Love your simply explained, relaxed delivery videos and instructions. The only problem is not being able to experience the flight, but the clarity and full screen image, along with your easy delivery makes your videos so enjoyable..

Keep the how to fly videos coming. Great to see how to control your helicopter

Short, interesting and to the point. Thanks!

Great how-to-fly video!

Excellent tutorial video. Learnt more than I anticipated just by watching you balance everything so well and explaining it as you go.

I've watched several videos about flying helicopter s and they all just point at the general area so thanks for the more interesting explanation and demonstration I will look out for others thanks Maria

You seem very calm and laid back I wish I had you for an instructor! Thanks for sharing!

Hello Maria. Greetings from Ireland. I'm a fellow pilot and am really enjoying your videos. They're well produced, interesting and informative without the usual hype and testosterone most flying videos display!! Never heard of the Heli being used as a crop dryer before. But then we don't grow cherries in Ireland. Well done.

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

I know. The hype is absurd. But apparently a lot of people like it. I think we've been conditioned by reality TV to be on the edge of our seats all the time. I don't fly like that and don't think other pilots should promote flying like that. Thanks!

Many thanks and greetings from Poland!

@Maria - Great shoes and, a great video showing the control articulation of the pedals and, the corresponding surface response of the tail rotor! Cheers-

Thank you ma’am for the video. Since i was kid i’ve always wnated be a heli pilot and now im 34 your video makes me one step close to my dream thank you! Greetings from TEXAS

Great video (content and quality-wise)! One thing also worth mentioning is that once you lose ETL, the trim strings start to fall, and from then on they are still of good use since they will indicate where the wind is coming from! Can be nicely evidenced during your approach where you see a windsock to the right (5:23) indicating a light right crosswind, and consequently a little later on the strings are being blown to the left (5:45) shortly before you make your left pedal turn to touch down.

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

Good point about the trim strings.

very, very good demonstration and class about the rudder (ups, sorry) anti-torque pedals and what they do in a helicopter, I enjoyed it a lot... looking forward to the next video

Interesting, if I ever learn to fly a helicopter, (which is on my bucket list) glad to know the rotor pedals causes the aircraft to yaw in the same direction as rudder pedals an airplane! Thanks for the demo, Maria. Fly safe.

Enjoying your video's AND learning as well. Thanks for sharing.

Very cool. Looking forward to watching the other 3.

@FlyingMAir

4 жыл бұрын

Two of the others are already online. Haven’t done the throttle yet.

Such a great video!! Love watching your channel, the communications, knowledge, and footage quality are all excellent. Flying a helicopter is such an impressive skill and they are incredible machines.

Awesome video!! Thank you for taking us along!!!

Your amazing videos relax me so much! Thank you for all your hard work Maria!

@RLTtizME

5 жыл бұрын

Me too...but I got a little tense while hovering at touchdown!

Thanks for Tech Thursday (on Wednesday). I really enjoyed it.

OH MY GOD this was so useful. Thank you for your service ma'am.

Great video as always, thanks!

Thank you for being such a good resource of information about helicopters. Always enjoy your point to point flights not possible to me as a fixed winger. Bravo!

Thanks for sharing these videos. I only have experience in fixed wing aircraft and find this very interesting. I'm always grateful to learn new things 😁

This is great!! I’ve looked for copter basics vids a long time. Nice!!

Terrific explanation!!! Thank you!!!!

As always...great watch.

Thank you for the video! Looks like so much fun!

Very cool! Would like to see a full cold start up, zoomed in on the gauges/controls. That way if I had to make a James Bond escape in a Robinson I could..jk.

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

I have to say this: that scene in a James Bond movie where they dump the helicopter out of a plane and start it in flight is CRAZY IMPOSSIBLE. First, the damn thing would be tumbling like crazy. Second, the pressure of the wind against the stopped/slow blades would bend the blades. Third, they would never get enough RPM up to arrest that descent. The scene makes me cringe. Another impossible James Bond helicopter scene? The one where they're on a motorcycle and a helicopter is using its blades to chop everything in front of it. If a helicopter was pitched that far forward, it would be flying at max speed -- not inching along. And the blades would break before it did any serious damage on the ground. So don't get me started! LOL!

@demandred1957

5 жыл бұрын

@@FlyingMAir yeah, in the tv series Airwolf, they did a escape from a c-130 in pretty much the same fashion. However there is one bond helicopter scene that is based on real equipment. The one where they have saw blades hanging underneath the chopper cutting everything up. That is real. They use that rig to trim right of ways for power lines in hard to reach areas. Doubt it would cut cars up, but hey Hollywood.

@jackspringer9283

5 жыл бұрын

What About Mission Impossible when helicopter is inside tunnel chasing the Bullet train LMAO!!! you gonna say its impossible hahaha!!

Excellent video I love helicopters but can not afford to train or fly so thanks for your time in explaining how it works x 😃

I like your Woodstock 50 yr anniversary sneakers. Good instruction video.

Love your channel. Really love your kicks

Great video! Thanks for the explanation.

awesome video, thanks for your hard work in filming it all for us couch pilots

The unlimited complement. That looks so easy.....👍

Great video, thank you!

Very good video ty

Superb video, I am building a Lego Technic model of a helicopter with realistic flight control mechanism and your video was very useful. It looks pretty darn challenging and scary to fly a helicopter! Safe travels.

Excited for the collective/throttle vid.

Love your shoes. Thanks for the video!

Very interesting to see your uploads. I've been always interested in helicopters and you bring your knowlegde very clear, thank you

Good video. Thank you, Maria.😊. P.S.Next time - warn us before hand so we’re not scared by those hideous shoes...LOL😆

@FlyingMAir

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! Some people LIKE those shoes!

I throughly enjoyed your commentary...nice flying. I will be waiting for your next video. Congratulations on your first! Loved it. Sub added.

Love the shoes without strings.. they be funky for sure, way to go girl!!!! I see where your shoe strings goes, for you trim strings on the windscreen... LOL

Nice instructions ma'am.

As a low-timer, I have more trouble with the pedals than any other control. Thanks for the vid!

THANK YOU. I have never had a complete unrestrained of the purpose of the strings until today. And I never really knew the purpose of the tail stabilizer. But the faster you fly the helicopter wants to fly straight because of it. I knew it had to do something to help the helicopter fly. just did not have a complete understanding on the physics to the helicopter it had.

I love your Videos! Thank you!

@FlyingMAir

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great stuff...my dream is to be a heli pilot...but money.....cant afford it....fan of your vids......

@snakechrmr6398

5 жыл бұрын

I flew helicopters almost 40 years. Regardless of the money required it was the most fun I ever had with my pants on.

Great video

Loved the flight instructional well done as well as safety info 👍👏👍

Awesome video, thanks

Great explanation/demonstration!. Thanks!…

Great video! Quick and easy understandable.

This video was GREAT. Waiting to see more!

Really nice video, thanks for the demo.

This was really kool Thank you for sharing. I am a native of AZ. Loved the state. But live in Northern CA up in the Truckee and Grass Valley area. I have allways wanted to fly a Helicopter. They do allot of Rice planting here with Helicopters.

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

I might be wrong, but I think what you’re seeing is the helicopters scaring birds off the rice. A friend of mine does that work. I’ve never heard of planting with helicopters, but I don’t know everything we do with them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@lizj5740

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, Shaun. You might enjoy Matt Sligar's Rice Farming TV channel (kzread.info/dron/hGgTSaa-uh9u5EQWX4H1Zg.html). Matt is located near Gridley, California. Starting with Video 1 (he's now up to No. 112), he takes you through the day-by-day activities in a rice farmer's life. I've seen light planes and drones in his videos, but no helicopters. (However, other rice farmers may have a use for them, as Maria mentioned.)

Thanks. New to the channel. New to ANYTHING helicopter.

Marie, Thank you so much for sharing the information! I had no idea the platform you use was that close to the airport....

OOH! These vids are gonna be fun! I got my SEL in 2011 but the only experience I have in helicopters is what I got from Microsoft Flight Simulator. They seem like too much work!

That was cool thanks

Nice shoes, Ms M

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

Every once in a while I buy something crazy to wear. My version of dying my hair blue.

that was pretty cool

Very nice video and flight! New subscriber here! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 Greetings from Douglas, Arizona 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🇵🇷🌴🌵🌴🌵🌴🇵🇷👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

I used to fly model helicopters found this very interesting cheers

Thank you for good vids

I’ve always wanted to fly Helicopters . I fly fix wing . SeaRey just started out not long ago. I have a few vids up flying panhandle Florida .

Nice explanation 👍

Hi, Love all of your videos and just purchased a hat and a sticker!

Thank you for an informative video Maria. Would like to see more of these. Now if we can get you to mount a camera looking to the rear and looking forward and looking at the gauges, that would be great, but probably not in the budget.

Great class!!! Thanks and please keep sharing so magnificent videos.

I've watched a couple or more of your videos and I would like to suggest a pro tip - do a quick hover check right after you come to a hover. A quick glance - rotor, power, green systems. It will probably save you some heartache one day. 6000+ hours, retired military, still flyin"....stay safe...

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

Just because I don't verbalize my instrument checks doesn't mean I'm not doing them. I've never been a flight instructor and never got into the habit of verbalizing everything I do. Even the verbalizing I do in these videos requires a lot of effort. Just saying.

@peekstr

5 жыл бұрын

@@FlyingMAir Sounds good, and I guess I should have said to pause at a hover as well as a quick hover check before you transition to forward flight. In some of your videos you takeoff and immediately start to transition to forward flight. There have been times the pilot has finished the before takeoff checks, decided everything was good, took off and immediately began transitioning to flight and something went sideways. More than one accident (some fatal) could have been prevented if the pilot had hesitated at a hover to quickly confirm the checks that were done before pulling up on that collective. My .02...stay safe...

Thankyou, this was fascinating

Thanks!

Your a good teacher not that I need to know but it’s good to know thanks

love the flying ,but understood 3 miles, it looked more like 5 possibly 6.. anyway , awesome pilot skills ..Wish I had some too... bless you ..

Que lindo todo lo que mostras!!!

Thanks ma'am.😊

Great video! Battery check at 5:36.

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

That was from the vibration going through ETL. It stayed connected.

Thanku for your explain mam

I never knew this. Thanks!

New sub here. Hope your new KZread channel pays 💰 some of your expenses 🚁

I wondered about those darn strings!

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

A lot of people do. 😉

very cool

Can you explain how the “Governor” works in your Helicopter? Also maybe a video on how the clutch works ?

Nice to see the Wenatchee valley from the air! Quick question....does flying a helicopter after enough training and experience (obviously) become as second nature as driving a car?

@FlyingMAir

4 жыл бұрын

I think so.

You made that look easy.

Nice!

Love them funky shoes ma'am!

Beautiful instructions! Mam, what controls are you using to generate forward flight?

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

Cyclic. More on that in another video.

@aky19832001

5 жыл бұрын

@@FlyingMAir Thank you

thank u very much !

Nice vid. Why are helicopterpilots mostly sitting on the right side?

@joshbjorke

5 жыл бұрын

I believe I can shed some light on this subject for you. It actually has to do with the tail rotor. The tail rotor is there to counteract the torque of the main rotor. I am going to base my explanation on a counterclockwise rotating main rotor system like the helicopter in this video. So here we go... So we have the main rotor rotating counterclockwise, the torque from the main rotor will cause the fuselage to rotate clockwise, to prevent this, the tail rotor produces thrust that opposes that clockwise rotation. Think of it as a fan back on the tail blowing the fuselage counterclockwise. Now, not only its it blowing the fuselage counterclockwise, it is also blowing the whole aircraft to the right, something we call translating tendency or tail rotor drift. Now to counteract that and to stay in a stationary hover, we need to add left cyclic, which is going to give us a little low left skid attitude. So if flying solo, the pilot being on the right side is going to add more weight to the right side counteracting the low left skid attitude. The main rotor mast is actually tilted a little to the left to help with this as well. Even with all that going on, the helicopter still usually picks up a little lower on the left side.

I assume that only experience in each AC will teach you how much pedal is needed at liftoff, and that if you're far off the mark, you'll spin a bit when you get light on the skids. Is there a standardized direction for rotor system rotation in helicopters, or do some AC require opposite pedal?

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent observation and question. One of the reasons we pull pitch slowly to get light on the skids for takeoff is to get a feel for the aircraft to start adding other control inputs. When the helicopter just starts to rise, we’re technically flying and may start to feel lateral drift (controlled with the cyclic) and/or yaw (controlled with the anti-torque pedals). Some helicopters do have blades that rotate the other way and the forces (and intros inputs) are opposite. I never really thought about it, but it would probably be pretty weird for the first few minutes flying a helicopter where the blades spun in the opposite direction.

@snakechrmr6398

5 жыл бұрын

Actually switching from main rotor blades turning clockwise to blades turning counter clockwise never required any extra attention from me. As you pick the aircraft from the ground you're conditioned to add opposite pedal to control yaw regardless of the direction the main rotor turns.

@ralphwaters8905

5 жыл бұрын

@@FlyingMAir I googled the rotation direction and it seems that USA and European rotorcraft tend to be opposite. I suppose this is akin to driving on the other side of the road; very weird at first. I drive by the Robinson plant by Zamperini field often and now I think of YOU. (Love the MAir pun)

Hello, Maria Langer 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.

I'm getting a good foothold on the subject! The question is raised that for flying helicopters a light shoe or sneaker is best for getting a better feel, however, military helicopter pilots have to use the boots they are issued n they fly just fine. Is foot wear a big issue? I prefer a light weight shoe like Sketchers, Chuck Taylors, or some decent driving moccasins. Big heavy hiking boots I think may be a problem, add unnecessary weight n may slow down your movements..

Helicopter fan here - from my WhirleyBirds youth ( age 5 ) .I have several books on rotory wing flight - understand little - and I'm confused on turning - " banking "- I have felt that turning was using the pedals - to swing the boom tail opposite the direction of where you want the nose to be pointed - but , OH , no ! can't be that simple ! One book and a web site tells me that the pilot achieves turns by means of cyclic control . so, what keeps the air craft from simply maintaining heading , and sliding sideways ? . Ah , mysteries , mysteries !

@FlyingMAir

4 жыл бұрын

In a hover you use the pedals to turn. That’s called a pedal turn. In flight, you use the cyclic to steer. I have a video about the cyclic coming soon.

@jbaumun

4 жыл бұрын

@@FlyingMAir Thank you much for your response - awaiting your video eagerly !

Hello Maria, great videos. I have a question: do the pedals in the R22/R44 have a return spring? Or do they auto-center when e.g. in forward flight? And what about the B206 pedals instead?

@FlyingMAir

3 жыл бұрын

No, there is no return spring. And there isn't really a "neutral" position in fight. To my knowledge, no helicopter's pedals have a return spring, but others may correct me on that. My experience with different models is limited to R44, R22, Bell 47, Huey, Schweizer 300, Bell 206L Long Ranger, Bell 206B Jet Ranger, Rotorway, and Hughes 500C.

@marcoottaviano527

3 жыл бұрын

@@FlyingMAir Thank you for the reply! Well with all those models, looks like your experience is not so limited then! I only use a flight simulator at home, and I'm amazed how closely it recreates the real thing, and all the subtle effects of helicopter handling, so much that I can use youtube videos as a reference! Finally let me say that your love and enjoyment of flying and helicopters shines through in each of your videos, and that's really nice to see.

Once upon a time, when I was part of the Search and Rescue Wing in the Royal Air Force, we had a test pilot who would take a helicopter and "spin" it up the length of the runway, that way he exercised all the flight controls. Is that possible in a Robinson?

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

If you mean hover taxi in a straight line while spinning on the rotor blade axis, yes. It’s a good control exercise. Not easy to do smoothly.

You said about speed. The speed on the cyclic is it the helicopters flying lspeed and you said about throttle on the collective is that throttle for the rotor speed?

Great video. You mentioned hovering is a little complicated. Is it because you have to use all controls at once? I live in Houston and see the news helicopters hovering over breaking news events. But I never thought about it or what’s involved.

@FlyingMAir

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, hovering is the hardest thing to do -- that's why they teach it first (LOL). The reason is because you're maneuvering all of the controls -- well, the governor controls the throttle -- and every time you move one, you need to move another one. You never stop, but after a while, it becomes automatic. I should mention that a lot of the news helicopters have autopilot that does the high, out-of-ground-effect hovering for them.