Fatal Helicopter Accidents Can Occur Not Guarding Collective & Throttle

Never take your hand off the collective. But when is it okay? This confuses people. What we do in the training environment, once the engine is running, we want somebody to have the hand on the collective. Whether the student has hands on the collective or the instructor has his hand on the collective and throttle. Once the engine's running, we want you to have your hand on there, protecting the collective and the throttle both during the startup, on the ground, picking up, hovering. Don't take your hand off the collective during your takeoff. Somebody has their hand on the collective and throttle all the time. Now, once you get up to altitude, you have safe altitude above the ground and you're getting your cruise flight. On some helicopters, it's acceptable. Take your hand off the collective and you might be able to use collective friction. Maybe not depending on the aircraft, but at that point in stable flight, yes you can. I'm going to use the example here in the 269, if I'm in stable flight, I could take my left hand off the collective, put it on the cyclic, use my right hand, do what I got to do with radios or whatever, and then go back. Right hand back to cyclic, left hand back to collective. A student comes from somewhere else and they start up, engine's running and they're taking the hand off the collective all the time. In the training environment, this is how we want to do it. We want somebody to have their hand on the collective all the time. And examiners, all of them that I've been using forever and the ones I did my checkrides with, they all expect this. They expect somebody's hand on the collective and throttle the whole time the engine's running during all the hovering on the ground. And somebody needs to be guarding that collective. Of course, operating procedure at some flight school or some company somewhere could vary and be different. This is the statement we're using for HOGs training training that we do here. There's your tip for today. We thought we'd just do this real quick while we're doing a startup. Any membership on the site, go down below the video. Down below there's direct link. If you have a question, is your member concierge? You can text or call me at 574-767-1797 or you can also email me heatherelicopterground.com if you have any questions about getting signed up. I'll be happy to help you get a hold of Heather if you need her. Or go down below and grab one of those links. Sign up 30 Day Money Back. No hassle guarantee. Catch you in the next video. We're gonna go fly. Before you guys go, remember, free PDF down below. There it is. And you can download it, print it off if you like. Subscribe to the channel because there's going to be a lot more coming in. Helicopter land, ground school in the videos. So do us a favor. Subscribe to the CHANN channel. Click that little bell to be notified of the next video and we'll see you on the next one. Peace. Peace.