A short YouTube #shorts video (by Kenny Keller) capturing a two-person dialogue during a helicopter hover. The speakers discover the governor was accidentally bumped off and use that incident to emphasize why a hover pre-takeoff check is required.
All right, back into a hover. Did you hit the governor off or.
I did not. I did not.
Okay, maybe that was my thumb.
The catch. See, there's why you do have a pre takeoff check.
Never know.
Right there. You look down during your hover, getting ready to go boom.
Yeah.
Governor got bumped off. How? For whatever reason, that's why you do a hover pre take off check. Oh, yeah, that's it.
I always pulled it up about right.
Here and.
I'll look at how much power I'm pulling and then say everything's.
For takeoff. So let me add this. My examiner says that all the time pilots are not using pre takeoff checks. And this is a bad thing. And instructors aren't always teaching it and flight schools aren't and they should be teaching this for every single takeoff. And we did it in ems, right? In ems, you must do a hover pre takeoff check every single time. And you just saw the reason why you caught the governor was off. What if you didn't catch it? You was off and you went and did.
