Uncovering the Secrets of the ZERO Airspeed Autorotation Maneuver

but AirSpeed ​​Auto

zero

is not something we normally teach, it is not in the practical testing standards that will soon be the aviator certification standards if a person is hovering over a ground effect to say 500 feet, you are doing photographic work and the engine. For, you'll have to transition to forward flight or

airspeed

or sideways or backwards or something like that, get some

airspeed

and then perform your auto. I had never been shown this until you found out I was with another instructor, that's when you learn it. You know, you learn from other instructors, you know, he says, let's do

zero

airspeed.

I'm like, what are you talking about? Out of ground effect, it goes into Auto mode and then into, you know, a power recovery. I'm like, what are you serious? You talk about that, yes, the zero air speed in the G2 and I'm not going to talk about other airplanes? I'm only going to talk about this particular G2 if you're in and out of ground effect coverage with no, no airspeed and you have to get a car in, the main thing is we want to get speed, we want to get forward airspeed, the point I'm shooting at is right next to the nose, like I can't even see the place because of how the plane is displayed, people might say, well, if you're falling 1500 feet down, aren't you going to enter the Vortex ring state?

Well, no you won't and why is it because not having energy applied, which is one of the things you have to have 20 to 100 energy available, right, we're going to go down to zero, so here we go and three, two, one, there's the drop, now we're seeing RPM go. at a descent rate of 1500 feet right now there are eighteen hundred I have my place in sight The RPM looks good we are going straight down we are holding we are holding there are 500 feet AGL I think I will start moving forward build up some airspeed an AirSpeed ​​​​right there there we come here comes my Treetop level I have my flares players are going to have a little more aggressive throttle it's coming back as you can see we're about 30 feet from our original skid marks which oh yeah we're 20 30 feet Yeah this It's not an event, it's really you, yes, you can catch your breath right there, right when you start the fall, it's like that roller coaster move, yes, when you fall over that first hill, yes, but after that. the plane stabilizes, I mean, you saw that I think we reached a descent speed of 1800 feet when you first start, the RPM is going to go down, but that comes back and we stabilize.

I think we were in the green there and then it got a little faster. as we push that airspeed forward and then go back to cyclic and load the rotors, but since it's not something we talk about much, it's not something we do in the normal course of training, maybe we should, it's just another trick, another tool. in the toolbox that if you need to get to that point that is there, I would say do it with a CFI who is comfortable teaching it, go below to see our helicopter

maneuver

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