Question for all you turbo-prop guys.

[killbilly]

That's why I loved the Chinook helicopter. Two Allison turbines pushing 3 drive shafts through 5 separate transmissions to spin over 2 thousand pounds of rotor blades. Complex and very loud. But not a whiny Garrett loud - a deep manly loud.

My CFI once defined any helo as "30,000 moving parts flying in loose formation."

 

[ILS37R]

My CFI once defined any helo as "30,000 moving parts flying in loose formation."

An Army helo guy I know prefers: "Five-hundred life-limited parts spinning around an oil leak."

 

[A-300F4-622R]

An Army helo guy I know prefers: "Five-hundred life-limited parts spinning around an oil leak."

And built for the government by the lowest bidder.

 

[mrivc211]

Nice! :laff:

Phil
When you get a chance find a copy of the "Turbine Pilots Flight Manual." Great book for making the piston to turboprop/jet transition. (Or any complex system for that matter.) Somewhere around $40 new, and I'm sure you can find used on Amazon. It goes into all that stuff in detail, but in terms that are easy to understand.

That book taught me everything I needed to know.

 

[Ian_J]

All true, but I think there's a requirement somewhere in the Man Book that you have to be able to go faster than a Caravan...

The Chinook can do 170 KIAS in level flight... can the Caravan?

 

[SteveC]

The Chinook can do 170 KIAS in level flight... can the Caravan?

Do you have to bend the pitot tubes up into the rotor downwash to indicate that high?

 

[Ian_J]

Do you have to bend the pitot tubes up into the rotor downwash to indicate that high?

You can yellow-card yourself for that comment funny guy.

 

[SteveC]

Done.

 

[Boris Badenov]

The Chinook can do 170 KIAS in level flight... can the Caravan?

How would I know? Do I look like I'd be caught dead in a Caravan?

 

[Ian_J]

How would I know? Do I look like I'd be caught dead in a Caravan?

Ha!

 

[TheresaPilot]

+1 for the Turbine Pilots Flight Manual

 

[minitour]

The Chinook can do 170 KIAS in level flight... can the Caravan?

Yes. One time. Then you put on a new engine.

-mini

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

+1 for the Turbine Pilots Flight Manual

Tack me onto that list. That was the best "textbook" I read in college and there were no aviation courses offered at FSU.