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Engine failure handled like a boss at the mountains
Dude just handled an engine failure like he's ordering his usual coffee.
I didn't actually know you could glide with a helicopter with a low speed spin like that! Footage belongs to: https://www.youtube.com/user/mischagelb
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GroveHard
So this was training. Heli pilots do simulated engine failures on the reg. Granted this was from a mountain peak into a valley so very cool.
Hoparistic
It's because it was simulated, this was a class
Jbell185947
bcamp83
My first IP said, “if your ever in an emergency, the thing to do is make sure you sound cool on the radio”
castironarteries
For a hands down amazing helicopter pilot story, including autorotation, try Robert Mason’s book on the Vietnam war “Chickenhawk”
The8obman
everybody is calm because this is a simulated scenario, sauce confirms it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KayzJetqnrI
youreathing
Demonstration, vs simulation.
FailedCrate
Deep breath, focus, identify problem, evaluate solutions, calm decisions. Don't panic.
MadMupp
Isn't what he's doing called auto rotation? Where you using angles and wind speed to keep the rotors spinning to control your descent?
midwestmikey
Yes autorotation. Forward speed and decent keep the blades spinning, then you flare and add pitch to the spinning rotor to give you lift.
Ajdamus
Autorotations can save you. Helluva pilot.
jjohn1
Sounds Canadian
hewhodoesntcare
Autorotation is a handy thing.
random34567
Did someone order a Fairey Rotodyne ?
greentractor11
Yes, I experienced autorotation as a passenger on my first helicopter ride. Helicopter was destroyed, but we walked away.
anttonottna
Woulda turned to an interesting sled ride without
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BadBoyBoogieBoarder
This is only a simulation and was done under careful supervision
HappyClamsters
So it’s fake. Did nobody watch the entire video?
JuliusPepperwoodFromChicago
He’s teaching a student. Only op is deceiving people.
youreathing
It's a demonstration.
jvillager916
That's the guy that flew Bill Burr once.
DefinitelyNotCole
Was a demonstration. Not a true engine failure. Nevertheless a wonderful example of what to do. And a great example.
abcjames67365
It's common place to practice engine failure on the majority of training flights though I've never practiced in such majestic landscape.
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
"And if you look to your left you'll see the mountain from which they will pull our charred corpses"
ElbowDeep
With how slow the top rotor was going, how didn't they just fall, like... Well... Like how a helicopters weight should fall lol
warmyourbeans
Is the rotor going very fast but the camera frame rate is only picking up some me of the movement?
ElbowDeep
Nah it was going that slow definitely
Antrazit
I mean this is clearly a simulation but still superwell done
atomicmecha
Now THAT is falling, with style.
alwaysupvoteprincessbride
Steepone
High pucker factor
limerind
yeah that'll tighten up the sphincter.
SnossedAndLost
Not this guy's
DeviatedPrevert
so will a thumb, but a thumb never killed anyone
Exyr
Pffft
YouUselessTwat
Tell that to a gladiator.
fivefingernutpunch
Now there's a man who knows he's got physics on his side still
tuninsane
They practice this alot. The rotor is not physically connected to the engine so it will keep on spinning for a while
tuninsane
Slowly losing momentum. Done correctly with the angle of the blades and the speed they can do a pretty normal landing. But ofc, they don't
tuninsane
Have all day.
bobtheaxolotl
The air flowing over the rotors can keep them spinning indefinitely. You're of course losing altitude the entire time, but they don't just
bobtheaxolotl
stop spinning. This is also how gyrocopters work. The rotors on them are unpowered. They use a push prop for power.
tuninsane
Exactly this. They say helicopters are just a bunch of spare parts that has to compensate for everything to be able to fly. But I'm rather
tuninsane
Fond of helicopters ? more so than fixed wings
ArizonaIceTea77
I was once in a helicopter when the engine failed. Pilot was a total pro and I didn't even realize something was wrong until after we landed
Pepperfart
For physical explanation on how an helicopter can glide by Smarter Every Day : https://youtu.be/BTqu9iMiPIU
Tenugui
+1 for science
ItsaMrE
Very cool
KurayFR31
Great video and I have discovered this enjoyable channel. Thank you a lot!
prisonmike1991
Thank you kind Sir!
gotchasucka
"Engine failure ... oo, ah shoot, ok." - the calmest person in the world that day
SometimesIUseAllOfMyCharactersAtOnceAndDontCareAboutTheConsequ
I've been copilot in an autorotate, it's never this calm.
Timmytwopups
Sounds way more stressed than an E3 under mortar and machine gun fire translating Lt. Screams into cords on his second deployment.
TrendyAxe
Well if he fucks it up then its no longer his problem
unkownpuma786
It’s a matter of life or death whenever your a pilot you are trained for these situations if you freak out you die because you can’t think
4forensicExpertsSayHiToEveryoneWhoHasBeenWorkingHard
"Oof that was crazy" lol
PopeyeTheSailor
you have to be, panic will get you killed
LasciviousHedgehog
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to
HatinS8N
Depending on which side of the aisle you’re on, it’s either Trump or Obama’s fault.
LasciviousHedgehog
get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.
Mokelzwerg
Shoot
Danieltheengineer
In flight training you do TONS of engine failure practices before you're allowed to go for your license. You fall back on routine.
PaleChixAreMyFetish
I would fall back on shitting my pants but ok.
Denvercoder09
Yep. My second flight in flight school was mostly simulated engine failures.
gleely
still a shame about how they can't recover the pilot's seat rest, but that is a justifiable amount of pucker factor
graceinsheepsclothing
"That was crazy"
HatinS8N
So it was a fake engine failure
SomeGrayFox
"Simulated"
ohmuhglob
The other guy just like ""oof that was crazy"
therealNorrinRadd
Like hes mainly just bummed about ending the flight early
Ajdamus
Well it is simulated and not real one
ruferto
some ppl flip the fuck out and some ppl just get extra calm. always rather have the 2nd guy on your side
anttonottna
And casually just counting landing options and how they might flip over :DD I think the weight of his balls caused the failure
Thebladeinthemist
Dude, it was a demonstration. So either you didn't watch the video. Or you're exaggerating for the shock value for points. Come on.
greenchair
No, the weight of his balls kept the skid side down!
svoka
I mean, engine didn't really fail. Instructor disengaged it from the rotor. Standard training exercise.
Silas007
You posted the video including the source. You saw it was a demonstration and the engine did not fail. What are you going on about balls?
Metallica93
I know asking for integrity in posts is too much, but maybe don't lie about it being an engine failure when it's a demonstration...? Yeah?
anttonottna
Didn’t know about the demonstration. I saw this in our Discord and shared from there. I have been corrected a few times now ?
Metallica93
All good. I'm of the mindset that people should research before posting, but I'm a very small minority, apparently.
anttonottna
Well, I researched enough to find this man’s youtube, but did not watch the video as it was titled as I put it :D No worries man
NightlinerSGS
Guess I gotta spoil this, but watch the video. This was a simulated engine failure. A well handled one, but still only a simulation.
SnarkySophia
This is a regular test to maintain the operators license, yeah?
didntknowyou
Yes to pass my training we needed to do this. Still pretty amazing how the new helis glide slowly down though
PopeyeTheSailor
yeah, i was wondering why hes was still training the dude like they were gonna just walk away from that.
KindOfACreep
U serve more downvoted :(
hesbeginningtobelieve
But they simulate it by cutting the engine. It’s no different than the real thing except the pilot knew he’d have to do this at some point
GoofyGoobers
Sooo it was real people but a fake engine failure? Still outstanding. Yes a real emergency would be scarier but it want VR right?
FeltShardBurrito
We’re living in a simulation after Y2K. The old world burned. You can’t have a simulation in a simulation. This has to be real.
jesuisgur
Well, you can, but it gets too resource heavy on the top simulation, so they simply shut it down at this point. There was a novel about that
areibold
Upvoted you for truth
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AsaCanadianIagreeandIamsorry
Lol.. had to rewatch to see. Good catch.
DracoDan
I think it was a simulated failure but in a real helicopter, not a simulator. Plus those graphics are way too good for a simulator.
DracoDan
I laughed and then I realized it's a bubble shaped windshield and his hand was within the bubble.
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DracoDan
Look at the reflections in it around the 18 second mark.
Rulethafool
No harm in enjoying it at first then finding out the truth after. Thank you!
ToasterDent
That's what I told my wife after the honeymoon.
toobiwanyoulisten
We rehearse disasters at my work and it gets crazy. Mostly because in reality no one can hear each other
chanbara84
yeah but in your work are the stakes as high? prob not right?
toobiwanyoulisten
Active shooter. Fire. Tornado. Medical emergency. For 700+ people. So potentially pretty high stakes. But it’s only rehearsal
Steven054
It would have sucked if it was just all dense forest with no clearings and mountain cliffs
typointhetitle
Oo... Ah...shoot. OK.
Grimmiemommer
Copy Roger tango.
ProperPlanningPreventsPissPoorPerformance
TheWorstCommentsComeFromTheBestPeople
Whats its from?
littlefoot56
The gif
TehSeksyManz
You got a downvote but what you said is the truth.
PostMoThoin
He speek da tru tru
eovsvin
Nyah! *throws comment*
buttonguy3
Yup. You can tell dude in the red helmet is an instructor.
Thewayofthebear
I'd have that the other way round.
buttonguy3
Nah. Hes telling the guy where to steer after he does the initial "engine failure".
DarthTyre
This basically exactly what happens when youre getting checked out by an instructor. the guy in the hat is the instructor. (1/2)
DarthTyre
Hes narrating his decision so the instructor has an idea of his thought process
spiffylookingnerfherder
Because he's not screaming and crying like I would?
ShaggySnatch7
I was gonna say, doesnt a helicopter fall straight down with engine failure?
Fenristheface
Autorotation Drills in the world of military contracting where fun...
leorex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTqu9iMiPIU - Smarter Every Day: Strapped into a Falling Helicopter
Bachofbach
Nah, the blades windmill to create enough lift to have it sorta glide like a plane with an engine out would iirc
datMaggie
Nope. It's called autorotation. Basically the force of the air on the props causes the props to spin and get some lift, so they glide.
ShaggySnatch7
Damn, learn something new everyday
datMaggie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7u8m0Qpn38
evildadunit
Not only that, but there's frame rate blade speed blending
bentren
Is that a common term? I call it aliasing or undersampling.
bentren
Ok, downvote and don't answer ... I'm trying to learn, people!
IamNotAshamed
what do you mean by this?
kookyabird
They mean the actual speed of the rotor isn't represented in the video due to the frame rate, but that doesn't really matter.
evildadunit
shutter speed catches the blades in a stationary manner 30 fps/Rotor RPM
chanbara84
shutter speed and fps are different. ole pedant joe here
evildadunit
uh...yeah, but we don't tell the children - ok?
EatsLunchAtBreakfast
The rotor looks really slow in the video but its actually moving much, much faster in reality. It looks slow because the camera syncs w/ it
IamNotAshamed
But it still slowed down a fair amount didn't it? Or did they also cut the sound out suddenly?
elbowdeepinachicken
The rotors were in autororation without power from the engine.
onlyhereforthehotfuzzreferences
because they are aerofoils, like wings. they spin and generate lift when air moves around then. doesnt have to be powered
JuliusPepperwoodFromChicago
He’s throttled down to idle. The rotor is in auto rotation and not being powered by the engine. It still spins fast in auto rotate.