Welcome to Helicopter Lessons in 10 Minutes or Less!
My goal with this channel is to teach helicopter pilot topics, one-by-one, in a format that's easy to grasp. I try to keep all of the topics in a format that can be used on any scratch paper or a whiteboard in a briefing room. Viewers can use these drawings as a study tool, training aids, or for demonstration purposes to pass check-rides.
My name is Jacob. I'm an Apache Instructor Pilot and I love flying and teaching. If there are any topics you'd like covered, mention your idea in a video comment and I'll see what I can do. If you enjoy the videos, make sure to subscribe and leave feedback.
I first watched this video 5 years ago, and now an FAA CFI, I'm about to do the Canadian FI and reviewed this for my notes on how I'm going to teach this. While this is a great video, it rushes thru this to I think get it done in less than 7 min, it achieves that goal but a few more pauses and slower pace is what I'll be remembering from this hangar talk on TTT.
I just took my Commercial checkride and the DPE said it was one of the best ground evals he's had. Your videos helped me to really grasp the fundamentals but also explain them in a simple and efficient way. Keep up the awesome work. You are a blessing to many of us out here learning helicopters!
I am not, nor will I ever be a helicopter pilot, but I feel a strange responsibility to know how to prevent mast bumping from happening in the future, as well as how to recover from it.
I love your vids! As an IP I find them very useful! The only thing I’ll disagree with is that translational lift essentially“begins” at 16kts. From that moment the airflow is totally horizontal and continues to become more and more until climb airspeed. Until then at 10-20 kts (as you know of course) only the fore half sees horizontal airflow etc…
I took the test in 1978, and it was called a FAST (Flight Aptitude Skills Test). I took the test right after my Class 1 physical. My eyes were dilated, and the test questions were a blur. I still passed 300 was passing, I got 301.
Thanks to your videos, I scored a 69 on the SIFT. I’ve also recently been selected for flight school. Thank you for taking the time to make this series! You set me on the right path when I was first starting this journey.
From a former Mi-24 / HIND scientific & technical intelligence analyst for the US Army Foreign Science & Technology Center [ FSTC ], now the National Ground Intelligence Center [ NGIC ] in Charlottesville, VA. I was the principal technical analyst on the Mi-24 / HIND during the 1970s, and the sponsor of the Catch 24 Conference at FSTC in 1976 addressing the air-to-air combat potential of the Russian Mi-24 / HIND helicopter. This conference was well attended by US Air Force and US Marine aviators, both rotary & fixed wing. This conference eventually culminated in the J Catch Trials in 1978 of the Mi-24 / HIND air combat potential against both rotary & fixed wing US aircraft - with & without complimentary ground based air defense support. The numero uno lesson learned in Tactical Air Combat Maneuvering [ TACM ] in a helicopter is to aggressively pull collective first, then apply aft cyclic to avoid mushing. Then, add a right or left turn to climb out. Cheerz, bb
In ground affect the air flow hits the ground then pushes back up causing the helicopter to raise then float back down a little. Has nothing to do with vortex. And to get up to 100 feet you need more collective anyway in order get up their you do need more collective then ground affect yo maintain but once you reach the 100 foot mark you’ll now need to down collective to achieve the hoover
Your not entirely correct on your explanation on how the semi rigid operates. Fully articulating head is for more then two blades. The semi ridged was actually the first one to go to production.
If you recognize the wind direction and allow machine to weather vaneinto it by reducing forward speed but controlling rotor rpm and easy on the pedals with little or no input. Let it fly again like stall recovery???
Even after graduating flight school and reading TC 3-04.4 over and over Compressibility still wasn’t clicking for me until I watched this video. Thanks for your help!
