The Unexpected Truth: Helicopter Engine Failure Explained

[@cbosek]

It was an absolute pleasure being your unpowered flight chauffeur! I have been fortunate in my career to have worked for operators that utilize EuroSafety every year for training, and I’ve had the privilege of flying with, and receiving training from Glen for over a decade. Now I have the honor of working along side Glen providing the best Helicopter Safety Training in the business!

[@EUROSAFETYTRAINING]

Cody is the man

[@Steeyuv]

The pilot flying deserves a medal for being able to auto so well with you rabbiting away beside him throughout! Great demo.

[@EUROSAFETYTRAINING]

He really does... Cody is another instructor at EuroSafety... Does an awesome autorotation

[@EUROCOPTERB3E]

Eurosafety you rules! ❤❤❤❤

[@kennedylincoln]

Beautiful

[@adolfosanchez9264]

What a style!!! Nice and easy👏

[@EUROSAFETYTRAINING]

Cody rocks

[@jean-louiscavallera4733]

Will you be at HAI, next month? Great videos! Thank you

[@EUROSAFETYTRAINING]

Yes we will... stop by the booth!

[@cir9968]

Why on some helicopters you pitch up a lot in the flare, and then go to flat position, and on this you keep the same (smaller) pitch up almost the whole autorotation ?

[@EUROSAFETYTRAINING]

Good question. Smaller helicopters are flared at a low altitude, so the flare does not last long. In order to help facilitate braking action in smaller helicopters, a big flare is induced to provide for parasite drag to help the braking action and then the flare is immediately taken out because the ground is now close. In a large helicopter it is flared much higher (the heavier the helicopter the higher the flare) to allow for time for deceleration. Since the helicopter is heavy the rotor will stay at a higher value for a longer time then a light helicopter. If a large helicopter is flared aggressively and kept in the flare, the helicopter looses lift and drops rapidly... decreasing the braking time and creating a high rate of descent. The heavier helicopter can be momentarily flared "hard" at beginning of the flare and then placed back into a moderate flare in order to facilitate a bit of parasite drag braking but if not done correctly this can slow the helicopter down too much and if it looses all forward momentum it can descend straight down at a high rate of descent. I could go on and on for pages to nauseum.

[@cir9968]

Thanks for reply 😅