touchdown autorotation video - from inside cockpit
 

see here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWI5VV5bPdA

looks like he has done that before!!!:eek:

ems300 are your autos that good in the old 500 c .
I thought you had to keep the low rotor rpm horn off ,Not on .

Not sure when the low rrpm horn comes on in a 300cbi, which is what we see !

I think the pilot was going for an extended range ;)

Not impressed at all. As mentioned before low-rpm all the time.

Don't think that is an extended range auto as the rate of descent looks too high, but then again he has got the low rotor rpm horn on so he must be pulling pitch. But when he flares you would expect the horn to go off as the disc loads up even though you would naturally check this to contain rrpm.

The worst of all is landing on the concrete what is wrong with the grass, much kinder to the machine.

scuse my ignorance , does the rotor ever overspeed before you pull collective ?.What is the continous beep just after the throttle is cut ?.

That's the low rotor rpm horn. Meaning he doesn't initiate right and then doesn't manage to get the RPM up.

In the 300cbi the horn has two stages,

When it is beeping on and off the rotor rpm is somewhere in the bottom half of the green (but still in it). For most of this Auto this is where it was sitting. It is hard to tell if he stretching, when you do you don’t go that much further in a 300. Going by the entry point unless there was a strong wind I would not think so.

When it beeps continuously the RRPM is right at the bottom of the green or below it this is where it was on the entry.

He does recover RPM in flare.

Does seem a little harsh on gear doing a Run on onto the concrete

Crispy

Looks Great To Me!!
 

Keeping the RRPM a little low is absolutely normal to strech the glide, he didn't auto aligned to taxiway so he had to make it otherwise, it was what I would consider a Zero speed touchdown so I see absolutely no problem with going for the concrete, it's even safer since the ground could be mushy and he could get stuck with something. The machine obviously gains RRPM during the flare so he might it kept it there on purpose.

I loved it.

Running on concrete is better for the gear, because the skids can go outwards that way. The grass is softer but the skids dig in and the shock has to be absorbed otherwise.

It looked like a very late flare to me, but then it could have been an optical illusion given that it is only a video, coupled with the fact that I've only ever flown Robbies and the process might be different on a 300

i think it was amazing. give him (or her) a north sea job right now!

excellent video :D - almost certain it was shot at space coast regional airport in florida so more than likely an HAI machine?

Mine were all to hardtop
 

I learned in an Enstrom F28A, a great little machine to auto to touchdown. I didn't do any power recoveries except to prepare for the checkride. My instructor was a 4000 hour pilot, half in Nam, and he believed in shooting touchdowns to hardtop. Less friction, less likelyhood of it getting ugly and digging in in his opinion. We had carbides on the skids, and yes they wore out eventually, but I guess I saw them as expendables. Is it really hard on the machine to shoot to hardtop? Especially in a 300 with its great oleo gear.

-- IFMU

IMFU,
It says right in the POH that touchdowns should be less than 36kt IAS on a smooth, HARD surface. Thats why it has skid shoes and oleo dampers. We actually had a helicopter totalled at my school not too long ago because the student gave too much foward cyclic and dug the skid into the grass on a touchdown auto.:=

yeap that is spot no 2, on a runway 36 configuration.:ok:

Hard top.
 

In Oz we didn't do too many to the hard top, but then again in summer the ground was hard anyway. Wouldn't want to 'ball' up in soft grass.

At the end of the vid you can see other scratch marks where there had been previous autos. Or was that just an optical illusion?

Critics of this pilots auto (not me) should know full well that each and every auto is different with factors such as air density, wind speed and direction, weight, fuel quantity/tank configuaration , passanger position, air density etc etc all playing a part in making each one unique. Coupled with the fact you cant properly guage the flare height/ground speed from this video who is anyone to have a pop at this pilots technique? not me thats for sure!
And hands up who hasn't had the horn on upon initial entry to the auto on the odd occassion?:eek: Well the C model I learnt in didnt have the luxury of such a device and in the 47 autos were a total non event but it was quite common to get the horn blasting out that shrill tone momentarily on instructor initiated throttle wind offs when I did my 22 and 44 endorsements.
My feelings are this video was a demo of a range auto with the rpm at the bottom of the green hence the beep beep of the horn and a textbook ** as per the POH** termination on a suitable hard surface.:ok: