Its kinda worth to mention that its easier to autorotate landing if you try to not bleed away too much speed, once ure very close to the ground you can start pitching up and glide a few meters over the ground till you lost almost all your speed. then raising collective to gently touch down. When autorotating from a big height its way more risky in my opinion since if you fuck up the timing, you will fall too fast and dont have enough time to slow down the falling speed by raising collective. Also in advanced flight model u also have to count in the weight of ur passengers, in normal flight mode there is no passenger weight. When u got a full (or even half full) hummingbird, u will drop like a rock when autorotating without speed and you cannot slow down the fall enough by raising collective. With speed u can still do it ( but you will probably touch the ground with like 10-20km/h forward speed, depending on the lz its not a problem tho). I got a clip that shows it pretty good (its in advanced flight model but its pretty much the same, just harder. Also i really wanted to land on the pad so the landing itself wasnt "that gentle") th-cam.com/video/2dVNYxjrBro/w-d-xo.html
So much better than the vritual armory's "training" on how to do it. Thank you so much!
Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing
Its kinda worth to mention that its easier to autorotate landing if you try to not bleed away too much speed, once ure very close to the ground you can start pitching up and glide a few meters over the ground till you lost almost all your speed. then raising collective to gently touch down. When autorotating from a big height its way more risky in my opinion since if you fuck up the timing, you will fall too fast and dont have enough time to slow down the falling speed by raising collective.
Also in advanced flight model u also have to count in the weight of ur passengers, in normal flight mode there is no passenger weight. When u got a full (or even half full) hummingbird, u will drop like a rock when autorotating without speed and you cannot slow down the fall enough by raising collective. With speed u can still do it ( but you will probably touch the ground with like 10-20km/h forward speed, depending on the lz its not a problem tho).
I got a clip that shows it pretty good (its in advanced flight model but its pretty much the same, just harder. Also i really wanted to land on the pad so the landing itself wasnt "that gentle")
th-cam.com/video/2dVNYxjrBro/w-d-xo.html
Excellent writeup, thank you for sharing!
You legit saved my ass. Thakks
Thank you just thank you