RotorX/RotorWay Start procedure, departure, autos at M54 in TN 

I had the pleasure of meeting Mark and his son in Texas about a month before Oshkosh. I’m not a helicopter pilot but he treated me like one of the guys. Tragic loss🙏

My condolences

I will have to assume the accident was caused by the autogyro as the pilot in the Rotorwas seems far too experienced to have caused the accident.....

omg THAT's who that was :(

​@@dwightdodd3734that's a big assumption to make.

Anybody wondering it was the fault of the autogyro the accident rate lives on. RIP Mark.

same jeeesus murphy.

Good to know I'm not the only one who screamed like a little girl! LOL

I thought for a second, that a glider was coming towards them!

Add another lol.

Meeee tooo 🤣

😅 man you should don’t know how much I want to fly one and own one too. I have been saving for 8 months now and soon going to get my PPL.

@@dfaro8453 There is really no such thing as ppl for rotary aircraft. Everything that CPL , except IMC, rotary pilot knows a ppl rotary pilot needs to know. Plus be a better rotary pilot. It is far easier for CH-53 pilot to hold a hover then for R44 pilot giving joyride. A UH-60L/M is easy to autorotot on to the ground then into the ground . Autorotating Schweizer takes real skill and timing. Mishandle autorot in R44 and you will slash your tail boom, wreck the rotor hub, and will die in blaze of glory upon impact. Provided the witecut kit is installed in Bell 404 or Bell Twin, a wirestrike comes with hefty bill and a visit from FAA. A wirestrike in Robinson comes with caskets and fire engines.

@@dkoz8321 "There is really no such thing as ppl for rotary aircraft." There heck there isn't. It's called a "ROTORCRAFT" rating. There are literally THOUSANDS of rotorcraft-only PPL holders in the U.S.

@@phillipzx3754 I was being facetious. Regarding skill levels.

Me too. It would be cool to have another video like an Iindeded instructional one where there’s a close-up on the collective and the cyclic

I believe the company, RotorX in Chandler, AZ, has developed a spray system for the A600 Phoenix Turbo.

@@AirMark I’m going to go out there in next month or two to check them out. I have the brochure sales folder from 1990 on the Rotorway Exec that I used a part of a middle school science project on how a swash plate works, so I’m very familiar with this company/airframe.

Smyrna, TN or GA? Hello Derek google AirMark and you will find my email. Send me an email and I can provide you with an informational sheet and you can make arrangements with me for a demo flight in South Alabama in my Talon A600.

Smyrna tn. Will do thank you.

Watch how the APU is mounted high and raises the c.g. in a not too good way. Look at the fuel consumption.

Some people do. Look up Jetexec. A shame they don't offer it in their kit as they do with their home brew engine.

@@stufields5125 A feature found in most helicopters, with main/antitorque rotor system. CG of such helicopters needs to be right below the hub, if not at center hub rotor disk. If it did, a cyclic deflection would send rotor disk into gyroscopic instability by altering center of lift and center of pressure.

@@dkoz8321 Also the lower the c.g. the better the roll over resistance. Simple physics. Also simple physics: the tail rotor should rotate in such a manner that the rising tail rotor blade climbs into the main rotor down wash. Note the Safari helicopter has been flown with the ballast wt in the solo position with two people on board. There was no calculation as to how far from center the CG was moved but quite a bit of displacement of the cyclic was required to hover.

@@stufields5125 there are lots of helicopters whose tail rotor rotates clockwise or counterclockwise

A normal takeoff procedure: Hover power is climb power. The collective and throttle remain constant until the cruise flight altitude is reached. This is true of all helicopters that are performing a "normal" takeoff.

@@AirMark so if ELT is all that is required to climb does that mean to descend you just reduce forward cyclic and she'll start to sink? If that happens how do you avoid landing?

@@ticenits1926 It is not all that simple. The controls inputs/responses will be different, depending on the flight parameter. For example, departure/climb, cruise and approach/descent. The FAA offers a handbook for Rotorcraft but if you really want to be a better helicopter pilot, use the book by W.J. Wagtendonk, "Principles of Helicopter Flight". This is my Helicopter Bible. Amazon has it, of course.

maybe there is a kneeboard type strap we can't see

Kneeboard with Velcro straps

We all have to fly what we can afford. Pretty impressive from a pilot with 7000 plus hours.

@@daleisatimpactms I have 14,000 hours most fixed wing, but what I said is what I said. My life is worth more. I don't think R22's or R44's are wholly unsafe, just not very forgiving.

@@gmcjetpilot If the engine quits and I'm not in gliding distance to an airport, I would much rather be in an ultra lite helicopter that can auto down to a zero fwd speed touch down. I'm licensed in both "Stuck Wings" and helicopter. I haven't flown a "Stuck Wing" in years. (I don't like the Rxxs either) I have hover taxied two helicopters that weighed less than 270#

@@stufields5125 Have you seen auto rotations gone wrong. RXXX? You mean Van's Aircraft series Rxxx RV4 RV6 RV7 RV8, RV10, etc. They stall at under 59 mph and land in 600 feet. You have all that delicious yummy structure, fuselage, roll cage, wings, gear to absorb impact. Whirlie Bird is like a lawn chair with gigantic blender just over your head... ha ha. I'm kidding. Choppers are cool, but for me it has to be at least a Hughes 300 or bigger turbine, Bell or Eurocopter. The tiny piston ones make me nervous. Ha ha.

@@gmcjetpilot The RXXXs I was meaning was the R22 and R44. Hughes 300 and up have parts prices, let alone initial acquisition costs. Ex: One seal for the sprag clutch for Bell 206 $470. Almost the same seal for a truck $15. The only difference was the material used in the Bell seal spec'd at 6,000 rpm while the truck seal material spec'd at 5,000 rpm. Yeah I've seen videos of autos gone wrong, but I've seen even more photos of "Stuck Wings" with an engine failure kill all passengers. 60mph crash into immovable objects??? I've got a video of a guy doing full down autos from every flight mode including one witnessed at Oshkosh from a hover about 12' in the air. He flew all over an it had a two stroke motor. Oh did I say I hangar-ed my helicopter in my shop and flew out of my yard.