Thanks Paul, another AVweb classic! Am I the only one who was wondering if the geese would fly into the rotor on the animation?

6:00 “Helicopters aren’t for those who can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.” HILARIOUS.

That's what happens when you park a fixed wing and a helicopter in the same hanger overnight.

Making the weird, easy to understand, as usual; well done Mr. B.

A ton of research and hours went into making this YT video. From an educational point of view on gyroplanes, this is the best on YT. Congrats to Paul and team 👍

It's called an autogyro, autogiro, gyrocopter, gyrodyne, rotaplane. Gyroplane is only the FAA's nomenclature.

OK, I have never been interested in Gyro's until KZfaq recommended I watch a video when the Covid lockdown started. In the last 9 months, I have watched every video I could find as my fascination with these is just crazy. This is hands down the best video to describe what is going on. Great job and excellent video, thanks!

The animations crack me up every time!

This was very interesting, and a good explanation for us lowly fixed wing folks. Looks like a heck of alot of fun.

Always love the way you interject humor into your videos. Thanks Paul :)

Beautiful explanation, and I'm glad nothing bad happened to those cartoon geese. (Your animation team has way too much fun - much to my delight.) Thanks for the great overview.

This was fascinating. I've learned lots about gyroplanes, and also that there IS an aircraft that has a power off glide angle between that of a Piper Cherokee and a sewing machine. :)

As someone who already holds a PPL rotorcraft, glider, and ASEL, this looks like a lot of fun! The big trick is finding a school near AZ that trains in them.

As a gyro owner /pilot and soon to be CFI, this was a nicely done video. You explained the unique characteristics of the gyro well enough to use during training. This would be a good video for new gyro students to watch before they begin their first day training.

"I doubt you want to go over 10,000 feet in them" LOL - spoken like a true Floridian (max elevation 345 not including antennas).

8:55 Thank you for "damp", and not "dampen"! As always, P.B. is an exemplar of clarity and humour.

What a fantastic video . . . I have been seriously interested in Gyroplanes for many years and do intend to pursue a license and the purchase of a plane. This is the first video I've ever seen that actually gets into the meat and potatoes of the knowledge needed to be successful - excellent, excellent video. Greatly appreciated. I will watch this video dozens of times

Always well done Paul. The animations really helped me to understand the differences from fixed wing!!

The goose looking down at the crash made me choke on my coffee. Genius!!!

Great job Paul. One of the best Avweb videos.

To me in the UK it'll always be an 'autogyro'... or, alternately, Little Nellie.

I've been fascinated with these machines for years! Great information here that is easy to understand even for me.

Dang... that stick vibration would get old fast, it seems. Looks like a lot of fun, though.

Thanks Paul - Your videos are always extremely informative and helpful

With Greg Gremminger I was flying my Gyro around 10 hours, it helped that he is a great instructor and that I have a fixed and rotary prívate pilot license with some hours. I would say my Magni flew like a Cessna 172

Great report, love the comparisons! good job!!!!

That vibration looked pretty serious on the sticks!

Again I am watching , enjoying and still learning from this video...

Welcome to the gyrofamily, Paul. I just added gyroplane to my certificate. The "gyro grin" is real.

Interesting video, thanks! I'd heard of these, and never really looked into them - nice to see under the hood of how they work :)

The first day of 7th grade, we learned that our gym teacher would be a no-show because the day before, he dropped 100ft onto the desert floor when the main rotor of his Benson gyrocopter flew away, leaving his to deal with gravity on his own.

Thanks for the exposure Paul.. nicely done. 👍

I'm a simple man. I see Paul, I click the video.

Thanks for the very clear explanation of the flight dynamics

"Dad, I want to be a doctor" "What? Too good to open a gyroplane school like your old man?!"

very cool video man, thanks for this. all new respect for gyroplanes.

Excellent video. Ever since the Mad Max movies I have been intrigued with gyroplanes. This video explains a lot. Thanks. 👍🏽👍🏽

The takeoff was interesting because full power was only applied after unsticking. There is a school of thought that says on the ground roll the sticks is moved slightly forwards as the rotor RPM increases. At the same the power is increased to takeoff thrust. This apparently significantly decreases the takeoff performance. I was also slightly concerned that on each take-off and landing there was roll and yaw. I would have though that an instructor could have anticipated these effects and immediately applied a correction before they became apparent, rather like taking off in crosswind with “crossed” controls.

Great video, nice job! FYI on a tiny clarification point: a 2:35 it was said that a fixed-wing pilot seeking to add the cat/class of gyroplane has to take a written test. That is actually only true if you are, say, a private pilot ASEL wanting to upgrade to a commercial (initial) gyroplane. If you're already a commercial pilot, no written test required per 61.63(b)(4).

Excellent information and video. Thanks.

thanks -- it so different yet cozy

love the animations :D

'Little Nellie got a hot reception . . . but she defended her honour with great success'. (Sean Connery's Bond, with a little help from Ken Wallis's flying. Thanks Gents : )

these always remind me of the helicopter cap (especially the open ones).

Great upload! Thanks!

Regarding 'walking and chewing gum simultaneously'...😉 _"Helicopters don't really fly. They just vibrate so badly the Earth rejects them."_ -- author Tom Clancy 😊😊😊

I wish this video showed more aspects of gyro flying, over all great educational video

Flew one for 10 years had a lot of fun!

remember looking at kits in magaizines in the late `50's & early `60's and of course they were called gyrocopters then with very little instrumentation

Very good. Seems like the perfect craft.

Bahahaha love your vids! I have ADHD so the flock of geese animation totally distracted me from your narration. I rewound it 3 times until I could stop laughing at the geese and finally got it. Also, yes I’m old or I wouldn’t have used the term rewound. 😂😂

12:27 that dip had me a little paranoid lol

Raul was doing all the dang flying!

Those things always strike me as the smallest powered aircraft you can fly and must be brilliant fun.

My dad was a high time ATP but never got a chance to fly airlines. He was considering getting type-rated for a gyroplane for doing power line inspection for the local power company.

Even I can learn to fly one?! YAY this is wondrous news! 😂

Gyrocopter is also correct name as well, gyroplane been called since 1923. Mr Igor Bensen did came up with gyrocopter name for his unit in 1950s. Both names are good to use.

Great video!!

Really informative video..jam packed👍. One thing I think should be mentioned in all of these (great videos) is there should be more attention drawn to physical on-the-ground easily airborne hazards on take-off and landings.. especially on windy days where a first-analyzed safe landing area has objects blown in from a long distance at the worst possible moment. I'm thinking things like plastic tarps and cardboard etc..even small pebbles on the bigger heavier birds..due to prop wash.

These look like a lot of fun. Kinda makes me want to learn to fly a helicopter tho.

Great video, thanks!

That was really interesting....and it cements my non interest in flying them. Besides the extremely high price of admission, they don't carry much weight and have fairly short range, just not my personal cup of tea. Absolutely great job explaining it Paul, I really love it when you make the tough to imagine accessible 👍

amazing flying machine.

Great concepts video

Well explained!

Excellent video. The graphic animation explained nicely the uplift, driving and rollin forces (and risks).... do you have a link to specific literature about gyros which is also helpful to prepare for the weitten examen ?

I fly a Magni gyro simply because I think it’s more fun than the typical general aviation fixed wing.

I love the animation.

Great info! Thanks

Really interesting - loved the graphics too, hilarious! Back in the day a family friend flew them, but they tended to be single seaters back then (no chance of a passenger ride along). Ideal if you've only a small field and a shed, now there's more two seaters, more interest must follow?

I wear my seatbelt under my arm and around my neck

This is interesting yet oddly terrifying. When do we go?

thanks for sharing. Would scare the hell out of me. I will stay with my fixed wing, thank you very much.

It's good to know. I may try to fly one sometime.

The entire Gyroplane industry should consider rethinking referring to anything related to it that uses the word 'sport'. Realistically this aircraft is the 1100cc VW Bug of the skies. Reliable, excellent handling, cheap with no performance pretensions. What it offers are the panoramic views in flight. The statistics indicate that risky activity close to the ground will eventually trap the 'sports-minded' into something tragic that will merely reduce sales by bringing the plane into disrepute. STOL-ready people need the appropriate plane. For us landing and take-off are disciplined processes that should become boring in their lack of choice. At 55kn and above a couple of hundred feet they are a continual joy. Here in Australia they aren't nearly as common as they should be given our distances and the availability of land. The same is probably true for the mid-West US and northern Canada. BTW Bureaucrats try to kill everything they touch; but that's a long-term problem.

@12mins onwards.. can someone talk me through that take off? Is this normal instruction?

But where did the Velocity U video go? 🥺

You see little Timmy, when an airplane and a helicopter love each other very much... 😉

I have zero flight experience but I have become quickly obsessed with gyroplanes.

Pretty good analysis however while there is a small amount of two per rev shake it's small very small and it is possible to remove almost all of it. Many modern machines pay way too little attention to this. Look at enough video of different gyros and you'll see some do much better than others. Two per rev is often absorbed by the mast as I'm teetering hinge choppers like the r22. But it's small if the blades are correctly balanced and stringlinned. Manufactures with sub par blade set ups blame this on 2 per rev.

Awesome video! My wife is fine if I get one of these with the agreement that I get a very large life insurance policy...😎

Hats off to the animator, who sadly doesn't even get a credit!

When i was i middle school, we lost a student who just got his license fo fly gyroplanes. I believe he was 15. This was near Cocoa/Rockledge Florida in the mid 1990s. Not sure what went wrong, Im guessing age, lack of experience, obviously were factors. Because of this, I always thought gyroplanes were unnecessarily dangerous, watching these videos have changed my mind.b

Looks like fun.

Ahhh I always wondered what Danni Deveto did after movies 🎥

The regulators KNOW these are safe and easy, so they'll try everything possible to keep you from the sky.

Thanks for this great explanation. I got all but something that really confused me is…. Why in the world is necessary to close any door, from the freezer, cars, planes to gyroplanes that hard?????

What took you so long ? I first flew a gyro back in 1986.

The bladesoverme Web site doesn't function - well, not on my Android tablet

You did not explain that if you have a private pilots license and a single seat experimental, you do not require a specific rating, though you should still get the training.

I'm pretty sure I saw the inventor of this machine crash during an airshow - that put me off them for life.

I love these planes, but I would rather be inside out of the weather than sitting in it. Nice video. I think you could have made a video of your instruction or a flight in a Gyroplane.

According to the regs you do NOT have to take an another knowledge test in order to add a rotorcraft gyroplane rating to an existing PPL, CPL, or ATPL. See §61.63(b)(4)

I don't know, but I think it's a bit unsettling that a self-proclaimed 'numbskull' is allowed to fly a heavy chunk of machinery in the airspace above my functioning skull...

Actually, the regulation for Private Pilot Gyroplane does NOT stipulate instrument time (as claimed at minute 3). Refer to 14 CFR § 61.109, subsection (d).

According to Google: Gyroplane = 638,000

We had a captain at my first police department who lost his hand in a gyro-copter accident.

Aren't single seaters with 5 gal gas and under the weight under part 103?

Very interesting information. Now is a gyroplane more unforgiving than a fixed wing airplane or a helicopter, having in mind the effects like 'bunting over' or slow speed high pitch take-off's ? Then there are gyroplanes able to do a jump start, jumping into the air from standstill, but are they still subjected to the same slow speed high pitch dangers?

I love em