This content was created by Kenny Keller. This content was uploaded by Kenny Keller. This is a YouTube video titled "Exploring Fort Myers, Florida from the Sky: Robinson R44 Flight" created on January 28, 2023. It features a conversation between Kenny Keller and other speakers, including George and Speaker B, discussing flight maneuvers and techniques while flying a helicopter in Fort Myers, Florida.
So you just tell me what you would like to do first. It really doesn't matter to me.
Well, let's go out and do a normal takeoff and a normal landing.
Okay.
That's where I usually start with somebody is, you know, I feel like we build everything that we do off pretty much normal takeoff.
Delta turning left downwind.
Governor's kicking in. Everything is in the green. We got no cautions or warning lights. We got an Archer over here on the left downwind. And we are going to do right traffic.
Awesome.
Laval traffic. Helicopter 144 Papa Charlie. We're departing the taxiway to the right side of Runway 14. We will be doing right traffic 600ft below LA Belle. All right, so clear left, right and above. We got some birds right in front of us. We're going to do a two step pickup.
Okay, awesome.
So. Nice and light. There we go. And here we are. We got 22 inches. We have 24 eight available. I'm going to pull in some power slowly.
Final on the RNF 1:40.
There's 145. We'll start our climb. Got a bunch of birds out in front of us. So we're just going to keep an eye on that.
Send our downwind for the incoming traffic on the rnav. Appreciate that, my brother.
All right.
Familiar man. What's your name?
George.
You from FXC or Boca? Fort Myers, actually. Gotcha.
All right, there's 300. We're clear right.
Clear on the left.
Lavell traffic. Helicopter four Papa Charlie is on right crosswind Runway 14. Lavelle.
All right, well, you probably heard me say in the videos like a thousand times, keto. Good approach, good setup.
Yep.
Set it up nice. It's going to be nice. Set it up sloppy. It's going to turn out sloppy.
That is true. And we are clear to the right.
Turn left.
Bell Traffic helicopter four Puppet Charlie right downwind, Runway one four. LaBelle. All right, so I'm just at 75. I'm going to pull it back to 70 from a downwind.
About traffic. Lamb launcher is on three mile final for the R014.
Full stop.
Laval.
I got him in sight. So we'll extend out just a little bit. Okay.
I preached everybody a good setup is 300 ago. When we intercept our angle for our approach in trim. Air speed that you normally use. What do you usually use for your. The entry on your approach?
70 knots.
70 knots, good. That's what I use too. So I usually start just a hair above 70. So when I do the aft Pull it back to 70. So airspeed in trim, zero rate ascent. Everything nice and neat.
Runway one four. Bell traffic.
All right, so I got that guy on final. I'm just looking for the guy on base. Okay, there he is up there. Just right now. He's just above the guy on final.
Okay, I see them both.
Okay.
Yep, this is you pointed that way.
Traffic on a 2 mile final. The RNAV 14 full stop. LaBelle.
Annabelle Traffic Helicopter 4 Papa Charlie is on our right downwind. We got both the traffic in sight. We'll come in behind the guy on base right now.
So anybody who's been to the Robinson School has heard the general safe rule. Keep 30 on your airspeed until you're ready. Which is what you did our first approach today.
Yep.
You kept a nice solid 30 until that rate ascent was below 300. And then you got slower.
You are going to be heading southwest. Kind of a departure end it looks out here.
I've been amazed quite a few times. I've asked somebody what's the general safe overfly approach and come with all these crazy things. And all I'm looking for is 30 and 30.
Right. Okay, just a little bit more and we're clear to the right. Bell traffic helicopter for Papa Charlie. Right base. Runway 1 4.
Lavelle clear on the left. And now the examiner where I'm from, he doesn't mind if you go out, take your time like you're doing a little extra little extra time here to let traffic get into the Runway. He always says, hey, you know, if it takes you 10 minutes to get set up for straight in, auto take 10 minutes. He'd rather you take the time, have.
The better setup because it's going to be a better maneuver.
Exactly. So from the Midwest where I'm from, that's totally acceptable. Take your time, get it set up nice. And I always use a bigger pattern. I use a bigger pattern than a lot of people. If you keep it too tight, you jam yourself up. You jam yourself. It's hard to do it. Then if you make it too big, then of course you only get like three patterns in an hour. But finding a nice pattern size where you have enough time to get set up and make the decisions you need to make.
So 75 knots are coming up. Everything is in the green. We got no caution or warnings. I got the traffic on short. Final Lavell traffic. Helicopter four, Puppet Charlie is final Runway one for Lavelle.
Awesome. Looking good. This is kind of cool flying at sea level.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't have much experience at sea level.
You just don't get any mounts.
My first flight the other day, I'm like, what altitude are we at? Gavin goes sea level, I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm in Florida. Just not in my thought process. My first thing is, oh, how high are we? Oh, zero.
Yeah.
Sea level. Pretty view right there.
Yeah, it's gorgeous up here, man. The river.
All right.
You'll. You'll love. You'll love the stuff. Going out to Venice and coming back, you'll. You'll love the view.
Nice. I'm sure I will. Mean, I like my home. I like Indiana, but.
Right.
But this time of year, everything's brown.
I don't.
I don't. I don't see. You don't see green.
Right.
And obviously we don't have the ocean. Okay.
So somebody just caught left down. I just want to see where he is. Okay.
We'll find him.
All right.
I'm expecting pristine. Pristine approach, since you had all this time to get ready. So for here, it's going to be 300 AGL, literally. Right, right. So 300 AGL will be on our altimeter.
Correct.
Zero rate ascent in trim just above 70. That's a nice setup. Yep, that's a nice setup.
Traffic light and blue. Archer 32 Delta. Clear Runway 14 via Alpha 4 LA.
Traffic looks like a nice angle.
Yep.
So, of course, collective controls the angle, Cyclic controls the speed.
Yep.
We start at 70, and then it's just a gradual process.
Slow, methodical.
Yep. All the way in. And one of the Vietnam guys that I flew with early as a cfi, he said, you know, look at those numbers, and it should always look like you're approaching those numbers at the same speed in the same spot. Yeah. And that. That means you're slowing down.
Yep.
Gradually as you're coming in. This is a nice angle. I like the angle. Speed's good. We're about 45. We're in trim. Rate of ascent about 200ft per minute. It's going to be good.
Lavelle traffic.
Cessna551 is make it look too easy.
You set a high standard.
Yeah.
I spot the number, by the way, just in case you didn't.
We don't have much wind, do we? All right. We were well below the 300 on the BSI before we got below 30. Awesome. That's a nice normal approach.
Thanks.
So how about now that we're over our letters or our numbers? 14 where we want to be. Let's do a clearing turn.
All right. And we're clear left.
Take a look around. And what I want you to show me next is the painfully slow takeoff. And you're not going to be able to cheat because they are clear. I got the camera set to where they can. You can see the collective in the camera. So take your time and do this. Try to get stay down low to the concrete or the pavement.
All right, so there's my Hover Power 22. All I'm going to do is slowly start to inch it forward.
