Tell us something you do from which others might learn - Priceless Tips (Merged)

[RaymondKHessel]

Second that Dennis!

This is something that often gets buried in a ground lesson, especially when your instructors never learned how to simulate it. It's also a topic that comes up a lot, and I've developed a web site for low time pilots to get answers to questions like this from high time pilots. Here's the link to the tail rotor failures lesson...hopefully you can add something to it.
Thanks!

[Jabberwocky82]

Originally Posted by semirigid rotor

Never let the aircraft take you to a place, your brain hasn't been 5 minutes beforehand.

or another way of saying it;

Never take an aircraft anywhere you brain hasn't already been

[SASless]

If everyone agrees....someone needs to start thinking!

[cyclic_fondler]

Compass

There's only two things you can trust in life:-

Your Mother
and
Your compass

[Soave_Pilot]

An important one is:

Always instruct your passengers how to release the seat belts, open/close the doors, exit and enter the aircraft.

A heard of an accident few years back where the pax didnt know how to do that and ended drowning inside the aircraft after a ditching, and the same thing can happen if the chopper catches on fire over the land.

Also... when doing an emergency landing on top of trees, go tail rotor first!

DS
aka jungle pilot

[BedakSrewet]

Compass

And the Mother Compass....

[Max Contingency]

Speed equals height and height equals speed. If you are out of both of these and you think you are going to have to overtorque or overtemp then do it early. A lesser value of overtorque/temp held for a longer time can have the same effect in arresting rate of descent as a larger value but momentary overtorque/temp but has significantly less chance of "trashing" your gearbox/engine.

"We make these mistakes so you dont have to"