Kenny Keller answers why Robinson issued a safety notice advising pilots to never remove the left door: though the POH permits flight with both doors off (with an approved speed), the safety notice arose after an accident where an object (a kneeboard) exited the left side and struck the tail rotor, fatally damaging it. Keller explains the operational rationale—if one door is removed, prefer removing the right door because items exiting the right side are less likely to hit the tail rotor; emphasize cockpit organization to prevent objects exiting the cabin. The video also promotes HOGS resources: the AskHogs clone (contains ~6 million words of content), a free PDF "Private Pilot 101" blueprint, R22/R44 course updates, the HOGSPAYSME affiliate program (offers 50% discount to referrals and pays $1,400 after 30 days), and limited spring 2025 final-approach course spots (three remaining).
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And then the first question from yesterday, good question. One of our viewers yesterday said, why is it that there's a safety notice that says never take the left door off? But then there's also in the PoH where it talks about flight with both doors removed. And I can help with that one really quick and easy. Basically what they're saying, you know it's legal to take both doors off, right? That's why there's an approved speed for flight with doors off. The safety notice, you know, is not law. It's not a reg, it's a notice. So the reason they put that safety notice out, and I learned this, I believe when I was at the Robinson factory, there was a helicopter accident where there was a female cfi, had a knee board on her leg and the left door was removed on the helicopter. The knee board came loose and the kneeboard of course came back and ended up into the tail rotor, destroying the tail rotor. And they didn't survive the procedure after the event. So I don't know the specifics of it. I haven't read that specific accident, but an accident was reported because something flew out the window. So basically the safety notice, the way I think of it is if you're going to take one door off, which is something we do occasionally take off the right hand door and leave the left door on because the tail rotor is on this side. So there's a bigger chance if something flies out the side of the helicopter of it going into the tail road. If it flew out the right hand side, less of a chance of it going into the tail rotor. So cockpit organization is key. Working hard to never have anything that can fly out the window. But accidents happen. So that's the reason why there's a safety notice that says never remove the left door. And there's a lot of times where like we want some extra airflow. So if we decide, well, let's just take one door off, we'll take off the right door and leave the left door on. 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