Hell yeah brother, you're on the pleasr YouTube channel. What's going on guys! Today we are out here at MD Helicopters In Mesa Arizona Where they actually build these helicopters right here in the USA handbuilt. Every single one of them see right here they're getting built behind me. You guys have seen MD helicopters on the channel.

this year we're picking up Jet Boats Holy crap picking up Big Block Chevys Got the Big Block transport pulling up. We even dropped the Mystery Machine I've kind of fallen in love with these things. Well, cool enough. MD Helicopters themselves reached out invited me out to the factory which we're standing in part of the factory right now to do.

Flight Training So all week I'll be with some of my friends and their test pilots doing the most hardcore training you can do in a helicopter. So as a helicopter pilot, when you get into getting your license, they take you out for some emergency training. You learn it, learn the basics, and that's how you get your license. What we're going to be doing here at: MD Helicopters in their aircraft is fold down Auto rotations where they are literally going to fail the engine in.

Flight We have to make a Forc landing to the ground right here at the airport. This is as good as it gets. I Mean you get to go out beat on their helicopter, learn a ton. We're seeing the factory.

This place is amazing. Let's get to it. What the hell is going on out here? Guys, Tell me. what are these things? Dude to be honest.

I Signed all my friends up to do some training so we got to go. Uh, get into our classroom but this is going to be a great week guys and we're going to show you a ton of really cool helicopter stuff class dude should be. This is the start of a helicopter. Are we on square one right here? Yes you are square one.

So this is the center heel heel beam. Cent Heel beam. Basically the entire helicopter is built off of. This piece starts comeing to something here.

your back rest for the pilots right here. Pilots Sitting right there, this big old massive support structures, all one big piece here. the tail popping on right there. We got the Mast already on this one rotorhead.

see the transmission right here that just bolt in with four big bolts. No drive shaft yet in this one. I'll show you that on the next one, but pretty cool just walking down the line seeing the differences in each one. All right now we got tail boom is on.

Got the big old twing horizontal stabilizer vertical stabilizer I Love these because they look like Top Fuel cars I Mean they really do if you look at the top fuel car. I think they got the same as designed from MD Dude we got the engine on it C30 I Think these this engine alone brand new. about a million bucks. they got the panel going in.

Oh yeah, here's your drive shaft. so that goes from your million dooll engine to your transmission and up to your rotorhead and your tail rotor. Basically one more station and these things are done. Then they go out and test fly them.

and they do quite a few test flights. I Didn't realize how much they'd be test flying what they call the green birds, but we've been here and we've seen the same helicopter go up and down, up and down while they refine everything. Make sure it's good to go before it goes to a customer. It's a pretty small engine for 650 horsepower.

That's sweet dude. It's what is it? 2 horsepower per pound? Yeah, it's over that. It's it's nuts and it's can do it for thousands of hours on end without maintenance. Two horsepower per pound.

Insurance is going to love us for this. D They really are and that's kind of. My whole goal in life is Insurance Happy just we're going to be insurable after this guys. What? I'm going to show you.

Today is how a helicopter can land with no engine. Everyone knows an airplane can glide in if it loses its engine. It's commonly thought that if a helicopter loses its engine, it just falls out of the sky. However, a helicopter can actually Glide as well and land safely with zero engine power.

And here's how it's a thing called auto rotation in a helicopter. The engine is there to drive these blades right. The blades create lift. The helicopter can fly.

What you probably didn't know is once a helicopter's ready to fly, those blades then spin at the same speed the entire flight. All you do is add pitch to the blades with the collective lever. See those blades. There you go.

There's a bunch of pitch. There's none. There's a bunch. There's none.

And that's all controlled by this. Collective lever. The more you pull, the more you pitch, the more lift the helicopter makes. Think of it like your ceiling fan, right? If the blades were flat, it wouldn't blow any air.

But as you add pitch to those blades starts to blow air downward, making the helicopter go up. trying to make this quick and dirty explanation. That being said, if your blades are pitched, they're much harder to spin. The engine has to work harder to keep the blade spinning at the same speed the whole flight.

Now, the engine then fails and the blades have a bunch of pitch in them. The big spinning thing on top of the helicopter is going to start slowing down. If that thing slows down, then you fall out of the sky and it's not good. However, helicopters have a built-in thing for a phenomenon called auto rotation, which if you react fast enough as a pilot, you can take the pitch out of those blades so far that they even go just slightly negative and the air then flowing through the blades as you descend keeps the blades spun up.

You can actually speed speed the blades up extremely fast. In an auto rotative descent, you can spin them up so fast you can seriously damage the helicopter. Now if I already take my hand, grab that blade and fling It Forward it'd probably spin the rotor maybe three laps because there's a lot of weight in that rotor system. So when you're Auto rotating which is the blades almost at zero pitch, you're at about a 4 to1 glide ratio.

so you're going 4T forward for every one foot down. Then as you approach the ground in this Glide which is pretty aggressive. It's kind of like a roll roller coaster, but it's not a crazy descent. As you approach the ground, you kind of flare just like an airplane and then it's like you have a few seconds of engine power because there's so much inertia stored in those blades.

So as you pull up and add pitch back to the blades, you have a few seconds before that rotor system slows down and then you fall to the ground. Now when you become a helicopter pilot, you trained on how to do an auto rotation, but often times they don't do it nearly as Extreme as what we're going to be doing today. Today, we're going to be flying up to 500 feet or so, cutting the engine to idle and letting the rotor free Spin and doing a full auto rotation from the sky to the ground exactly how it' be in an engine failure situation. Now, you're probably wondering: well, if the engine locks up, won't it lock up those blades and can fall out of the sky? Anyway, there's what's called a freewheeling unit on all helicopters.

So this is a freewheeling unit. Essentially like if you're pedaling a bicycle right as a kid. You pedal forward. You drive the wheel forward, but if you let off, your back wheel will just Coast.

So same thing with this. While the engine's driving it right, it's turning the rotors, but if the engine immediately fails, the rotors can just continue to. Freewheel If the engine immediately locks up, the freewheeling unit automatically disconnects the engine from the rotor system and the rotor system is allowed to keep spinning at full speed the whole flight. Now, you can lose an engine in all different phases of flight.

Today, we're going to lose our engine in a hover. We're also going to practice losing our tail rotor, which keeps our nose straight. We're going to practice losing our engine way up in the sky, close to the ground, and all kinds of other emergency proced procedures here at MD Helicopters. Hopefully my explanation makes a little bit of sense.

Let's go flying. Okay throughout these videos. I Want you guys to watch this gauge a little bit. This is the rotor speed gauge.

This gauge is telling you the rotor speed based on percent around 100% is where you want to be to safely fly. Technically, that little arm with the r on it can be anywhere in the green on the left side of this gauge and the rotor system will work in auto rotation. and you're going to watch while we're Auto rotating. The arrow is going to be in the green range.

When we get to the bottom of the auto rotation and we whole bunch of pitch into the blades, you'll see that arm on that little gauge drop really fast down to about 60% which is where the engine idles. You only get a couple of seconds before that inertia in the rotor system is gone and you'll see that gauge just drop like a freaking cinder block. All here we go. Best sound in the world.

Starter's off. There you go. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to demonstrate a uh engine failure in a hover hovering auto rotation as it's commonly known and I'll count it down here real quick and you just ride along with me on the first. All right so eyes are outside.

H Rod Rotation three, two, one throttle pedal settle. Settle right there. All right. That's all it's going to take.

Man rotor speed, rotor speed right? So next one's going to be you I'll call it, roll it, you just be ready for it. All right, All right? Roller on up, Roll hover Rod Rotation Three Two one. there's your throttle. settle.

Settle all right. Yeah, you can wait just a little bit longer. All right. that nosing It Forward isn't bad, just kind of scooting.

It On The Ground That's not an uncommon thing. and uh, when we get into the TA the tail rotor failure in the hover, you're going to kind of push the nose down anyway just to kind of Glide it around. So you got about 2 seconds of rotor speed you got in a hovering auto rotation. You get about 2 seconds now from 12 ft.

that's the high hover. Point That's what's been demonstrated by a test pilot waiting 2 seconds to initiate that. they, uh, didn't really damage the aircraft, right? So it's survivable from 12. Really? If you do nothing, the gear is going to collapse, you should be fine.

Yeah, he's going to break the gear, but let's back up here real quick. What we're going to do now? We're just going to hold it in a hover, right? So just stay on here with me. y I'm going to be that idiot pilot out in the trees I'm not paying attention. but I go ahead and I do a left pedal turn right and at some point during this turn I Whack a tree we go6 So what am I going to do? They're going to cut the throttle.

Yeah! so I'm going to get around here. Oh no tail rer there Now it's going to be more violent that it's going to be a lot more violent right? So, But still. you got to cut that throttle. You got to get that throttle.

I Just want you to get that feeling we come around a couple times out of the system. Whenever you're ready, start your left four. left clear for take off. flly straight at 8923 Juliia Oh, that felt good.

Nice. That was good man. I'll uh, come on here for the first one. All right Presses are all green, no cautions, no warning.

Looking for traffic for CR XR All right. I'm with you now. All right? So I've got the control. Just ride along all right.

So we talked about it yesterday. Getting that nose up right? All right. So nice and stable here about 70 knots. Eyes are outside entering auto rotation Now throttle's coming off.

Collective's going down, nose is coming up. Collective's coming up to catch that. RPM We're just going to hold this 60 KN Air speed right here. Only got about 14,500 ft a minute here coming in.

Going to start a flare now. Flare and flare and flare level little fast cuz we don't have much wind. That was sick. That was a little fast but I didn't get much out of the flare.

Not a whole lot of wind but a nice set down. Dude, you nailed it. I Mean that was really sick. Oh L39 so let's get that disc up here.

We talked about that yesterday in class, but yeah, good job. Let's do another one. You got it all right. I'm ready I'll stay with you the whole time I know I'm going to want to pull early but I was just feeling how long you waited to pull I pulled a little bit early myself.

Wow. I'll critique myself I pulled a little bit early on that one. Uh, but I didn't uh, there wasn't much wind to get rid of that uh, energy in the flare with that air speed up. Engine Failure 3 2 One you go trap that RPM push the nose down.

you're getting slow nose forward up on the collective right there. Don't pump it, you're good on the RPM your RPM's great flare flare level SL All right. yeah, that one we needed to get in. you got that air speed.

you kept the nose up I got the air speed a little low, got the air speed just a and it was fine. We got it back. Yeah, but our Target right now just to make it work and so that you get the practice is at 60. KN I was honestly I was staring at the rotor speed.

All right yeah I I appreciate the honesty. The RPM was great I know I don't know why I was looking at it. Engine failure: 3 2 1 down. Keep that nose up.

Now up on the collective nose down just a little bit to trap that air speed RPM's great. Air speed's good, nice and smooth right? y Now we're going to start our flare. Get into it harder harder harder. Now we're going to level there.

it is. Now we're talking it is just for the cuz we're going to started turn so our air speed's got to be inaccurate. We don't want to go super long. so start your turn now.

where's your you going over CH or so we're going to enter Auto Rotation 3 2 1 Boom no up RPM's coming up. Air speed's coming down tra right there. out of the turn. There you go.

Air Speed RPM Air speed: RPM Everything's looking good. fast. Start your flare up here. little bit more flare.

Be assertive with it. Check the RPM just a little bit slow. level it. that'll Happ so you can see how much extra effort you put into that.

Yeah, for just a little bit, get her level getting a little slow. Start your flare. Woohoo dude I Feel so good about those. Now it's all you dude dude.

I Can do that 100 more times. So I'm going to just demonstrate real quick an engine failure on takeoff since we have five more minutes here. You want back up? Yeah, we'll go all the way back. Left lights are out, gauges are green, plenty of fuel.

Got start taking off KN I'm rotate 76 going around. that was a little high it 39 66 take right 3966 All right. So whenever you're ready Tower Cross FL left hold short R right on Al right on Alha 1296 level Exra 9610 FAL Tower only for right C you did way better than me the but I'm going to have you teach the class bro that's power loss on takeoff. There power off on takeoff so you can see how it doesn't y as hard as I thought it was no no it doesn't You were at what 50 knots when we did it I think is where the biggest thing.

As soon as that happens and you didn't hear it in quiet, you really didn't hear it in quiet. no it didn't Just so you can get a good flyby of it, we're going to park right on top of that girl out your door right now. All right I got there. you got it all you Noreast so be careful as you lower it's going to feel like you're rock it back.

Yeah, could just be nice and gentle with it. Wooo! All right You ready? Yeah ready with you are? That was a good spot. Dude that sweet man this terrain is incredible. Yeah it's a great training Mak The experience that much better.

A great training area about right here in this corner should work. Oh yeah brother. there you go over the got get out take I Had to jump out and get a video. We are like down in this massive Valley right now doing some challenging steep approach Landing Woohoo! this is so much fun man.

holy crap look at that unit. she's just chilling all right. How' it look buttery man? pretty crazy right? Yeah, you said the bar pretty high. It feels a little more violent in the helicopter so you know, like when you hit it, it probably looks kind of smooth from the outside cuz it's such a big machine, it's kind of absorbing it.

but when you're in there you're like dude, you know you're kind of rocking down the the taxi way. So we did, uh did a lot you did, you did like 10 and I'm excited to see the helmet C Oh dude, it's really fun. and the other helicopters I've flown. it's not as, uh, easy as this one to keep the rotor speed kind of like where it needs to be.

This one, you kind of just set the collective down and it just has such a wide range of where the rotor speed can be. you're kind of chilling and then you just drive it down, hit that flare, and then you just wait, wait wait until you're getting close to the Ground start pulling in. Collective and this thing has way more inertia than I thought it would I mean I Flown in helicopters that I thought had a lot. one of them actually went down I was getting ready to land and you would think like okay the rotors droop down to 70% of the normal speed and I kept pulling and then we went back up like 2 70% Yeah then we went back up like 2 feet and then sat down.

There's a lot of energy stored in those blades. Dude, there is. Even when it's at uh, 65% like idle speed and you then lower the collective, you feel the helicopter drop. So I mean it's making it's moving air.

Even at those slow speeds, the engine's that idle. it's not making any torque, you know you're just riding off what's in the in the weight of the blades, you know and hoping they can keep you flying for just a little bit longer. And it does so. Absolute blast.

Besides building them, they have a ton of stuff going on at MD Bunch of aircraft that are in for maintenance upgrades things like that and this is 100% got to be my favorite room. We've got some brand new helicopters that are going to be going out to customers soon. MD Customers I'm just drooling over these things. That dark gray one down there dude.

Absolute unit. I Mean these things are brand new. Can't imagine one to be like to own a brand spanking new helicopter. They are perfect and like I said handcrafted here in the USA Dude, it's a Freedom Attic helicopter all right guys.

Looks like we graduated cuz they gave us caps and gowns. We're about to get our Uh Dias diplomas Roman was kind of. We had to pull some strings but it looks like he's getting one too. Does apprciate that our grades on it? Roman come on I didn't know you went it nervous B Big day Hoay you did it.

Thank you Mr Cletus McFarland app didate Thank youate here you go All right guys. We had blast here at MD Helicopters all week. We uh got our training done. we all passed even.

Heavy D Even heavy, that's crazy. Yeah, it's my only academic achievement ever. Yeah, we're feeling really good about it. We had a blast and huge thanks to MD Helicopters for doing this.

I Don't know for sure but I don't think I've ever seen a helicopter company and some influencers do like a partnership and and do something like this. That was really cool to work with these guys and hopefully, uh, start a good relationship with them and hope to get an MD soon. but uh now I'm all trained up ready to rip. That's it for now.

Thanks for watching. Do it for day. See you later.