This is a YouTube video titled "This Is How Vortex Ring State Sneaks Up on Helicopter Pilots #flightschool #helicopterschool" created in July 2025. The content is a detailed instructional talk explaining helicopter approach techniques to avoid vortex ring state, focusing on maintaining specific airspeed and descent rates. The speaker provides practical flying advice likely aimed at helicopter pilots or trainees.
So there's a general rule called Keep 30 on your airspeed until your rate ascent is below 300ft per minute. So we're slowing down right now on approach. So what that means we want to keep 30 here on the airspeed until the rate of descent is below 300ft per minute. So I'm going to get a little more aggressive in my descent and we can get over the 300 as long as we've got 30, no big deal. But I'm going to start slowing it down right now. And before I drop below 30 on that airspeed, I want it to be below 300ft per minute. This is what keeps you out of selling the power of org's text range state, whatever terminology it is you're using. But by doing a nice slow approach, slowing it down nice and easy, by just getting rid of that rate of descent a little bit by little bit. You see, now we're about 35 and we're about 100ft per minute now we can drop below 30 and we know we're totally safe from selling a power vortex ring state. Again, whatever you call it, people still using terminology both ways. I'm not arguing the point, I'm just saying. So people say so now. No big deal. So it's a very simple rule. A lot of people fly by it and know it. A lot of people come here from around the country and they might be working on advanced rating. And I'm like, what's the general role for flying an approach? And they. I don't know. When I say that, they go, I've never heard that. Pretty common in the Robinson world, but I guess not totally. And it's a great rule. Keep 30 on your air speed till your rate ascent is below 300ft per minute.
