I have watch hundreds of gyrocopter videos and fill this the only guy that really explains and get you interested in gyrocopter flying

@randypemberton3387

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Hutchings He is the best teacher of the nuts and bolts of flying as well as maintaining the aircraft... If I EVER find out how to make a couple extra hundred grand to put towards my dream, I will owe him a debt of gratitude for helping to keep my grandiose dream of flying my gyro alive ... Thanks for the LIFT🧐

@marcus3d

5 жыл бұрын

He didn't explain much of anything here. Everything was dumbed down to the point of nonsense and waved away with a "you don't have to think about how it works". Thanks, but I came to this video to learn how it works, and this really unfunny guy didn't help me at all.

THE MAN, who has done more to advance Autogyro flying in UK (Europe?) over the past decade than any other. Well Done, Phil, another great entertaining, informative, video. My privilege to have met you at a Rufforth fly-in. Keep up the great work in enlightening the world on Autogyros!

Phil for a person with no experience of flying a gyro I found this very interesting and fun. Now I need to win the lottery.

@houstonhelicoptertours1006

4 жыл бұрын

Autogyros aren't THAT expensive. Some kits start at well under $20k.

@beagle5

3 жыл бұрын

@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 Try getting a Licence ? in how many hours ?? 70 before solo ,in many cases.

Thank you Phil, for the entertaining and informative lessons of gyro flight! As many of the vids I've seen on this wonderful form of flight have increased the interest, and taught me a thing or two about it, yours had me smiling, give a chuckle or two and most of all, got my heart racing and increased my yearning for such an exhilarating form of flight. Thank you so much for posting these videos. It really helps promote and educate the people about the joys of the safest form of flight. The advancement sure has progressed over the ages. From the original Benson back in the mid '60's to today, especially the last 8-10 years, technology has greatly increased the look and excitement of such a simple design of flight. Why it took so long for the mass's interest in it, I may never understand. But regardless, I am thankful for the progress

Thanks to Phil i watched both of his videos and DID find gyro i wanted and got proper training. Cant think of anyone else in UK who is so excited to promote this awesome sport. Thanks Phil.

Simply the best explanation and most interesting introduction to gyro plane instructions on KZread. Thanks Phil.

Absolutely bloody marvelous. Your mix of information, humour and graphics leave me wanting to know more, much more. Thank you Phil, I am beginning my training in France, and once hopefully once I pass, I will look for an hour or two training with a GB pilot just to "smooth the edges" as I did with my flexwing licence. When I do, it is on you I hope to call.

Hey Phil / Gary from Australia here ! Fondly remember my flight with you in the UK it made my holiday complete years ago. Since stroke the Drs won’t allow me to fly yet Still ever hopeful …. Loved this video as saw the field again Safe flying ol son Best from Oz 👍🏾👍🏾

Brilliant explanation , entertaining too. You have got me thinking about Gyros now (as a fixed wing pilot those wind gusts you discuss really hammer us)

Phil, you covered the basics very well done. Thanks and keep up the GREAT work.

What a top bloke! I really enjoy watching his tutorial videos, he has a first class way of getting the info through to us students...nice one Phil

Phil Harwood is the MAN! Thanks for spreading gyro love!

I enjoyed the video Phil, it's great to see these things flying, it looks like great fun.

Just waiting for 6 numbers and Im all in!. Dr Phil, If your show was on TV they would sell millions upon millions of these amazing little aircraft, I was in love with the Gyroplane when I first ever saw one, thanks for making wonderfully entertaining little shows

will have to learn. you make the gyro so pleasurable and you have a great tutorial presence. purchased your gyro pilots hand book, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Thank you for making the video fun to watch.... You've caught my attention.... keep up the good work and awesome videos and explanation...

The best explannatory gyrocopter video ever posted on U tube . Answered a very important beneficial affect ofvturbulence on gyros. Gonna buy one the day I have enough money to own one.

Phil is as mad as a box of frogs but the go to guy when it comes to Gyros. Great stuff Phil and thanks for the video

Great video Phil Thanks a million for the inspiration that has led me to an amazing time in Gyros

This should be on TV, it is a beautifully made video

First information I've ever learned about gyroplanes. I think I'm in love

Great video buddy, more please, much more!!!

Very entertaining and informative! Getting my autogyro rating in Texas spring 2021.

Excellent!!! Really informative....Superb job Sir!!

KZread metrics recommended this channel. For once, I'm not disappointed. I Love this guy! Anyone else think that he sounds like Star Trek's Mr. Scott teaching about gyros? Thumbs up for me!

Great Video Phil, very inspiring and informative!

Thumbs up !!! Very well explained, with a nice touch of humor !! That's the way !!! Big thanks !!!

Very informative video. Quite beneficial to those of us considering flying instruction.

The best video!! Excellent explanation. Not as complicated as I was led to believe.

You cover things usually missed as other presenters assume ppl already know. You cover it all thankfully, simply, yet in detail and with humour and a mutual enthusiasm you share with your viewers - ❤️🥇🏆🚁

@ppharwood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. Phil

This is one of those gems on youtube.

Your attitude is infectious !! Take me flying!!

Well done Phil, another excellent video.

Great! now I want to learn to fly one of these !

i really want to know more about gyros , your video is great .good work keep doing it.....

Thank you Phil for this video.

I would pay to watch these, so professional and educational, in a way I'm glad he is not on tv, the skies would be full

Excellent video had a chance to fly with Rodger Savage loved it 👍

great videos! you explain perfectly!

Wonderful video Dude. Loved it.

What a beautiful and informative video 👌

At last somebody explaining how the kite stays up. and not just flogging a book. Thank you Phil.

I love your video. Makes me want to learn how to fly a gyrocopter

An extremely good presentation of the basics of aerodynamics for 'DUNDERHEADS'

Fabulous video! Best I've come across - informative, humorous and really good production. Are you still operating (asking as your video was 3 years ago)? I'm based in portugal and looking into the possibility of learning to fly - dont suppose you have any contacts for over here?

So gratifying to see Cierva's dream come true at last. He knew what was needed,but at the time technology,and public indifference,and possibly hostility,just made precision control unattainable. A new generation of people are coming to enjoy flying themselves as fun,and of course,far more cheaply and easily than helicopter ability.

thanks Phil, 👍 i am graciously requesting you do a full video on how and why a gyro handles turbulence better than most aircraft ! i know you touched on it here , but a complete and full understanding of how this works will vastly improve sales and transitions to gyro's ( well thats my belief) . cheers .

@garywilliams4953

5 жыл бұрын

Greg I once owned an RV6 which was fast and in the summer in Oz you could hit your head on the roof in turbulence.. I bought a R44 some years later which the wife loved because in strong turbulence it simply wagged its tail. Why? Maybe the FULL explanation is for someone else but it is simply the size of the "wing" which rotates and the ROTOR DISC area which is much smaller than a full wing (maybe the loading is much higher) . I have migrated to maybe the Eclipse by ELA than the R44 simply because the hourly operating cost is about 10% in comparison to a R44.

@Echobike01

5 жыл бұрын

@@garywilliams4953 thanks Gary, great reply 👍

Best explanation ever! Great job!

Great video Phil!!! Had me pissing myself laughing. I love that enthusiasm mate, makes me want to fly!!

Brilliantly done, sir. 👍

FANTASTIC, FUN & INFORMATIVE TOO!

Oh man that was very entertaining 😎👌

Thank You for using Decent Music... And the Gyro-Education!

Excellent stuff bro

He makes it fun. Good video, Need more info before I try it.

awesome phill the fantastic, brilliant teacher method,mint, top man.

Hey Phil - I like your videos - simply "philomenal"

Great video!

Definite someone i could learn from. very entertaining

Very funny. I enjoyed watching this video!

Awesome video! Gets me really excited about gyros. However, what isn't awesome about them is the useful load / cross country capability. Only seat two people and have no cargo room. Are there limitations to these? If not why isn't anyone building them?

any comparission of gyropter & small doubleseater heli ?

I understand that if one is nearing a stall and pushes the joystick forward as one would do in a fixed wing A/C that it can cause a crash. So, I am wondering what one should do in that circumstance or is it best to do nothing?

learning on the gyro ,after 31 hours, and 1 and a half years, I feel like giving up. I have been fortunately to be in a position to fly as much as possible, yet my Instructor says ,it will be too much . o.k so if I find that, I can slow up. I am frustrated that there is no light at the end of the tunnel. On fixed wing I felt I was continually moving on. I appreciate its a different machine, and I am doing well .So any reasons ? why I cannot keep moving instead of I hour up and sit around for 3 hrs? At least with fixed wing it was ! hour up and chat about the flight on the ground ,and one understood more. Any Advice please? Wish you were my Instructor.

Another great video. Thanks #PhilHarwood

Hello Phil Very good presentation. I love both the real model that reduces and precisely in the video I see a pretty little models that I do not know, can you say more. 5:45 / 15:18 thank you very much Jerome

I never really understood fully how a gyroplane worked until watching this. And now I basically want one.

Exelent video and well explained

Phil I am messaging you from across the pond in Newfoundland how safe is a gyrocopter with a novice pilot

Gyro's are the future flying cars. Too much air traffic regulations spoil this fun, though.

@houstonhelicoptertours1006

4 жыл бұрын

The idea of the "personal aircraft" was ogled since the 1930s, yet nothing practical has ever manifested. Every ultralight, every gyrocopter, every real helicopter or plane needs training to operate, regular maintenance and comes with running costs...often more than the average Joe is willing to invest, time/money-wise.

Ok Dr. Phill I have a somewhat strange question I think you might know the answer to. I am a heavy man (OK FAT) and if a gyro in in experimental class maximum weight of 1320 lbs and has a useful load of 600 lbs and is tandem. In order to fly it I am assuming the CG for the gyro with me as a pilot and a copilot with full fuel would be forward of cg limitations. So here is the question if it is forward can one not have a curved longer mast to move the mast forward and upward to keep rotor in the same alignment as the original mast giving the prop proper clearance therefore moving the fulcrum point forward to a new cg? I understand of course you would have to adjust the line of thrust appropriately.

Does the blade go clockwise or anticlockwise?

In terms of balance, does the gyro need to be balanced front to back? If so it could explain the unpopularity, since it couldn't carry large loads.

sir can make a video on main rotar attachment in gyro copter regarding bearing and placement of rotar wings on cyclic

@ianfryer1967

6 жыл бұрын

You just could not get a better ambassador for the gyrocopter!

Phil does your company sell a gyro with jump start capabilities?

hey phil want too fly these machines im in ireland . will travel 2 the uk just want know where i can learn with a view too buyin my own ?

That put a big smile on my face for the day. 😁

What then does it take to get a licence, I know some that have not got solo until around 70 hours ,licence around 85 up to 100 hours, why is this so? if the hours are around 45 hours, on the course . plus if fixed wing Less hours ,Yet some still do not get to solo until around 70 hours. Please explain ?

Excuse me while I present this to my adviser for aeronautical engineering. I'd like to learn as much as I can and maybe get into the development some day

Ok you have me hooked. Is there a two seat version I could put floats on and then switch back to wheels?

@bluesnjax9134

4 жыл бұрын

Sport Copter can do that. Great safety reputation also.

Wow! My dream is to fly & this is how I can do it Thanks.

Спасибо, ФИЛ! Я прекрасно провел с тобой время и стал уверенно разбираться в теории полетов автожира.👍👏 From Russia with love

Best explanation ever. No on online explained better.

Hey Phil..... where do you school and how much cash and time is necessary to fly...? Many thanks....

Dr Phil I really had to get one. How can I go about? I only have hang glider experience. Needs training and a license. I am ready NOW Can i get a good one for about R400k (20 to 30k Euros)?

I have got to get me one of these!

Short take off and landing roll distances, stability, compact size... sounds so nice :D Really want to try this! Only there’s no gyro in my club :( The only occasion that I think I’d prefer in a plane is a bird strike to the blade, you don’t want to lose that blade and a plane with a hole in the wing still flies. I wonder what is the strength of the blade material, they look like graphite or fiberglass but I’m sure that the centrifugal force rigidifies them?

This video wins the internet

How do the blades start spinning up to speed like the cavalon does before the craft is in forward motion if the rotor doesn't receive power?

@RoadRunnerLaser

5 жыл бұрын

Because modern autogyros actually DO have powered rotors. Just prior to the take-off roll, the "pre-rotation" button is pressed which uses engine power to spin up the rotors. Once the rotors are spun up, the pre-rotation is disengaged and the take-off roll can begin. From this point on, the rotors are not powered but autorotating. As airspeed increases, there should be an increase in rotor-speed and subsequently, lift. Pre-rotation shortens the take-off roll considerably.

@flfun2no

5 жыл бұрын

@@RoadRunnerLaser Thank you for the explanation it makes sense!

Okay this is awesome!

loved the video, I want one when can you take me up!??

Jolly good job old boy

Clarkson he's not, but this was delightfully entertaining.

Hi Phil Harwood. this video the bets gyro video l have ever seen. l feel myself luck to meet you. l love gyro as you. and l decided make a homemade gyro in my garage. but l need your help. ıf you answer my qestions l will be wery hapy. 1: l have a rotor blade which measurment is: 3.50 m. X 18 mm. is it enouhg for one seat gyrocopter or not? 2: Blade angle problem. HAVE AN ANGLE IN THE MAIN ROTOR BLADES ? HOW MANY DEGREE: degree1.95, degree 1.85,degree??????? or degree 2......??????? thanks for help

For windy days, just make sure you have plenty of altitude for any down wind turns to keep your forward lift . This where people have died in these aircrafts.

And suddenly I have understood - that really English is sound like an English with the strong Russian accent! 😳 Probably that's why I have understood all about why and how a gyro fly! 😊👍 Спасибо, Фил! 👍

Was thinking of buying a nice sports-bike/motorbike....this looks like so much more fun..☺

I think this video has some very positive technical aspects to contribute, that said it is very badly let down by utterly stupid unnecessary loud music and equally distracting unnecessary video effects. I could add that perhaps a pressure distribution diagram of an airfoil might have helped assist the viewer envisage why an airfoil would proceed forward to hold the rotor in autorotation.

Why don't they have winglets on the blades. Can you buy the the gyro mechanism and who is the best, and I make my own frame I was thinking of VW Beetle 1800cc engine air-cooled would be a good choice or not thinking of cost thanks some DIY kits out there

@sourkraut6248

3 жыл бұрын

Look up "Experimental Aircraft Association"...... THEN seek out the rotorcraft folks. You will NOT be disappointed.... I am a 40 year addict.........

You should produce more videos.