A short instructional YouTube video (EP 26) by Kenny Keller featuring instructor Chris demonstrating and teaching straight-in autorotation techniques for beginner helicopter pilots. The video walks through preflight checks, radio calls, setup on the downwind leg, recognizing an engine failure (needle split, yaw to the right), lowering collective, establishing 60 KIAS, maintaining rotor RPM, selecting a spot on the runway, performing the flare, and coordinating throttle roll-on with pedals to avoid a kick. The presentation is conversational and aimed at basic, repeatable training steps rather than advanced maneuvers.
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All right, three, two, one.
I can get a pretty good shot. Is my camera in the way right there?
Nope.
Okay. So I know if I hold it about right about my knee, I can get a nice shot of the gauges that I think will work out real well.
Nice.
At 758 papa alpha is clear all runways.
Goshen. Goshen.
Traffic copter three carotel departing 27 left traffic.
Goshen.
All right, as we talked about in yesterday's video, starting off your day, doing a normal pattern and doing some quick steps before doing a straight in, that's what we did. So today we're just going to demonstrate a straight in auto. And we're keeping this for the beginner. We're not going into super advanced auto rotations because we had somebody in the comments during the hogs daily Flight 3 videos. He said, hey, can you do some. Can you show us some odd rotation videos for the beginner? So we're just gonna keep this short and sweet. There's millions of ways of teaching these. Chris is gonna show you today what he does in the cavalry. So just know, like teaching quickstops, there's a million ways of teaching them. A good setup is key. Okay, so I'm gonna turn it over to Chris and just let him just give you the basics, kind of. Let's say he's teaching. Say you're teaching me as a brand new student and I got a little time under my belt and you're gonna intro to me what you're gonna be teaching me in a straight in auto. So just keep it a real basic conversation and how you start out teaching them.
Okay, well right now we're on the left downwind for 2 7. The wins today are 340 at 1 5. So we're gonna have a pretty good right ordering headwind. This is one thing I hate about autos to a Runway is because of the winds. Obviously if you have an engine failure, you're gonna want to fly into the wind. You want to get your nose right in the wind. Well, you know, for safety reasons, for the Runway, you know, in case we actually do run it on. Then we got the whole Runway, but that gives us a pretty good crosswind. So anyway, we're right now we're at about 80 knots or so. 1500ft. Indicated Runway 27. Gauss Goshen.
Traffic copter 3, Sarah. Tails on the left face turn final two seven Goshen.
Warning caution lights are out. Gauges are in the green. Got plenty of fuel. Landing lights on. Tech final looks Good. So that's how I teach these. I always like to be in cruise flight because that's how you're going to fly. You're going to be at your altitude that you like to be at. I'm usually around 1500 or so, which is kind of where we're at, maybe 100ft low. Everything's looking good. So right now I would just have the student, you know, here we are, two guys just flying along. And what I will do is I roll the throttle down for the detent, and I want him to recognize the engine failure, which will be the nose to the right, yaw to the right, and the needles split. As soon as that happens, you're going to lower that collective and start slowing your speed for 60. Here we go in 3, 2, 1. Roll off. There's nose to the right. There's the needle split. Now I'm getting my scan going. Rotor rpm's looking good. Airspeed's looking good. I'm in trim, looking at my spot on the Runway, coming down. Everything's looking good. Keep that scan going, keep that airspeed right where you're at, about treetop level, you're going to start a little bit of a flare. Player's gonna get more aggressive. As I'm doing that, I'm rolling throttle back on. For the student level the nose by forward cyclic, up collective and right pedal.
And here we are. Awesome.
And the thing that we had to be concerned about in the G2, as we're rolling that throttle back on, if you don't coordinate that with the pedals, you're going to have a kick. So with the instructor, as the instructor, I've learned that if you just barely roll that throttle on just a little bit, the cord later kicks in, brings it up to the governor, governor brings it back. And then as you're doing that, as long as you're on that pedal, you won't have that kick. So that we barely had anything there, so. And that's how you do an auto.
Awesome.
Cool.
Lost my train of thought.
Lost your train of thought? That happens sometimes.
Couldn't think of where to go next.
That's how we teach it. That's. Everybody's different. There you go. Some people just lower the collective to get the needle split. Some people roll all the way off. You know, that's just how we. That's how I start to train people as time goes on. Then we will do real world scenarios where we'll just be out flying and I'll. I'll just roll it off and you got to enter it.
Okay, I'll wrap it up.
Okay.
All right. So that was just the essence of a straight in auto. Do us a favor, subscribe to the channel, click the bell, because tomorrow we're gonna do some 90 degree auto rotations. They're gonna turn into 180 degree auto rotations, and we're gonna give you some food for thought on an alternative method on that 180 auto. So subscribe the channel, click the bell. See you next video. All right, cool. Short and sweet, to the point.
Perfect.
Okay, Coach traffic copters, Be sure to teleport two seven.
