Kenny Keller walks through a confined-area landing attempt in a helicopter, including site reconnaissance at 50 feet and 60 knots. The crew spots power lines and trees, troubleshoots an alternator failure and governor problem mid-flight, then decides to reject the landing for safety.
Here on the left, we're clear on the right. 16 knots. We have a normal climb. Any altitude you'd like me to hold. Or. So traffic helicopter 181 Mike Bravo is transitioning towards west Warsaw traffic. And we seem to have lost our alternator. Perfect. So make sure that our circuit breaker is still on. We're going to try to troubleshoot it here in a second. Going to turn it back on. And we have normal load and alternator light is out. So do not have an emergency turn.
Us to the west.
To the west. Perfect. Warsaw Traffic Helicopter 181Mike Bravo is two miles to the east of the field, transitioning westbound at 1600 or so.
Okay, we're going to go over here and find my confined area.
Perfect.
So just head this direction.
Okay. Governor failure. Assuming manual control. You don't want any abrupt changes of power or any other.
Okay, somebody rolling down a little bit.
Okay, perfect. Okay, rolling.
You can recover.
Okay, we want a little bit of nose up. We're gonna lower the collective and roll on.
All right, good. Governor, coming back on. How the my confined area right there, this kind of triangle almost pear shaped with power lines running along inside. Okay, that's our confined area.
Well, let me start slowing down a little bit. Decently starting to green. Don't worry. Lights. Our assistance gonna want to go down to about 500 AGL. I'm gonna start turning that way. Warsaw Traffic Helicopter 181 Mike Bravo is two miles to the northwest of the field. We'll be doing confined area training, maintaining less than 1,500. Warsaw Marion traffic Romeo turning left downwind Runway. One shot. Clutch light on. Not more than 10 seconds. So here's more or less where wind is at the moment and have about 50ft to go. And we're going to start our high recon about here. 60 knots. 1380ft. We have some birds in the vicinity.
Lots of birds around here that we.
Need to be careful with. We have of course a big power line that it's our main obstruction at the moment. Area seems to be clear. We have some trees that seem to be about, about 50ft at the moment. Cross over that pole just so we don't take it as an ornament. Then other considerations. We have the line of trees. That approach could be made parallel to the power line. That would leave us with a left crosswind in this case, which is not necessarily a deal. Oh, we have a couple of animals down there and we don't have a whole lot of room. So I'm gonna reject this landing. I'll be completely honest with you.
That's fine. Let's turn right and get away from the airport. I'll pick something else over here.
Not that we couldn't. I mean it could be.
But you're right.
I like the way to go in parallel is going to put give you to set you up for LTE and going into confined area.
Not good. That's not good. No.
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