Robinson R22 Confined Area Landing - 2

more vids: http://helicopter-videos.com Helicopter training. This exercise is confined area operations.
Pilot: Tom Rigg (approx. 25hr)
Instructor: Steve Hetherington

We flew a couple of circuts first at different levels to ensure we had a good landing area. In flight power checks were carried out to make sure we could take off again once we landed. Area was then surveyed with a low level fly over to make sure there were no nasty power lines or fences etc in the way.

Once happy, I lined up our approach and landed to a 4ft hover. See later videos for what happens next.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• robinson
• r22
• helicopter
• training
• PPL(H)
• flying
• landing

[motokid032]

Is translational lift hard to compensate for?How much collective needs to be added when slowing through it?

Know you need some left pedal too ; )

[cdcomcard]

This depends on many other factors, density altitude, amount of weight being carried etc. Landing an R22 with two passengers requires a high power input during the transition.

[fayarebel]

i dunno whats wrong with the other people who commented,but i like it...not soo confined but i like it(nice landing)

[cdcomcard]

Thanks for that!

[america4evr]

@motokid032 Alot man, when ETL goes away, depending on the temp and weight of course, you might need alot of collective, especially if bringing it to a hover at altitude.

[56WagonWheel]

At 25 hours that pretty good. Area doesn't look too confined in the vid but good starting point. Good luck with the rest of your flying

[weimyteam]

@benjyboba There's some good tips there, thanks for posting!

[benjyboba]

@motokid032 If its windy then you can actually have translational lift whilst in the hover. When passing through translational lift, you need to push through it to keep a level attitude, when slowing you just lift it smooth as you slow. When your in ground effect, its not too bad. Remember to be smooth and put in left pedal in r22 as you aply collective. Remember the helicopter is using 90% power to hover and best climb rate speed is 53 knotts which is at the bottom of hte curve.

[benjyboba]

The only thing I can visual spot which is concerning is flying so low over the trees, if engine failure happened, It would be hard to autorotates to a safe place. I tried some steep landings and vortex ring state (from a high height). Just remember when going downwind you can fly into your own downwash and if you do steep decents, then keep it nice and slow, only trouble is you tend to be in the avoid curve. I know this video is more of a normal aproach, Land slowly if on slope with level disk.

[1fastmr2]

this video makes me think of the movie "snatch" ... "tyrone you could land a jumbo f**king jet there.."

[aligerous]

Spell? Most of the YouTube mouthbreathers can't even say a sentence correctly nevermind putting it in print.

Nice "25 hour/training" confined area landing. I wouldn't have bothered with the landing either if the grass was too high.

[cdcomcard]

We would have landed but the grass was very long.