Taz Chrisman flies an Enstrom helicopter for the first time. The cockpit footage shows hover taxi, control feel, and a climb technique that reached 60 knots and 500 feet per minute without adjusting manifold pressure.
About 1440 (EGT).
About 32 (manifold pressure).
"30 and 30 makes 60" (hover ~30 inches, increase to 30 kt, yields ~60 kt).
About 500 ft per minute (approximately).
Take your time and.
Okay, pick her up when you're ready.
We're clear on her right.
All right, turn this up here just a little. You said 23 works for you, so I'll try 23. Just a little. There you go.
You have the controls?
I have the controls about 1440 on.
EGT, so we're good to go.
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You have the control, I have the controls. About 1440 on EGT, so we're good to go there.
All right, Clear on the right here. We.
All right, so why don't you do a hover taxi here?
Okay.
And while we're hover taxiing.
We did.
So this is your intro Enstrom introduction, huh? How's it feel?
And a hover.
And a hover taxi compared to the Schweitzer.
Oh, she's very stable. Yeah, this is nice as far as the throttle and Everything like so in the Schweitzer, I can get it pretty close to where I don't have to. You know, the correlator does most of it. This thing. I'm not barely even having to worry about the throttle. I get it all trimmed up. She's hanging in there.
That does make it nice.
It does, yeah.
It's set up really well.
1, 2, 3.
1, 2, 3.
I just like how stable it is. I mean, it's. The controls are firm, so I don't want to say. I don't want. I don't want to sound like it's a bad thing. It's a good thing how firm they are.
They are. Because if you.
If you just fly in it the way it's intended to be flown, it only takes small, tiny movements and.
Yep.
So just those small adjustments. And I always say it almost flies itself.
It does.
You're giving it hints of what you.
Want it to do.
Yep.
That's all it needs is hints. Like every other aircraft, if you try to manhandle it.
Yep. I see that with guys that are coming from the Robinsons. Going into the Schweitzer, they're so used to, you know, with that T bar thing, putting a lot of control. I won't say a lot, but it's a different feel. And then they get into Schweitzer, and it's a nice, easy feel. And then this is even better. Need to get one of these out in Vegas.
We do.
So I come out and fly it?
Absolutely.
Well, I got an idea I was telling you about. The 30 and 30 make 60 in an instrument. So whenever you're ready, let's go up to the Runway, and let's try that.
Okay.
And we're gonna be hovering Right about 30 inches.
Yeah.
And we'll do the takeoff, and I want you to stay low to the ground and not pull any manipul pressure.
Okay.
Keep it at 30. Keep increasing slowly by slowly until you get 30 on your airspeed, and then just let the aircraft start to climb up.
Okay.
And let's see if it will give us 60 and a 500 me 500ft.
Per minute climb, which I believe it.
Will pl traffic helicopter 5 niner Foxtrot Sierra is departing Runway 10 Plymouth.
So 30 and 30 makes 60.
All right.
So. All right, so we're holding about. About 32, it looks like, on the manifold to hold level flight. Just ease it forward. Yep.
Don't pull any. Just.
Just keeping that right there.
Painfully slow.
There's some etl. She's Starting to go. I'm not touching the collective at all. There you go. There's yours. 40. So let's go ahead and we'll start climbing a little bit. Yeah, that's, that's pretty good. There's about, let's see, almost 60. There's 60. Holding that. Yeah, about five. There's 500. There you go.
Never from hover to 60 and 500ft climb without ever changing the manifold pressure.
Yeah, I didn't, I didn't really change anything at all. That's nice.
Okay. Hope you enjoyed that. That gives you an idea of how easy someone can transition to the nstrom. What a great aircraft. I gotta mention again, the Force is strong with this one, Taz. The guy can do anything. Absolutely incredible. And a cool human being with no chip on his shoulder. One of the nicest down to earth guys you'll ever meet. So go down below, there's a link to get top 10 checkride tips. We still have signed copies right now. These will run out. The book will still be available but we bought a big pile of these and Taz and I signed them in the front. We bought the books. We'll ship them to you for just shipping and handling. So go down below to grab your copy. We have. I am Kenny Keller, creator of Helicopter online Ground school. We have private commercial instruments, CFI courses, monthly and yearly options. Then we have a big professional pilot package. So I made a special code in honor of taz that's called taz20. For taz20, you enter that in the coupon box for the big professional pilot package during checkout and you'll get 20% off that big professional pilot package. A couple hundred dollars worth of savings there. So I highly recommend you you checking that out. Put your comments down below about the transitioning aircraft. Anything you'd like to talk about. Taz has time in both Robinsons and Schweitzer's. So experience CFI out teaching in the world and Robinson and Schweitzer. His first flight going out in Enstrom. He was pretty excited. He said that's he believes it's his his new favorite helicopter. So subscribe the channel for us. Click the bell so you'll be notified of the daily video and we will see you tomorrow.
