I have tried to do this in helicopter simulators, so many times. I would say I had a 25% success rate.

This should be easier to balance in reality because you can feel the rate of fall changing and hear the rotation speed of the blades changing. Doing this with instruments is probably an order of magnitude more difficult.

At 6:18 you can see my old house next to Destin's chin, or you could if the sky wasn't hazy and you had really good eyesight.

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Solitary Figure Skater On a BC Mountain Lake has been added as a related post - related requested by nanrod.

I noticed at the end of the video it briefly came up with Romans 14:19. I wonder if he'll do a "Smarter Every Day" on the absurdity of religion.

The funny thing about that passage is that, like most religious passages can mean almost anything you want it to. To me it ironically means to give up religion, yet to someone else it could justify a nuclear war.

I find it almost impossible to believe Neil had no concept of autorotation. That's ridiculous. It's common knowledge.

I could be way off, but I had the impression he was pretty religious in the first place.

It's totally intellectually dishonest to use one standard of reason and knowledge for everything else, and then abandon that system entirely for one particular idea just because you would prefer it to be true. Shame on you Destin, how do you live with that kind of cognitive dissonance?