Do you consider a Running Takeoff an Emergency Maneuver?

Hey, it's Kenny with Helicopter Land Ground School. This will be a short video today. I am Kenny Keller, creator, Helicopter Land Ground School. And for those of you that don't know, we've been updating all of the maneuvers inside Helicopter Land Ground School in the private pilot section. So that's our first focus on moving hogs forward is rebuilding all of the maneuvers, basic maneuvers, advanced maneuvers, and rebuilding all the auto rotation stuff as well. So here's a topic just for fun topic, food for thought, and you can put your comments down below. Do you consider a running takeoff an emergency maneuver? And the reason I asked that question is back when I was doing my training originally when I taught the school I was working at, it was just considered a running takeoff, not rolling takeoff. Not talking about, you know, a helicopter with regular, with wheels, right where they have to do a rolling takeoff. We're talking about running takeoff, where you're sliding the skids across the ground. What we were trained and what I've always kept was running landing is not an emergency operation because anybody could, you know, be landing at a certain area and not have the power they need. Maybe you've got a, a plug fouling or something, you don't have enough power, you've had a turbocharger failure, something like that. So you practice the running landings, sliding the skids across the ground. Okay, so very common private pilot level. Most people teach that, the running landing, and it's a maneuver in the PTS for private pilot. Now with the rolling takeoff or the running takeoff, I was always taught emergency maneuver, right? Because if you have to go sliding the skids across the ground to take off, why are you not waiting till the weather cools or offloading fuel or offloading passengers? Is there any time that it's so dire that you take off that you would have to go running, sliding the skids across the ground to get through ETL to get off the ground because you don't have power to hover. So what I'm going to say is, I'm not saying it never ever, ever should be used. Not saying that they don't test on that at the private level, they don't make you do a running takeoff. They can do rolling if you have a, again, wheels on a helicopter. But most private pilots are usually flying the small training helicopter with skids. So that's kind of the thinking that we've adopted. That's, you know, the areas I train in the Midwest, that's just what we did. So in turn, the training that I do now with private Pilots not saying I won't show you a running takeoff, but as a previous aircraft owner and taking care of really good air care of the aircraft that I currently use, every time you're grinding those skids across the Runway, you're wearing down those pads on the bottom of the skids. Right. And if you're not staying on top of those, you can even wear into the skid tube. But again, back to if you're that heavy that you don't have enough power to do a takeoff, then you probably ought to be delaying that flight. I can tell you in the five years that I flew ems, we didn't do running takeoffs. Wasn't even discussed, wasn't an option, never even talked about it. So in that environment where you don't do a sliding or running takeoff in a skid type landing gear, in an emergency medical operation, why would you need to do it as a private pilot? Going out and flying for fun. So this is. I just wanted to do this kind of as a for fun video. Want to do something short and quick today? Because I'm tired after last month. Last month has been crazy with celebrating eight years online, the whole entire month of March and everything going on in the world and going live every day, which I love doing. Right. But yesterday we had phenomenal turnout on the max takeoff video. I did over a thousand views already. Love it. That's awesome. Just put that out yesterday afternoon at 5. So we were discussing all the maneuvers that we're upgrading inside Helicopter Land Ground School. And Brian, if you don't know, Brian Rutledge is our operations manager, just retired from Sheriff's Department aviation unit in California, working with me full time with Helicopter Land Ground School. And he has now uploaded 15 different. He's uploaded 15 downloads for the maneuver. So as we're shooting brand new maneuvers, uploading those videos to the site, Brian is uploading these downloads. And basically the downloads that Brian has created are just a quick reference sheet, like a guide. Like say you want to go back and review some maneuvers. You might want to go in, watch the video again, and then below that video there'll be a download inside Helicopter Land Ground School. So you can click on that download and you could just simply read it on your computer if you like. Or you could even download that cheat sheet and you know, put it, keep it, make your own adjustments to it, put it in a folder, make a small book if you'd like. But we're putting those downloads in there for you, our Helicopter School members. So Brian called today. He's like, hey, you don't have a video on running takeoff. And I said, well, I don't because I, I don't really, in general, I don't teach the running takeoff. I mean, I'll show somebody if they really want to learn how to do it. But the examiners here in the Midwest do not make you do a running takeoff. Again, this site can be debated. So love to see some comments down in the, in the description box below on what you think you know, when would be, if there's an appropriate time for an actual running takeoff when you don't have enough power to hover. What would be that reason why that would be a good maneuver? So again, just let everybody know we've been talking about the updates and how to notify people. We're working on that, taking all your feedback. We decided today just know that, you know, with the aircraft maneuvers, there's no really reason to put out any kind of update on that because that's what we've been working on for the last two weeks. And that's what we will continue to work on the next two weeks. So we're looking at hopefully in about two weeks, all the basic maneuvers, all brand new videos with the download, same thing with the advanced maneuvers within two weeks. Hopefully those are all done. And hopefully all the auto rotation videos are done as well, where they're all brand new videos and everything has a download. So there's no reason for us to say, hey, we uploaded this video. Hey, we upload that video because we're rebuilding that whole entire section and we're really happy with it, really happy with the way the videos are coming out. And this was the, the one thing that Brian picked. We'd been talking for years about him going full time when he retired. So it just happened two weeks ago, two and a half weeks ago. And that's what the first thing that Brian wanted to do is like, hey, let's shoot. Why don't we put new maneuvers in the site and let me create a download that again, is just kind of a cheat sheet. So what we did with those is Brian's basically taking the essence of what it says in the helicopter flying handbook, making a download specific for that. So again, depending on where you're flying in the world, what aircraft, what flight school terminologies might be a little bit different, the numbers might be a little bit different, but the essence of the maneuvers stay pretty much the same across the board. So that's what we're doing. And when the question came up, hey, you don't have a running takeoff video. I said, well, we'll just put a short video in there explaining that it may be something you may want to do with your instructor. If you're a student, that should only be done with an instructor. I wouldn't recommend a student pilot or a brand new pilot that's never done one. I wouldn't recommend doing it without the help of an instructor. And then if it's appropriate for you at your training, at your school, if it's appropriate, great. Again, as a aircraft owner in the past and taking good care of my buddy's aircraft, I even do running landings. I don't, you know, I don't do them like a quarter of a mile down the Runway like a lot of people do. Right. I demonstrate them. Just short and sweet little ground slide. I just don't want to wear any more of those skids off than necessary. So there you go. I'm gonna wrap it up quick video today. Like I said, I wanted to relax a little bit. Been live every day for over. Either live or doing a premiere every day for over a month and still enjoying it. And we'll still continue to do that throughout April. And just so you know, the Hogs member support number 574-767-1797 available for you to text and or call. My deal for April, keep Heather safe. I said, you know what, just stay home for April. I'll pay you to be home, answer your email, and I'll pay you to take care of the phone line seven days a week. So at least, you know, monitor through the day in the morning and evening. If there's any messages, answer them if you can. If there's any text messages, answer those if you can. And if it's a little more technical than what you can answer, Heather, ship it on to Brian or ship it on to me. Brian is in charge of the content inside Helicopter on ground school. That's what Brian's job is to help me improve the site and kind of manage like I'm shipping any. Any comment versus content. I make sure I ship them to Brian, right? So he reads everyone. Whether I answer it or have him enter it. I ship it all to him. So as he's going through and saying, hey, let's make some changes here. It just works out really well because I can focus on creating the videos. I still have to do the editing. But having two people working together on creating the new content, honing it, writing the descriptions, getting the uploads in there, we're really making that basic Maneuver section really shine and we're really proud of it and it's going to continue to get better through the next two weeks. 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