Landing a helicopter in autorotation (1990)

A helicopter rises from behind a hill and takes off.

Sea and coastal landscapes (top).

A helicopter in flight.

Views of a populated area (top).

View from the helicopter cockpit.

The engine speed counter needle approaches zero.

The engine failure light comes on.

Readings of control instruments during engine failure, the pilot's actions in an emergency.

Switching the fire-fighting equipment toggle switches.

The altimeter needle approaches zero.

The helicopter crew members discuss the flight incident.

Views of one of the neighborhoods of Mytishchi (top), the crew commander's story about the flight incident is heard off-screen.

The commander talks about the actions of the helicopter crew during engine failure and an emergency landing (synchronously and off-screen).

Views of the neighborhoods of Mytishchi (top).

Panorama of the site of the emergency landing of the helicopter (top), the co-pilot is standing at the landing site.

View of the part of the highway near which the helicopter landed.

The second pilot talks about the forced landing (synchronously), a panorama of the landing site.

The navigator talks about the crew's actions after landing (synchronously), a section of a concrete fence damaged by a propeller blade.

The helicopter is landing.

The shadow of the landing helicopter.

A working model of the helicopter on the site.

View of the units and assemblies of the main rotor blade fastening.

The scheme of the blade element operation with the occurrence of the resulting aerodynamic force, cadets of the Kremenchug Flight School near the helicopter listen to the teacher's explanations on aerodynamics.

The scheme of creating thrust and engine drag of the main rotor.

The face of one of the cadets.

Landing of a helicopter on autorotation - rotation of the propeller with the help of its own aerodynamic forces.

The scheme of the oncoming air flows during descent on autorotation.

The scheme of the resistance to propeller rotation.

The scheme of the blade with a certain installation angle and angle of attack (animation).

The teacher conducts a lesson with cadets in the classroom using a model helicopter with a rotating propeller.

The helicopter hangs above the ground.

During the lesson at the airfield, the cadets answer the teacher's questions about the crew's actions in the event of engine failure in flight, the reasons for the flight disruption (synchronously).

The helicopter turns and banks to the right when the engines fail.

The engine speed and other instrument needles approach zero.

A view of a descending helicopter (from above).

Cadets of the Kremenchug Flight School during a lesson at the airfield answer the instructor's questions about the sequence of actions a pilot should take in the event of an engine failure (synchronously).

A flying helicopter begins to descend sharply.

A pilot-instructor and a cadet in the helicopter cockpit.

The altimeter and engine speed needles approach zero, the pilot's hand is on the throttle lever.

The instrument needles return to normal readings.

Balancing the helicopter with the control stick and pedal.

Descent of the helicopter in autorotation mode and landing.

Diagram of the forces acting on the helicopter during a descent in autorotation mode.

Cadets in the classroom during the lesson.

Diagram of the interaction of speeds during landing in autorotation, with maximum gliding range.

A model of a helicopter on the instructor's desk, the instructor with the model in his hands conducts the lesson.

Diagram of determining the gliding range of a helicopter in calm conditions.

Landing of a helicopter on a sand spit.

Cadets answer the instructor's questions about the points when landing a helicopter on autorotation on the glide path, depending on the altitude (synchronously).

View of the field during helicopter landing (top).

Cadets in the classroom during the lesson.

The instructor demonstrates to the cadets the sequence of the helicopter landing maneuver using a model.

The pilot in the cockpit of the landing helicopter.

The formula for the collective pitch explosion during landing.

The helicopter on the pad, cadets with the instructor are standing near the helicopter.

The formula for calculating the altitude of the explosion start.

The helicopter on the pad, a model of the helicopter with a rotating rotor.

Landing of the helicopter using a sweep.

The crew commander of the helicopter, which was forced to land in Mytishchi, talks about the use of a sweep during landing (synchronously and off-screen).

View from the cockpit of the landing helicopter.

Panorama of green spaces (top).

Landing helicopter.

The school teachers talk about the insufficient number of training hours for cadets to master the skills of landing a helicopter in autorotation mode, the features of landing in this mode, the optimal number of training hours (synchronously).

Landing a helicopter in autorotation.

The helicopter pilot talks about the need for training for landing in autorotation for future crew commanders to relieve psychological stress and consolidate skills (synchronously and off-screen).

View from the helicopter cockpit during landing in autorotation.

View of part of the airfield (from above), hang gliders and helicopters at the airfield.

Takeoff of a motorized hang glider and a light aircraft.

Takeoff of a helicopter from a sand spit.

Waves from the air currents of the propeller, the side of the helicopter.

Helicopter in flight.