Kenny Keller shows how to avoid dynamic rollover in helicopter pickups: get the aircraft on the skids, neutralize all movement, pause, then gently lift off when stable. The video demonstrates both instrument-panel and grass pickups, stressing the need to slow down and wait.
The aircraft's getting light, so I got to kind of feel the movements. Is the nose going left, Right? I'll get everything neutralized now that it feels good. Now I'm going to gently lift up.
So the topic of today, two step process to avoid dynamic rollover. And I'm going to talk about it more in the video. We're going to go back to the helicopter.
My daughter is always talking about how.
I talk to myself and how weird she thinks that is. Of course I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice. I don't really feel like an expert. I just feel like a guy who's been down in the trenches and beat up and knocked down and struggled to get to where I'm at today. Like many of you out there, this is something you really need to think about whether you're brand new or you've been flying for 20 years. So let's go back to the helicopter.
Have you ever heard of the two stage pickup? Maybe you're brand new and you haven't, or maybe you're an experienced pilot that needs to refresh this. I got to refresh it all the time, right? We stay proficient by working with the basics, the things we learned early on, right? And I learned early on from an awesome instructor who one day kind of spanked me a little bit. And he's like, you got to learn a good two step process. Experienced pilots roll these helicopters over from doing a sloppy pickup. And you got to understand step one, get the aircraft, line the skids, pause, neutralize. Step two, gently lift the aircraft up in the air. And he was really stern. And I'm glad he was right because he taught me good technique that I've used all these years and it works really well. Just a refresher for those that already know if you're brand new. I'm gonna start raising collective. You're gonna hear a horn here in a minute, but it'll go off maybe. Okay, horns off. So now what I want to do is I'll be looking outside 50, 75ft. I can glance back in at RPM, look back outside, back in at RPM. Don't worry. A little bit of instrument shake there. No big deal. Aircraft's getting light, so I got to kind of feel the movements. Is the nose going left? Right. I'll get everything neutralized now that it feels good. Now I'm going to gently lift up two step process. And people rush the pickup a lot of times on an instrument when they bounce like that because they don't like the bounce. And even Though the bounce kind of sucks. I say don't rush the pickup. Rushing a pickup and cause you dynamic rollover. Let's go over here in the grass. We'll try another one and we'll just see in the grass. We may not get that bounce and it's not ground resonance. This is just an instrument. Bounce instrument is a really super smooth flying machine. It just likes to dance a little bit when you're picking it up and setting it down sometimes we may not find that here. So I'm gonna take my time setting it down. It's got some snow. Ground's probably still frozen. I think we're good. Still take my time being careful. A little bit of forward movement so I don't roll it over sideways. Let's try it again. Man, it's getting hot here. Turn that heat down. All right, so here you go for.
A refresher two step process.
Step number one is get the aircraft lie on the skids, pause, neutralize all movements. And then when you're ready, step number two, gently lift it up off the ground. So I rushed the last one a little bit.
I felt like.
So I'm just grazing power. Looking outside, glass back of my rpm I think it's gonna go a little bit higher. So I'm gonna adjust a little bit of throttle back even on the grass. Here it comes. It's all right, no big deal. Still gotta look outside. Glass of my rpm.
Look outside.
I'm still raising collective. Now this is a different feel because I'm in grass. Not gonna move left and right as easy. So I gotta be a little more. Okay, there we go. Now the nose is moving. So now to make the puddle changes so the nose stops. Just a cyclic where I feel like it's going to come up fairly straight. Step number two, gently lift up. There we go. Add a hair forward movement. That's okay. There you go. A two step process. You should be using that as a brand new, brand new student. You should be using that as a tool. 20 year pilot, experienced pilots roll these things over from not using a good two step process. And I'm making fun of him, but he was awesome and I was very, very lucky that he taught me that. All right, been a long day. Time to head for the house. Warning, caution lights are out. Gauges in the green. We got fuel timers running. Here we go. All right, cool.
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