The Key To A Good Autorotation

1, 2, 3. Enter. Collective down right pedal aft. Cyclic rolls the throttle good. Nice entry. Collective all the way down. I haven't moved anything. I'm gonna let that RPM build maybe just a little bit. Maybe it won't need to. Got our 70. Everything's looking good. I have moved nothing. I'm holding it. Holding my 70. Rpms good. Looking nice about treetop. I'll start a little bit of a gentle flare. I'll get closer, make a little bit bigger. I'm gonna raise a little collective roll on the throttle, level it out and there's a straight in auto.

You know, some of the best tips are some of the simplest tips. And we're going to get back to the video on the straight in auto and we'll go into detail. But a good setup is really truly key. I know people say oh but that's not real world. But you have to fly to a standard for the checkride. So we have to do real world on another day when you're practicing for the checkride, it has to be to a standard. We going to get to that video in just a minute to give you some tips on setting up the straight in auto. And we got a couple more videos coming up. We're going to talk about 90s and 180s and give you some tips and food for thought to hopefully help you with these auto rotations. So before we get back to the video. July 4th sale happening right now ends Sunday night. The code is july44. You enter that in the coupon box during discount, click apply and it shows you the discounted price, which is our monthlies have been at 97amonth for I think since like 2016. At 44% off you save 42.68amonth. For as long as you keep it, it will cost you 54.32. And then we have 12 month memberships. We've got that normally at 697. Been there for several years. With the 44% off, you save $306.68. So that's 12 months will cost you 390 32. Then we have a private pilot lifetime where you can get the.

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All right, now we're going to go around and show you a straight in auto. So like any other maneuver, the key is a good setup. If you set the auto up nice, it's going to be nice. If you set the auto up sloppy, it's going to be sloppy. Warsaw traffic, helicopter one mike bravo right down 149 Warsaw. Here's the thing, people say, well but that's not real world training. It's not, but we need to practice to a standard so you can go to your checkride and show the examiner an auto within the standard. So that's why we train with the standard. We do recommend you go out with the structures and do real more real world type autos. But we still have to have an, you know, a standard for training. So we're going to use for, we'll use 1400. We're there now. That gives us about 550 AGL. And again I'm going to set it up nice. I want to be just above 70 on my speed. I want to have zero rate of descent. I want to have it in trim. I'll count off. One, two, three, enter. We go collective down, right pedal, aft cyclic. Work on maintaining our speed all the way down. We use a cross cross check. Inside, outside, inside, outside. You should spend more time outside than you are actually inside. Warsaw traffic, helicopter one mike bravo right base turning funnel, Runway nine, Warsaw. All right, so still got just above 70, my 1400. Everything's looking good. I'm gonna go full carpet and start preparing for the auto. So again we're gonna hold that 1400. I want to keep my 70. We'll count. 1, 2, 3, enter. On enter, we'll down collective right pedal. Aft cyclic, roll the throttle back, split the needles and we'll be in an auto rotation. We're gonna line up with a Runway. Not real windy today, so I make my best guess on how to get as close to 9 as I can. Zero rated ascent. Got it in trim, just above 70. Just a hair above 1400. Looking good. So now I'm Just going to hold everything. And I'm going to go a little bit farther to where that 9 is. Just about the top of our dash. Gonna wait a little bit longer. Wait a little bit longer. A little bit longer. 1, 2, 3, enter. Collective down right pedal aft cyclic. Roll up some throttle.

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Nice entry. Collectible way down. I haven't moved anything. I'm gonna let that RPM build maybe just a little bit. Maybe it won't need to. Got our 70. Everything's looking good. I have moved nothing. I'm holding it. Holding my 70rpms good. Looking nice about treetop. I'll start a little bit of a gentle flare. I'll get closer, make a little bit bigger. I'm gonna raise a little collective roll on the throttle. Level it out. And there's a straight. That actually came out pretty nice. So you could see in that auto. I didn't have to move much of anything. And that's the problem. People start trying to do a bunch of crazy stuff and they start moving. The controls are everywhere. And that's where the problem lies. If you enter it nice in the R44 anyway, you can just pretty much hold the controls.

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We're fairly light on fuel. There's only two of us. If we'd have been heavier, I would have needed to raise a little more collective. Maybe at the entry, but we didn't need it. So real quick, I'm going to show you a 90 degree auto rotation.

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