Don't crash your helicopter! Autorotation in a Robinson R22

Clip from a helicopter instructional video - AUTOROTATION - How to land a helicopter in the event of a power failure. Excellent video, very useful and informative. Talks you through the manoeuvre in detail and shows it from inside and outside the Robinson R22.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• helicopter
• autorotation
• crash
• forced
• landing
• robinson
• r22
• instruction

[GaryXJ6]

Jesus Christ!, I fucking hate it! when uploaders bugger about with older videos just to tell us that there is a newer version available. If there is a newer version available, take this video down from YouTube and upload the new one. Don't let us sit through 2.33 minutes of a 2.42 minute video, only to have the last few seconds masked by a fucking text box. If the newer video cannot be added to YouTube, just give us the link in a small callout box without the mask You time wasting muppet!

[htl2247]

the flare was so close to the ground, looks a bit scary to me..

[PawnBACM]

hella cool. freakin amazing.

[skipsassy1]

Why did you destroy such a good lesson with your campaign to make us move to your "attempt at fancy intro that takes way to long to get to the video" Just be the CFI and not the producer. You are a great CFI, stick to that. I like the old one except for what the Garywj6 says! Really clean this up.

[mojame100]

@weversonman

So its a danzerious chopper to fly is what you saying?

[enotar56]

Sembra di vedere atterrare un piper!

[jonathane1976]

@Steevee5k the real r22 has a low inertia rotor system, you have to fully lower the collective in less than 1.1 seconds if the engine fails or the rotor rpm drops below 80% many real r22's have been lost in this way. If the rotor rpm drops much below 80% you cannot recover rotor rpm and will drop like a stone, the main rotor suffers a blow back which chops the tail boom off.

[Sacha34200]

It was 55 knots and not 65 knots this day...

[weversonman]

@Steevee5k yeah I don't know what it is in FS2004, I can do an autorotation in the Bell quite well, but in the Robinson you just drop like a stone and lose almost all control, no matter your forward speed.

[atikker]

@rockhopper123452 Robinson R-22's (usually used for training) - $250,000 per their website. But you get to choose the color! ;)

[atikker]

@Correcto34 Yes. In the event of an engine failure, the helicopter's weight falling with the air pushing up turns the rotors so that it can glide safely to the ground. It's amazing.