#269 - Helicopter Stuck Pedal - Coffee With Kenny

Starting off day 269 with a clip here of Heather finishing off a row of pictures across the top of the Hogs Wall of Fame. Freaking cool. She's done a freaking phenomenal job. So I'm Kenny Keller, creator, Helicopter Online ground School Day 269. As I said, the Hogs Wall of Fame is looking awesome. So you need to finish up that rating. Join Hogs Sign up. Go to helicopterground.com below. Today we're going to do what was almost an accident or could have been an accident, and it's pretty easy. My critique on this one is good job, you got the thing on the ground. So we're going to look at an Enstrom flight where the pilot had a stuck pedal.

A stuck pedal. Let me get Josh to go back. We'll show you exactly what kind of happened. On his final approach to land, you can see the aircraft has his nose skewed off to the right hand side of your screen. He just tried to line it up and as he drops power, the nose should come back around and land straight down the Runway. He put a little power in, but the bottom line is he got the aircraft on the ground. It looks like it's a fairly hard landing, but we'll just have to wait and see on inspection. But the bottom line is he got it on the ground, he's safe, the aircraft safe. Everything is good. They're inspecting out there right now, so.

That'S right, he got it on the ground. Now that this would be a good video today because we've been doing all these videos recently showing accidents and pointing out things that people could have done differently maybe to prevent that accident. So today I thought, why not share one where the guy got it on the ground. And what I want to say about stuck pedals, from my experience, they've always been one of the hardest things for me to really memorize because, you know, every aircraft that reads usually a little bit different than the PoH, and we practice them some, but maybe we don't practice them enough. I'm not really sure. I feel like I like, maybe I should do more of them. And I'm going to do that next time I'm out, I'm going to go out and do some stuck pedals. But it's one that I think is hard to remember and I think, you know, conditions change on the day. The weight, the fuel, the wind, there's so many things that's going on that the stuck pedal can be kind of a difficult one. So, like this video and just wanted to share it because, hey, he got the thing on the ground. So if you haven't reviewed stuck pedals for whatever you're flying, maybe it's a good time to do that. It's not a maneuver listed to do in the PTS currently, which will soon be the acs, as of right now on checkrides, examiners don't normally do them. Doesn't mean they can't. Doesn't mean you won't, and we probably should. It doesn't seem like it happens real often. It seems like maybe more of a rarity than some of the other emergencies that we talk about. But again, I just wanted to bring it up in a video today to put it in your mind. Have you recently reviewed it or have you been out with your instructor to do them? If not, I would encourage you to do that. And then I would like to add that, you know, even when I was flying EMS, I did that for five years and of course we had our 135 checkrides every year. And I can remember, you know, always kind of struggling and trying to get through those. My first time experience, even with the Czech airmen, they didn't even always come out. So good for them, right. It was kind of funny because they'd be critiquing you and then they go, well, here, give me the controls, let me show you. And then half the time they wouldn't come out very well for the Czech airmen either. So it's just, I think it's one of those that's kind of difficult because we probably don't do them enough. And I think again, because of the changes in any specific day with, you know, wind weight and all the different variables, it's, you know, never going to come out the same. And the amount of pedal that you're pushing in to simulate one of these emergencies, of course it's going to make a big difference again. So again, the Hogs Wall of Fame is looking good, as you saw. We'll roll that clip again. Here's where we're heading out. So come back tomorrow for day 270. Go to helicopterground.com below to check out our ground school private commercial CFI instrument. Leave us a comment below. Subscribe to the channel, click the bell and we'll see you tomorrow. Okay, I'm done.