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Old 17th Apr 2005, 09:10
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Gaseous
 
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Slowrotor,
The Texas guy is a bit nearer the mark.

If you follow the book you will not run out of power.

The problem the other guy refers to is this.

If due to inattention, you find yourself very low on rotor RPM, you may lose tail rotor effectiveness as you open the throttle to recover. This is the one area the 28A is not forgiving at all, but keep RPM in the ball park and tail rotor authority is not a problem. Enstrom put wider blades on the later model to help with this. This is often confused with running out of power but is really pilot error.

To avoid hijacking this thread even more I will start another in a day or two along the lines of 'Owning an old helicopter' as lots of people have asked me about it.

TIMTS
900 hours in a Schweizer!I bet you could teach me a thing or two about RPM control. Sorry. I assumed you were a low timer. Theres no stigma about being a Robbie pilot round here.
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