Its a Enstrom 280FX helicopter. not a RC, cmon people. Sure a running landing can work, but any emergency landing with no damage, no issues is great. Enstrom's have the best safety record around, rare for something to go wrong.
@drhugobr actually stuck left pedal allows you to slow right down, have a look at the height-velocity diagram, the slower you go the more power required. If this pilot slowed down less aggressively it would of looked a lot more controlled. He seemed to flare a bit at the end requiring less power making the chopper yaw left. If you get to the hover and the machine is yawing you can still control the tail rotor thrust with the throttle.
@lindsaykent55 Control range of the tail rotor would be rather limited. The pilot can raise or lower engine speed a few percent and adjust the collective to compensate. If the rotor overspeeds it may require a full rotor overhaul; if it underspeeds, the power requirements rise exponentially and the ship drops out of the air.
I can do that after 50 hours in a helicopter. It's something we are all taught to do to be safe in the helicopter.. Does the main rotor rotate counter-clockwise on the Enstrom?? If it does he did everything by the book..
@motokid032 I have 90 hours in Robinsons so I actually knew that. Did NOT know the Enstrom was american though. The name sounds like and the helicopter looks like something that somes out of Sweden or something.
I am by no means in the least bit an expert on flying helicopters. But if the left pedal is stuck it seems like it would be pretty easy to get it under control by applying enough right pedal to counteract.
@calstate The left and right pedals control the exact same mechanism, so if one is jammed then so is the other. So if the jam is solid enough, the only thing that pressure on the opposite pedal will do is break the mechanism. Leaving you with a potenial complete failure of the tailrotor. The best thing to do when a pedal jams is identify the position of the pedals and plan your emergency landing to suit. There are procedures for each situation which are relatively safe if pedal jam is evident.
Wow! Usually once you get the nose past the center, the chances of putting it on the surface without rolling it up in a ball are greatly reduced. Blind luck and the fact that he at least kept trying to slow the aircraft (albeit a bit too slow at the end) before touchdown worked out to result in a safe landing. I have been flying helicopters full time for many years and instructing in them since 1991 and this is one of the happier outcomes I have seen in this situation.
@xmasterfunk WTF? God is a Helicopter CFI? I don't think so. Find somewhere else to diminish the genius and abilities of mankind with your fantasy being.
@rockyPants4000 lol dude read my reply to the other guy who though i was being serious about that shit haha i dont thin that there is actually a big sky daddy watching over everything we do and making a list and checking it twice Lmao
The pilot did textbook job. We helicopter pilots practice stuck pedal emergencies, hydraulic failures, and high altitude and hovering autoroations probably more than we fly the things in normal flight. The last maneuver he performed in order to touchdown in on piece was a hovering auto(rotation.) This essentially eliminates the torque which is what the "rudder" pedal is designed to overcome. The correct name for a helicopter's "rudder" pedal is "anit-torque" pedal.
DAM ITS GOOD TO SEE A JEWEL OF A COPTER GETS SAVED DOOD JOB THOUGH IT SURE LOOKED LIKE IT WASENT GOING TO COME OUT THAT WAY I THINK THE PILOT WAS SURPRISED TOO
Im not sure if Im understanding that inexperienced pilots qoute but This is NOT an Inexperienced Pilot! If anyone has ever thought flying a helicopter is easy like a airplane they need 1 hour in a helicopter simulator. Fact is Its the hardest thing I think a human can possibly learn. The coordination involved blows my mind. Hats off to any Helicopter pilots reading this. Thats One awesome Pilot!!!!!!!!!
@spaytonmustangman -neither do I. I think the heli was supposed to land tail towards camera (not sure but I understood that it would be the correct "by-the-book" manouver). Regardless of that, AMAZING job from the pilot.
What comes to helicopters, it probably could be said about 90% of helicopter pilots are "unexperienced", that is, there are few people who can fly helicopters to their limits of what they can do..
Probably the best and cheapest way to get some idea what it's like to fly a helicopter is to buy RC helicopter simulator. The popular ones prices range from somewhere around 150€ to 400€. And you need an RC radio to fly it.
ofc it's not a REAL helicopter simulator, but controls are same, flight difficulty is pretty much same without needing to complex aeronautics theory, navigating etc.. But it's the cheapest way u can get some idea how difficult flying is, and how fragile those birds are..
YouTube Gods, please bring back the "star" rating system....please. All I can do now is say I like this vid, and am impressed with the pilot's actions, but I can't give it a proper 5 star rating. Thumbs up just doesn't give this vid the proper credit.
@mysteriousblue87 No shit, The whole point of the star thing was to tell if the video was worth watching. Now you have no clue till you already watched it...Stupid, just stupid!
YouTube Gods, please bring back the "star" rating system....please. All I can do now is say I like this vid, and am impressed with the pilot's actions, but I can't give it a proper 5 star rating.
i can`t believe how much control he had - I don`t know anything about stearing a heli but it seems to me that this guy was exactly knowing what he was doing...Hell of a landing...was that a simulated one? I don`t think so - what has happened to the tail rotor? Like a stuck pedal in a car but for the tail-rotor? Unbelievable sick to watch this...
Well the rudder pedals in the chopper correspond with the tail rotor (blade pitch).. the rudders help to pivot the chopper for left and right movement. So yes I guess you can say its similar to getting a stuck accelerator pedal. Just yeh this guy must've had his left pedal stuck. very nice emergency landing! :)
One more thing, I use the Enstrom on my flight school and we practice tail rotor DRIVE failures, with feet off the pedals it is possible to bring the Enstrom almost to the hover before it starts to rotate to the RIGHT as you introduce some power, at which point you can roll back the throttle to maintain direction and cushion with the lever for a 0 speed touch down. Looking at this, the pedal must have stuck when a fair amount of left pedal was in making it even trickier, well done good job!
Interesting comments chopperpilotgod, your theory works with a tail rotor DRIVE failure as opposed to a CONTROL failure, big difference, look at the angle of yaw and the airspeed would need to be very high to get the helicopter pointing anywhere near straight or grossly overspeed the engine to develop the required torque reaction to get it straight, the heli is in 1 piece and so is the pilot, he did a great job.
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OK, FOR ALL YOU OUT THERE HE DID NOT DO THE MANEUVER CORRECTLY. IF YOU ARE GOING TO ATTEMPT TO DO A RUN ON LANDING, WHICH THIS IS WHAT I COULD HAVE BEEN, THE SPEED WOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT UP FOR DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND THEN THE SKIDS WOULD TOUCH DOWN. ONCE FIRMLY ON THE GROUND YOU LOWER COLLECTIVE TO "PUT ON THE BRAKES" AND SLOW TO A STOP. THIS GUY WAS LUCKY AS HE SLOWED THE HELO. TO AN ATT. HOVER AND ROTATION BEGAN. LUCKY LUCKY LUCK. i HAVE PRACTICED THIS MANEUVER HUNDREDS OF TIMES SLICK! N-R-F
should have auto rotated ensure a survivable landing. stuck pedals leave you guessing when you start to slow down over the runway. this guy got lucky....plain and simple.
Autorotating is the WRONG thing to do when experiencing stuck pedal at a high power setting like that. The yaw rate will continue to build and cause loss of control. You can see it happen when he lowers the collective to set it down. A powered approach to a run-on landing (terminated slightly differently) was the proper action.
If the helicopter had more weight and people on board i bet there would have been less left yaw due to the higher power setting required- if this was stuck left pedal.
These videos are good tools to learn from other people's flying good and bad. Of course, it is easy to judge harshly from outside the cockpit. Trust me, in your first emergency your adrenaline is going and you pray your training enables you to do the right things. I guarantee you this pilot reviewed this tape & had instructors coach him on what he could have done better and I am sure would handle a similar emergency much better in the future... This is where experience makes you a better pilot.
Bossed it, good man this is my worst nightmare flying a chopo mainly because everyone at the airfield is going to have their cameras pointing at you as you try and land
should have been able to land going in a straight line using the throttle as opposed to collective, but as the narrator says, he didn't role and made it safely down in one piece, however pretty lucky
When you slow down and transit into a hover, you have to INCREASE power, increasing torque. This is exactly what we see here. And it's not bad at all that he was able to arrest leftover of the movement while turning. And auto rotation with stuck tail rotor may be wasn't possible, if it's still driven by the main rotor. Helicopter will tend to spin anyway. Just in different direction.
please correct my errors, when he starts to reduce power, the engine torque is lessened so you do not need as much rudder pitch to hold authority in the tail so the tail would drift back into position (and then some i assume).
school me here, i would assume that the pilot would have to "pedal" the power to maintain some state of authority (is there a sweet spot)?
can i also ask, what is the right move if the pedal is stuck in a position that over compensates for torque??
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awesome pilot eh......let me tell you this, everybody gets one!!! he just got his, so he is now shit out of luck. he starts his new job driving a taxi tomorrow.
that was not a controlled event. he was in panic mode and god saw fit to let him live. enstroms blow for tailrotor authority anyway. NOT THE PILOT AT ALL, JUST LUCK. THE CORRECT ACTION WOULD HAVE THE NOSE COMING BACK IN LINE WITH THE RUNWAY AND HE THEN SETS DOWNWITH FORWARD A/S.
Still, if he was sitting in the left seat, that would put the collective on the left hand side, where as if he was sitting on right, collective was STILL be on the left hand side.
Apparently this is real. At least if Fox News can be believed. :)
As the commentary suggests the pilot came quite close to getting this horribly wrong. I'm not a helicopter pilot myself, though I do work on them for a living. So my opinion is just that - my opinion. That he was able to set the machine down in one piece at all shows tremendous skill and clear thinking under pressure.
Over all he overcame the emergency at hand, very fortunate not to have rolled it. We all know how its supposed to go but its completely different when your the one on the controls....whew! Good job!
Very nice job! I thought it was going to roll for a second there, but he pulled it off. I'm sure it could have been done slightly better, but hey - he walked away and they could use the helicopter again :).
Did well, Just needed to pull in collective at 0:45... That would have aligned track with heading for a nice run on landing.. He let the tail get too far ahead as he was losing airspeed so he lost his aerodynamic stability and tail rotor thrust took over.. Once he started spinning though he did the right thing in dumping the collective.. a second longer and it would have evolved to an out of control spin..
You don't have enough experience to actually see the problem...
I had a stuck right pedal in the Cobra; it required a 50knot run on landing.
After teaching these manuvers for years, the Full left pedal is one of the hardest.
Fact: When you are at a hover, you step on the left pedal to turn left. SO, with a FULL LEFT pedal problem; you will not have enough collective to pull to get the nose to stay right (down the runway).
An old trick I teach is to grab the throttle with you left hand and point your left hand index finger straight down.
It does not matter if it is a struck left or right pedal (Besides airspeed; above ETL for right, Below ELT for Left; actual speed varies per aircraft and left vs right problems).
It is not easy to control your yaw with acceleration...that pilot did a great job.
SeamusCallan1 3 weeks ago
that was insane!
Great landing!
TurboLag23 2 months ago
Art...I didnt know you were a YouTube celebrity!!! Good job on the landing, buddy!
jbachman52 2 months ago
@torrance123 Correction *left seat
Shanepb94 3 months ago
@torrance123 You fly an Enstrom from the right seat.......and there is a pilot
Shanepb94 3 months ago
looked like pure fucking luck, but hey, what else can you do, nothing.
datzfast 6 months ago
This is why Duke Nukem can't make a good video game lately.
This pilot has got Duke's "Balls of steel."
eljan81 7 months ago 4
sorry by height-velocity diagram i meant the power required curve.
lindsaykent55 7 months ago
WOW!!! That was incredible!! Great video!
crazy8sdrums 8 months ago
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Its a Enstrom 280FX helicopter. not a RC, cmon people. Sure a running landing can work, but any emergency landing with no damage, no issues is great. Enstrom's have the best safety record around, rare for something to go wrong.
chopperflyguy 8 months ago
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chopperflyguy 8 months ago
It's a remote controlled helicopter. There tends to be at least one person piloting a helicopter.
torrance123 8 months ago
kickass pilot
autorog1234 8 months ago
How common is it to have a stuck pedal in a helicopter? And is it more or less common with different aircraft designs?
HaloToday 9 months ago
actually it wasent really a good job. of course im not there with them. but you should NEVER! stop a heli with stuck or with not tail rotor.
it would be SAFER just to fly faster and skid over the runway and not trying to stop it.
drhugobr 9 months ago
@drhugobr actually stuck left pedal allows you to slow right down, have a look at the height-velocity diagram, the slower you go the more power required. If this pilot slowed down less aggressively it would of looked a lot more controlled. He seemed to flare a bit at the end requiring less power making the chopper yaw left. If you get to the hover and the machine is yawing you can still control the tail rotor thrust with the throttle.
lindsaykent55 7 months ago
@lindsaykent55 Control range of the tail rotor would be rather limited. The pilot can raise or lower engine speed a few percent and adjust the collective to compensate. If the rotor overspeeds it may require a full rotor overhaul; if it underspeeds, the power requirements rise exponentially and the ship drops out of the air.
upajos 2 weeks ago
hey
its a radio controlled helicoptor
not a real one
pavingo 9 months ago
@pavingo doesn't look like a model
TreedaYocaan 9 months ago
Damn nice piece of flying...
ThinkingManNeil 9 months ago
All you saying no damage to the heli cant see the mess the pilot made of his seat.
Jskrapper 9 months ago
I can do that after 50 hours in a helicopter. It's something we are all taught to do to be safe in the helicopter.. Does the main rotor rotate counter-clockwise on the Enstrom?? If it does he did everything by the book..
81Pondus81 9 months ago
@81Pondus81
Being that you can perform a "Stuck pedal landing" you should know that any American made helicopter has CC rotating blades.
motokid032 8 months ago
@motokid032 I have 90 hours in Robinsons so I actually knew that. Did NOT know the Enstrom was american though. The name sounds like and the helicopter looks like something that somes out of Sweden or something.
81Pondus81 8 months ago
@81Pondus81 So does Sikorski
R44ChopperII 2 months ago
I want to fly with that pilot. No damage either. AWESOME! Was he a military pilot?
usmcoth 9 months ago
Good... lucky....
Very fine line there, but I'll take luck any day.
SlowerRotor 10 months ago
That's a landing to be proud of.
Of course, you might want to go home and change your undies after that.
LorddGray 11 months ago 4
well done
rctrucker2763 1 year ago
I am by no means in the least bit an expert on flying helicopters. But if the left pedal is stuck it seems like it would be pretty easy to get it under control by applying enough right pedal to counteract.
calstate 1 year ago
@calstate pedals are rigged so when you move one pedal, the other does the opposite.
r22captain 1 year ago
@calstate The left and right pedals control the exact same mechanism, so if one is jammed then so is the other. So if the jam is solid enough, the only thing that pressure on the opposite pedal will do is break the mechanism. Leaving you with a potenial complete failure of the tailrotor. The best thing to do when a pedal jams is identify the position of the pedals and plan your emergency landing to suit. There are procedures for each situation which are relatively safe if pedal jam is evident.
nais26 1 year ago
Very nice landing :O
Must be a good pilot :O
Baronof92 1 year ago
Wow! That is one amazing save!
Super73VW 1 year ago
balls of platinum ;]
1972SCOT1 1 year ago
sorry i should of made it more clear that i was being sarcastic... never mind though!
CABINETMAKERJOHNY 1 year ago
sorry i should of made it more clear that i was being sarcastic... never mind though!
CABINETMAKERJOHNY 1 year ago
sorry i should of made it more clear that i was being sarcastic... never mind though!
CABINETMAKERJOHNY 1 year ago
the way pilot turns at last second to take momentum out is prefect
CABINETMAKERJOHNY 1 year ago
@CABINETMAKERJOHNY He didn't turn to get momentum out, he had a stuck pedel!
flyingturnip1 1 year ago
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@flyingturnip1 sorry i should of made it more clear that i was being sarcastic... never mind though!
CABINETMAKERJOHNY 1 year ago
Hacks!
matt91gee 1 year ago
holy crap i though he was a goner
jamie101021 1 year ago
That guy did a awesome job! He walked away! He was on the phone with a Enstrom guru during this event!
FWHI 1 year ago
Fuck , that is awesome:) Pure skill and experience:)
dicksoncider 1 year ago
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
rolfen 1 year ago
Wow! Usually once you get the nose past the center, the chances of putting it on the surface without rolling it up in a ball are greatly reduced. Blind luck and the fact that he at least kept trying to slow the aircraft (albeit a bit too slow at the end) before touchdown worked out to result in a safe landing. I have been flying helicopters full time for many years and instructing in them since 1991 and this is one of the happier outcomes I have seen in this situation.
Good work overall!
Classic63EType 1 year ago
good thing god was there to train him and teach him and give him years of experience to save his life whew without god he totally would have died
xmasterfunk 1 year ago
@xmasterfunk who was there? i only saw the helicopter .. lol dont do those drugs
therealTOTOfan 1 year ago
@therealTOTOfan hahaha im just being satirical
xmasterfunk 1 year ago
@xmasterfunk WTF? God is a Helicopter CFI? I don't think so. Find somewhere else to diminish the genius and abilities of mankind with your fantasy being.
rockyPants4000 1 year ago
@rockyPants4000 lol dude read my reply to the other guy who though i was being serious about that shit haha i dont thin that there is actually a big sky daddy watching over everything we do and making a list and checking it twice Lmao
xmasterfunk 1 year ago
Great jod.....amazing
PhntmVP 1 year ago
wowwww amazing job!! wtf
diviz0r 1 year ago
Jack Norrice Landing
Ziadalabbady 1 year ago
@Ziadalabbady who is jack norrice?
tarded55 1 year ago
@tarded55 Google it mate!
Ziadalabbady 1 year ago
@Ziadalabbady oh i thought he was called Chuck Norris
tarded55 1 year ago
Well done.
Stylez1001 1 year ago
wow that was pure ninja
xzero0100 1 year ago
Whoa great job!
calessassracer 1 year ago
The pilot did textbook job. We helicopter pilots practice stuck pedal emergencies, hydraulic failures, and high altitude and hovering autoroations probably more than we fly the things in normal flight. The last maneuver he performed in order to touchdown in on piece was a hovering auto(rotation.) This essentially eliminates the torque which is what the "rudder" pedal is designed to overcome. The correct name for a helicopter's "rudder" pedal is "anit-torque" pedal.
superdizzy8 1 year ago
@superdizzy8 that was not a textbook job, however, any landing u walk away from is a good one.
xthedanielx 1 year ago
hehe... that was not the way I learned it.
kajsing 1 year ago
FAN FRIGGEN TASTIC!!!!!!!!! WOOOOT
pilotemtnils 1 year ago
makes it looks easy! god damn i cant imagine how difficult that maneuver is
keeevan 1 year ago
DAM ITS GOOD TO SEE A JEWEL OF A COPTER GETS SAVED DOOD JOB THOUGH IT SURE LOOKED LIKE IT WASENT GOING TO COME OUT THAT WAY I THINK THE PILOT WAS SURPRISED TOO
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madonnatommicfi 1 year ago
Wow... that is just bonkers!! I would've shit myself. This is probably why I have my fixed wing PPL and not rotary.
bchokola 1 year ago 2
Awesome skills!
luci66 1 year ago
Praise God
laurieannek 1 year ago
Im not sure if Im understanding that inexperienced pilots qoute but This is NOT an Inexperienced Pilot! If anyone has ever thought flying a helicopter is easy like a airplane they need 1 hour in a helicopter simulator. Fact is Its the hardest thing I think a human can possibly learn. The coordination involved blows my mind. Hats off to any Helicopter pilots reading this. Thats One awesome Pilot!!!!!!!!!
spaytonmustangman 1 year ago 2
@spaytonmustangman -neither do I. I think the heli was supposed to land tail towards camera (not sure but I understood that it would be the correct "by-the-book" manouver). Regardless of that, AMAZING job from the pilot.
What comes to helicopters, it probably could be said about 90% of helicopter pilots are "unexperienced", that is, there are few people who can fly helicopters to their limits of what they can do..
BigJay604 1 year ago
Probably the best and cheapest way to get some idea what it's like to fly a helicopter is to buy RC helicopter simulator. The popular ones prices range from somewhere around 150€ to 400€. And you need an RC radio to fly it.
ofc it's not a REAL helicopter simulator, but controls are same, flight difficulty is pretty much same without needing to complex aeronautics theory, navigating etc.. But it's the cheapest way u can get some idea how difficult flying is, and how fragile those birds are..
BigJay604 1 year ago
Great landing :)
Jesant13 1 year ago
did he cut power how long before touch down 20 30 seconds
macdugmac 1 year ago
Pilot probably had to buy a new pair of pants, and the owner of the helicopter, probably bought him a Steak Dinner!
adamcolvin 1 year ago
search for "show youtube star ratings" its a firefox plugin, it will bring them back
eggman6 1 year ago
Was that a Toyota helicopter? I mean with the stuck gas pedal and all.
RansomCowboy 1 year ago
That is SOME MAD SKILL! That is not easy to do. Best case scenario accomplished!
briansmobile1 1 year ago
YouTube Gods, please bring back the "star" rating system....please. All I can do now is say I like this vid, and am impressed with the pilot's actions, but I can't give it a proper 5 star rating. Thumbs up just doesn't give this vid the proper credit.
mysteriousblue87 1 year ago
@mysteriousblue87 No shit, The whole point of the star thing was to tell if the video was worth watching. Now you have no clue till you already watched it...Stupid, just stupid!
RansomCowboy 1 year ago
YouTube Gods, please bring back the "star" rating system....please. All I can do now is say I like this vid, and am impressed with the pilot's actions, but I can't give it a proper 5 star rating.
mysteriousblue87 1 year ago
All conservatives are traitorous bags of shit.
humanbeer 1 year ago
My god! I was thinking it was going to crash! Eccellent job! Great video! Thanks for uploading! Rated 5/5 stars! Please sub back!
TheGreatFlyer 1 year ago
wow, excellent work.
jeepguysc 1 year ago
Dude! this guy learned how to fly helis before he leared to walk! sick skill!
deathorglory100 2 years ago
Incredible Skill, Bravo!!!
dtoro27 2 years ago
i can`t believe how much control he had - I don`t know anything about stearing a heli but it seems to me that this guy was exactly knowing what he was doing...Hell of a landing...was that a simulated one? I don`t think so - what has happened to the tail rotor? Like a stuck pedal in a car but for the tail-rotor? Unbelievable sick to watch this...
MikeAirOne 2 years ago
Well the rudder pedals in the chopper correspond with the tail rotor (blade pitch).. the rudders help to pivot the chopper for left and right movement. So yes I guess you can say its similar to getting a stuck accelerator pedal. Just yeh this guy must've had his left pedal stuck. very nice emergency landing! :)
MetalJaXtA666 2 years ago
Oh and yeh the tail rotor is there to counteract the torque of the main rotor..otherwise the chopper would spin out in an opposite direction.
MetalJaXtA666 2 years ago
wow good job nobody was hurt and thats the main thing
GrizzlyCub4 2 years ago
amazing job.
shaneo0306 2 years ago 34
Very interesting vid and GOOD JOB PERFORMED !!!
NCHAPEAU 2 years ago 18
nice work, pilot.
Brian500R 2 years ago 2
Whatever he did...he walked away and didn't hurt the chopper. Amazing pilot............ well done.
nerblebun 2 years ago 4
One more thing, I use the Enstrom on my flight school and we practice tail rotor DRIVE failures, with feet off the pedals it is possible to bring the Enstrom almost to the hover before it starts to rotate to the RIGHT as you introduce some power, at which point you can roll back the throttle to maintain direction and cushion with the lever for a 0 speed touch down. Looking at this, the pedal must have stuck when a fair amount of left pedal was in making it even trickier, well done good job!
350ZEDMAN 2 years ago
Interesting comments chopperpilotgod, your theory works with a tail rotor DRIVE failure as opposed to a CONTROL failure, big difference, look at the angle of yaw and the airspeed would need to be very high to get the helicopter pointing anywhere near straight or grossly overspeed the engine to develop the required torque reaction to get it straight, the heli is in 1 piece and so is the pilot, he did a great job.
350ZEDMAN 2 years ago
lucky
TheTarrMan 2 years ago
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OK, FOR ALL YOU OUT THERE HE DID NOT DO THE MANEUVER CORRECTLY. IF YOU ARE GOING TO ATTEMPT TO DO A RUN ON LANDING, WHICH THIS IS WHAT I COULD HAVE BEEN, THE SPEED WOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT UP FOR DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AND THEN THE SKIDS WOULD TOUCH DOWN. ONCE FIRMLY ON THE GROUND YOU LOWER COLLECTIVE TO "PUT ON THE BRAKES" AND SLOW TO A STOP. THIS GUY WAS LUCKY AS HE SLOWED THE HELO. TO AN ATT. HOVER AND ROTATION BEGAN. LUCKY LUCKY LUCK. i HAVE PRACTICED THIS MANEUVER HUNDREDS OF TIMES SLICK! N-R-F
chopperpilotgod 2 years ago
While you practice, he did! Arent you just the best damn helo pilot out there!
csfiredawg77 2 years ago 2
ok everyone this was my uncle flying the copter. the company put a berring or something in backward
rodee18 2 years ago
What the hecks going on here?
djgof58 2 years ago
The left pedal was stuck making the helicopter want to yaw to the left..
motokid032 2 years ago 3
Wow.....That's was some great flying.
Wonder how many pilots would have been able to do the same?
drksid 2 years ago
should have auto rotated ensure a survivable landing. stuck pedals leave you guessing when you start to slow down over the runway. this guy got lucky....plain and simple.
chopperpilotgod 2 years ago
Autorotating is the WRONG thing to do when experiencing stuck pedal at a high power setting like that. The yaw rate will continue to build and cause loss of control. You can see it happen when he lowers the collective to set it down. A powered approach to a run-on landing (terminated slightly differently) was the proper action.
Trevlac217 2 years ago 2
If the helicopter had more weight and people on board i bet there would have been less left yaw due to the higher power setting required- if this was stuck left pedal.
specializedheli 2 years ago
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Trevlac217 2 years ago
that was an impressive landing i must say. I think what he did was the right thing to do!
rotcon 2 years ago
he had no other option, unless he had a parachute. You wont see me jumping out of a helicopter with a stuck pedal though
Kevindavis08 2 years ago
that was a bloody nice job
wildwilly87 2 years ago
great landing....that was unbelievable!!!....How fast was he going when he touch downed?
stludachris 2 years ago
Holy cow. I thought for sure that was the end of the helicopter, and possibly the pilot as well.
Tubes12AX7k 2 years ago 2
With a stuck LEFT pedal... I dont think an auto would be the right thing to do LOL
lllateralus 2 years ago
very true unless its a euro copter :)
smgman13 2 years ago
These videos are good tools to learn from other people's flying good and bad. Of course, it is easy to judge harshly from outside the cockpit. Trust me, in your first emergency your adrenaline is going and you pray your training enables you to do the right things. I guarantee you this pilot reviewed this tape & had instructors coach him on what he could have done better and I am sure would handle a similar emergency much better in the future... This is where experience makes you a better pilot.
OneHoof 2 years ago
wow,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, well its all I can say
bamasblldogs 2 years ago
luck for the stupid....call it what you will, but its just the luck of the stupid. kid needs current training in emergency procedures. damn lucky.
chopperpilotgod 2 years ago
Don'tcha think it WAS his "current training in emergency proceedures" that allowed him to make the right manuver and have a successful conclusion?
NKS969 2 years ago
HAHAHA omg he did exactly what he needed to do.
HIS PEDAL WAS STUCK
smgman13 2 years ago
you try landing it. i;m sure you couldn't this guy is the coolest guy you will ever find and how about a good job every once in awhile?
rodee18 2 years ago
wonder if he considered autorotating.
FlingwingGolfer 2 years ago
I bet you couldn`t have pulled a sewing needle out of his arse with a tractor when he came in to land!! Great job!
moleman1961 2 years ago
wow that was SKILL right there and nothing but skill
hockeyplyr591 2 years ago 3
Those are some mad skills. I prolly woulda dumped it on its side.
bigzipper 2 years ago 2
Bossed it, good man this is my worst nightmare flying a chopo mainly because everyone at the airfield is going to have their cameras pointing at you as you try and land
jock150 2 years ago
Well, in this situation you can thank heaven that you'll end up on YouTube whether you make a miraculous landing or end up in a flaming pile of junk.
singleproppilot 2 years ago
should have been able to land going in a straight line using the throttle as opposed to collective, but as the narrator says, he didn't role and made it safely down in one piece, however pretty lucky
helicpt 2 years ago
Awesome recovery, im not familiar with the term stuck pedal but im guessing its the rudder pedal stuck hence yaw ?
PhantomMark 2 years ago
and on the centerline, that's fucking impressive
Kevindavis08 2 years ago 3
Great stick I'll say
atacorion 2 years ago 2
damn good job what a pimp LOL
freenclear2898 2 years ago
holy awesome good job!
mustang2005 2 years ago 3
He landed fine, keeping himself and anyone else in there alive. How about a simple "Good fuckin job. Be proud!"
RyanHolland1111 2 years ago 3
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crashsitetube 2 years ago
When you slow down and transit into a hover, you have to INCREASE power, increasing torque. This is exactly what we see here. And it's not bad at all that he was able to arrest leftover of the movement while turning. And auto rotation with stuck tail rotor may be wasn't possible, if it's still driven by the main rotor. Helicopter will tend to spin anyway. Just in different direction.
syeager9 3 years ago
How do you get the nose back in line without tail rotor authority,rip a big a fart and pray??
mrfun07 3 years ago
please correct my errors, when he starts to reduce power, the engine torque is lessened so you do not need as much rudder pitch to hold authority in the tail so the tail would drift back into position (and then some i assume).
school me here, i would assume that the pilot would have to "pedal" the power to maintain some state of authority (is there a sweet spot)?
can i also ask, what is the right move if the pedal is stuck in a position that over compensates for torque??
slurrpychillifries 3 years ago
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awesome pilot eh......let me tell you this, everybody gets one!!! he just got his, so he is now shit out of luck. he starts his new job driving a taxi tomorrow.
that was not a controlled event. he was in panic mode and god saw fit to let him live. enstroms blow for tailrotor authority anyway. NOT THE PILOT AT ALL, JUST LUCK. THE CORRECT ACTION WOULD HAVE THE NOSE COMING BACK IN LINE WITH THE RUNWAY AND HE THEN SETS DOWNWITH FORWARD A/S.
chopperpilotgod 3 years ago
Dude..His pedal was stuck.
SavageArms357 2 years ago
Rod, well said, well handled but i'd bet he had to change his underwear afterward.
camp69 3 years ago 3
Still, if he was sitting in the left seat, that would put the collective on the left hand side, where as if he was sitting on right, collective was STILL be on the left hand side.
Mockeraina 3 years ago 2
Apparently this is real. At least if Fox News can be believed. :)
As the commentary suggests the pilot came quite close to getting this horribly wrong. I'm not a helicopter pilot myself, though I do work on them for a living. So my opinion is just that - my opinion. That he was able to set the machine down in one piece at all shows tremendous skill and clear thinking under pressure.
Rodz10x 3 years ago
What the hell did I just see? :)
djbis 3 years ago
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Its a remote controlled chopper if you look closely :)
twz87 3 years ago
twz87, you are wrong... that's not a remote controlled helicopter---it's got one awesome pilot sitting in the left seat.
barfoeng 3 years ago 3
Wow!
camp69 3 years ago
What I want to know is WHY is he sitting on the wrong side flying the helicopter?
Mockeraina 3 years ago
lots of helicopters have dual controls, Maybe he is left handed and fells more comfortable using the left controls of the chopper.
ussjealousy 3 years ago
Over all he overcame the emergency at hand, very fortunate not to have rolled it. We all know how its supposed to go but its completely different when your the one on the controls....whew! Good job!
helobelow 3 years ago 2
Very nice job! I thought it was going to roll for a second there, but he pulled it off. I'm sure it could have been done slightly better, but hey - he walked away and they could use the helicopter again :).
Rickenbacker69 3 years ago
holyholyholyholyholy SHIT nice job
matty0566 3 years ago
AWSOME LANDING!!!!
typical americans though "good job dude!"
joemumma1 3 years ago 2
Whats the difference? If it was over in Australia it was just be a bunch of "good job MATE" or "well done mate"
clintcollins 3 years ago
Well i am a helicopter pilot,and that was a very bad ,and lucky to be alive landing.
megikon 3 years ago
Did well, Just needed to pull in collective at 0:45... That would have aligned track with heading for a nice run on landing.. He let the tail get too far ahead as he was losing airspeed so he lost his aerodynamic stability and tail rotor thrust took over.. Once he started spinning though he did the right thing in dumping the collective.. a second longer and it would have evolved to an out of control spin..
He walked away = Job well done :-)
nais26 3 years ago
You are very much right!
VodkaFanClub 3 years ago
that's not standard.... he should have timed to run on the ground, not dump halfway through a spin.
supasquirrel2000 3 years ago
well done mate!
powsession0744 3 years ago
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
hansupgwai 3 years ago
Nice landing. Now I need to google it and find out what exactly he did. I assume the risk of roll over on this failure is huge?
gtokarsk 3 years ago
That's a good pilot!! Hands down.
markteedot 3 years ago
nice job....anyone who says it wasn't hasn't never flown a chopper....very difficult situation....
JetDriver1111 3 years ago
completely agree mate!
spidey692003 3 years ago
Bloody well done!
I think ill go try this on my Reflex XTR flight sim lol
ShmeareD 3 years ago
I have been teaching stuck pedal procedures for over 20 years (military and civilian).
I own an Enstrom and presently teach these EP's daily.
He did everything RIGHT...
It appears to be a FULL stuck Left (high power setting).
This is one of the hardest manuvers to master.
Very nice vedio...
Keep it level...
pcheli223 3 years ago
Well, get your manoeuvres straight.
If you have a stuck left, you pull power to straighten the nose. He never did that.
He did not do everything right, he almost destroyed the machine.
And no, it is not the hardest manoeuvre to master. A stuck right is a pain in the butt.
chopperace 3 years ago
Well Dump Ass...
It is a FULL LEFT stuck pedal...
You don't have enough experience to actually see the problem...
I had a stuck right pedal in the Cobra; it required a 50knot run on landing.
After teaching these manuvers for years, the Full left pedal is one of the hardest.
Fact: When you are at a hover, you step on the left pedal to turn left. SO, with a FULL LEFT pedal problem; you will not have enough collective to pull to get the nose to stay right (down the runway).
:)
pcheli223 3 years ago
There are 4 ways to control the nose:
1-Anti torque pedals
2-Throttle (torque)
3- Collective (blade pitch, drag)
4- Airspeed
So; Chopperace. Looks like you need to drop the ---ace--- And get some more training....
pcheli223 3 years ago
Then as you point your finger left or right the throttle will control the nose in the direction you point your finger through torque.
You can try this at altitude (Not to much to droop the rotor). :)
pcheli223 3 years ago
An old trick I teach is to grab the throttle with you left hand and point your left hand index finger straight down.
It does not matter if it is a struck left or right pedal (Besides airspeed; above ETL for right, Below ELT for Left; actual speed varies per aircraft and left vs right problems).
:)
pcheli223 3 years ago