Best X-plane Auto yet

Enjoy my snippet!

Hard flare auto.Bumped the tailboom but it's okay in teh sim world.

If you watch at the beginning, you'll notice a quick left yaw from cutting power.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Helicopter
• bell
• 206
• B206
• Jetranger
• autorotation
• stuck
• pedal
• vortices
• vortex
• ring
• engine
• fail
• crash
• x-plane
• xplane
• rotorcraft
• md
• 500
• r44
• r22
• rotorblade
• rotor
• ksee
• wings

[gezelle007]

you never come in tail low.

[motokid032]

You spelled Gazelle wrong.

[cheddar1100]

I'm dieing to know what song that is!!! A yes that is possible the best autorotation ever!!!

[daeacorp]

I like what you think. . .

and rotor plane is soon will be the our Dish plane! 88

[Dilkingtonism]

@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 ;-)

[LeftSkidLow]

Actually all of it is... care to elaborate?

[spidey692003]

@LeftSkidLow Completely wrong! Nothing you have said is at all accurate.

[bennny105]

tail low? he's trying to flare idiot

[LeftSkidLow]

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

[Bugger90]

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.

[tamboril]

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.

[gezelle007]

lol yea i did, if i was talking about the helicopter.