Originally Posted by
John Eacott
albatross, conversely we always used the S76 gear down as 'airbrakes' on ILS approaching the MM. It was guaranteed to wipe 10-15kias off the speed and bring us back nicely onto spec; we kept 140 up until then as for Essendon 26 we often had Tullamarine jet traffic bemoaning a helicopter being 'in their way'. Bomber Brown put one 727 driver back in his box when he established that the S76 was doing 145 and the 727 a mighty 135
I have occasionally been directed to "make best airspeed" in the A109 when being vectored in for an ILS, to fit in with the jet fixed wing pattern. 165kts on final approach is often enough to prompt ATC to ask me to slow down a bit because I'm catching up the preceding airliner. One has to do these things to show them we rotary folk can be very flexible. ;-)