To control a helicopter, the pilot grips the cyclic in one hand, the collective in the other. At the same time, his feet must operate the foot pedals that control the tail rotor, which allows the helicopter to rotate in either direction on its horizontal axis. It takes both hands and both feet to fly a helicopter!
During takeoff, the pilot works the collective and the foot pedals simultaneously. Before we discuss how to take off, you should know that the collective typically looks like a handbrake whose grip functions as the throttle. Twisting the grip controls the power output of the engine , increasing or decreasing the speed of the main rotor. With that in mind, we're ready to begin a typical helicopter takeoff:.
At this point, the pilot feels the cyclic become sensitive. He or she grips the cyclic and, in most cases, nudges the helicopter forward. Directional flight is the topic of the next section. Military helicopters have the same basic parts as other choppers, but they do have some features that set them apart.
The most common use of military helicopters is troop or cargo transport. Attack helicopters also play important roles in combat operations. Higgins' Class! How cool that our helicopter Wonder connects to your lesson today! The forward movement the helicopter needs in order to take off comes from the rotation of the rotor blades! We Wonder if you can do some more research of your own about helicopters' use of force and motion!
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Be sure to grab a friend or family member to help you explore the following activities: Want to make your own helicopter? Here is a checklist for an AS Astar helicopter to give you some idea of what is involved with getting a helicopter alive and airborne:.
When a pilot is not company mandated to use the aircraft checklist then they can get a helicopter started and airborne in very little time at all. The AS checklist for example would take a pilot around minutes to go through, read, do, then move onto the next step.
For a seasoned Astar pilot, the checklist can be done from memory and if the helicopter is already set up from a flight before, ie no setting radio frequencies, adjusting the GPS etc, they can have the helicopter lifting off in around 2 minutes without rushing. On complex machines like the AW and the like, the use of checklists is usually mandatory because of the number of steps required to configure the aircraft safely. Even though a checklist is used, the flow also becomes natural which helps speed up the completion of the checklist.
Getting the helicopter started does not take long. Once you have electrical power and fuel you are ready to go. The part that starts to delay the liftoff is after the helicopter has started and there can be many factors that dictate how long it takes before the helicopter can fly:. This could take anywhere from 10 — 20 minutes. I have been sat waiting to lift off many a time because I have not been given clearance to depart from air traffic control.
When any pilot is new to an aircraft it takes quite a bit of time to get used to where every switch, button, and dial is in the cockpit. Going through the checklists can be painfully slow and this is one of the reasons why the military helicopter took so long to take off. If able, most pilots to a new aircraft will spend time in a simulator or a device known as a Cockpit Procedure Trainer CPT which is a touch screen simulator without the flight controls.
The screens give an identical layout of the helicopter cockpit and work as they should when you press them. For those training facilities not lucky enough to have a CPT the only way to get faster at checklists is in the aircraft itself. A new pilot to a complex helicopter can take over an hour going through the checklist, especially if they have to configure it for an IFR training flight!
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