Pretty good actually. For future autorotations, try to land on both skids, flat. Greatly reduces the chance of ground resonance/material damage. And since you normally don't have much more power available at the end of auto, ground resonance would be a very very bad thing :) But i'm sure you know that too.
It's a Bell 206, so it's a semi-rigid rotor system, and that means you can't get into ground resonance because there aren't lead lag dampers. You want to land flat on the skids because if you impact heel first, the nose pitches down abruptly and there is a pilot tendency to correct the the downward pitch with aft cyclic. Since the skids are already contacting the ground, the helicopter is not longer a pendulum, and it becomes very easy to cut off the tail boom with the MR blades with aft cyclic
Firstly, you're missing a comma after "Actually". Secondly, it's 'no longer', not "not longer". Finally, the helicopter is at no point a pendulum in the same way that the runway is at no point a pancake.
Yep. You would've lived, but there's no need to flare that hard (or that low). Flare it to slow down, but touch skids level and collective full up. A little forward skid is fine.
You've inspired me to record one of my own.
As a helicopter pilot, I can vouch for the realism of X-Plane. If you can fly it, you could fly a real one. With FSX, I couldn't fly it at first because I didn't know how. Now I can't fly it because I do know how.
I'm dieing to know what song that is!!! A yes that is possible the best autorotation ever!!!
cheddar1100 1 month ago
I like what you think. . .
and rotor plane is soon will be the our Dish plane! 88
daeacorp 7 months ago
tail low? he's trying to flare idiot
bennny105 1 year ago
Pretty good actually. For future autorotations, try to land on both skids, flat. Greatly reduces the chance of ground resonance/material damage. And since you normally don't have much more power available at the end of auto, ground resonance would be a very very bad thing :) But i'm sure you know that too.
Bugger90 1 year ago
It's a Bell 206, so it's a semi-rigid rotor system, and that means you can't get into ground resonance because there aren't lead lag dampers. You want to land flat on the skids because if you impact heel first, the nose pitches down abruptly and there is a pilot tendency to correct the the downward pitch with aft cyclic. Since the skids are already contacting the ground, the helicopter is not longer a pendulum, and it becomes very easy to cut off the tail boom with the MR blades with aft cyclic
LeftSkidLow 1 year ago
@LeftSkidLow Completely wrong! Nothing you have said is at all accurate.
spidey692003 1 year ago
Actually all of it is... care to elaborate?
LeftSkidLow 1 year ago
@LeftSkidLow
"Actually all of it is..."
"...the helicopter is not longer a pendulum..."
Firstly, you're missing a comma after "Actually". Secondly, it's 'no longer', not "not longer". Finally, the helicopter is at no point a pendulum in the same way that the runway is at no point a pancake.
But I love your work ;-)
Dilkingtonism 1 year ago
Yep. You would've lived, but there's no need to flare that hard (or that low). Flare it to slow down, but touch skids level and collective full up. A little forward skid is fine.
You've inspired me to record one of my own.
As a helicopter pilot, I can vouch for the realism of X-Plane. If you can fly it, you could fly a real one. With FSX, I couldn't fly it at first because I didn't know how. Now I can't fly it because I do know how.
tamboril 1 year ago
You spelled Gazelle wrong.
motokid032 2 years ago
Nice!! ;)
Smoky26 2 years ago
Didn't even hit your spot :P Tisk, tisk.
bburrett 2 years ago
Nice Auto :D
Pefect it even better! and land it flat on its skids!
Love the music, whats the Artist and song name?
NF650i 2 years ago