YouTube video by Kenny Keller (Sept 2, 2023) that opens with a Labor Day promotion for flight training courses (money-back guarantee, FAA written practice, membership discounts) and then presents a safety-focused discussion about helicopter control management: guarding the collective, using cyclic/collective friction, and conducting positive, verbalized transfers of control. Viewer advised to consult the POH for model-specific friction guidance and to contact Heather (574-767-1797) or visit Helicopterground.com.
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All right, we're just rolling up here to go out and do some flying. We're gonna do some different videos for you on things we've seen here recently. We want to tell you about Labor Day sale that ends Tuesday after Labor Day at midnight. Some great specials going on right now. We'll put the links down below the video. 30 day money back guarantee on all of our courses. FAA written test, practice included for all courses. Quizzes, take the written test as many times as you need. I just can't think right now. What else, Heather?
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Pretty good specials. We went back to discount prices from like two years ago. You know, economy's tight, people are hanging on to their money. But it's also that time of year where people are ready to get back to flight training and finish those ratings. We thought, let's go big with the Labor Day. Pass the savings on to you to get some more people in. And utilizing the training, you can go.
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Links down below. Text or call Heather 574-767-1797 and we'll see you on the side of hooks. All right, while we're warming up the helicopter, I want to point out something that I've seen in the recent past. People sometimes get a little bit sloppy on guarding the controls. A really good technique is from the beginning, especially for newbies and instructors. New instructors, you really want to focus on guarding the controls. Once the engine's running, somebody needs their hand, have their hand on that collective guarding that throttle. And there's two of you in here. Instructor, student. There's no reason that one of the other can't always be guarding that collective. And this particular helicopter, R44, isn't spring loaded and not necessarily going to pop up on you, but it could. And there are other aircraft I've blown spring loaded. Well, they will come up on you and you can imagine the danger if you take your hand away and the collective comes up and it's happened. There's fatal accidents that have happened from some nobody guarding the collective. The collective raising. Nobody was ready and the helicopter rolls over. So there's different methods of doing this, but make sure you work with your instructor and good technique on not only Guarding the controls. But how you friction on and friction off. So like, for example, for me, anytime I'm going to take my hand off that collective and let's say, move forward to the cyclic friction. I'm going to go back, reach back here and make sure that my collective is locked, take my hand forward, release or lock my friction on my cyclic because I've got it in my right hand. And then my hand goes back to the collective and then I'm going to release the collective lock. I've seen some really loosey goosey people in the past where they get pretty laxed with the friction is not locked on the cyclic and they're doing startup and they just let go and then the cyclic falls one side or another and the helicopter starts shaking. That's just not a good habit to be in. So again, there's some different methods you can be taught, but I've seen a lot of people recently just not being quite as careful about protecting all the controls because there's so many different bad things that can happen. And I even had a recent student who was frustrated in the moment and he kind of went, you know, here, you're here, your controls. And just almost like threw him at me. Like, I was just coming up to help because I could see he was struggling a little bit. But he saw me going to go to the controls. He's like, okay, your controls. I'm not going to demonstrate it because we're. Blades are turning and we're, we're good, we're at, you know, I'm guarding everything. But he was just like this, like. And he just takes his hands off and I grabbed it real quick. And I didn't say anything in the moment, but after the fact I said, hey, man, positive change of flight controls. We learned that from the very beginning. You have to stay with that. And just because you're frustrated and you're gonna just give up and you don't want to fly anymore, you have to say, can you please take the controls? Your instructor gets them. Yes, I have the controls. And that should be a visual thing between the both of you and you know what's happening. Not a your controls. And I had somebody else kind of do that to me where it was just a real quick, like, here, you take it. And it's like, no, that's not how this works. Can you take the controls? I have them. Yes, I have the controls. You need to be very specific about this because a helicopter can get wrecked and you can definitely fail your checkride, which that's second to getting yourself killed over doing something stupid, not protecting your controls in the aircraft. So make sure you're taking the time to keep track of all your controls, your frictions, and make sure you have a positive way of keeping track of them and how you're going to lock and unlock. And also know by your poh which ones can you friction in flight, which you can't. Helicopters can vary make to model, so know from your poh can I friction the collective in flight? Can I put some friction on the cyclic in flight? Make sure you look in the POH and understand if that's something that you can do. Live to fly another day. Helicopterground.com.
