EP 25 Quick Stops Before Autorotation Practice

I have started doing that now. I've started doing quick stops before I go into auto.

That's a great. That's a video. That's going to be video number one.

All right, sounds. Clear your side power check here. Oh, yeah. Good wins today.

Good prados.

All right, so we're. We're going to be head. And what are we doing first? We have any questions? We don't have any questions, right, or we don't have any?

Nope. I think we'll go right into the autos as soon as you're comfortable doing them. And I always like to do it normal approach first, but if you're ready to go right to them, we can go right to them.

Well, what I'd like to do is probably do a couple quick stop. Let's do a normal approach, do a couple quick stops, kind of get. I have started doing that now. I've started doing quick stops before I go into auto.

That's a great. That's a video.

Oh, yeah, look at that. Getting that full right pedal in there. Going against that wind. All right, come back around.

Goshen traffic helicopter 7630, toes on, taxiway off. We'll be departing taxiway off. A parallel 27 with south turnout Goshen.

Oh, yeah, look at that. Heck of a crosswind today. All right, warning caution lights are off. Gauges are in the green. We got plenty of fuel for what we're doing. Oil temp is still in the yellow, but it's high enough to where we can take off. Off we go.

Awesome. So you're gonna go around, do a normal first?

Yeah, I think we'll just come around, do normal, do a couple quick stops, Just kind of feel it, fill it out.

Awesome. So we're just gonna roll right into our first video. Our last video we said we're gonna do straight in autos for the next video. And as we were going out today, Chris says, you know what? I said I like, do like a normal approach first. And he goes, you know, I like to do an auto approach to warm up and a couple of quick stops before doing straight in autos. And I went, perfect. Let's make that a video because this is a great topic to get into before we do show you a straight in auto. As Chris said, he likes to do them clear on the left. And I'll try to make this short because I go on too long sometimes. But this morning we're talking about when I almost got killed as a brand new CFI by a weekend warrior pilot because I wasn't ready to, I should have been more ready to fix the mistake that he was going to make. And anyway, as a brand new cfi, I hired a high time instructor to come in work with me. And because I was a brand new cfi, I was ready to start teaching autos to a particular student and I just wasn't comfortable. So anyway, I hire this 4000 hour pilot, I believe at the time at least like 4000 in R22s. And then he had other aircraft under his belt as well. He was a high time instructor where I did all my training and then had one of my first jobs. And when he said let's back up and to freshen everything up, let's do some ground school, then we're going, we're going to do quick stops before the autos and then we're going to do 90s and then we're going to do 180s and we're going to get to that in the upcoming videos. But what he said in that video or in that video, in that training, we did the ground and he said, let's, let's go and do quick stops first. Let's hone your, let's hone your flare in. And I know somebody, I met somebody at a helicopter flying years ago that was helped write helicopter flying handbook or do a revision on it or something. And he said, kenny, always teach quicksteps before teaching your autos.

Yep, I like doing that now.

It's a great warm up. And then same thing with this high time instructor I flew with. That's where we started with quick radio call. Okay, go right Goshen traffic copter three zero, tails on a left. Base turning final two seven Goshen. I'll be number two. All right, go ahead, sir. So then.

Plenty of fuel. Go Landing my go.

Awesome. What we did was we went out six miles to the northeast inbound for Runway 27 Scotians. And we did go out and we did quick stops first. And I was a CFI at that point. I knew how to do a quick stop. But we really talked about it like it's the end of the auto rotation almost in slow motion. And he really taught me to really hone in that flare and to pick out something on the horizon with something in the aircraft. And we were in the R22 and I think it was like the top of the dash or something with a line of trees on the horizon. And it made this instructor help me a lot. 7:58 Papa Alpha upwind Runway 27. Staying in the pattern of the Ocean get my confidence up to go out and teach the auto rotations. So we'll film Chris doing a couple here. He's doing a normal approach now just to get warmed up. And I like doing that, too. Before autos, it's just. It feels better to me to go out, go around the traffic pattern one time, shoot a nice normal approach before I start doing autos. It just feels good. Just kind of like make sure you give the engine a chance to warm up. But I've heard some people say that that's a good, you know, rule to follow. And I like it doesn't say you can't go out and do a straight in rod however you want to, but peace of mind.

Well, for me, I think it's just. It's not so much for the aircraft. It's for me, I mean, we were just sitting in the office there for while talking, and then we came out. And then just to come out and do a complex maneuver right off the bat, it's just not why, you know, I mean, so why not just go ahead and come out and get warmed up, do a nice little, nice, easy, formal approach here, Kind of get the body warmed up, kind of get the legs and the arms all synced up together here. We got a pretty good crosswind. So today the winds are 3 4, 0 at 1.5, and we're using 2 7. So we got a little pretty good. Right. Right crosswind here. Right quartering headwind, I guess you'd say. All right, so quick stop, right? Is that what we're looking for?

Yep.

All right, so look, basically all we're doing is transition into forward flight, build a little air speed, get yourself a little bit of height, and then what I. When I'm training it, I always count down. So 3, 2, 1, down, left, aft. As the aircraft starts to settle, come up on the collective, push forward on the cyclic, and you're adding right pedal.

As long as you're quickly de. Accelerating the helicopter and you're doing it safely. There is a million ways of performing a quick stop. We always say this in these videos, especially quick stops, and a lot of these different things is do what works for you. We're showing you what we do. It's food for thought, but there's a million ways to teach in a quickstop, just like there's a million ways to teach it in auto. So a good rule of thumb, go out, go around the pattern one time, do a normal approach, do a couple quick stops, just to get in that mindset of doing auto rotations. Awesome. Great way to start out this week of videos.

Yep.

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Traffic on the right downwind.

That's a nice little video.

Yeah. Nice little impromptu quick stop.

Exactly. All right, are you gonna do a straight on this? Go around?

Yeah, I can. Yeah, I'm feeling pretty good.

Okay, let me look for that airport.

Figuring out where he's at real quick.