Short YouTube conversation (Kenny Keller and Hauser) centered on a helicopter safety technique: when rolling off throttle on slick surfaces (snow, ice, wet pavement), add right pedal during throttle roll-off to prevent the helicopter from spinning (tail boom can come around). Includes an anecdote about an instructional rollout that nearly hit gas pumps when right pedal was not applied.
Sprag clutch check.
Yeah, sprag clutch check. A lot of people have come here from wherever. I'm surprised at how many rated pilots working on vast ratings. They've come from the south. They have. They've never heard about adding right pedal when you roll off, throttle splitting your needles. And it's simply so that the helicopter doesn't spin when you're on a slick surface, snow, ice or even wet pavement. And people go, what? I never heard that before. Yeah, up here in the northern states, anyway, when we roll throttle off, just put the needles, we add right pedal. And we have video of Hauser doing some teaching in instrument and they rolled off too abruptly, didn't have the right pedal when he was teaching somebody. And the tail boom came around, almost hit the gas pumps.
That's why as soon as you start talking about it. That's why I thought about Howser talked about his video.
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