MD500 Helicopter - How to start + Limitations

[MyDogBob2001]

thanks for sharing, hope to back in one after a long hiatus

[pacrat90]

Awesome video! Too bad there wasn't an actual start....

[Tawanamakuri]

Hughes 500 D*

[Tawanamakuri]

I flew in that chopper when i was 3 years old in Argentina, it used to be LV-RAL and my dad was a friend of the guy that owned that chopper.

I've got some photos of that chopper, it was painted Yellow with blue and white!

He sold that one and bought a Hughes 500.

I think i flew it on San carlos de Bariloche or San Martin de los Andes.

My dad had 4 hughes 500(C,D,E)

There's a website that show's im correct that this chopper was LV-RAL but can't post it because youtube wont let me

:)good memories.

[MrFattyfatfatboy]

thank for this .

[MrWildfire78]

thanks for sharing...always watching your videos..

[mjcygnus]

i appreciate you taking time to answer my questions.i am a helicopter enthusiast. i am a truckdriver by trade. so if my questions seem silly. that is why.

[mjcygnus]

why do you wait till the clock is at 5 before you hit start button?

[michaelmiller85]

@mjcygnus It gives you a chance to start the clock and then not to rush to start the start sequence and mess it up. Start the clock, count to five and then press the starter button makes the start sequence easier and safer to do.

[jsaleen17]

Great Vid. Only thing. It's not a turban. It's a turbine. Be a pilot and pronounce it right. I know my helicopter doesn't have one of those things Arabs wear on their heads.

[Bagwsp]

@jsaleen17 You should go to Webster/Dictionary(dot)com/etc­. and listen to the pronunciation for the word "Turbine". They're both correct, and the way he pronounced it is considered to be the dominant pronunciation of the English language. There's always a bigger troll. Problem? :D

[michaelmiller85]

@Emottaflight The N1 (Gas Producer) gauge is the one to the left of the oil pressure. There are two dials, a small and big one. The small one counts each percent up to ten, giving a more precise reading of what percentage the N1 is at. If that makes sense. They work togehter, the small spins/rotates much faster than the big needle.

[VickyGSims]

amazing... i am a female. . my dream is to become a helicopter pilot. i wont make it there.. thank you sooo much for just making my dream visible to me. Vicky

[Afrocanuk]

If hot starts are such a major concern, why not just introduce a regulated streem of liquid nitrogen in or around the engine? Air is already about 78% nitrogen.

[PegasusRomeo1]

@Afrocanuk Well because #1 - well trained pilots won't hot start the engine. #2 - The combustion process in the turbine engine relies on the oxygen/fuel mixture to create the flame...nitrogen would most likely prevent a flame from igniting. #3, the much cheaper and physically logical way to regulate a start is through an intellistart system, which many helicopters have now. This regulates the fuel going into the engine during a start, creating a mechanical hot start virtually impossible.

[kramnahillac]

I keep hearing a beeping in the background, usually when i hear a beeping it means my helicopter isnt flying anymore and neither am I

[michaelmiller85]

The helicopter compensates for the differential relative wind (airspeed going through the rotor disc) through cyclic feathering and blade flapping. The advancing blade (the portion of the blade that is going to the front of the aircraft) flaps up naturally because of the increased amount of relative wind entering the rotor disc, thus reducing the Angle of Attack (the amount of wind that it is actually taking a bite out of to produce lift).

[michaelmiller85]

The retreating blade (the portion of the blade the proceeds to the rear of the aircraft) is exact opposite. It flaps down, increasing the angle of attack, equalling a greater amount of lift. Different angles of attack between the advancing and retreating, thus producing equal amount of lift allowing the helicopter to fly without rolling over.

[billt460]

How does the main rotor change pitch from when it's in a dead hover, to moving forward, at say 80 knots? If the rotor is turning clockwise it would have 80 knots faster air blowing over it in the 9:00 O'clock position, and 80 knots less airflow over it in the 3:00 O'clock position. So to compensate for the loss of lift at 3:00 O'clock it increases pitch on that side. How does the helicopter know how to do this? How does it correlate airspeed into varying rotor pitch? Thanks in advance.

[CropDusterMan]

I love the 500's...we used to use these for crop spraying a few years back...ours had C20B's. What a great history these aircraft have...the almighty "Loach"!

[goatlube]

this could be a great video tutorial for basic gas turbine operation if professionally produced..info is outstanding..having said that , isn't this a little bit "too much freely available information" ? a chopper pilot once said to me when asked about procedures.. "for me to know & you to find out" . a 17 yr old & his mate once tried to thieve a Bell 206 from Lucknow in australia back in 89 ..neither were pilots & results were fatal for one & got the idea from watching a movie. just a thought

[michaelmiller85]

@goatlube I would have to say that there is that risk. Even though it is a little off topic, it is kind of like drugs. If there is a will, there is a way to get the stuff, same with how to start up a helicopter. I don't know:)

[sheppydotcom]

@goatlube If they're gonna do it then they're gonna do it! I like the vid - it reinforces my desire to fly a chopper but it hasn't made me want to go and flog one! Perhaps I'm intelligent/mature enough to realise how hard flying one of these is to master(?)

[catapiller425]

I like these types of videos,good job.

If you make more of them,please

remove the lens cover completely

from the camera,so it does not

strike the mic when moving.

[johnpro2]

well I was somewhat disappointed that no actual start eventuated,,,however the instruction was interesting .

I have flown an R44 & a Bell Jet Ranger under supervision but never started one myself...oh and I have traveled passenger in the rear of a MD500.Can't afford qualified lessons which is a pity as there is a Heli school close by.

[aerobat52m]

Excellent video Michael, I've got a few hundred hours in the left seat of OH-6's

[aerobat52m]

Hit the starter button with your right middle finger Michael???

[miGsKills]

This deserves more views than it has. Awesome video. (:

[complexor]

Globalearthworks, the information you are describing takes place in larger helicopters with advanced hydraulic systems and more complex flight control components. They are means to help reduce pilot workload and physical stress of operating the helicopter. On those certain types of aircraft, the controls are not only linked by controls rods, but electronic and hydraulic servos as well. The computers are programed to adjust flight controls based on movement of just one control system.

[yoni0063]

Michael, excellent video, I totally enjoyed watching that. More please!

[globalearthworks]

hey mate thanks for the reply i thought that was the case just needed to hear it from someone qualified all the best fly safe

[globalearthworks]

hey iam just a noob mate but a question does ur tail rotor directly correlate to ur collective does it have no impact on how u move cylic thanks for ur reply

[michaelmiller85]

@globalearthworks The tail rotor does not correlate with the collective. Meaning they are not mechanically linked, but you must change the pitch angle of the tail rotor with the pedals whenever the collective is adjusted. The cyclic plays zero affect with the pedals, mechanically. Remember, if you adjust one control, it changes the other two.

[notar1]

thanx

[ebonypumperz6]

EXCELLENT CLIP!!!

[michaelmiller85]

that's is correct

[csmythe8]

Thanks much Mike, you just answered a question I asked in your other video, so you if a TOT spikes you keep the starter engaged and cut fuel.