I just like this meme 
OK, we can be friends again ā¦ I am starting my FI training next week 
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Oh Lordā¦you are more smoothbrained than I thoughtā¦
Seriously though. How does one train to be an instructorā¦because THAT dude (the instructor instructor) has to show you all the ridiculous things you might encounter. Nightmare fuelā¦
I think I am in very good hands. My instructor instructor is going to be a guy who did many full down autorotations whether while training others in this skill already or even to the field out of fuel once.
He also managed to save crew and machine in few emergencies in his career.
Actually I am looking forward to it ā¦
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Helicopters fly because they are so noisy and ugly that the earth repels them.
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Just putting this out there, doing an emergency autorotation in a CH-53 in simulations is hard- like really hard.
I canāt even begin to imagine whatās like to do it in real life.
All my respect to helicopter pilots; Navy ones, even more.
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Can I ask why itās harder than other helicopters? To me, from a purely laymanās perspective, that particular machine looks easy. Itās stable as a rock and has a huge amount of stored energy in the rotor for flare and touchdown. I am not normally a YouTube addict. At least I am nothing like my 15yo daughter. But for 2 weeks I have viewed every autorotation video, crash and lesson I can find. There is one that just blows me away and I have been watching and rewatching all week.
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Oh, I only ever tried in DCS in the Huey so probably my opinion is ā¦ somewhat biased?
But the CH-53 is heavy and itās quite a thing to keep in mind when trying to consider all the parameters for Autorotation.
I tried twice and crashed both.
Also Iām utter crap soā¦
EDIT: The more I think about it I really think that the āIām utter crapā explain the situation bestā¦ XD
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I would submit that, helicopters donāt fly, they beat the air into submission. 
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all I will submit is 
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The thing is, helicopters are different from planes.
An airplane by its nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly.
A helicopter does not want to fly.
It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying, immediately and disastrously.
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why, in general, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, bouyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooders, introspective anticipatiors of trouble. They knowif something bad has not happened, it is about to.
āHarry Reasoner
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ā¦and people say being pessimistic is no way to live! 
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I wonder if the mass and inertia of something as large as a CH-53 makes it such that you have to plan way ahead for the unfolding of the tail end of the autorotation process. Something tells me it doesnāt flit about quite like a Hughes 500 or something nimble like that. Total speculation of courseā¦
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[Edit] duh, I just said a bunch of obvious crap. The only useful bit was this:
ā (I think) ā
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Where are you lot flying Ch53 in sims?
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I am guessing that @komemiute was humble job bragging 
The sim he is referring to was probably real.
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I would kill for that Helo in dcs.
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For MP this is looking good
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Wellā¦ Yes. Yes I am.
Sorry.
Two different versions.
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Itāsā¦ surprisingly simple.
Well, simpler than I expected at least.
And still something still eludes me.
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