Kenny Keller teaches the three coordinated moves for descending on downwind: lower the collective, apply right pedal, and pull back on the cyclic. Gentle and coordinated inputs matter. A common mistake is forgetting the right pedal.
Hello, everybody. Welcome to day number 25 of the helicopter Threes. And I want to talk about starting your descent in the pattern. This is another one of those things that seems like it should be fairly easy. But when you're new and you're trying to learn the pattern and all the different things going on, going around it, it's easy to forget. When you beam your spot, you want to do three things. Once you have everything ready downwind, checks done, radio call done to start your descent, beam your sp. You want to go down collective, right pedal and half cyclic. You can see here in the video, this is about where we're at right now is we're beam our spot. So the movements are gentle. You're not even probably going to notice, but he's going to go a little bit of down collective, a little bit of right pedal, and a little bit of half cyclic. Anytime you lower the power, normally you're going to add right pedal. So if you can remember these three things, it's going to help you a lot when you're out there learning the pattern. And I'm amazed at how many times I ask a guy how you're going to initiate your descent. And, you know, lots of different crazy answers come up. Those are the three things that you want to do. Down collective, right pedal, aft, cyclic. And one interesting thing is this isn't picking on anybody. Just about everybody at some point during their training. I say, I don't even need to really be here. All I would need is a recorder in there that says right pedal, right pedal, right pedal. Because there's something about. I don't know if it's the left brain, the right brain, what kind of a problem there is, but for some reason people, people don't want to push the right pedal in general. So just an interesting fact that amazing how many times that pops up. So when you go to start your descent, remember, down collective, right pedal, aft, cyclic. All right, well, thanks for stopping by day 25. We'll see you on day 26. Please click the like button and we will see you tomorrow. Thanks. It.
