What Happens When Someone With No Experience Tries To Fly A Helicopter 🚁🤢

when i was a kid growing up i came across a video called so you want to fly a helicopter it's basically an old helicopter flying tutorial video and it was the greatest thing of my entire childhood so in spirit of one of my favorite videos of all time please enjoy this welcome to sparky's program on what you should know about flying helicopters this program takes you into the realm of rotary wing flight and brings the exciting world of helicopters into your living room like you've never seen before this program will thoroughly prepare you for all the thrills and challenges of helicopter flight your host heavy d helicopter pilot and aviation enthusiast acts as a vlogger an antiquer treasure hunter monster jam driver a drifter a mechanic a friend a father husband and now a prankster now let's join heavy d as he explains what you should know about flying helicopters hello i'm heavy d and i'm your host for this video program we're going to introduce you to the world of flying and give you a real lag up on how to fly so you want to fly a helicopter you better watch this program this is a helicopter these are helicopter blades this is a tail rotor cargo area skids not a helicopter this is an airplane engine if there's one thing i know it's safety first seat belt so come on over and let's take a look at the control okay well that's we're gonna go ahead just a lot of work to do that so i'm just gonna do it like this i'm gonna do a regular style now not how why is it so hard to go back in time and do a tutorial video you think it would be easy but it's not i got mad respect for the guys who'd had to do tutorial videos back in the 80s and 90s so listen guys what i want to do is show you some of the basics of helicopter flight how the helicopter works what components are what and what it takes to hover what it takes to land take off and just cruise straight and level so we're going to start by showing you what hovering consists of because believe it or not hovering a helicopter is one of the most difficult parts of flying so guys i got to obviously throw out a disclaimer uh this video is not intended to be any sort of like flight instruction because i'm not a flight instructor i'm just a private pilot so everything i'm showing you is just showing you how helicopter works not necessarily trying to teach you how to fly it obviously uh don't ever try to fly a helicopter or any aircraft unless you are a licensed pilot and also know that in this video all of the flying was done under the supervision of a licensed pilot and nobody without a license tried to fly the helicopter this is what it looks like when somebody with zero flying experience tries to hover helicopter take it away bad boy got this bad boy a little bit of left a little bit of left a little bit of mardi gras in your life i got this easy little little too fittery a little considering too much better than hands big fat hands hey i beat you the instructor said so as you can see it's pretty complicated it's not nearly as easy as it looks but take it up a notch we're going to show you what it looks like with somebody with a little bit of flying experience tries to hover helicopter take it away diesel dave right there as you can see he still can't safely hover it by himself without a professional pilot on board now finally this is what it looks like when yours truly an experienced helicopter pilot tries to hover helicopter so all right guys i want to give you a basic rundown of the controls in a helicopter all right this is engine number one throttle this is engine number two throttle when we're flying we run with both these throttles all the way forward when it comes to gauges in the helicopter you've got a bunch of different gauges this is what's called steam gauges because they're old analog gauges new helicopters have a big glass panel like a computer screen but this gauge right here is your air speed tells you how fast you're going through the air this gauge right here is your triple tack it tells you the rpm of both your engines because this is a twin-engine helicopter and it also tells you the rpms of your main rotor system you want all three of those needles to be right at 100 when you're flying if you get too low on road rpm or engine rpm the main rotor system can stop flying and you can actually fall right out of the sky over here you've got your altimeter that tells you basically what your exact altitude is you've got your vertical speed indicator which tells you how quickly you're going up or down and it measures it in feet per minute right here you've got your compass here you've got your radar altitude which tells you how high you are above the ground and feet here you've got your turn indicator which tells you as you're flying through the air whether you're straight or crooked over here you've got your torque gauge which tells you how much torque the engines are creating and putting on the drivetrain and transmission here you've got engine number one and engine number two tot gauges those basically tell you how hot the exhaust gas is on the engine down here you've got your n1 which tells you what your compressor is running at and you're limited at 104 the rest of these are oil temp uh fuel gauges and then finally on this helicopter you've got what's called the mast moment indicator over here you've got your avionics your radio basically this uh right here is the radio that allows me to talk to other pilots allows me to talk to the control tower air traffic control um you got a backup radio and then we got a transponder transponder basically is a beacon that puts out a code so that air traffic control and other aircraft can know who i am where i am in relation to them and what my altitude is and this is the back seat where the bad boys hang out we can sit be on our phones talk to each other and we can also watch youtube videos in fact you're watching a youtube video right now make sure you subscribe like the video we're giving away a vehicle every 250 000 subscribers so subscribe and come chill out here with the bad boy hey don't tell dave my feet are on the don't tell me my feet are on the seats pretty simple this right here is called the cyclic this is basically what controls your front back side to side uh motion of the helicopter this right here is what's called the collective you pull it up if you want to go higher you put it down if you want to go lower so when you hear me referring to pulling power that means i'm pulling this up what the collective does two things it changes the pitch of the main rotor blades and as you change the pitch that creates more lift it also has a governor which connects to the engine so as i pull that up it creates more lift which creates more drag on the engine so in turn the governor turns the engines up to match the speed so as i put that down i reduce power and then the final control is pedals and these control the thrust of the tail rotor which essentially counteracts the rotation of the main rotor system so give you a quick example if you want to take off basically all hands on the controls and since the rotor blade on this helicopter system spins counterclockwise you got to make sure that when you start to take off you have the left pedal ready because otherwise the helicopter is going to want to spin to the right so i use the left pedal to counteract the spinning so i start to pull up on the collective start pulling power it starts creating lift helicopter picks up and then i start to hover and i control the hover right here with the cyclic and i make sure that i'm giving it plenty of left pedal to keep it from spinning to the right with the main rotor system hovering in the helicopter is what uses the most amount of power because it's basically like trying to tread water in a weighted best all right guys when i started doing this vlog stuff this youtube stuff i told you that i was going to show you kind of just like the good the bad the ugly the crazy the cool and sometimes just the run-of-the-mill day uh in my life and that's what i'm gonna show you today and it's not really fair to say run the middle day of my life because what i'm going to do is actually pretty cool and i love it and i've worked really hard to get to the point to do this kind of stuff but long story short last night i flew my helicopter out to the other side of the great salt lake you guys already know that i'm fascinated with the great salt lake i had ownership at an island out there called fremont island which we recently sold and it was donated back to the state and it's really cool cool story there which i'll tell you guys in another video but basically flew out last night to check out another piece of property on another island on the lake um that i think we're gonna buy so we got out there landed checked out the property super stoked on it go to get the helicopter go to take off and my helicopter is a twin engine engine number two which is on the right i start at first bam fires right up i go to start engine number one click click click nothing so we are on an island in the middle of great salt lake like hours away from anywhere on roads so i call my buddies here at classic helicopter let me show you they're basically my hanger classic helicopter is basically right over there cool guys great company i called my buddy adam and i'm like hey adam um this is keep in mind this is the first time my helicopter has ever left me like stranded i've had i've had like weird moments where the battery didn't you know they're old machines it's a 1988 they've got like little quirks and stuff um a long story short classic helicopter super great company uh when we broke down last night i called over there and i was like hey adam can you come pick us up he's like yeah i got kobe over there at the airport he'll come grab you in a minute so they sent the pilot up grabbed their helicopter and they came out and got us because otherwise we would have been there probably all night or waited for hours for our ride to come get us so anyways basically that was last night friday night now it's saturday morning it should be pretty fun so with this being my first time out on this property in an actual truck um i took a long term and now i'm just rock crawling on the beach and uh something you should know about the great salt lake is although that lake bed right there looks like it's nice and easy and you can drive on it for days it's not it will sink me so freaking fast i'll be stuck out here i really don't want to do because it's a hard spot to get to so anyways i'm just creeping along luckily this is all private land uh so it's not like i'm off trail on public lands but i do not trust that or that mostly that i took a wrong turn somewhere and like i said we're just barely looking at buying this property so i'm not too terribly familiar with it i do know there's a lot of cows out here and there's a lot of cow poops lots and lots of poops so as you can see i came from up there came down this way and came along here well the helicopter is way over there so i was supposed to go from the top make you drop that somewhere now get a bucket and a mop that's somewhere over the top and make it because there's no roads right here so we're going to check out luckily i got my raptor and it's lighter than my diesel pickups i actually am super impressed but i've really really enjoyed the ford raptor you can see [Music] like where the cows are stepping and they're sinking that's not a great sign but there's also truck tracks out here and there's tons of four-wheeler tracks i've seen the guys oh that's squishy i don't like that i've seen the guys on four-wheelers out here and they seem to be following this path okay so basically what i'm saying is i guess well i'll probably go right over there and connect onto the four-wheeler path all right well we are on the shoreline and it's still pretty stable but as you guys can see i'm not very confident in this dirt i just got out here to the helicopter obviously you can see the raptor made it along the sketchy section of the beach there no problem so i'm actually super stoked but i'm not stuck right now uh this is where the helicopter basically were we had to leave it yesterday we landed here to check out this property and then when we came back um like i said it didn't want to start and the left engine starter was acting up so even though i have the correct part i bought a whole new starter um if i if the starter actually is bad i unfortunately am not allowed to fix it myself just because faa law federal aviation law says that um i have to have what's called an amp license so that's uh like uh aircraft mechanic license um and it's a good idea that they make that a law because in experienced mechanics even though i am i'm experienced um they don't want people working on their own aircraft they want like very very highly skilled experienced mechanics working on it so the starter is one of those things where if it has to be replaced i have to call my buddy paul and he has to drive all the way from provo or spanish pork or wherever he's at which is like a two-hour drive so i'll be sitting here waiting however i have a feeling that it's not well i don't know 50 50 chance could be a loose connection i didn't have the tools yesterday that i needed to be able to take the cowling off and get in there and figure out what's going on so now that i've got the ladder i've got my tools i can pull the cowling off and i'm crossing my fingers that it's just a loose connection and if it is then it should be pretty quick fix and that's something i can personally do because i'm a licensed pilot like i said not a licensed amp mechanic though so if that's the case fantastic i will put the uh jump box in the battery because the battery's dead for some reason and i'll be out of here in a minute so i'm really hoping that's the case because i don't want to sit here for three hours and wait for paul i'm gonna start by taking this cowling off to check out the ladder here this is the engine cowling right here um this is engine number one on the left side of the ship this is the one that's having the starter issues engine number two is over here on the right side starter's working just fine on that one so um i'm probably gonna pull both cowlings off to be able to dig in there figure out what's going on and hopefully not have to uh put a starter in it so got my tools over here here we go i might have to pull the whole thing off i was just gonna pull one side off but let's see one cowling down and like i said we might have to pull the other one might not nope i don't think so maybe we'll see it's just tricky tricky business here along with any other found the problem um pretty simple problem actually and now it's time to test it out and see if uh hopefully what we did is to solve the problem so right now i'm going to try to start it i'm just going to try to spin the starter motor and if we hear turbine screaming that's a good sign ready good sign it's fixed battery's dead but i gotta jump back for that so now i got to put the cowling back on and uh put the jump pack on get it started get it running and get out of here because uh even though it's sunny those temperatures definitely starting to drop a little bit so we're gonna take that cowling put it back on this side how greasy i got the surface truck put all the tools away in the raptor put the cowling back on this side put the engine cowlings uh the inner ones back on and uh we'll be good to go so i'm gonna put those on and we'll fire it up [Music] hi guys everything's running exactly like it's supposed to so well guys there you have it just like that helicopter's fixed now i'm back at the hangar but now since i went out there alone i got one of my guys coming to the hangar right now to meet me he's gonna fly back out to the island with me and bring my truck back because i don't want to spend the night out there by itself not gonna lie it went uh a lot smoother than i expected i was expecting deeper issues and i'm really glad it was something that i could fix personally and didn't have to wait for my amp mechanic paul to come out and meet me there because to be honest with you i don't think we would have got it done today and uh this weather is just like unbeatable so we have my man burn out here ready to be uh backup driver right that's right actually not backup driver he is i think he's the main driver how do i you know this is uh this is the part the whole world wants to see that was graceful that was like all right guys so as you can see i had a hell of a time out on the island getting the chopper fixed fortunately for me it ended up being a loose wire that i was able to repair myself and not have to wait for my amp mechanic to come out and work on it with me that's always nice that means i was able to get it fixed get it back to the shop all right internet what 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gotta do is click the link in my description below use the promo code sparx at checkout and wham bam thank you heavy d i just made your internet browsing experience super safe and you're not gonna end up looking like this dummy next item would be takeoff taking off is also a fairly complicated maneuver you pull up you get into a steady hover and then you take the cyclic right here you gently ease it forward nose forward and the helicopter is going to start hovering forward and then bam you start flying you get into what's called etl etl stands for effective translational lift it's basically when the helicopter transitions from hovering to flying now etl is much easier to manage just basically like flying an airplane because the rotor disc turns into basically a rotary wing so you're no longer hovering and the helicopter doesn't have to use nearly as much power so you can see as we're flying i've got my power my collective pretty much set in one position right about 60 torque i don't need to mess with the power level that much right now now all the flying is going to be done based off the cyclic right here so if i want to go right i go right i want to go left i push it left if i want to go up i pull back if i want to go down i push forward now if i want to go faster i pull up on the power the collective to about 70 torque while at the same time pushing forward with the cyclic which is the stick right here in my lap and then the combination of more power and more pitch on the blades plus the forward angle is what makes the helicopter go faster see we just went from about 60 knots to 100 knots in a couple of seconds now if i want to climb and keep my speed i pull in a little bit more power and keep the cyclic roughly where it's at that's called a collective climb or you can do a cyclic climb which is you keep the power of 60 where it's at and 60 is just an arbitrary number that's just a cruise flight number that's a good safe number to be at but if i don't want to change the power or if i'm already at max power like 100 then i have to do what's called a cyclic climb that's basically where i keep the power set where it's at and i pull back on the stick and you can see we're climbing about oh 100 feet a minute when you're flying in straight level flight the tail rotors when you're flying in straight level flight the pedals that control the tail rotor are more or less just to keep the helicopter kind of straight through the air because as you're flying the wind acting on the airframe of the helicopter is actually what keeps it going straight so you don't need to use a lot of pedals in the air you're going to use the pedals when you're anytime you're in a hover or on the ground here's one of the probably most tricky parts of flying and that's landing you basically start to reduce power by lowering the collective while pulling back on the cyclic at the same time so anytime you're gonna do a maneuver that's going to go faster or slower or higher or lower essentially it's going to be a combination of the cyclic and the collective working together the more you pull up on the collective and push forward on the cyclic the faster the helicopter is going to go the more you pull back on the cyclic while pulling up on the collective the more you're going to climb if you reduce the collective and pull back on the cyclic you're going to do what's called a flare and the helicopter is going to kind of push its blades into the wind or you can push forward on the cyclic and downward collective at the same time to uh basically lose altitude very quickly so those are basically the essential controls that you're going to use in a helicopter now hovering a helicopter is one of the most difficult maneuvers because you have so many different things acting on the airframe you've got the rotation of the main rotor system you've got gravity pulling the helicopter down you've got the weight in the helicopter you've got the heat you've got the density of the air outside so essentially in the summertime helicopters don't fly as well because the air is hot what makes which makes it more thin and the air going into the engine is hot so the engines get hotter in the winter time helicopters tend to have more power because the air is cold which makes the air thicker and the cold air going into the engine keeps the engines running cooler so in a turbine helicopter there's two things that are going to limit you torque and tot tot is basically your exhaust gas temperature in the winter time torque is usually going to be your limiting factor and in the summer time the tot is going to be your limiting factor this helicopter can go all the way up to 85 torque with both engines running and that's the maximum you can pull before having to take it in for an inspection for example if i were to take off and i pulled 100 torque on accident well then i would have to mark that down take it to the mechanic and they would have to search the whole drivetrain to make sure that nothing was damaged because even though the engines can create that amount of power the drivelines of the transmission aren't rated to take that full amount of power oh here's when you think you're friends with somebody

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Id: RQ7I-FJKdbs

Length: 25min 20sec (1520 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 07 2021