Kenny Keller demonstrates an Enstrom takeoff technique: hold 30 inches manifold pressure and accelerate to 30 knots to climb out at roughly 60 mph and 500 feet per minute. Avoid power changes during the takeoff roll. He's launching an Enstrom-specific ground school covering preflight, maneuvers, autorotations, and emergencies.
Questions this video answers
30 inches of manifold pressure (he also reports success with 29 inches).
About 30 knots (30 miles per hour referenced conversationally).
Approximately a 60 mph climb-out with about a 500 ft per minute climb.
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Hello, I'm Kenny Keller with Helicopter Online Ground School. And I want to give you a cool tip on a takeoff on an Nstrom that an old timer taught me years ago that it was really cool. He said 30 and 30 make 60, meaning if you have your manifold pressure set at 30 and you hold that, do not increase any power whatsoever and just keep creeping forward as slow as you have to to keep creeping forward until you get to 30 knots on your airspeed or 30 mile per hour. That will give you a 60 mile an hour climb out with a 500ft per minute climb. And it works. Today is a nice cool winter day. I'm flying this instrument here that's just a true joy to fly. I just had a blast going up by myself. First time I've flown alone in a long time without any students, with a student there trying to kill me. And I had an absolute blast. And I tried that method again today and I actually did it with 29 inches of manifold pressure. I could take off, pull no power at all, very little wind, and I didn't have to move very far before I got enough clean air coming in to get that 60 and that 500ft per minute climb. It's a beautiful thing. Whole entire takeoff never adding any power whatsoever because they tell us during a power change that's when the engine is going to quit during the power. So that's a cool method I've been using for years. It works really, really well. And I want to continue on with this video. This is going to be our introduction video for the new Instrum Helicopter specific edition to Helicopter Airline Ground School. Another thing I want to mention is I'm going to go out and I'm going to do all the maneuvers, film every single checkride maneuver for private commercial cfi. I'm going to be filming with Gary some of that. We're going to be doing Gary's commercial checkride and we're going to be filming all that. So I'm going to do that along with just going out by myself, getting the camera set up, and then just going out and doing all the maneuvers step by step, putting in the input of things I've seen over the years. You know, I always say there are all kinds of teaching methods out there. Instructors teach things in a number of different ways. Not saying my way is the best. You know, you always learn more from flying with different people and seeing different techniques and then taking those techniques and applying them to your own flight. So inside the Enstrom specific section, we've already got pre flight, some of the basic stuff. We have maneuvers, we have auto rotations, we have emergency stuff. So there's a purchase offer button over on the side of the page. Click that button. We have a 30 day money back, no hassle guarantee. We've had that in place for the last four years that we've had helicopter online ground school up and running. We have very few refunds. But like with the business, you know any business anymore, most any reputable business offers a refund. I mean you can refund about anything these days. We stand behind that refund with 30 days no hassle money back guarantee. No big deal. All you got to do is just a simple email. Hey, it wasn't quite for me or I'd like a refund so the burden is on me to provide the value. So if you'd like to join the Instrum membership, click that purchase now button, fill out the information and go and get started and let us know what you think.
