Timeline for Is the autorotation in San Andreas movie realistic?
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| Jun 30, 2023 at 18:45 | comment | added | Someone | "Is [some aviation-related occurrence] in [some movie] realistic?" No. | |
| S Jun 30, 2023 at 15:05 | history | suggested | Rodrigo de Azevedo |
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| Nov 30, 2015 at 16:26 | comment | added | JPhi1618 | Heh, yea. That's ok - if the helicopter was depicted as poorly as computers are in movies, it would fly with the main rotor facing forward and travel at about 800mph before kicking in the turbo boost. | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 16:22 | comment | added | feetwet | @JPhi1618 - No kidding. Most of the movie required extreme suspension of disbelief, logic, physics, etc. I guess I had hoped that since they obviously had access to real helicopters and pilots, and somehow picked up the word "autorotate," maybe they'd at least ask someone to demonstrate a realistic autorotation in the helicopter they were filming. Maybe they did and decided it just wasn't exciting enough for audiences.... | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 16:01 | comment | added | JPhi1618 | Hopefully you were just interested in this particular scene, and you're not ok with the opening sideways dive into the cliff when rescuing the climber? Wish I could find that clip. | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 3:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/671162312770904064 | ||
| Nov 29, 2015 at 22:36 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 29, 2015 at 20:53 | vote | accept | feetwet | ||
| Nov 29, 2015 at 20:24 | answer | added | Simon | timeline score: 43 | |
| Nov 29, 2015 at 19:51 | comment | added | Simon | I found it. Complete nonsense. Read this | |
| Nov 29, 2015 at 19:46 | comment | added | Simon | If your first action is to pitch forward, then you die. The rotor speed will drop to an unrecoverable speed very quickly. | |
| Nov 29, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | Simon | I can't find a clip online. If he dives immediately, then it's unrealistic. If he dives after entering autorotation, and the airspeed is low, then it could be realistic. There is nothing stopping you diving (increases airspeed and rate of descent whilst reducing rotor speed) and flaring (does the opposite) as many times as you want but diving and flaring reduces distance travelled and time in the air since it's all about converting one form of energy into another. As you say, you would normally select pitch for max range or minimum descent rate, leave it there and flare at the bottom. | |
| Nov 29, 2015 at 18:46 | history | asked | feetwet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |