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I can imagine. I just did a couple of patterns in the 44 with the hydraulics off, after just a few minutes I wanted to take a nap.It took everything I could do to get it to want to come down. My arms are actualy sore from it.as for your AFCS:
Look mom I can fly with no hands.
 
C650CPT said:
Skids are for Kids silly rabbit
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Um... Aircraft Flown Proffessionally<br />UH-1 AH-1 BH-222UT C-12 (BE-200) CE-550 CE-650

Sorry... had to point that out. :D
 
ChinookDriver said:
Um... Aircraft Flown Proffessionally<br />UH-1 AH-1 BH-222UT C-12 (BE-200) CE-550 CE-650

Sorry... had to point that out. :D
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I love the sound of the ignitors in the old Hueys. The sound of the old tick, tick, tick, vwoom. Nothing better.
 
Pretty much all turbines do that... can't hear it in the Chinook though -- engines too far back.

I have a question for you.... I've never flown single pilot in a helicopter... how do you write stuff down and organize the cockpit in a Robbie? Quickly take your hand off the controls and hope for the best?
 
I preplan and everything I think I will need is on my kneeboard if I can't fit it there I don't need it. I actually am pretty lucky. Left handed so if I am looking at approach plates or anything my knee board is right next to the collective. Even that is pretty scary, we have about 1.4 seconds from the onset of engine failure to enter an auto or rotor rpm becomes unrecoverable. There is no real easy solution. I have gotten a pretty good memory for getting clearances and stuff. The tower seems sympathetic to us and uses baby words. We don't really fly single pilot IFR or any IFR for that matter the workload is just too much. When training though my safety pilot looks out for all that stuff. The only reason we got an insturment ticket is for inadvertent imc. In fact Lifeflight just put a ship in the ground when he lost visibility. I think it was a couple of years ago now.
 
scottyboy75 said:
I preplan and everything I think I will need is on my kneeboard if I can't fit it there I don't need it. I actually am pretty lucky. Left handed so if I am looking at approach plates or anything my knee board is right next to the collective. Even that is pretty scary, we have about 1.4 seconds from the onset of engine failure to enter an auto or rotor rpm becomes unrecoverable. There is no real easy solution. I have gotten a pretty good memory for getting clearances and stuff. The tower seems sympathetic to us and uses baby words. We don't really fly single pilot IFR or any IFR for that matter the workload is just too much. When training though my safety pilot looks out for all that stuff. The only reason we got an insturment ticket is for inadvertent imc. In fact Lifeflight just put a ship in the ground when he lost visibility. I think it was a couple of years ago now.
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Don't helicopters have to have an autopilot to be certified for IFR?

Also wondered if Robbies suffered from the following conditions like a 206 does: Spike Knock, Pylon Whirl and Mast Bumping.
 
I am not sure about the auto pilot thing, I will check into it as there are a few guys that fly for Air Med are around our hangar quite a bit. We do have to worry about mast bumping in fact in the POH there are several pages about it. There is also a sticker on the controls " Low G manuvers phorhibited." So I guess no NOE or Cyclic climbs in the near future for me.
 
n57flyguy said:
I want to fly helos now:(

looks like Ill stick with the Piper Tomahawk for now...
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That's cool, man. We welcome all types here at the Official JetCareers Pro-Helicopter Forum (tm) (c). Anything you wanna know about choppers, just ask your friendly mods, ChinookDriver and Scottyboy75.

Disclaimer: I've been drinking a bit.
 
scottyboy75 said:
I am not sure about the auto pilot thing, I will check into it as there are a few guys that fly for Air Med are around our hangar quite a bit. We do have to worry about mast bumping in fact in the POH there are several pages about it. There is also a sticker on the controls " Low G manuvers phorhibited." So I guess no NOE or Cyclic climbs in the near future for me.
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As are all teeter-totter rotor systems. However, that does not exclude NOE flight. I've done lots of it in the OH-58C which also has a non-articulated rotor system.
 
Thanks. The only thing I know about helos is the collective and cyclic, thats the most advanced terms I know:)

you forgot (r) (PP)

wow three pages already
 
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n57flyguy said:
Thanks. The only thing I know about helos is the collective and cyclic, thats the most advanced terms I know:)

you forgot (r) (PP)

wow three pages already
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Quick: Define translating tendency, effective translational lift, and transverse flow! And the region of reverse command! Crap -- that's airplanes!
 
ChinookDriver said:
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Quick: Define translating tendency, effective translational lift, and transverse flow! And the region of reverse command! Crap -- that's airplanes!
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LOL

Chinook driver, why are they called tandam rotors? (this is a joke)
 
ChinookDriver said:
Well, a guy named John Tandem inevted them you see...
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no...

One day a the helo matienence shop told the helo cleaner to go clean the blades. So hes scrubbing away, cleaning them nice and shiny when a helo pilot (Ill call him ChinookDriver) wanted to fly. Well, ChinookDriver didnt know there was a guy washing the blades. so, Chinook driver starts the helo up. The washer, unaware gets knocked down, hurts his back, and spills water all over himself. the washier stands up, shakes his fist at the helo and says Tem-damn rotors.

Ok that was bad.
 
n57flyguy said:
no...

One day a the helo matienence shop told the helo cleaner to go clean the blades. So hes scrubbing away, cleaning them nice and shiny when a helo pilot (Ill call him ChinookDriver) wanted to fly. Well, ChinookDriver didnt know there was a guy washing the blades. so, Chinook driver starts the helo up. The washer, unaware gets knocked down, hurts his back, and spills water all over himself. the washier stands up, shakes his fist at the helo and says Tem-damn rotors.

Ok that was bad.
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That's frickin' good man. If you weren't underage I'd say we should have a beer.
 
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