Kenny KellerCreator Helicopter Online Ground School LLC

Attempt to Teach Settling With Power, I had a bit of trouble!

5 May 2011 · 3 min

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Kenny Keller records an informal outdoor YouTube video demonstrating an aerodynamics "tip of the day" about "settling with power." The clip mixes instruction with repeated camera/broom mishaps caused by wind; Keller lists three criteria that define settling with power (rate of descent, power setting, and airspeed) and mentions he will link a related video.

Questions this video answers

300 ft per minute or greater.

20% to 100% power (spoken: 'using power 20 to 100%').

Airspeed less than ETL (as spoken).

Chapters

So after the little problem I had last night, look what I got me handy. Dandy. Check that baby out. How cool is that right there? Can you see it? So I'm shooting the tripod and you're probably wondering where does he have the camera? Let me show you that one. Stand by. And so my other new weapon of choice, you saw I was shooting the tripod. Now the camera's on the tripod. Look at this bad boy. Put the camera on there. There you go. No more problems with the camera and the wind knocking the camera over. So for those of you that might have missed my selling power incident, I'll link that to the. I'll run that into the next video. So here you go. It's coming up right about now. Hello again everybody. I wanted to shoot a little video outdoors. A whole winter of driving down the road and in the trailer and inside here and on and on and on. I want to do a little aerodynamic tip of the day. I've been talking about a lot of things and I haven't hit really anything on aerodynamics yet. So I want to do something about settling, real settling with power real quick. Might just leave that in there. The wind just had to blow my camera over. So what I want to talk about is settling with power. Alright, this will be for a blooper reel later. We're still recording. This works out really well. I wish the wind would kept blowing my camera over. It's pissing me off. Alright, here we go again. Winky's blowing my camera over. I'm gonna shoot the this one more time. Settling with power. I haven't talked much about aerodynamics yet, so I thought I'd do a quick tip on aerodynamics and memory items for your private pilot, commercial pilot, CFI. Doesn't matter. Examiner I've been using for 10 years says the most important thing that you need to know about that will get you into trouble as quick as anything is settling with power. So. I guess I need a tripod. Here we go again. Settling with power. Three things. Rate of descent 300ft per minute or greater. Power 20 to using power 20 to 100% airspeed less than ETL. Combine those three things together. Guy in the airplane has to do start, doesn't he? Anyway, there goes the camera. Settling with.