Shallow Approach & Running Landing (short slide) and common mistakes
Transcript of a Kenny Keller YouTube video teaching helicopter shallow approaches and running landings. Keller explains technique details (approximately 5° approach angle, control inputs: collective for descent, cyclic for speed, forward cyclic to avoid rear-skid strikes), common mistakes, a short demonstration narrative, and promotional material for Helicopter Ground School courses and downloadable maneuver PDF.
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Moving forward, keeping the nose straight. Moving forward, moving forward.
And gonna get right back to that video and show you this running landing, something that I was taught from an examiner, again, legendary examiner on my private pilot checkride, he said, hey, I want you to go in and do a running landing across the Runway. They'll say this is your Runway, right? He wanted me to go across the Runway and I said I, I can. He said, why not? I go, because it's not long enough. This was 20 some years ago. And he goes, ah, I'm gonna walk you through it. He had me come in real super slow and just go like this across the Runway. About a ten foot slide. And he wanted to make the point to me that he knew I was flying with a young guy who was having me slide like a quarter of a mile down the taxiway. And he said, I want to expose you guys the fact that you may not just need to slide a quarter of a mile depending on the day and depending on the type of failure you're having, maybe it's a spark plug miss or you know, cylinder miss, or it's a turbocharger failure. Whatever the case is, maybe all you will need is just a little short slide. So something I learned from an examiner.
Of 50 years, it was good.
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So now we're going to go around and we are going to do a shallow approach and running landing. Now this one, if you've experienced it already, you may have been taught a running landing with a pretty long slide. We're going to do ours going to be a little more, less aggressive than that. The slide is going to be a little shorter than what you may or.
May not have seen.
But the idea is depending on the day, maybe a short slide is all you need. On a certain day you might need a longer slide. So we're on downwind now. Make a quick radio call. Warsaw traffic helicopter 181Mike Bravo, right downwind for nine Warsaw. So the shallow approach is approximately 5 degrees and the common mistakes on the shell approach and running landing is somebody comes down, hits the rear of the skids and then flops the skids on down because it's hard when you're coming in. You want to slow down. So you have this tendency to be pulling aft cyclic, but you need to keep the forward cyclic in to keep the helicopter level. But we're going to talk through that as we come around and come in. So the shallow approach again is about 5 degrees, a little bit lower than our normal at 10 degrees. So with every maneuver we want to have a nice setup, take our time. If you set it up nice, it's going to be nice. If you set it up sloppy, it's going to be sloppy. So we're going to descend down to about 11:50 before I intercept my approach angle. So we're on downwind now. We'll clear to the left, clear to the right. Get ready to start a base turn. I'm going to lose some more of this altitude, start slowing down a little bit and we'll start our base turn. I'm going to turn two radio calls into one Warsaw traffic helicopter 181Mike Bravo, right face, turning final Warsaw. Okay, so I want to get 1100 and about 60, zero rate ascent, get it in trim, have all that stuff cleaned up before I intercept my approach angle. And that's why, if you're consistent with this, this is the key to learning the different approaches and being able to do them the same way every time is if you set it up the same way every time. So I got to get down a little bit Farther for our 1150. And right now in the vasi I can see red over red. When I get to red over white, I know that's three degrees. So I'm just going to keep this altitude. We'll keep it about 1200.
350.
Got 60, a little bit of left pedal for trim. Now there's our red over white. So that's three degrees. So I'm going to go just a little bit farther to call that a shallow. And now we're going to start flying it down. So I'm going to go down collective. A little bit of right aft or a little bit of right pedal, a little bit of aft cyclic. And we're just going to gradually slow this thing down. I'm going to touch just past the number nine. So I'm using the collective to control my angle. Cyclic to control my speed. And I'm going to keep gradually slowing it down. Cyclic controls the speed. It looks like we're always approaching those numbers at the same speed. At about 50ft, we'll put a little right pedal in get parallel with the Runway. Right now we're trimming into the wind because it's off the left hand side. Still control and angle with the cyclic. I'm sorry, Collective still controlling speed with the cyclic. You see a speed of a brisk walk. And again, I'm just going to keep bleeding the speed off. And I'm no hurry to get it on the ground. No hurry whatsoever. Again, remembering people very commonly hit the rear skid and then flop it down the front. But you want to try to land with skids level. I'm letting her sink down, forcing myself to keep that forward cyclic in there. Again, I kind of demonstrate. You can imagine people want to do this right, and then you come down and you hit the rear of your skid. So I'm pushing back on the forward. Just got to keep it moving, keep it moving. And then you got to stay on.
Top of the pedals.
You got to keep the nose straight. Long as you keep the nose straight, nothing bad is going to happen. Just keep it moving forward. Keeping the nose straight, moving forward, moving forward and down to the pavement. Stay on top of the pedals. Break with collective. And right there, there's a running lighting.
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