A helicopter pilot explains why flight schools skip the governor during startup, despite Robinson Helicopter's recommendation to keep it on. The speaker covers the specific risks and best practices for this critical procedure.
All right, another quick little tip here. We have people coming here from around the country to do check rides, help people finish up when they're having trouble with having examiners or aircraft down or instructors left their positions, whatever the case is. And a lot of people are coming here, probably 50% are turning the governor off during startup. Robinson does not recommend that. Robinson wants us to use the governor during the entire shut up and start down or shut down. We don't want to turn it off during our startup. And Robinson will say that you actually have more of a chance of an overspeed by turning the governor off than leaving it on. And one of our recent CFI checkrides we did, the gentleman had went to the Robinson factory just before the checkride and he said they were calling people out in the class and going, oh, so tell us why you don't use it, why you turn the governor off during your startup. And they would give their reason and they would say something to the fact of, oh, so you know, in your experience, you know better than the factory. The people that build these and design them and maintain them, you know more than us. Right? That's why you do it. So a good tip is just do what the factory tells you, leave the governor on. It's actually easier. More confusion gets caused by, oh, well, we turn the governor off at our school. Well, if that's what your school does, I guess I'd question why. What is the reasoning why you choose to do something other than what the factory wants us to do? And so we got Private Pilot 101. I'll make Heather hand it to me. Free. Free PDF. You can buy the paperback as well. It's an Amazon bestseller. But There's a free PDF@privateblueprint.com we'll put that link somewhere on the video. Kind of great resources, so. Oh, yeah, and we now have an affiliate program. Well, actually we've had it for quite a while, but we just started really pushing it. We pay you 50% commissions on member signups. We zip it right to your PayPal account once a month. You can find out more at Hogs Pays Me.com Bogs Pays Me.com. all right, we'll see you in the next video. Peace out. When you feel the pressure to fly, but know the right decision is to stay on the ground, hit the hogs. No go and live to fly another day. Helicopterground.com.
