Episode 399: DPE States "Applicants Struggle with Stuck Pedal, LTE, and Tail Rotor Failures"

This is a great topic because this is something that our examiner has been telling me for 10 years, the same story. People are having trouble with understanding the difference between stuck pedal tail rotor malfunctions, tail rotor failures, differences between the different things. So this is a common problem and maybe we'll even walk Back to the R22 in a minute here and I'm going to tell you my resource. So we're going to, we're going to go with this conversation right now about stuck pedal. Okay? My resource for this is the Helicopter Flying Handbook. You may or may not know if you're flying a Robinson in the Robinson manual. It doesn't give us, in the R22 or R44 anywhere, it doesn't give us a procedure for stuck pedals. It's not mentioned. So Robinson's not telling us what to do. So if you don't have the resource from the manufacturer, you have to go to the Helicopter Flying Handbook. And when you go to stuck pedal pedal issues in this book, it's about two and a half pages of reading. And you read it and you're going, okay, well what the hell is really going on here, right? So what we did is with this past summer when we were doing our final approach courses, I had a young man here from down south and we were working on his commercial and we were talking about stuck pedals. And I go, you know what, let's, let's really dissect this chapter in the Helicopter Flying Handbook. And here's what we came up with in my resources resource is Helicopter flying handbook page 11 7. It says do not auto rotate. Okay, so do not auto rotate. That's not the answer. Auto rotation. So we deciphered that book and here's what we came up for with the best description that we can give you. On stuck left normal to steep approach at 2 to 3ft. Increase collective to align with Runway. Stuck neutral or right low power approach, run on landing, reduce throttle as necessary. I wanted some kind of a memory that people could come up with so they could. When you're having a discussion with examiner, something you could kind of go to and where that resource is. So this is a great question and I'm not surprised that people are asking in the clone and having trouble because from my examiner people struggle with these. So you got to study the differences. You need to make sure you understand. And I'm even walk back to the helicopter real quick. The thing of the examiner has told me commonly here's where people getting confused when they're taking their Check ride. You'll see him first. He sends them out to the helicopter. He'll say, go ahead and go out and pre flight and I'll be out in a minute. So they go out, grab the checklist, they start working their way around the helicopter and usually comes over and talks to me for a minute or two. But then when they get back here near the tail rotor, I'll almost always see him come walking up and they'll start having a conversation. They'll be here for about three or four or five minutes at the tail rotor. So the question that he asked, that people mess up all the time, what is the movement of tail rotor thrust? Tail rotor thrust pushes against the tail boom. Okay? So I think people, what they get confused about, they think about that turbulent air that's being blown away from the tail rotor. They think of that as thrust, but that's just dirty turbulent air moving away from the tail rotor. The thrust from the tail rotor in the R22 specifically is actually pushing against the tail boom. So the thing that he points out is, remember, a stuck pedal is something, you know, a cable is jammed. A foot pedal is, you know, something maybe an iPad jam in the pedals. That is stuck pedal. That is not a failure. The tow rotor didn't fail. Something in the system for moving those pedals. So that's not necessarily a failure. A tail rotor failure is the drive shaft breaks, it's going back and driving that tail rotor, it snaps, tail rotor flies off, you lose a rotor blade, the gearbox locks up back there. That is a failure. Okay? So make sure that you understand the difference between stuck pedals, tail rotor failures, and then lte. And he always brings that into the mix. Loss of tail rotor effectiveness. So again, coming from an examiner of 35 years telling me over and over, please do videos on these. Please make sure your viewers understand before they come to a checkride. They understand stuck pedals. What to do? Lte. What do you do? Tell rotor failure. What do you do? And to wrap that up real quick, there's a myth out there, and I'll ask this all the time, I'll say, so what do you do if you're flying along 500ft, 70 knots and a Robinson and you have a tail rotor failure, A good majority of people will say, well, I'll just manipulate the nose with the throttle and I'll start and I'll like, no, stop, stop. Not acceptable. The PoH clearly states inner auto rotation. Try to make your auto rotation landing. If you can't go clear to the Ground, pull the power in. Fly until you can make an auto rotation landing. Re enter auto, go to the ground. That's it. That's in the Robinson manual. So don't tell an examiner you're going to manipulate the throttle because that is a wrong answer and that is hands down a failure. And our clone is located@askhogs.com you can go below and click on the link to go check it out. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you can ask training related questions. Flight and ground. 14 years of my contents loaded in this thing. 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