BEN S
Super Member
Me and my friends have flown for years without an rpm gauge. I have one now. Sure I glance at it, but its not like I can't take off without it.
Here's a perfect analogy from another world.
You want to teach your young son/daughter how to shoot a rifle accurately. Do you teach them on open sights, or go straight to a red dot? Or a scope?
If you teach them sight alignment and trigger squeeze while focusing on the target, the front sight and the rear sight you will give them the building blocks to be the best they can be.
If you give them a red dot or scope to start on, the scope compresses all three planes into one (a scopes true benefit, not magnification) then they can become accurate with a dot or scope, then let them try an open sighted gun, they will not be as good. period. they have not mastered the basics and fundamentals.
Spinning up and taking off whether by hand or not without a rotor gauge is the best way in my opinion to learn the "feel" of a rotor that is spinning up to fly. Watching a gauge and reading off numbers that the gauge should be showing is not "learning to fly" it is learning to run a piece of machinery.
When things are not exactly the same as expected, will they adjust? Accident rate says "sometimes"
Here's a perfect analogy from another world.
You want to teach your young son/daughter how to shoot a rifle accurately. Do you teach them on open sights, or go straight to a red dot? Or a scope?
If you teach them sight alignment and trigger squeeze while focusing on the target, the front sight and the rear sight you will give them the building blocks to be the best they can be.
If you give them a red dot or scope to start on, the scope compresses all three planes into one (a scopes true benefit, not magnification) then they can become accurate with a dot or scope, then let them try an open sighted gun, they will not be as good. period. they have not mastered the basics and fundamentals.
Spinning up and taking off whether by hand or not without a rotor gauge is the best way in my opinion to learn the "feel" of a rotor that is spinning up to fly. Watching a gauge and reading off numbers that the gauge should be showing is not "learning to fly" it is learning to run a piece of machinery.
When things are not exactly the same as expected, will they adjust? Accident rate says "sometimes"