UH-1H Huey: How To Avoid Engine Fires & VRS | DCS WORLD 

WHY, JUST WHY, is this video not automatically shown when you buy the Huey? Amazing video man. Thank you very much. Will save my life from now on!

Great video but you really should be thinking about the VH diagram more, the so called dead man's curve. Even without VRS you can still be putting yourself in a potentially dangerous situation. In a single engined helicopter you shouldn't be hovering at the height you were. If your engine fails you might not have enough height to safely enter autorotation to the ground. If you have sufficient forward speed then you don't need to be so concerned about your height you'll have enough energy to glide to a run on landing maybe.

Excellent preventative tutorial. I think you should have touched on how to correct VRS anyway, if the prevention fails. It's as easy as pushing in any direction to get out of the downwash. If you catch it early, even at a lower altitude agl, it's recoverable.

Keep an eye on the torque , till 10.000 ft of density altitude it's your first engine limit indicator. The uh1 is a Cat B helicopter and you should always (when conditions permit) take off gaining speed at very low altitude, this way your power limit will decrease because the rotor start to act more like a wing after translational speed is reached. VRS wise, on single engine low powered low speed helis we use 30kts 300ft/min as a general rule, so from 30 kts and below 30kts never go more than -300ft/min, keep your nose into the wind whenever it's possible and you should be ok.

For these takeoffs with max power applied it pays to do a level acceleration takeoff. Forward flight takes much less torque than to hover, once you get through ETL. Bring it up to where you were (3-5 ft) and slowly inch forward building speed. The faster you go the more efficient the rotor system will perform, as the lift improves continue to nose forward to keep a level altitude until you get to 30 kts or so. Voila you are in the air! Be advised you may have to perform a run on landing in order to get it back on the ground if you come back to base too heavy.

I never understood why my engines caught fire in mid air, I was completely missing to check the exhaust temperature. Thank you cap!

There are other techniques you can use to take off from the ground or hover with raising the collective above the EGT limit. If your on the limit in the hover then start moving forwards to gain airspeed, once you transition into forward flight you will need alot less collective to fly. Therefore reducing the risk of reaching it. Also if you are too heavy to get into a hover, you can go light on the skids and bounce and skid it forwards into forward flight. With practice these two techniques will stop you from having engine fires at all!! There are also some other techniques you can use for takeoff, flight and landing.

look up limited power takeoff.... its something we train in real life... u had more than enough power to takeoff

vrs, mast bumping and now this jesus! there should be a feature where 1 out of every 4 times you turn the start key a pride of lions 🦁 fill the cabin and eat the pilot. seems in keeping with the rest of the design. jokes aside is this accurate to real life ? its unable to fly with more than 30% fuel capacity?

You had enough power to hover, so you should have aimed for gaining transitional lift. Once you have hit this, approx. 30knts, your ship will begin to climb, even though you haven't exceeded your EGT limits.

I actually learnd to trim the huey because of this when they implemented it last summer. Before that I used the autopilot when doing radio and navigation stuff but the auto"pilot" did't give rats ass about the EGT :D

On the topic of how to avoid disasters in the huey, you should probably cover mast bumping. In the mentioned mission, I'm ~70% sure it was mast bumping that killed you in the end. Applying cyclic while the rotor is unloaded, such as in a low-g maneuver, or sitting on the ground with no collective, causes the mast (which the main rotor is attached to) to shear off. The sudden lack of resistance causes the engine to over-rpm before the governor can react, too.

Summary: Engine temperature limits: - Max continuous (green arc): 400 to 610 deg C - Takeoff power (max 30 min): 610 to 625 deg C - risk of engine fire after 30 min - 10-second power limit (max 10 sec)(Engine Hot Start): 675 to 760 deg C - Only for engine start and acceleration - 5-second power limit: 675 to 760 - EGT Redline: 760 deg C - If exceeded in flight, high risk of engine fire. - What can happen first before a fire is that your RPMs can drop ~200, so you'll lose power/lift. - The higher your altitude and the heavier your helicopter, the more likely it is that you'll run into these limits. (You can see an example of this happening at 6:20) - TLDR: Make sure your EGT never exceeds ~625 (the first red line on the 'EXHAUST' gauge) and you'll never need to worry. VRS - VRS is when you 'fall out of the sky', it generally happens when transitioning from fast to slow speeds when coming in for a landing, when your rotor is trying to generate lift from your own downwash. - To avoid VRS, when you're below a speed of 20 knots watch your VSI (vertical speed indicator) and make sure it never goes below -1000 feet per minute.

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I'm not taking fire, VRS moderate but damn my landing are sketchy... The more I try and watch different method the worst it becomes...

Love ur videos but weight only controls ur speed mainly. As far as lift goes the uh1 only really lifts with speed. So in short hover to run way don't try an lift the heli. Gain speed an let it lift itself. Full loaded to the max at high altitude u can manage about 80 knots yes its slow but still safe an operational.

That's awesome it responds so much as in reality! How are the payware helicopters in xplane...this real too?😊OK I don't wanna die this soon so I'm going back to my Piper Warrior!😨😲😱😳

Helps!…thanks

VRS scarey scenario😢😢😢

So First eye on vertical speed, 2 eye on terrain and brown eye on gas gauge?

Thank God that ridiculous update was removed.

9:48 i was playing take on helicopters a month ago and was wondering why the hell all of a sudden the helicopters did a nose dive and crashed into the sea 😂 I didn’t even know this was modeled lmao

Nice video Cap. I'll keep that 35% of fuel in mind when setting up a mission.

I've been having loads of trouble with fires and sling loading

So does that mean at higher altitudes the Huey is just not as viable of an option?

You need to figure out what ETL is and how to use it lol

great video, thank you :)

Thanks Cap, this is exactly what I was looking for. I was about ready to hang up the rotor. But now I'm seeing rapid improvement!

"It will just kill you out of nowhere" Hi, that is why I am here. It will also happen towards the end of a long mission.

Luckily I pick modules up pretty quickly, Ive had the Huey for 3 days now and I’ve flown about 4-6 hours in it so far. Was able to hover and fly decent after about an hour of crashing lol. I also use a keyboard currently. Hoping to get a stick and pedal set up soon. The Gazelle is a nightmare to fly with a keyboard..