearance with one controller when it’s slow.

[@markaoslo5653]

Yep, still digg'n it! Cheers-

[@jwb2814]

Big diff on that third auto, nice. You’ll have it in no time.

[@Barundus]

5:27 You called out "Awright, it just settled there.." and I don't think he really gave much explanation of what's happening there. This may have been answered in some other portion of the comments; at risk of repeating something he probably covered in the debrief anyway: As you transition forward from a hover to forward flight, two things are occurring: 1) You're tilting the rotor disk forward, so part of your lift vector will transition from 100% downward, to some percentage forward. Meaning your "hover" lift decreases, as some of the power is dedicated to forward flight. Without a commensurate addition of power (collective), you'll settle a bit as the lift vector changes. 2) As you approach ETL, you'll start to outrun your ground-effect airflow, meaning you'll get less efficient momentarily prior to reaching ETL. The two effects combined will tend to cause the ship to settle as you transition to forward flight. Only way to counteract it is with additional power, but it's generally not required if you're careful and manage the takeoff with speed. Transition too rapidly forward, and you'll NEED more power. Do it slowly, and you can takeoff with min power. Smooth is fast; fast is smooth. Enjoying the vids. Must be weird to use your feet for something useful again, eh?

[@richardseton7014]

Goot to say I'm really enjoying your helo training. Exceptional vlogs!

[@ronamedee2475]

You sure are getting your moneys worth out of them driving shoes ! I guess next month space X training ! Great series with the helo.

[@marcs990]

These helicopter training vids are great. I would be even more happy if you did a long totally unedited video of one of you’re lessons from start to finish n watch the entire hour or so. Great content n thx for all your hard work in making this awesome Content 👍👍👍👍👍

[@just1ofgod]

Awesome videos still want to see the l39 in the future but this is super cool!!! also thanks for letting me know that helis are most likely not for me I will stick with my wings thanks.

[@camerontodd3636]

Hover autos are my favourite!

[@kenmeyer100]

Once you've mastered this little beast you can fly to the outback and have a nice picnic

[@skeetadel]

I know nothing about flying but the third guy thats communicated with you two. I just can’t separate to concentrate what you guys are saying. lol

[@georgew.5639]

Everything takes plenty of practice. You know this. If it were easy everyone would be doing it.

[@michaelkubis7573]

I’ll fly with you any day. Fixed wing or rotor.

[@Flipper-mno13]

Can I tag along???

[@trenhester3924]

Have seen another instructor on YT that teaches to fly directly over poles. His saying is “All poles have wires.”

[@nc_mtbmedic1399]

"Just don't hit anything" that's what i tell my kids i teach to drive

[@ChrisZwolinski]

Mover. I think your quad opted is missing some rotors. I think you should just buy one of these and slide it beside the vette. Assuming you have a 2 car garage with now junk in it..... like mine.

[@sennheiser1986]

airwolf theme yeah

[@gorgly123]

Watching this is really making me want to get my Commercial add on too, or at least take some lessons.

[@ratchetthunderstud193]

Everytime i hear that airwolf song i swing my head back and forth like an idiot.

[@andrewm1058]

Thanks, you just had me doing this

[@indyjons321]

"Pedal, Settle, Pull."

[@Giugiu7077]

What do you think about GTA Online P-996 Lazer (which i think it’s the F-16 Fighing Falcon) dogfighting? If you look for it online you’ll see that it has specific rules

[@Papershields001]

Mover! When you become a police helicopter pilot, when does the mustache growth begin?

[@charlesramey936]

The next time you talk to the developers of DCS see if they will program an Airwolf download for the simulator.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

There could hardly be any better what if module than that... :)

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

I keep understanding "(Lakefront Tower, Helicopter one seven) eight zero hotel"... but I do know it's shit hot at the end ;) And apparently, you do like that horn a lot :)

[@ovabarton2810]

Instructor got a new or at least different helmet

[@behindthen0thing]

Great job man. R22 flying is hard

[@jakeyboo7]

Airwolf theme again! :P

[@mahmud-i9c]

Hover with Mover

[@sbs3905]

Hello mover, i want to be a pilot when i get older, if heard that i need Maths for It, and i Will like to say ti you thanks, beacause every video i see the more motivated i get to make a good efort to get where you are, thanks.

[@Hilariumosis]

How come the front mounted camera being fixed but the image moves like it turns? No matter how the chopper moves the image should still be fixed on them no?

[@CWLemoine]

It's a 360 camera. GoPro MAX

[@ratchetthunderstud193]

There are some people that are natural born pilots and mover is one of them :)

[@west264]

Hey mover how’s it compare to the r22 in Microsoft flight sim?

[@therealrunerabbit]

i am so jealous of this guy

[@Fast1Air]

I'm baffled as to why they're calling a simulated engine failure in a hover a "hovering autorotation"... From the comments it looks like the Army calls them that way too... baffled. FLY NAVY!

[@tomphillips7858]

Instructor get a new helmet, or just paint the one that said Sheriff across the visor? Either way, the silver with blue lettering looks good. Need to get you one of those helmets CW, might be a lifesaver one day.

[@lsmith2030]

come on Mover we want to see your heli helmet!

[@mbmann3892]

Can some one explain to me what “cleared for the option” means ?

[@jimjones994]

CLEARED FOR THE OPTION-ATC authorization for an aircraft to make a touch and go, low approach, missed approach, stop and go, or full-stop landing at the discretion of the pilot. It is normally used in training so that an instructor can evaluate a student's performance under changing situations.

[@jimjones994]

That definition is for a fixed wing aircraft but it must be same for the helicopter to.

[@lynnecheermom]

Impressive flying Mover. Lots of progress in hours you've flown. Is there something you do not enjoy about the training?

[@oljimeagle]

You don't look at your instructor and ask, "wheres my helmet?"

[@6Sally5]

I’m kinda fuzzy about references to “the option”. Option for what?

[@stevebessant8102]

Me too. For FW the option from ATC allows you to perform your choice of landing, missed approach, touch and go etc. For RW I'm not sure how it works. Anyone?

[@JJC2611]

What does the “option” mean?

[@BIGHEARTM1967]

Minty 👍!!!

[@DragonPhlyy]

Your airspeed indicator seriously lags and Ive flown lots of robbies, but you were in a hover with it showing 60kts still.

[@CWLemoine]

Yup. See the description. Was worked on multiple times chasing the issue. It’s down for annual now but a new airspeed indicator and lines may have fixed it finally.

[@DragonPhlyy]

@@CWLemoine Oh nice good to hear, guess I missed it, but thanks for sharing your journey!

[@ThePoellehat]

sorry new on this channel but what do think off F-35

[@seinfeld11123]

any idea on the ear thing I do notice your headphones don't fit your left ear properly. do they seal the right properly? and did you try an earplug??

[@CWLemoine]

Ear is fine. Headset fits fine on both ears.

[@PaulLB7]

Since you are using the theme music, I am going to be severely disappointed if we don’t see some sort of airwolf crossover with either Spectre or Shepherd.

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

Why does the instructor have such a gigantic helmet but CW has none?

[@harpoon_bakery162]

Because he's the Sheriff

[@katarinatothova7060]

Literally tom cruise 2

[@dafox0427]

Somebody traded their SPH-4 for a HGU-56, I see.

[@cbertulfo]

I like your non-copy right infringing air wolf into music.

[@gouravmallick1727]

You are learning it?? You want to start another flying career or what?

[@CWLemoine]

Nope.

[@14_yote5_oh5]

Have you seen the curvature of the Earth? I'd love an answer mover

[@CWLemoine]

Yes.

[@CWLemoine]

And so have you if you’ve ever been to a beach or large body of water or flown in an airliner above 40k ft or so.

[@14_yote5_oh5]

It's has got to be a sight for sore eyes. And yes I've seen it in that respect but above the Earth I've not. I've never been in an airliner

[@somethingsomeonesaid6455]

another trick to see the curvature of the earth...find a ship on the horizon with binoculars or a telescope that is moving away from you...eventually the ship will appear to sink into the ocean.

[@sbs3905]

Oh and could you explane what do i need apart of Maths?

[@sbs3905]

im tryrng my best im bad at grammar srry

[@sbs3905]

Thanks

[@CoalPoggers]

Can you try out War Thunder? It’s a Nice game full of Air-Land-Sea action

[@jacobsmith4453]

Cheems Department that would be a lovely mover ruins gaming episode

[@CoalPoggers]

Indeed

[@FirstDagger]

Sadly War Thunder has a not so nice grind.

[@CoalPoggers]

You know that Press Pass thing or whatever? I think Mover can get that

[@harpoon_bakery162]

There isn't a simulator that Mover won't ruin, yet. If they make a Mover-proof simulator/game, I'm in like Flynn on the crowd-fund.

[@RustyDodd]

give me an xbox controller and ill land that thing in 2 seconds