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Welcome to Helicopter Lessons in 10 Minutes or Less!
My goal with this channel is to teach helicopter pilot topics, one-by-one, in a format that's easy to grasp. I try to keep all of the topics in a format that can be used on any scratch paper or a whiteboard in a briefing room. Viewers can use these drawings as a study tool, training aids, or for demonstration purposes to pass check-rides.
My name is Jacob. I'm an Apache Instructor Pilot and I love flying and teaching. If there are any topics you'd like covered, mention your idea in a video comment and I'll see what I can do. If you enjoy the videos, make sure to subscribe and leave feedback.
Safe flying!
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My goal with this channel is to teach helicopter pilot topics, one-by-one, in a format that's easy to grasp. I try to keep all of the topics in a format that can be used on any scratch paper or a whiteboard in a briefing room. Viewers can use these drawings as a study tool, training aids, or for demonstration purposes to pass check-rides.
My name is Jacob. I'm an Apache Instructor Pilot and I love flying and teaching. If there are any topics you'd like covered, mention your idea in a video comment and I'll see what I can do. If you enjoy the videos, make sure to subscribe and leave feedback.
Safe flying!
Helicopter Fundamentals Booklet:
iBooks: itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1446961574
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/helicopter-fundamentals-booklet
Want to say thanks? Click here to buy me a coffee or beer:
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Optical Blind Spot
Welcome back! I'm Jacob and this video covers optical blind spots. It's another aeromedical topic requested by viewers and is incredibly important to understand because failure to do so could mean not seeing hazards. This could result in potentially crashing. Be sure to hit like and subscribe and we'll get started.
If you're interested in my ebook study guide, check it out here:
itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1446961574
or on Kobo for Android, Windows and Desktop users: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/helicopter-fundamentals-booklet
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There are 2 distinct blind spots that exist in the human eye. The first, and most known, is the physiological blind spot, or scotoma. It's quite literally a certain point in your field of vision where you cannot see. It's hard to notice with both eyes open, but with 1 eye close, blocked, or partially impaired, you have a position of your field of view where your brain just guesses what's there. To test this, get a sheet of paper and draw 2 circles on each side approximately 6-8 inches apart. Close your left eye and focus on the left circle. Move the paper towards and away from your face and watch the right circle disappear. That's your blind spot. Try it in reverse to see it for the other eye.
Here's how it works. In the top down diagram drawn, imagine your eyes oriented forwards. The optic nerve connects to your retina in your eyes at the back leaving an absence of cone and rod cells (To learn more on cones and rods check my video here: ua-cam.com/video/tNE--WH8ebI/v-deo.html). This absence of photoreceptive cells leads to a blind spot about 12-15 degrees outwards from your eye as depicted. This is roughly an oval shaped disk approximately 5.5 - 7.5 degrees in size. at 100' away this can hide and object roughly the size of a barrel. At 1000' away this can hide a car sized object. Before we talk compensation we'll talk about the night blind spot.
Due to the night blind spot, some people call the physiological blind spot the "Day blind spot." But that is wrong. The physiological blind spot is always present. The night blind spot is specific to night time and is only present at night. This blind spot is right in the center of your field of vision. It's about a 5-10 degree cone where you can't see any sort of detail at night. Try it. If it's completely dark outside with little to no lights, stare directly at something small and it will disappear from your field of view. This occurs because of the high concentration of cone cells and absence of rod cells on the fovea centralis in your eye. This high concentration of cone cells here is what gives you the best day vision possible with high visual acuity and color vision. But it comes at the cost of your night vision. There are only cone cells and so the only thing you can see in the night blind spot is a source of light strong enough that the cone cells can pick it up. But in the absence of light, there is not central vision for the human eye at night.
So how do you compensate for these blind spots? First and foremost you should always be scanning while you fly. You should avoid a fixed head position. Constantly scanning moves the blind spots around so you're less likely to miss something. Some scan patterns may be a simple side to side or as thorough as an S-type or X-type scan depicted. Another way to compensate for blind spots is to move objects of the cockpit dash like suction mounts for go-pro's or GPS equipment. Cluttering your field of view could make it where 1 eye cannot see a hazard because the field of view is obstructed while the other eye cannot see a hazard because of a blind spot. Lastly, for the night blind spot particularly, you can do off-center viewing techniques to keep from losing sight of an object of interest. If you want to land in a field at night, don't stare right at it. Scan around and use off-center viewing to keep it in sight. But the preferably technique for this type of approach would be to use some sort of night vision equipment and not to have to rely on this technique.
That's about all I have for this video. If you enjoyed it or learned something new, be sure to hit like, subscribe, and leave a comment. Thanks for watching. As always, I'm Jacob. Safe flying.
If you're interested in my ebook study guide, check it out here:
itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1446961574
or on Kobo for Android, Windows and Desktop users: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/helicopter-fundamentals-booklet
Want to buy me a beer or coffee as a thanks? www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7KXKQ6LTEG89G
There are 2 distinct blind spots that exist in the human eye. The first, and most known, is the physiological blind spot, or scotoma. It's quite literally a certain point in your field of vision where you cannot see. It's hard to notice with both eyes open, but with 1 eye close, blocked, or partially impaired, you have a position of your field of view where your brain just guesses what's there. To test this, get a sheet of paper and draw 2 circles on each side approximately 6-8 inches apart. Close your left eye and focus on the left circle. Move the paper towards and away from your face and watch the right circle disappear. That's your blind spot. Try it in reverse to see it for the other eye.
Here's how it works. In the top down diagram drawn, imagine your eyes oriented forwards. The optic nerve connects to your retina in your eyes at the back leaving an absence of cone and rod cells (To learn more on cones and rods check my video here: ua-cam.com/video/tNE--WH8ebI/v-deo.html). This absence of photoreceptive cells leads to a blind spot about 12-15 degrees outwards from your eye as depicted. This is roughly an oval shaped disk approximately 5.5 - 7.5 degrees in size. at 100' away this can hide and object roughly the size of a barrel. At 1000' away this can hide a car sized object. Before we talk compensation we'll talk about the night blind spot.
Due to the night blind spot, some people call the physiological blind spot the "Day blind spot." But that is wrong. The physiological blind spot is always present. The night blind spot is specific to night time and is only present at night. This blind spot is right in the center of your field of vision. It's about a 5-10 degree cone where you can't see any sort of detail at night. Try it. If it's completely dark outside with little to no lights, stare directly at something small and it will disappear from your field of view. This occurs because of the high concentration of cone cells and absence of rod cells on the fovea centralis in your eye. This high concentration of cone cells here is what gives you the best day vision possible with high visual acuity and color vision. But it comes at the cost of your night vision. There are only cone cells and so the only thing you can see in the night blind spot is a source of light strong enough that the cone cells can pick it up. But in the absence of light, there is not central vision for the human eye at night.
So how do you compensate for these blind spots? First and foremost you should always be scanning while you fly. You should avoid a fixed head position. Constantly scanning moves the blind spots around so you're less likely to miss something. Some scan patterns may be a simple side to side or as thorough as an S-type or X-type scan depicted. Another way to compensate for blind spots is to move objects of the cockpit dash like suction mounts for go-pro's or GPS equipment. Cluttering your field of view could make it where 1 eye cannot see a hazard because the field of view is obstructed while the other eye cannot see a hazard because of a blind spot. Lastly, for the night blind spot particularly, you can do off-center viewing techniques to keep from losing sight of an object of interest. If you want to land in a field at night, don't stare right at it. Scan around and use off-center viewing to keep it in sight. But the preferably technique for this type of approach would be to use some sort of night vision equipment and not to have to rely on this technique.
That's about all I have for this video. If you enjoyed it or learned something new, be sure to hit like, subscribe, and leave a comment. Thanks for watching. As always, I'm Jacob. Safe flying.
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OGE Power in Helicopters
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Autorotations (Expanded) in Helicopters
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Smoking and Flying Helicopters
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Inadvertent IMC in Helicopters
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You said the dissymmetry of lift will cause an unwanted roll but wouldn't it cause an unwanted pitch due to gyroscopic precession?
I’m in A&P school right now block 10. This video was incredible. New sub here. I cannot decide if I should move towards rotorcraft as a new A&P or regular aircraft. I’m 48 right now I’ll be 49 when I graduate. I don’t have years to waste. I need to commit to something and see it through but I don’t know enough people in the industry to see where I could fit in.
Thank you so much. Currently in common core and this helps so much.
Just got home after taking the SIFT and got a 68. Opened UA-cam to relax and this video was still up because I needed a refresher before going in. Couldn't have done it without you, sir. Onward and (hopefully) upward!
bro needs a new sharpie
what about co-axial helicopters
It's an avocadocopter!
Listen guys, because of this channel, I passed my SIFT with a 66. Study up, and understand everything in the FAA heli guidebook chapters 1-5, and the Amazon SIFT study guide. (Red and yellow one with a Blackhawk on it) I thank this channel!! Thank you
Why Robinson's are banned from mountain flying in New Zealand.
how different settling with power?
Hmm. Good enough for me. Not flying heli's except in MFS2020!
This is how my Dad would explain some engineering point, get a bit of paper and a pencil and break it down, great stuff!
Hey thanks so much for the video! Dan the recruiter tell you if you are Elinor for a SC based off of your criminal record?
If a household fan is blowing against a breeze and the power goes out, the breeze will blow the blades of the fan in the opposite direction. Why don't the blades on the helicopter do the same thing?
If the rotor is connected to the engine and the engine dies why doesn't the rotor stop?
🚁 giving you a helicopter emoji because I couldn't find the bucket and of course a thumbs up👍
Outstanding
Easy
Thankyou so much..,I want many more about its transmission
Typical Yankee ignorance of everything outside your awful country; you should cover both clockwise and ANTI-clockwise (not ‘counter’).
Watching on the day of the test 🤣🤣
Air speed is king
I absolutely cannot wait to throw this on my friend in our flight sim XD
Now it makes sense why when I pull back to slow down, it's so difficult to transition to an actual hover! I'm not compensating for the tf. Thank you 😂
I'm gonna be the best damn heli pilot in VTOL Vr 😂😂 thank you
By going warrant and completing WOCS, do you get the pay bump before starting flight school? Or do you get warrant pay after schooling? (I'm active duty now)
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Always keep coming back to these.
Velocity square but how to calculate it for rotating blade ? V= r*w(omega) but what is r ? Half dia ? But that’s going to be just tip velocity ?
I love your videos. I fly the Hip in DCS but I always send your videos to those in my discord trying to learn helicopters in DCS for the first time because there’s so much too it and you break it down in great digestible sizes. Thank you!
Passed with a 51 today! Great help.
Gurney . Adds a mile to the underside
As one of my Marine IP told me in flight school, don’t be low, slow and stupid. Always maintain your Jesus factor.
A,bcd,eh
Yessir
Will helicopter want to vane into the wind?
Rewatching this three years into my engineering degree and I am making a lot more connections than before
Let her fly
Interesting. I took a tour in an AS350 recently and sat in the front so I could observe the instrumentation. Pilot said you need three things to fly a chopper -- 1) brains, 2) speed when low, 3) height when slow. He said that as we went down low and fast following a river. I instinctively understood what he meant by that but did not mentally graph that as you explain here. Thanks for all your explanations. 👍🤠
Thank you Jacob
It's Newton's First Law. ;)
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Congratulations for your excellent video! 👏🏻 And what about the blowback tendency? In spite of providing compensation for dissimetry of lift, flapping movement generates another effect in the helicopter flight: blowback. Due to phase lag (or gyroscopic precession), the advancing blade (more lift) will have maximum up displacement in the forward section. Similarly, maximum down displacement will occur in the aft section of rotor disk. As a consequence, the helicopter tends to pitch up.
Excellent video.👍👍
Is there any program that you recommend that mimics the SIFT test questions pretty accurately and timed sections to practice taking the test? Thanks! Love your videos 🙌🏻🚁
A man that’s dedicated to teaching 🙌🏽
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How nice of physics to allow for a chance to survive a heli engine failure 😅
To fast and complicated needs to make three out of one video