A helicopter instructor explains how to teach running landings: keep your approach speed steady and high, stay parallel to the runway, use cyclic to correct drift, and collective to brake. It's efficient and useful if you lose partial power.
Run on landings are not out of this world. Of course the idea is to keep speed, want to keep it at a decent pace so we can have that efficiency. We can use it for partial power failures. If we need to do a landing we can use it for many other purposes. If we're heavy we don't have enough power so we want our normal approach, maybe even a little bit of a shallower approach like we're doing right now. And we want to keep this pace constant down to the ground. We want to make sure that we're parallel to the direction of the Runway and we just want to bring it down, bring it down, bring it down and correct our drift with our cyclic and then brake a little bit with our collector. All right, nice. What else you got?
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