Love that big red white and blue behind you for the intro! America!

You gotta have special certificates to work on aircraft don’t you?

Build a race plane with Mike patey

Hell yeahhhh let's gooo!! That would be so awesome!!

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Cleetus is trying to teach

I could definitely land after his teachings

hIS WAY OF EXPLAING IS GREAT. He idiot proofs it, but also throws little things for the more experienced as well. If this video was only about auto rotation physics i wouldve clicked out, but seeing tail rotor/different methods of failure from first person view is awesome.... toss in the chat. chefs kiss content

He is extremely smart

MR McFarland is a amazing teacher lol He would get sick of apples lol All his students would go nuts over him and bring him a apple tree LOL. Sensei McFarland

gambled on himself and is definitely winning

Amazing how he has progressed

We got land and air, next up Cleet will be driving aircraft carriers

I was going to make my own comment, but yeah. I have a small amount of heli knowledge, and I was blown away by how easy he explained it.

Don't try this at home.

Smarter every day did an AMAZING video on autorotations. Explains everything super well!

Something none of them mention or explain is the disc loading of a helicopter. The heavier the helicopter the more difficult autorotation is to virtually impossible. If you are in a helicopter that weighs a 1000kg and downward air velocity is only 5ms, you only have to descend at 5ms to maintain rotor rpm, but try doing that in a helicopter that weighs 10000+kg with thrust velocity of 30+ms. Arresting such mass with such velocity is very difficult.

If you can’t explain it to a 5 year old you don’t fully understand it yourself

There's a difference between someone who knows what they are doing, and someone there for a paycheck. I agree, these guys were fantastic.

These instructors likely make about 5 times as much as a typical high school teacher, and work half as many hours. That might be a hint as to why they don't seem "burned out"...

@@ChristopherHallettyou might be surprised how much flight instructors make

My father has a private air strip behind his house where they train new pilots. The instructor is always working 10-12 hour days

What does earnestness mean?

Heli, not helo...

Don't mean to be that guy but all pilots train emergency procedures.

​@TeflonNapkins You're absolutely correct. Not sure what that other guy is talking about.

@@TeflonNapkins You are both correct. I should have been more clear on my statement. I concur that pilots receive training on emergency procedures as part of their training for the type of aircraft they are getting checked out in. Cletus received his training from the MD factory and most pilots don't receive that training..

Except law school

Lets be honest if he finished law school we would have known him as the best lawyer😂

The guy is a natural wheelman.

Cleet is literally addicted to adrenaline!

@@tmdwu3110the field of law is saturated with too many people anyways, competition is stupid crazy.

700 is the scale reference for helicopter? Is it a 1-1000 system similar to how I've seen model planes listed as a percentage? Like is that the helicopter equivalent to a 70% scale model airplane? Or is it a different system?

​@@goosenotmaverick1156based on a quick search 700 refers to the length of the blades. So the blades would be 700mm long.

i flew aerobatic rc helicopter competitions for years and we have driven tails during autos so we can do all sorts of tricks. and since we run equal pitch positive or negative (i usually had it setup for +11, -11) you can do inverted autos with a pushover near the deck to really wow the crowd... Many different trick autos you can do but the one trick auto i never tried was the blade stop auto. I just never had that kind of disposable cash lol. In rc helis most of us end every flight with autos so that "when" a real failure happens its a walk in the park, usually lol.

Been flying rc planes and drones for years. Helicopters are just too damn expensive to crash so i try not to buy one :D@@wingtipsworld5909

@@bigdfitness5020 a 700 in the rc world is a pretty big boy. most amateur pilots start off with a medium sized or a 450. Autorotations are super sick!

What he did was standard basic training for any helicopter pilot. It takes some practice but is not unduly difficult. If it were too difficult, then nobody would be flying helicopters.

​@@RWBHereYeah no shit. Same can be said about literally anything. Go outside

⁠@@RWBHere God damn without fail, there is always that one guy. “Ackchyually” 🤦‍♂️

FACT

You need a saddle the way you’re riding him buddy

Wasn’t he going to law school around the time he bought Leroy? No doubt the dude is smart and charismatic

@@TheBigghunter01 He also comes from a well-off family with what seem to be very good work ethics - his grandfather, for instance, was a high rank air-force officer, not "just" a Mustang jockey.

I know right power off in a helicopter happens fast

he didn't teach himself

@@Don_Rodrigo44 right? Im pretty sure he had some teachers along the way! LOL

​@@Don_Rodrigo44yeah that's like the scene from "Idiocracy" where you can get your law license from Costco

Talk about relying on those TBM brakes 😂

1320 street races all over AGAIN! Air races Now!

Join your local Civil Air Patrol! There's probably a helicopter pilot in a C.A.P. Squadron near you that would be willing to take you up. If not, I'm sure there's an aeroplane pilot with a Cessna. Piper, etc. in one of those Squadrons near you and they might also do STOL flying. There could even be a spot for training on a Civil Air Patrol "air search and rescue team" as a navigator or spotter, if you're interested in flying regularly, but don't really have the money.

@@user-kj7nw4zg1y dude why are you hating on some merch ? Wuts wrong with sporting t shirts , hats or a patch …. ???

@@user-kj7nw4zg1yhow do you think he’s able to keep this content business running?

I need your kinda money to spend

Uhhh no

@@user-kj7nw4zg1y nope 👎🏻

Holy cow. Thanks for recommending that. His story on cutting that bamboo for the first time is absolutely amazing. Every heli pilot should know how heroic flying saved lives.

@@mikewest712 How did you just read an entire book in 15 minutes???

@@mikewest712 Add Low Level Hell to that list, Loach pilots are legitimately insane with some of the shit they pulled scouting for the Cobras.

I, I mean we, smell a setup lol​@@Vashtorical

That is precisely the story that came to my mind when Garret was talking about stored energy. it's a good book, the ending shocked me. I'd also recommend Permission to Kill by Brian Wizard to get the story from the boys in the back.

Just remember to flare right before the touchdown.

Ya Parker is a badass pilot. I have many hrs flying with Parker doing Powerline work out here in NorCal.

@@bobwallace-yj6xb Ever do Oregon?

During an auto, one can still maneuver to avoid obstacles.

Yea Id say that MD is a bit better than a R44. Hehee

That's exactly how I was taught to drive in snow. We went out driving, dad stopped and stuck me behind the wheel, randomly pulling E brake handle to simulate a random loss of traction. It taught me a lot about car control, and it's the first thing I do every winter to make sure I haven't lost the muscle memory. This winter it's my wife's turn. She's a great driver but no experience in winter weather as a driver, only a passenger.

@@goosenotmaverick1156 I did it on my own in my Dart. We used to have a dog track close by where I lived so huge parking lot empty during the winter. Every time it snowed I'd go there and play. I put sway bars and a sure grip in it and had great fun relearning how to drive the car again. Posi really changed how the car reacted but once I knew what it did I was drifting and spinning it around the nose and other dumb stuff.

@@69Dartman oh yeah that'll change the dynamic for sure, sounds like fun! I generally go to our local mall parking lot. The old Sears is a gym and a government office now, and the JcPenney is dead even in the best weather. For the most part nobody even cares, as long as we don't interfere with business or crash into anything and damage it (sometimes a car gets broken but rare) the cops don't kick anyone out. It's honestly a pretty healthy way for a lot of the younger crowd to go teach themselves and have a little fun where everyone has consented to the risk. It's totally unorganized and unplanned, but it tends to work really well for the area. Last year there was every kind of car. I see all sorts hanging out and chatting, taking their respectful turns at hooning. I was impressed by the younger crowd from our area, for sure. There were trucks, Ford fusions (multiple, as in 3 or 4 different ones) The typical challenger, charger, 300, etc. A few mustangs Camaros Old stuff and new, it gave me some faith in humanity last year for a few moments.

@@goosenotmaverick1156 Oh yeah, the cops never bothered me or anyone else doing it. It would get really busy sometimes so you had to keep your head on a swivel and pick your spots. I almost slid into a pole one time and nothing was working so I tapped the brakes and it just stopped 🤔 usually hitting the brakes was the last thing you'd do and just made things worse. Guess between the friction and the snow piling up in front of the tires it worked.

I mean, might as well right? You are already up there. 😅

was it a case of " FUCK IT, HOLD MY BEER" or FUCK!! Hold my beer!

Collected Rudder and stick. It’s a balancing act. Flying the helo isnt the hard part. It’s landing because as you slow down there’s no stabilizing force counteracting rotor torque so you have to use rudder to negate it.

I was thinking the same thing aren’t they a little close to the parked airplanes