SmarterEveryDay - 2015-11-20
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Spent a career flying for a living, including around 5k hours in helicopters, military and civil. I don't know how many hours of dual instruction you received during the filming of this segment, but.... 'ya did good son!'!!
Ok chad
and your lack of understanding of how quotation marks work makes jesus cry
Absolute chad
Chad are there no helicopters that factor in the torch of the propellors and adjust accordingly for you? Id think someone would have created software for that by now to make it easier to fly.
I’m really good with the buzzer in gta 5
Notice how the instructors control arm is longer than the students so that they have more leverage if they start grabbing on too tight.
Nick Mendez nice catch!
It looks like to me that they're the same length. It's just at a pivot in the middle. Destin is just holding it lower down. I'm sure he could lift it up. I obviously don't know for sure though.
I almost bought an rc helicopter as a kid. A guy at the shop told me flying a helicopter is like balancing a marble in the middle of a two foot by two foot pane of glass... running.
I bought an rc car instead.
@Rich Miller those rotors flying towards you? esp the bigger ones? fear of death.
true.. mine never lasted long
I heard it's like trying to balance on a bowling ball
Lol, me too back in the 80s. I bought a RC motorcycle instead.
Too bad drones didn’t exist back then.
I was told by a helo pilot that hovering a helicopter was on par with riding a unicycle on top of a beach ball. But, once it "clicks" it becomes as easy as riding a bike.
The hardest part of a flying helicopter.. Finding the money to start!
RC ones are real,@viperz888; they're just not full-sized.
Truth
@Mxps I use my thumb to control a whole world, controlling a helicopter would be cake.
@• Benjamɪn • I was one of the best Battlefield Vietnam Huey pilots on all the public servers. Miss that game :) . But even better was the Battlefield 1942 DC addon (Apache) - was nearly as difficult to master the flight physics as DCS world helis.
It's more affordable than you think
Hovering a helecoptor in BF4 is already hard enough lol
@Boris Erdogan It's still very active
Getting really good at tow is like impossible
If you find that hard you must be a failure at everything in life.
@I Want Lee why? Just why? That doesn't correlate in any means. Also I'm not a failure. I was talking about hitting every single tow
EyeInTheSky well that’s assuring, I’m very skilled at it in BF4 and want to fly a helicopter in real life. I always wondered if they were anything like each other at all
"Today on Smarter Every Day we will see aircraft crash investigators at work."
As you see here, the investigator is collecting my shattered femur, where they will take it to a lab and determine if I shattered it before or after the tail rotor smacked that tree over there.
"It has it's up's and it's down's" lmfao
RadioShow's RadioHour I kinda laughed at that too
So everything related to helicopters is flooding my recommends because I keep watching videos of Kobe's crash!
vee tour same here lmaooo not gunna lie though I’ve now gotten an interest in helicopters and want to fly in one
Luis Moreno same
Yep
veteran GTA player here. i can confirm this. its really hard to hover a helicopter, especially if youre trying to bust someone out of a prison
@dacasman
The part you guys are leaving out is you need both hands and both feet at all times to fly a helicopter
One hand controls the pitch of the blades and the throttle of the engine and the other one controls the direction of the cyclit
The foot pedals control the rotor in the rear
Lmao was about to say this
It’s easy to hover the avenger it’s like pressing a button
Maybe not veteran😔
Flying is my forte
I yearn for flight
Nothing else
I loved flying the akula. The thing controls like a beast. Can do 180* flips just by pushing fill backward or forward on the cyclic
I learned this real hard when I just HAD to buy a remote controlled gas helicopter. I was talking to a helicpoter pilot about it and he said. "It's harder to fly those than real ones. When you mess up in the real vehicle, the whole world turns." When you get a RC helicopter facing you all the controls reverse and you have to do the mental gymnastics to remember to fly all the controls backwards. You should add a bit about that on your video.
henmich rocket league has trained me for this lol
In my experience a very skilled RC helicopter pilot can fly the real ships quite acceptably within an hour, usually less. They might not be on the numbers but they can fly it.
scheusselmensch , that’s what I’m hoping for. Been flying RC for 20 years back when the gyros where mechanical and only slightly assisted. That was when you really had to know how to fly because you had to compensate for the torque. Anyone flying for less years most likely had a heading hold piezo gyro and never learned that skill. I want to get my license this summer.
@Kevin Meyer Hahahaha, the only thing we discovered to our dismay was that when you figured in the parts cost after crashing the R/C ships (big Hirobos, Schluters, and Kavans), the cost per hour was in excess of renting a straight 500 with an instructor!!
Sounds like 3rd person flying in a video game.
Me: hovering a chopper is easy
Also Me: dead
XD, got a god chuckle out of me
Kobe be like:
SmarterEveryDay: lets try to hover a helicopter
Me: trying to fly a drone
I bought an rc helicopter once. Then I flew it until I couldn’t see it anymore, and I lost it
F
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Just press R2 and the left stick forward
“Its got its ups and its downs”
🤣☠️☠️☠️
Reminds me of my first deployment and one of our regular crew chiefs had a patch on his helmet that said “Stop screaming, Im scared too.”
*Watches video of him taking off, flying, and landing.*
“Oh, I can do that, easily!!”
*Tries to fly Sikorsky S-76 on X-Plane 10*
“Ok ummmm”
bruh
Whos here after kobe’s death ?
that means YouTube AI is heartless.
Me
"You have the craziest job ever!"
"It has its ups and downs..."
... Threw my phone across the room at this joke...
Wait, so your phone went up then down?
Do you have a Nokia lmao
r/ComedyHomicide
RIP phone
Its not even funny
“The stick test” is an official test you must pass before you can get a helicopter license
I live here and actually saw my own house... so cool. I live 2 minutes from that airport.
I have heard many people say this: "Real pilots fly helicopters, everyone else just talks about flying." I believe it.
I’m a fixed wing pilot, and yeah, flying a helicopter is way harder but you can’t really compare them. There’s just things for each one and both are great to fly anyways.
Okay but like, have you heard of fighter jets lol
@Aliyah Sylvester that's still a fixed wing aircraft
Tell them helocopters that any real pilot actually flys spaceships.
I think they are just different skillsets. Mastering the basic controls of helicopter is much harder than the basics of flying a fixed wing plane, but I think fixed wing pilots need to have more situational awareness.
The speed, elevation, and orientation of the plane, as well as the environmental conditions (wind currents , air pressure, etc.) all determine how the plane will behave. I don't think either kind of pilot is less skilled than the other. Just different skills.
"It has its ups and downs" that has me laughing so hard...my favorite kind of instructor, laid back.
When he started explaining the helicopter controls. I just thought
“WHY ARE THERE SIX PEDALS?!” From Red vs Blue
Duh - clutch, breaks, gas, each doubled for redundancy... ;)
Destin, this is my "go to" video for showing people how hard what we do actually is. A helicopter is the true embodiment of Newton's third law, but there's usually more than one equal & opposite reaction. Now when someone wants me to explain how hard flying a helicopter is I just show them your video. You've packed a ton of information into just a few minutes. Great job!
And I assure those commenters out there who are experienced helicopter pilots because they fly a simulator or RC, you haven't got a clue. I've flown million dollar simulators for instrument work, and even those are nowhere near the real thing. I flew nitro RC helicopters before flying real ones, and it's not even close. If it's so easy, spend a few hundred dollars and go do a discovery flight at your local helicopter school, show the instructors there how much your simulator time taught you.
Obviously it's a lot harder than RC but like all things RC gives you the foundation to build on. A sim can only teach you so much. At least RC helps you apply the physics in a real world scenario. I understand your feelings towards guys who say it's the same thing or RC is harder. I'm not saying that at all because the real deal you pay for your mistakes with your life, so the stakes are higher. But knowing the basic behaviours and controls from RC especially in my case FPV, I feel it helps to have that foundation and build confidence in learning to fly a real Heli. I'm only commenting because I've always thought about it since I was a kid and I've flown FPV, planes, helis, and now quadcopters. It seems like the next step would be to take lessons and I hope to experience the click much quicker having the background to apply to a real copter. Let me know if I'm making sense and if I'm on the right track. Please no insults. This is still a serious matter and I'm not trying to start an emotional online debate. Thank you :-)
Since you are trying to train reflexes, and different platform requires different reflexes... I can see how one doesn't really help learn the other.
"but there's usually more than one equal & opposite reaction" actually no, there's only one reaction, trouble is the non-linear rate of change of both the direction and magnitude of that one reaction.
@James Ordway I disagree. Fly a RC heli away from you and left is left, right is right. Now turn and fly it towards you, left is right, right is left. But only for your right hand controlling the cyclic. Your left hand, on the collective, is not reversed, up and down are the same. Try thinking backwards with one hand and forwards with the other.
Also, when stood on the ground looking at a model in the air, you lack that 'seat of you pants' feeling about what the heli is doing. Close your eyes in a real heli and you still feel if it is turning. Try closing your eyes with a RC heli.
Both RC and real heli's are difficult to fly, its just that the pilot is detached from a RC heli to add another level of difficulty.
I've got rc helis and they are very difficult to learn to fly, many crashes but also many aerobatic maneuvers that would be impossible in a "real" heli. I've never ever crashed a "real" helicopter, could it be that they are easier to fly? I'm guessing it's because I've never flown a real one! 😂
As a professional helicopter pilot in battlefield hardline I can certainly say it's difficult to fly a helicopter.
“It’s like trying to stand up on a bicycle while standing completely still”
What graphics settings are these
Realistic
Will N ultra hd 4K HDR directx
playstation 5
Cool video, my Uncle taught at Pennsocola Florida years ago and i always remember him telling me one of the things he had to do was to cut the power to the engines To simulate engine failure and let the student bring the helicopter to a safe landing i remember asking him if he had the ability to Get the engine back to speed and take over if the student couldn't react correctly ? He is a retired search and rescue US Coast Guard pilot with many hours of flying out of one of the Nations busiest Air Stations and with a very calm response he looked at me and said Nope its just over ! I spent a lot of time doing recreational things with him over the years and i was always amazed on how he always kept his cool no matter what the circumstances At his retirement ceremony in the Coast Guard Headquaters in Washington DC i was impressed when they read all of his accomplishments in the military and how many rescues he flew during his 27 year career
Hovered around the box on my first lesson.
Hardest thing I’ve done in over nine thousand fixed wing hours
I can fly prettymuch any helo in Arma 3 pretty well and even autorotate the thing to the ground in one piece with a busted tailrotor.
Give me a real helo and I'd probably crash that sucker before it can even take off.
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Next step an autorotation landing from 10,000 feet after cutting the engine!
@Josias Rivera Yes! or go to 1000ft and corkscrew down playing the "Hit that spot" game. What memories !!!
@Apatheism Is like I've always heard, "It's not the fall that will kill you, but the sudden stop."
Once you get over a thousand, just more time to plan the landing.
I watched some helos doing back to back auto rotation training a couple weeks ago... my heart was in my throat everytime and was like ''He made it!'' Lol
Few helo pilots fly that high. So many factors to consider. Most flights are 1,500 to 3,000 feet AGL. Factors to consider: mission, payload, fuel (waste a lot of fuel climbing to FL 10,K) density altitude, weather, temperature. The only time I ever brought a F-28 A Enstrom up to FL 5,0K was when as a rookie way up north I got distracted and took my finger off the map. After 5 minutes or so still on correct heading I sort of got anxious because I could not confirm my location. (Northern Canada is mostly bush, lakes and rivers and nothing else. Climbed out to FL 5,0 found a major lake easily identifiable dropped back down to FL 2, K and kept my dam finger on the map tracking each way point to confirm position. Never made that mistake again. Most helicopters have basic instruments and radios. The military and large companies with the deep pockets had more toys.
Try hovering an RC model heli... I've heard it's harder!
They drift alot lol
My brain literally hurt when Destin talked about how many controls it takes to hover. Crazy.
Man I can't even fly helicopters well in Battlefield, I'd destroy a real helicopter. Props to you for putting yourself out they man!
Especially since Bad Company 2 xD
Helos in BF3 are the easiest to fly...provided you've got the chance to practice.
No one:
Thus dude: Next time on smarter every day, I’ll be piloting a Harrier Jet !
Gained more respect for helicopter pilots after playing Arma 3.
Flying in Arma3 is hard enough imagine flying irl with thT beatiful sky! Oh my God! <3 just don't crash. Irl and enjoy
"it has its up and downs"
As I was going through Primary Helicopter flight training in Mineral Wells, TX, I sent my parents a post card that read something like "I know why this school is in Texas - so you only need permission from one governor to learn to hover"
Showing love to the burg💯‼️
They should have auxiliary controls with q,w,e,a,s,d.
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PS4 Controller took my panic away. Mad respect to keyboard mastered pilots. My fellow noobs didn't see I was using a controller on the invite screen.😂
Edit: I'm playing GTA Online, btw. I was trying for hours to do keyboard but it pissed me off so I use controller for piloting and use keyboard from racing.
And space bar
E move up
Q move down
W move forward
A move left
S move right
D move backwards.
Yh lol
I was gonna say Michelle was a really good teacher. That's how you do it, enough encouragement, and drop you right into the situation.
Awesome, Brandon was my first student I taught how to fly Lol!
I heard hovering a helicopter is like rubbing your belly and patting your head.......While trying to balance on a ball!!!
"Hilariously Hard", learns it in a day with probably no experience in sims
Yeah, it's not that hard if you have a decent understanding of physics and your hands aren't screwed on backwards.
"We'll never get to McDonald's at this rate".
I know this video is nearly 4 years old now, but I absolutely loved it! Great stuff man, keep it up!
Flying helis are really easy, my BF4 days taught me how to fly them well.
I learned how to fly by playing gta v
Gta 5 controlls are very easy, it has auto stabelisation to get straight up if you let go on the controlls
... Helicopters don't fly...they beat the air into submission!!!
When I was a cop I was talking to one of our flight division guys. He said controlled crashing.
No they fly as a function of Newton s third law they look so rediculus the earth repels them!
maverickdallas100 sky blender!
we need ufo antigravity generators, chopping air is risky and outdated
Just a bunch of moving parts going in opposite directions to each other. What could go wrong.
Kuba Jarzebski - 2019-08-13
Not as hard as hovering an airplane
Babyskippa Skippa - 2020-03-18
Kuba Jarzebski
Vtol
world_wide_wes - 2020-03-20
I laughed real hard lmao
ขณัตถ์ สิทธิพลพัฒน์ - 2020-03-22
Agus Supriyanto m
Hector Busigo - 2020-03-22
Kuba Jarzebski well not an f35
Curtis Stapleton - 2020-03-22
Bahaaaaaaaaaa