I flew a Turbocharged Gyrocopter for the first time. 

I totally agree!

​@@SirDrifto>>> Since I first saw the Bond film *YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE* on TV decades ago, I have loved Gyroplanes.

They are!!

not for me. have fun

Thank you!

“Dark side”. Lol 😂

Is nil wind a problem for takeoff and landing, and any wind speed limitations by weather?

I'm curious what is meant by dark side. What was on the light side you switched from? Helicopter or fixed wing? Do people look at these negatively on the light side?

A throwback reference to Star Wars. I flew trikes, but friends of mine that fly either trikes or fixed wing consider gyros to be some sort of voodoo machines. @@timlong1462

“But ‘Gyrocopter’ is a peaceful planet, we have no powered rotors…”

Awsome knowledge great advice

Just another Rich man toy

@@user-lg6ge8ts4e They are expensive. I certainly can't get one of the ones featured in the video at this time, but they're not a lot more than a fully loaded pickup truck or a Corvette. I've seen cheaper gyro's. I even found one for $23k used, but I personally don't want to fly one that's just tubes stuck together and some wires for tension...

​@@jameswalker590this is one with sticks. It just also has a heavy pod on it. The wire isnt needed unless its a gyroglider (towed). The wire took the trust from tow rope directly to head. Bo needed on powered. because in the early days you built and learned first without engine people just left the cable on. Nothing wrong with open frame just cold in winter.

Thank you sir!

Thanks buddy! It's a gorgeous location.

Does it mean, nil wind will affect the takeoff and landing like a paramotor?

​@@MahaBali7975yes the take off will be longer. Landing even in still air can be zero ground roll need to be steeper though. More agressive flare.

It's for good reason ! I developed an interest in gyros a few years ago, I even have a friend who bought one. Today, I understand why these aircraft have never been commercially exploited. They are slow, noisy, consume a lot and their only advantage is to land short. But many planes land just as short while having none of the disadvantages of gyros... and they take off much shorter !

@@vzmax That's true of the modern vastly overweight machines like this. I'd agree with you on these look at this machine however ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TkSdn26d0Iw.html Yes that was noisy but his 100hp Rolls version was as quite as any powered by that engine ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RQMImcbbI_Y.html took off almost in as little room. Modern re-drive rotaxes are quite enough its just gyros are there longer than other aircraft. Modern gyros don't take off short because they are too damn heavy my old direct drive VW gyro could have gotten off in those conditions vertically. Here's a typical take off of a light gyro - note this one is being hand wound in next to no wind. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-36ogAzGGyG4.html not many aircraft can get off that quick the key here is short rotors (which get to speed in less room and lower airspeeds) and a light machine. This is a rotax 503. His instructor and mine had an identical machine and it had 20ft rotors. (these were 22ft). Wallis in the videos above were 20 ft 6 inch. You are right if you want to go anywhere fast a gyro is not for you. They can safely go to about 80mph for an open machine (although I know guys who flew those to 100mph all day), Wallis shown above in one of his record breaking machines with only 19ft rotors did 130mph safely (but it had adjustable stab and canards to keep the keel level at high speeds and an in flight adjustable offset head). But cross country in a gyro? Why? There is nothing to do they are so damn stable that for me flying with ultralight buddies I'd be flying hands and feet off dangling them aimlessly in the air while they were bouncing all over the sky actively flying I couldn't even feel the bumps they were feeling at that time of the morning they were restricted to flying too. For me cross country was point in a direction and do nothing for 15 minutes (because my gyro flew itself) and then turn and point in another direction. Gyros are so light and responsive that matching my ultralight mates turns didn't even require any visible movement of the stick just pressure and a little rudder then back to kicking air and playing with turning by sticking a one hand at a time into the airflow. I couldn't have been more bored. When he'd land 45 minutes latter I'd go off and practice following windy creeks (at a safe height) doing some vertical descents side slips and such like so I could land feeling like I'd actually done something. These guys will do a cross country in comfy heated seats, they often have every instrument known to man (I had ASI, ALT, oil temp and pressure and a wool string). The average gyro back then cost around $6000 - $10 000 to build a second hand one about the same. Even the kits like aircommand were only about $12000 these machines will set you back between $80 000 (for a cheap one) to $250 000. For that money I''d be right there with you buy a Rans 9 and have a machine that can go places if thats what you are going to do. But give me a 115kg gyro that I can take off the blades in 5 minutes by hand (without using some form of light crane) stick on a trailer in another 10 minutes and store in my garage I'll happily drive a few hours to a new flying spot explore that and go home in almost any conditions - no hanger fees cheap to operate and own. These guys gain all the expense and bother, can't easily transport or set up so almost all end up hangering them and the 100mph speed limit on most means even if cross country flying your range is still limited so you will end up in a 2 or 3 hour circle of you home strip. Put a pod on a light machine like Wallis's and you'll fly just as far and as fast. But yes going places get a fixed wing. But cross country is boring. People do it in planes because doing what you can in a gyro is unsafe. Low slow and highly manuverable is what gyros do best, but only the light ones. This is extrememly on edge particularly the loops and down low stuff which is mad in my opinion but it shows what they can actually do. Try anything within 50% of this in anything but an genuinely aerobatic aircraft and consider that that machine is probably less the $20 000 to build. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4jQe238K2es.html Now again don't recommend some of these positive g manouvers are perfectly safe at height (well all were positive g or he'd be dead but those not risking going negative like the loops and rolls) but this guy is clearly very skilled but also very foolhardy a slight hickup of the engine that close to the ground with rotors 5 feet off the ground and he'd roll it into a tidy ball at 90mph with ZERO chance of survival. But those turns at 100ft perfectly safe. Thats because a gyro can't stall (if positively loaded) and pull any more than 2.5 g and it will just mush into it as the blades in autorotation will just refuse to spin above a certain rpm meaning you can't overload them as you can in a chopper or a fixed wing. So if you minused the upside down bits and the low bits its actually within safe margins. But again I don't recommend. So in summary. Modern 100kg overweight gyros yes completely agree. Older and or lighter gyros can be flown with as little as 38hp take off quicker than most aircraft (not powered hang gliders) land literally on the spot or with a m ground roll (if you know what you are doing you can land on the spot every time even in still air - but its more agressive you need to come in steep and haul up at the last second). They can descend vertically all the way to the ground (although you'll smash it up you'll walk away) so engine failures are just nose down to keep it at speed and land normally in feet. Modern (heavy) gyros can only do this in 10-15mph winds. gyros can't stall or spin (you can make them spin vertically but you are in full control) And they cost about 10x as much as the lighter machines. Your problem was not gyros but that you are interested in gyros at a time when only a couple of types are available that are a reasonable weight. Most are WAY too heavy. Look at the Nano. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0DF2t6-Hpik.html this is heading back in the right direction. No idea of cost, also note it sits on the tail until a pilot is in it. This means the wheel position is correct too much nose weight delays take off by a HUGE amount as you can't get the blades back. Again tell me how many aircraft can get off that quick? Yes this is in a head wind but not 35mph wind like the video here. Its blades are too long at least for the 50hp version possibly the 38hp version might need lower wing loading. anyway gyros are cool but not all gyros.

I cannot confirm that there are used a lot for mustering operations in Australia (because this would be illegal). This guy is one of Australia's most experienced pilots he (in theory) could have gained this level of experience mustering as its the type of skills required and the gyros are certainly capable of this if not massively overweight. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IR54spHT46Q.html I neither confirm or deny if he gained this level of experience mustering. It is perfectly legal to help out your mates mustering if your mates own a property and you have permission to fly on it. Its just illegal to charge for it. You would need to have all sorts of CASA regulations in place. But (in theory just for the exercise) if you compared the operating cost of a gyro which could be built for $12 000 even today running in this case a Subaru motor with re-drive. That's about $10 000 less than just the cheapest 4 stroke rotax to a R22 chopper is close to 1/4 million AU and about $500. hour run costs a gyro drinking 12 liters of fuel an hour on a car engine comes in let's just say a mustering pilot in a gyro if he were so foolish as to break the law (and risk being caught by police) 8 hours drive away from the nearest authority you could (in theory) charge say $250/hour at least and the farmer if so inclined to employ an non commercially rated pilot flying an uncertified for commercial use gyroplane at literally half the cost of the hourly rate of the chopper let alone a pilot. In fact if he were to buy such a gyro himself and learn to fly it he could save even more money while mustering with such a machine. Not that anyone in Australia has ever mustered with gyro other than recreationally (I once mustered some Ibis for a couple of minutes). But they could in theory muster just as well as a chopper as Wofie demonstrates here with the sort of skills I'd image a gyro pilot with thousands of hours spend mustering cattle would have and you might even fit a bunch or airhorns to get stubborn cattle moving or you might as Wolfie has done just fit them fun to toot to family and friends.

@@cameronlapworth2284 Thank you for all these language precautions, it was funny to read ! 😉

@@vzmax no worries. They have limited commercial applications but are tremendous fun.

That’s a great point

No.

Interests i read ur vommeny. Do still exist light weight models being built ?

​@@profiskipinternational4402not many. No two seaters you need to build your own.

What is the typical cross wind limit of a gyro?

@@BrianWilliamsInspires - Typical? I can't be sure of that as different models may have different limits, but for my MTO Sport, the POH states 20kts. However, that can very easily be mitigated by flying parallel to the runway, slightly downwind of it, then turning in at the last moment and landing across the runway. Unlike fixed-wing aircraft, there is essentially no roll-out.

posted his link to his flying operations in the video discription.

That's because it was not balanced properly. I urge you to fly in another one that is balanced and you won't have that issue. Be careful you might decide to buy one then.😁

quite incredible, given the fact that it is turbocharged.

thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching. Definitely go fly one

Glad you liked it!

EASY just google local fliers - bound to find something !! it's NOT major-league expensive for a 15 / 20-minute 'jolly'.

He mentions the one we were flying is about $125k

Around $120k

@@SirDrifto way out of my price range, but I definitely enjoyed the video

The kits are cheaper.

@@leobrea2635 Tango 2 is around $48K, not much more as a turnkey. Yamaha 3 cyl 130hp engine.

Very cool

Agreed. There was much more freedom until the government got involved and forced insurance which made those greedy a-holes even richer.

I know right? Not to mention the guy in the front has zero flight time and has never flown anything with a stick either 🤷‍♂️.

You're not dumb. I forgot to update it. Thanks for the heads up

@@SirDrifto - Yer one of the first people to ever say I'm not dumb. Hahaha.. I've been thinking about learning to fly auto-gyro for a long time. Old private pilot here..Cheers!

autogyro rotor mechanism is simple - especially compared to helicopter ..... it's worth a google to learn the differences

not to mention the possibility of it swinging back and smashing the propellor ??

They are very safe

@@stonehorn4641 38% of accident fatal. Yeah really safe you Wally

​@@malcolmdeboo3794Source?

but you can land it with a dead engine.............

@@raymondo162 So can helicopters as long as you have some altitude or airspeed.

because mercan

Gfy

People are not meant to move at 60 miles per hour. But, I bet you have done it.

Stop telling God what to think of them. Is that faith? We are meant to shut up, and think for ourselves. Not for all the others.

Are you a cissie?

We are not fish yet we swim. We are not bullets yet we drive cars 70-80 mph on highways.