Kenny Keller coaches full down autorotations for helicopter checkride prep. Key steps: smooth throttle to idle, maintain 60 knots, flare at treetop height, then increase flare as you descend. Wind on the runway gives you more time to flare before touchdown.
All right, you got it.
Yep, yep. Let her sink before you, before you level. Pull it on. Yeah. Look at that, look at that, look at that, look at that. Yeah.
Welcome to the new full down auto rotation section. Inside the CFI section, inside helicopter lane. Ground school just finished up cfi. This was after we did all the other maneuvers. It was all about getting her comfortable in the instrument to start with. So we're now down to the week of her checkride. Waited for the full downs as the last thing. So previous to these videos, we've done a few, but it was just kind of getting started, getting warmed up. So at this point, we're really trying to perfect the full down, the entry, the set down at the end.
So we're going to go around and we're going to set up a straight in auto. You know how to set them up. You know how it should look. Yesterday the pull downs were challenging because we didn't have much wind. Today we have wind coming almost right down the Runway. I think you're going to notice a big difference. The auto pull downs today versus yesterday. Yesterday we kind of, you know, got comfortable doing them and just got the feel, got the look. We know that the really nice entries was giving us the really nice pull down. You nailed a couple of them right to the numbers. Then I set up. Count it off. 1, 2, 3, enter. Once we enter it, if the entry is good, the glide's nice and we like it, then go ahead and just roll your throttle all the way off. Not chop it, but just smoothly roll it the rest of the way off. Maintain your minimum of 60. At TreeTop, we're going to start a gentle flare or a little below tre up, start a gentle flare. As we get closer to the ground, we'll make it bigger, make it bigger, make it bigger. And the wind today you're going to notice how it's going to happen. Slower, the flare is going to be slower. We're going to have more time to react and we're not going to have the run on that we were having yesterday. That's better for student and instructor. When you're clearly defined spot, you know exactly where you're going.
Ghost traffic helicopter 26 Papa is on final four, Runway nine. Going for engine failure practice to the number nine. All right, we're at 1500. Get that VSI stabilized. Here we have a good entry because key to a good auto is a good entry.
A little bit of left pedal, just.
A little Rpm's top of the green.
Very nice, nice setup.
And I'm gonna go three, two, one, enter. Collect it down, right pedal.
Nice. Good entry.
60.
All right. I'd go ahead and roll the throttle off. What do you think? Okay, go ahead and roll that thing.
Throttle's coming off.
Oh, yeah, nice. Enter. You decided at a good point.
All right.
You got it first. Yep, yep. Let her sink before you. Before you level. Pull it on. Yeah, look at that, look at that, look at that, look at that. Yeah. Nice.
That's right.
See the difference in the wind? Oh, man. We perfect that flare a little bit.
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