HOW TO CONTROL A HELICOPTER: Collective, Cyclic & Pedals Simply Explained

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Күн бұрын

Flying a helicopter is all about balancing the flight controls in relation to one another but what do the controls do? This video gives you a guided tour from the pilot to show you what does what.
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Пікірлер: 72

@PilotTeacher 3 жыл бұрын

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@rc2672 Жыл бұрын

The background sounds aren't as disruptive as you seem to think. We're able to hear you just fine. You can keep going with no frustration or concern. Thanks for your videos.

@PilotTeacher Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback!!

@yasirshah284 11 ай бұрын

You are the best instructor ever and an amazing person to publish this detailed series.

@PilotTeacher 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind words!!

@mark-ish 2 ай бұрын

Came here to write this exact comment. Beautiful tuition, excellent aids/camera shots and you explain the primary and secondary effects wonderfully easy to digest. Incredibly helpful!!

@JakeSpader 2 жыл бұрын

You have an easygoing and fun manner that makes you easy to listen to. Great video.

@PilotTeacher 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jake!

@loganrasmussen6320 3 жыл бұрын

I'm starting to prepare for getting into flight school and understanding how a helicopter works, and this helped quite a bit. Thanks!!!

@PilotTeacher 3 жыл бұрын

Im glad you found it helpful!!

@anastasiahanna4363 2 жыл бұрын

You did a good job explaining about flight controls. The noises you were mentioning did not affect the video sound. It was actually cool to see real place outside, real helicopter, and real controls. Thank you.

@PilotTeacher 2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome!

@akadiyodi 2 жыл бұрын

Helpful Thanks !!

@bhupendranath2010 5 ай бұрын

It was really instructive!!!

@genggetastic1259 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir for this, Hello from Indonesia. Hope soon I can join a helicopter pilot school in USA.

@PilotTeacher 2 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

@WarrenKimpel 2 ай бұрын

another nice video

@revelationreflection 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video! Thanks!

@PilotTeacher 2 жыл бұрын

Im glad you liked it!!

@carlhopkinson Жыл бұрын

Great simplifying explanation of the interaction of the controls !!!!

@PilotTeacher Жыл бұрын

Thanks Carl. Im glad you enjoyed it.

@Anthony_Francis 9 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏻

@PilotTeacher 8 ай бұрын

You’re welcome 😊

@josephlapangas5880 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@sheepdog1102 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting!

@PilotTeacher Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

@Morgenkraft 2 жыл бұрын

nice! very good explained for me.

@PilotTeacher 2 жыл бұрын

Im glad you found it helpful!

@giuseppemaenza9255 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot

@PilotTeacher 3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome Giuseppe.

@abdelrahman4436 6 ай бұрын

Gives a great insight , more space for the brain to think , great starter for my rotorcraft theory module

@PilotTeacher 6 ай бұрын

Glad you found it helpful. Enjoy your training!!

@rafaelr5837 2 жыл бұрын

Such a helpful video. I’m sure people always think flying a helicopter is cake but this is proof and just the surface of rotary wing aircraft.

@PilotTeacher 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!!

@user-vl5mh7jl2v Ай бұрын

Hi Stop giggle. Leave that to me. I giggle a lot when I am learning how to fly a Robbie R44. I can assure You that my instructor is sweating a lot. Thanks for a Great video. Best regards from Marianne, Sweden.

@helicopterovirtual-msfs6254 7 ай бұрын

Muito bom 👍

@mjovany403 2 жыл бұрын

Going to flight school in less than a month! Excited to learn

@PilotTeacher 2 жыл бұрын

Oh boy, you are in for one hell of a journey!! Enjoy my friend!

@simonm7776 2 ай бұрын

An odd question. Collective pitch model helicopters. Harder or easier to hover and fly than the real thing?

@PilotTeacher 2 ай бұрын

I used to fly RC helos before the real thing and I found the RC harder than the real helicopter hahaha

@whom2332 2 жыл бұрын

I've become extremely interested in rotary aircraft. But I have no clue how I'd ever get any opportunity to learn in one. I was looking at military aviation as a possibility but since then my eyesight has deteriorated slightly and I'm not entirely sure if that would ground you in a career like that, I'm presuming it is such. Is there anyway that a student can receive a grant or such financial aid in pursuit of a career. I'm becoming more interested in applications of helicopters in the public services maybe that may be a point of progression. Sorry, for the long ramble I'm just interested in getting a little insight into the routes that can be taken into aviation. Thanks again!

@PilotTeacher 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Whom, To help answer your question about eyesight, have a read of this article that I wrote on it and what each branch of the military requires. For more information you could contact one of their recruiters which you can also find in the article: pilotteacher.com/can-pilots-wear-glasses-is-this-a-dream-destroyer/ As for financial aid, that is one of the hardest things to find. I know many pilots who were ex-military that then had the Veterans Assistance pay for their flying but I don't know of a single person who had all their flying paid for outside of VA I'm afraid. Most of us either saved long and hard, borrowed money from parents, or used the equity in their property to fund flight school. Have a good look around the videos on this channel and the articles in my blog to help you find some more answers. I hope this helps.

@whom2332 2 жыл бұрын

@@PilotTeacher Thanks, I'll be sure to have a look

@kwcnasa Жыл бұрын

Hello, Pilot Teacher and other helicopter pilots. Does a tail rotor auto re-center to it's center position when you release the foot pedal? Or should I ask were they spring loaded so that it will return to center position upon releasing the foot pedal? Does the cyclic spring loaded as well? Does it return to center like those computer joysticks? Thank you in advance.

@PilotTeacher Жыл бұрын

See your other question you asked

@pauljoynson3219 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, much appreciated. I have a question relating to the cyclic. If I centre this control, presumably the rotor disc position neutralises and the aircraft returns to a neutral position? So, I have to maintain forward pressure on the cyclic to maintain forward motion. In my mind this is obvious, but I am toying with a ‘simulator’ in which this doesn’t seem to be the case. It seems I have to apply equal and opposite movement of the cyclic to return to a stable hover.

@PilotTeacher 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Paul, I have to think about this now as I fly without even thinking about the controls! When you move the cyclic, you tilt the disk which then causes the aircraft to follow in that direction. If you center the cyclic it levels the disk in relation to the fuselage, but the fuselage is tilted in the direction of travel. All forces being equal and in a vacuum the helicopter would. continue to drift in that direction. To stop the drift, you have to put in opposite cyclic enough to tilt the disk and then the fuselage to slow and then stop the drift. Once stopped you give opposite cyclic again to right the fuselage then center it to keep it in one spot. This is why hovering is so difficult as student always over control and add in too much cyclic control. I hope that makes sense.

@pauljoynson3219 2 жыл бұрын

@@PilotTeacher Hi PT Thank you for your reply. I think the fog is beginning to clear! In an effort to break down what is happening, would I be correct in thinking the following: Cyclic forward to instigate forward travel, fuselage orientates to rotor discs tilted forward position. Centre cyclic, rotor disc and fuselage maintain orientation and forward motion continues. Cyclic is now in a neutral position. Cyclic aft to level rotor disc in relation to ground, fuselage orientates to rotor discs level position. Centre cyclic, rotor disc and fuselage maintain level orientation and aircraft returns to a stable hover. I think this is what you said, I am just trying to break it down into a sequence of events that my old brain can follow :-). Hopefully I am getting the right idea. I appreciate that I am simplifying things, ignoring drag, mass of the fuselage and the effect of gravity on it. Thank you again for your help and the great videos.

@PilotTeacher 2 жыл бұрын

You got it.

@adamknight5089 Жыл бұрын

How long would it take to learn to fly a helicopter comfortably?

@PilotTeacher Жыл бұрын

It varies on the person. Some are comfortable to solo after 20 hours and some many more. To get truly comfortable in a helicopter you need to be flying it everyday and then after a couple hundred hours you really get to know the feel of the machine.

@gohoonchuan8511 Жыл бұрын

Hi. I get ur name is James. I hv a question of how u keep the heli horizontal. Fr what i gather when u push the cyclic forward the heli moves forward but tilting downwards. I noticed that helis travel generally horizontally. What is therefore required to be done to move horizontally?

@PilotTeacher Жыл бұрын

Forward on the cyclic, then raise the collective to stop the descent. When collective matches the cyclic it flies at that speed in level flight. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j6iqnq2c0smyh5s.html

@gohoonchuan8511 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Sir. It cleared the wonder i had of how a heli flies horizontally. Now i understand fully that at the outset when the cyclic is pushed forward the heli moves forward but at the same time tilts downwards n to get the heli's nose up the collective has to be raised to balance out the tilting. Where r u based Sir ?

@PilotTeacher Жыл бұрын

@@gohoonchuan8511 in Canada

@gohoonchuan8511 Жыл бұрын

@@PilotTeacherTQ for ur replies. Whilst on a tour of Canada i took a heli ride in a Robinson over the Niagara Falls. Thrilling flight but too short.

@silent_john5647 2 жыл бұрын

I thought i new a lot hiw helicopters worked untill today

@PilotTeacher 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you were able to learn something new! Be sure to check out my others videos too!!

@Br4m76 Жыл бұрын

How if the helicopter needs to turn while running forward? Is it like a plane?

@zach_4224 3 жыл бұрын

Funny how I searched for this even though I'm too poor to be able to even ride a helicopter or plane.

@PilotTeacher 3 жыл бұрын

You never know, you might just be able to take a flight one day! Add it to your bucket list. Keep an eye out for one of my videos over the next few weeks on how the controls work when the helicopter is actually flying!!

@Juno_Beach Жыл бұрын

Robinson 22 / Never

@PilotTeacher Жыл бұрын

Don’t knock it till you have flown it enough! A great helicopter when flown properly!

@uncletom1971 22 күн бұрын

But doesn't this heli have a gyro?

@PilotTeacher 22 күн бұрын

The only gyro in this helicopter is in the Artificial Horizon Instrument. The pilot’s semi-circular canals in the ears do the rest!

@uncletom1971 22 күн бұрын

@@PilotTeacher I see. I've been into rc-helicopters, they use a gyro stabilizer to counter the main rotor, so you need not compensate with the pedals when altering the collective.

@PilotTeacher 22 күн бұрын

@@uncletom1971 I used to fly them too so I had a suspicion thats what your were getting at. Some of the larger helicopters have collective to yaw coupling that mechanically or electronically increases T/R pitch when the collective is raised and vise versa when lowered.

@uncletom1971 21 күн бұрын

@@PilotTeacher Interesting. So most smaller modern helicopters don't have this automatic compensation? What about the MD500? Or Sweitzer 300? These are my fav machines, also the classic Jetranger.

@PilotTeacher 21 күн бұрын

Ive flown the 300 and the JetRanger and they have nothing. Md 500 I doubt too. Its adds weight and complexity.

@rickstav9024 2 ай бұрын

Im a pro drummer so shoulf be a walk in the park lol

@PilotTeacher 2 ай бұрын

Your coordination will help for sure but there is way more to it than just coordination. Go book yourself a 1 hour trial lesson and see for yourself. Its one hell of a ride!