Short YouTube transcript excerpt (Kenny Keller and others) discussing proper hover taxi speed for helicopters: the recommended pace is about a brisk walk, but pilots often go faster (e.g., ~15 knots), which is too fast. Emphasis on slowing down in hover taxi and choosing not to fly when pressured.
Come forward just a hair here. Nice takeoff. Or see where our manifold pressure is. A nice brisk walk. We talked about that too. Where everybody talks about being doing a brisk walk and it's already past ETL and it's more like a run.
Oh, yeah. Have to be able to come here and they'll tell you how do we do an air taxi? Oh, should be the speed of a brisk walk. And they're going like 15 knots across the ground. And you're like, well, you just told me it's the speed of brisk walk. Why are you going 15 knots? Slow it down, Slow it down. See it all the time. All the time. People way too fast in a hover taxi.
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