#135 HELICOPTER CYCLIC TRIM | you should always be TRIMMING
Kenny Keller explains why helicopter pilots should constantly use cyclic trim to reduce control pressure. Trimming makes flying the Robinson R22 and R44 easier and less fatiguing, letting you fly with lighter inputs instead of fighting the controls the whole time.
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Foreign. 35 copy with Kenny. And for Clarence, who always says, you forget to talk about your Robinson R22 and R44 and instrument specific training. I mentioned that real quick. Then we're going to go outside and look at the trim motors on a helicopter for a member who said, hey, Kenny, could you do a video on trim? And we have a video inside the NSTROM section. First, I want to point out for Clarence, he's always mentioning Kenny, you never talk about this. So here you go. This comes along with the private pilot or the commercial pilot or the cfi. You have access to this. We used to sell these separately, but they're now included, whether it's the monthly or the yearly or the big professional pilot. So you got Robinson R22 specific training, Robinson R44 specific training. Both a product with the private pilot and as I mentioned, commercial and cfi. And then there's the Enstrom specific section. So you get those with your membership, private, commercial or cfi. And for those that don't know, when you log out and you come back into the login to helicopter line ground school, you'll see this resume course so you can pick up wherever you left off last time you were within the site. So I'm going to roll this video for you first, which explains a little bit about how you use the trim, how difficult it is to get people to use the trim. And real quickly you see over here how you go video to video shows you the past video with the next video coming up. So I'm going to roll that video for you while I head out to the helicopter to show you the trim motors. Now I want to talk a little bit about the trim hat on the cyclic and the instrum starting from scratch. When you have somebody brand new in the first few hours, it's very hard to get a student to use this trim hat. So in the very beginning, if you're not using it right off the bat, don't worry about it. But as soon as you start kind of getting comfortable with the controls, starting to learn to hover, the sooner you can get somebody using this trim hat, the better off you'll be. I can remember when I started in Innistroms a long time ago. The guy I was working for said, the guy I was working for said, you need to be trimming this thing all the time. Trim, trim, trim. Trimming on takeoff, trimming on landing, just trimming all the time. And that's really true. Once you get the feel of the trim, it makes this instrument so absolutely easy to fly, you'll battle this thing without the trim hat, without using the trim, and it'll wear your arm out. You learn to use this trim, it makes life so much easier. So the sooner you can master this thing, the better off you're going to be. And I found over the years it's kind of hard to teach people how to use the trim button. I mean, you can explain it to them. The simple, you know, if you feel pressure, if the cyclic's moving to the right, you keep feeling like you're pushing cyclic to the left. To counteract that, you trim towards the pressure. So if it's pushing, cyclic's moving to the right and you feel like your hand is going to the cyclics going to the right and your hand you're pushing to the left, trim towards that pressure and that will relieve the pressure. So it works in all four directions, forwards, backwards, sideways. The more you use this thing, the better off you're going to be and the easier this thing is to fly. I can tell you I can take an instrument all the way around the pattern and pretty much just after takeoff, I can take all my hands off the controls, the pedals, the collective. Don't recommend anybody doing this, but I can do it. And I can fly almost the entire pattern with only making a couple collective changes and only making a few changes with the trim. And you can fly this thing all the way around the whole entire pattern with just a trim. So remember, trim, trim, trim, trim, trim and more trim. All right, I'm going to flip the battery on. Do this quickly. Master on. Trim motors are on, so there's motors down underneath the seat. Okay, so if I want to trim this to the right, see how that's moving? Okay, that's what's going on. These trim motors are actually pushing that cyclic. I'm over exaggerating here. I'm not going to do it quite that much when we're actually flying. But you're normally just a quick bump. So again, trim motors are under the seat and as you move that trim hat, it's actuating those motors. Alright, now I want to show you something I found in just one of my videos. Watch my thumb here. You're going to see how much I'm trimming. In a video, when I'm doing talking about radio trimming, I'm not even talking about trim. You're going to see here how much I'm using my thumb to trim. Especially in the turn when I get the wind behind me, see? So I'm trimming not Even thinking about it, I'm thinking more about the turn, clearing my tail, messing with the wind. When the wind's behind me, I'm trimming the whole time. So they're just an example of how you're using that trim and how you should be using the trim. You should be using that trim all the time. I just like that little clip because it's just a spot where I'm talking, looking around, not even thinking about the trim. So yeah, I just wanted to use that clip for you so you could see if I was going out and trying to show you make a video, it would be, I would probably overdo it, right? I just want to show you a clip of how you're always trimming. You always should be. So if you're flying a helicopter with that trim, and it is amazing when you start teaching someone, you show them, you tell them, you tell them to put your thumb on there, you say trim left, right, and you're telling them to do it. And 30 seconds later you look over, thumbs not even on the trim. Very hard to get people to do that. So that's what trim's about. You should always be trimming. Trim, trim, trim, trimming all the time. It makes things easier. It just makes flying that helicopter a whole lot easier. Welcome to again day 135. Get ready for day 136. I am Kenny Keller, creator Helicopter Line Ground School. There's a link down below. You can take our entire site for a 24 hour test flight. Now, you've seen the private or you've seen the R22, the R44 and the instrument specific sections. Almost never talk about those. And in 135 days, Clarence keeps going, dude, you never tell anybody about your aircraft specific sections. Bad marketer for my own business. I guess sometimes we created those because like going through, let's say the private course, so much of what you have to know is knowledge that's not really aircraft specific. 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