Great tutorial… I’ve done hundreds of full down autos in the R22 and you are spot on with all the steps. It’s really impressive how good the flight model is in this module including the G loading of the rotor and the need to control it with the collective.
Nicely done! Very good techniques. We plan to refine the rotor behavior a bit further in subsequent patches. Try the autorotation with a 180 deg turn. You'll see the Nr climb significantly if you're not careful with the attitude in the turn. The climb in Nr is highly dependent on the attitude in the descent. You're sticking those landings with less than an aircraft length of ground-run. Perfect! Very good demonstration!
Great❕ nice Autorotation landing, what can I expect for the next Tuto.. LTE after ETL, SCAS fail, FADEC fail, IIMC, Precision & Nonprecision Approach.. keep'em coming 🤗
so keep the main rotor disk spinning as close to 100% as much as possible, maintain 60'ish knots on the way down, and cash in all that rotor RPM at around 100' altitude with a nose above horizon approach when your airspeed starts to drop rapidly?
Pardon my ignorance (still learning), but how does the collective play a role in this if we're engine out? I thought the purpose of an autorotation was to get on the ground safely without power to the engine. If you have access to lift from the collective, why would you do an autorotation? Just trying to learn, not prove a point or sound smart.
Hi. The collective controls the pitch (angle) of rotor blades. In simplified terms, more pitch = more lift but also more drag. Normally, the engine (and the governor) keeps the rotor at a constant speed. Without it you need forward speed to basically windmill the rotor. The purpose of an autorotation is to descend to a safe spot while keeping a stable rotor RPM so that you can use it to arrest the descent and safely touch down.
@@PLHarpoon Great thanks! I didn't consider it changing the pitch of the blades. But knowing that, I can totally see how that would come into play. Cheers!
