Short YouTube training clip by Kenny Keller explaining translating tendency—the helicopter’s tendency to drift in direction of tail-rotor thrust—and how manufacturers compensate (e.g., rigging the rotor mast). The video is part of Helicopter Online Ground School and includes a brief call-to-action to like, subscribe, and provide feedback.
What is translating Tendency? It's the tendency of the helicopter to drift in the direction of tail rotor thrust. This is Kenny Keller, the creator of Helicopter Online Ground School and I wanted to give you this tip because everybody screws up the three T's in their checkrides, translating tendency, transverse flow effect, and effective translational lift on your checkride. Another thing the examiner is going to ask is how do we compensate for that? In this particular case, this is the instrument and the instruments rotor mast is rigged just slightly to the left to counteract that thrust of the tail rotor. So depending on which model of aircraft you're flying, whether you have a tail rotor on the left hand side or the right hand side, make and model manufacturers have different ways of compensating in this case to the instrument it's towing the rotor mast to the left. So this is a little insight into what we're doing inside Helicopter Online Ground School. Lots of cool stuff. We're adding stuff all the time and if you enjoy this video, please give us a Like Please subscribe to our channel and give us some feedback down in the box below. We love to hear the feedback. That's what helps us improve and continue to build the best online helicopter training that we can build. Thanks for stopping by. Like subscribe Comment. Sam.
