This YouTube video (creator: Kenny Keller) discusses the common beginner problem of overcontrolling when learning to hover a helicopter. The instructor emphasizes smooth, tiny control inputs on pedals and collective, practicing in an open area, and reassures learners that with practice the skill will click. The clip ends with a short promotion for helicopter training books.
Well, I'm really having trouble with over controlling. Everybody that learns to fly helicopter and learns to hover helicopter has trouble in the beginning with over controlling. It's really about smooth control inputs. The essence of flying a small helicopter really doesn't matter which one you're flying. You might have some buttons and switches in different places, and startup and shutdown can be a little bit different. But the essence of what we do in the aircraft to make it hover is the same with time, with practice. Practice with your instructor, it's going better. And then all of a sudden, one day, the light bulb pops on and you go, wow, I'm hovering and I'm talking on, talking on a radio and chewing gum all at the same time. It will come to you. The key is you have to remember smooth control inputs when you first starting out.
Here's what it's going to look like. And depending on the experience level of your instructor, how far he's going to let you go. You know, it just depends. As time goes by, it'll get better, don't worry. And that's like right now, I'm out in a nice big area, right? Nothing around me. Those hangers are a safe distance behind me. The hangar, those trucks. I'm checking behind me again. Of course, you always got to be looking out for people behind you. Trucks, equipment, aircraft. This is how we start out, taking you out in the nice big open area where you get an opportunity to work on these controls. So now let's look at. Let's try to make it smooth and let's watch the controls to see how much I'm moving it. So I'm going to do my best here and I'm going to explain to you what I'm doing and see how much of it you can see in the, in the camera. So right now I'm moving a little. You can probably see that I'm moving left and right pedal. I just keep changing the pressure. You're never going to just sit there and hold the pedal still. And people are surprised when we say, well, hovering is the hardest part. They go hovering. Well, you're just holding it in one place. Well, right now with those pedals, I'm just making tiny movements left and right. You can probably see them if you really look. A little bit of left pedal, a little bit of right, a little left, little right. And I just keep making, making pressure changes. Left and right, left and right. Collective. Let's talk about that for a minute. Right now, the collective. I'm doing nothing. I'm starting to sink I'm going to go a little upward pressure I could have a camera on that and you're not even going to see that camera could be right beside it Now I feel like I'm going up I'm giving a little downward pressure I'm constantly making pressure changes with that collective up down up down now if I actually move it where you can see it move then the movement is going to be aggressive okay if I had a camera on there you could see that action but that's not what you want Smooth control inputs learning all these and putting.
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