hey guys my name's sam and welcome to prepmedic this week's video is a little bit different than
i originally had planned i really wanted to get the full helicopter walk through
out and uploaded however i have just hit a couple roadblocks and had to focus on my undergrad and
some other projects so one of the things that i did film while i was filming that video
was a detailed walkthrough by our lead pilot of all of the controls of our helicopter and all
of the avionics and it really goes in depth it is far too much to put in the walkthrough video so i
decided to turn that into kind of its own uh mini topic and i'm just gonna play that it's minimal
editing uh but i think it's pretty cool and it is another profession in ems if you want to become
a helicopter pilot fly hems this video might be for you so without further ado let's get into it
okay so this panel in this helicopter is one of the best in the industry it's a full glass panel
and this helicopter was brand new to us three years ago we have a g750 650 stack on this side
750 650 and on this side is the 500 so if you take this gps and you say a direct to like we will say
we're going to go to a university hospital in denver all touch screen in here we have
our waypoints already put in you plug it in and then you hit activate it'll draw the white or the
purple line on there and it gives you your heading that you need to fly so your track you need to fly
your distance it also will give you your ground speed and knots so that's altered by a headwind
or a tailwind and then your estimated time in route so usually it'll say about 22 minutes
that will cross feet over on this side and this is our artificial horizon so when you're flying
you're able to see on the screen here the blue sky and the ground obviously
where the yellow is is where you're actually flying to this one also shows terrain and
another spot on there this down here that you see it's a little arrow it says nine thousand feet
that's traffic on there actually so this also has adsb and you can see live traffic on here
because we're a helicopter and we fly a little lower we have the towers on here so all these
little red spots on there that you see as a tower that's going to affect our light of line of travel
the other thing that we have is we have the ability to plug this one in to go to a different
spot a lot of people will have these cross fill each other and we don't because we fly in such
strict airspace we are quite often going through class bravo and denver we want to make sure we
have two different tracks going so we always know where we're at so this one you can see the purple
lines going to the east and this one's going south if i want to go to where the purple line
is i'll come back over on this side and i'll push number two and you'll see the tracks will then
go to greely which is what i plugged it into this one as well has our distance the track our heading
we would fly so you're able to navigate to two different things why is that important if we're
going to a scene call and they have given us waypoints instead of having to cancel out you
can just re-enter in the waypoints on the bottom and somewhat find the side of the scene that way
up here we have filters so this says our lights so all the lights will be off
day or night what does the night time mean that means that our nvgs or our night vision
goggles are able to see the engine gauges they have filters actually on all of these
the dimness the brightness all of these lights are the engine so this whole panel right here has only
to do with the helicopter this is our rotor rpm very important it keeps us in the air and these
are our engine gauges which are the most important fuel over on the left side so our fuel quantity
the tot that's a turbine outlet temperature that's how hot the turbine is
the n1 the compression speed and then the torque how much torque you're pulling on the blades
in startup these three gauges will be separate like that and as soon as you hit 60 on n1 they
will go to one and it's called the fli and what that does is it it makes one gauge that has all of
them combined so if you're getting close to the yellow in any of them it'll pull the yellow up
and that's easier when you're flying to only look at one gauge if you are getting worried about
getting close like if you're worried about over torquing you can also put it back to this three
page when you're flying you just have to look at all three this is our outside air temperature
down here is our engine oil and our engine oil or our pressure oil pressure and you can see
this has a red underline under right now because the engine is not on so we have no oil pressure
down here is our battery and our generator these two gauges down here are super important so
this is our fuel flow so this tells you how many gallons per hour you're using so this helicopter
we generally plan 45 to 50 gallons per hour and this is how much fuel to the end so as soon as you
start up and you get in cruise flight it'll say an hour 42 minutes um these are our backup gauges
so our backup artificial horizon in case this one were to fail backup airspeed and our backup
altimeter over here this is the same sort of gauges this is our ground speed which will be the
same as over there this this will also be a tape air speed tape so you can just look over and see
on this side this is our vertical or vsi so if you're climbing it'll say plus one
plus two plus three that's hundred so it'll be 100 or you're descending 100 feet per minute
also our altimeter over here you set your standard atmospheric pressure based on what the ada says
it is which should be right around there for today and then the ra is the radar altimeter that's very
important because that's how high you are above the ground how high the helicopter physically is
so why does this say 5080 and this one says zero one is msl means sea level and one is ago
above ground level so right now because we're sitting at five thousand feet the helicopter feels
like it's at five thousand feet but really the radar altimeter says we're a foot above the ground
this is important for performance planning down here on the bottom is all of our radios
so this is our fuel pump this is our generator pitot static tube which the pitot measures
the ram air pressure that's how fast we're flying servo has to do with the hydraulics
warning test light that's basically if you watch this it'll test all of our lights so we want to
make sure every single one of these lights work before we start up if one of these is burnt out
and it doesn't turn on it might have a failure in flight and we don't know if it's going to come on
as well as these screens you want these numbers to be the same and all these colors to match so
purple is fuel you want to make sure those lights work once i let go we're going to watch the torque
gauge it's going to come up here and it's going to measure the torque you want to make sure it goes
to 100 for a couple seconds and then back down back down here to these we have our avionics our
fire test all of these are calm our traffic pulse lights are the lights on the bottom that pulsate
supposedly that's supposed to keep away birds and this is all the ems stuff so
we have ems power the inverter and the oxygen so i control that up here for them in the back
these are our radios this is our 800 radio so we have our dispatch as well as the medical crew is
able to talk to ems ground support anybody that's going to help us land on a scene call as well as
give report on an inter-facility transfer and these control which radios i'm talking to so
as you can see i have two frequencies up here and two frequencies down here this one's called com1
and this is com2 so if i want to talk on com1 this transmit has to be all the way over on com1
and this has to be flipped up if com2 is talking and i'm trying to talk and listen on com1 i can
just flick com2 down and it silences them happens a lot out here in the denver frequent frequencies
uh sky is our sky our sat phone which is down here you can scroll down i control it mainly and
the med crew usually talks on it address book dial and you can manually put in numbers too
and the other thing is the 800 so i have to be on the 800 to talk on this so you just have to know
which com you're talking on uh trans transmit the so the rx is for transmit to listen to these guys
ics is the med crew or us inside here and this volume this box is the pilot so you're
constantly dialing all these to how everybody likes it switch a frequency you just tap it
switch it like that if you want to put it back in you can just type it in hit one eighteen four as
a one that we use and then just hit transfer transfer it automatically altimeter you just
ident or excuse me the transponder you just ident that's our discrete squawk code so everybody knows
when we're going through airspace zero three one three we're lifeline one a medevac helicopter
so one of the coolest things about this is an airbus product with this helicopter the only
one i've ever had is there's a button down on the collective and you just tap it and you can do this
in flight and it's our whole performance planning on the fly so you put in your weight for the day
so in this eew is empty equipped weight so i put in myself the pilot weight the medics weight the
nurse's weight and my max patient weight for the day from there i'm going to zero these out here
because i have everything in here and the helicopter is going to measure this usable
fuel that we have on what we actually have right now so we have 489 pounds and that gives us our
all up weight right here it's going to take in our oat which is our outside air temp and it's going
to tell us if we have ige which is in ground effect hover or oge hover out of ground effect
super important for performance you can do it on the fly if we're up in the mountains and i want
to know if i have power to land it'll tell me so what does it look like if i don't have power
well i'm going to go over here and i'm going to press up on the altitude and we'll see where we
don't have power anymore as you can see if i go up in altitude the temperature is going to go down
for every thousand feet the temperature goes down 2 degrees i'm going to keep plussing this
up and then you see it goes yellow right there so i would not have added ground effect hover at 10
000 feet based on today now you also have to take into consideration we would burn off fuel before
we would get there too so the controls in the helicopter we have quite a few of them we have
the cyclic which is this between my hands most of these buttons this is to override the autopilot
this is the autopilot if you're coming into hover you can push the button down and hold it
or you can just fight it most of these bought all these buttons we actually don't use um there's an
ident button which is the same as that if you don't want to take your hand off the controls
um the other button that we have down here this is just force trim we just really don't have any of
these hooked up in this helicopter but it looks like a lot on the back there's a trigger switch
on the back and that's how you cue up the radio so if you watch over here it'll say transmit that's
how i talk to the tower as i push it on the back here the control down on my left hand side this is
a collective it actually controls the pitch in the blades so if you pull up on the collective
that's going to pull pitch into the blades and if you push down it's going to take pitch out
on on the collective is the throttle and this has a detent spring so it's just ground idle or you
flip it and it's flight idle one or the other so you want to take the helicopter from ground idle
to flight idle that's going to take your rpm up in the green and it makes it high enough for you to
fly and the last controls are the pedals on your feet that controls the anti-torque and the tail
basically when you when you add power and you're pulling pitch in
you're adding a lot of torque in the blades you're gonna have to counteract that with the pedals
so the cyclic controls the plane of the disc collective controls the throttle and pulling
up pitch and then the pedals control the anti-torque so that is all i have for
this week's video like i said next week i will for sure be releasing the full helicopter tour
so if you have any questions leave them in the comments down below and i will see you next week
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