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Forum: Rotorheads
25th Sep 2013, 14:22
Replies: 2,609
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Posted By Ray Joe Czech

Don't be a tease, which one?

Don't be a tease, which one?
Forum: Rotorheads
23rd Sep 2013, 06:26
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

Doesn't seem to working that way. I'm sure the...

Doesn't seem to working that way. I'm sure the vast majority of co-pilots may say something, but the numbers that remain insistent and who will physically intervene probably drop off exponentially as...
Forum: Rotorheads
22nd Sep 2013, 13:43
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

To answer an earlier point, no, I am not sure it...

To answer an earlier point, no, I am not sure it is a line captain's job to mentor/train/instruct new pilots. Our line trainers have to do a CRM facilitators course, ground instructional training...
Forum: Rotorheads
21st Sep 2013, 15:24
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

Perhaps you should read what I have said rather...

Perhaps you should read what I have said rather than what you think I have said.
As to your Master/Apprentice comment, that just leads me to think that you have no conception of what cockpit...
Forum: Rotorheads
21st Sep 2013, 14:22
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

I think you are reading waaaay too much into my...

I think you are reading waaaay too much into my comment about the PIC taking control for the DA decision in marginal weather, but here goes anyway...
In my company generally one pilot flies out and...
Forum: Rotorheads
21st Sep 2013, 08:38
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

Gossip I heard this week was that the PM -- who...

Gossip I heard this week was that the PM -- who was the co-pilot-- said "airspeed" more than once. Please note that this is second or third hand gossip, but, if true, will put us in a run of...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Sep 2013, 16:55
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

AB

You really are talking out of your rear end.
I was in the military too and, as I recall, the vast majority of flying was overland VFR. On a lot of days I regularly go flying now, I would be sitting...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Sep 2013, 10:36
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

I did not know what SLF was until I started...

I did not know what SLF was until I started reading this thread and have been flying offshore the majority of my working life. That should perhaps illustrate how little used, if used at all, it is in...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Sep 2013, 11:20
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

GF

Not as much as you think. ILS as discussed because of collective-pitch linkage, on level off, fine in stable flight. The PF would be hands on for low-level stuff.
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Sep 2013, 11:07
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

GF

Yes, but I wouldn't want you to get the idea you would be constantly battling against it. You get used to the idiosyncrasies of it but it is quite striking converting onto or off type.
You learn...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Sep 2013, 10:46
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

Fat chance. If they ask the drivers they might...

Fat chance. If they ask the drivers they might hear things they don't want to hear.
The only stuff that changes in my company is that driven by clients or EASA, and that is mostly addressing...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Sep 2013, 10:27
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

HC

The only reason that normal techniques don't work on 332L ILSs is because the autopilot is a piece of sh1t.
It is the only aircraft I have ever flown where, when you lower the lever the nose comes...
Forum: Rotorheads
6th Sep 2013, 11:19
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

GF

No, it was not fully coupled.
You may wish to have another look at the AAIB report and the posts on this thread since then.
Forum: Rotorheads
6th Sep 2013, 11:12
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

HC

What are L2 actions post MAPt if visual and remaining fully coupled?
Forum: Rotorheads
6th Sep 2013, 10:56
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

GF

Yes, the ops manual tells you to use the approach minima on the jarops3 plates (helicopter specific) and will probably specify other things such as minimum speed, approach to be stabilised below...
Forum: Rotorheads
6th Sep 2013, 09:55
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

GF

The crew would have been expected to fly in accordance with the published procedure -- look at the plate I linked to a couple of pages back -- and in accordance with their SOPs.
Two further points;...
Forum: Rotorheads
6th Sep 2013, 08:42
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

TAG

Why do that when you can hit the GA button, enter a known flight profile and remain fully coupled?
If fully coupled then dumping all the upper modes at 200' and 0.75nm from a rig isn't going to...
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Sep 2013, 21:26
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

HF

I don't know what regime you are describing in your post.
On the only 4 axis machine I have flown, the company -- and the other pilot -- would insist on 4 axis at night or in Poor IMC but I've...
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Sep 2013, 15:57
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

GJM

You can 'fly through' easily but the autopilot may be trying to do the opposite of what you are trying to do so you need to keep on top of it.
At some point you need to disengage the upper modes or...
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Sep 2013, 14:54
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

212man

By problem, I meant the autopilot causing an overtorque. Has that been sorted?
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Sep 2013, 14:37
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

The 92 has the same problem but one pilot I spoke...

The 92 has the same problem but one pilot I spoke to said they fly their approaches 4-axis. Is this common across all 3 companies (agreed, it will be tomorrow...)?
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Sep 2013, 14:31
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

HC

I guess what I was getting at with the level off was did they exacerbate things by selecting ALT manually and not using sufficient collective or was it already past recovering by that stage. As you...
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Sep 2013, 14:24
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

Fly 4-axis approaches? Can the L2 do this? IF so,...

Fly 4-axis approaches? Can the L2 do this? IF so, we would have 2 less CFIT accidents, this one and the ETAP.
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Sep 2013, 14:17
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

So at three miles they are at a 1000' with the...

So at three miles they are at a 1000' with the speed 'decreasing steadily'. A mile on they are at 470' and 68kts. That is getting very close to levelling off just above minima of 300'. I wonder what...
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Sep 2013, 13:51
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

I don't know if the AAIB is what the industry...

I don't know if the AAIB is what the industry deserves but as a professional pilot it is the system I want. They are careful, considered and dispassionate, and I have never heard any of my colleagues...
Forum: Rotorheads
2nd Sep 2013, 10:20
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

SP return to service

The rumour I have heard is early this week.
Forum: Rotorheads
2nd Sep 2013, 10:18
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

HC

One has to wonder why the CAA said what they said rather than:
'It is not normal to ground a fleet after an accident and we have had no indication from the AAIB that this situation should be any...
Forum: Rotorheads
2nd Sep 2013, 07:55
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

AAIB statement to Herald

At the time of the initial CAA statement I didn't think that the AAIB would be best pleased by the former jumping the gun. I thought initially the AAIB statement was a bit of payback but the CAA just...
Forum: Rotorheads
1st Sep 2013, 10:20
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

From Sunday Times

John Taylor, from Unite union, said workers were concerned about helicopter design. “They’re worried about seating, particularly at the rear where the windows are smaller. The concern is that the...
Forum: Rotorheads
31st Aug 2013, 17:08
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

I don't think it is unfair. I can't see any way...

I don't think it is unfair. I can't see any way of empirically working out if it is less safe having 19 in the back of a 225 than 14 when it is upside down at night in cold NE seas. There aren't...
Forum: Rotorheads
31st Aug 2013, 12:51
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

Still a long way to go; a recent UK CNS pax of...

Still a long way to go; a recent UK CNS pax of mine was 330lbs.
Forum: Rotorheads
31st Aug 2013, 11:11
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

HC

Not at all, my post said ALL types.

Edited to add: to expand on this a bit, if the pax are worried about full loads and underwater emergency egress the way you solve that is by giving them their...
Forum: Rotorheads
31st Aug 2013, 10:35
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

C49

The Ls I flew had six rows of three seats and when 18 were carried there was a passenger in the rear middle seat.

As to your other comments, it may be more comfortable in the 225, but if I was a...
Forum: Rotorheads
31st Aug 2013, 10:01
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

AE

I agree, but until 18 or 19 bears squeeze into the back of a Superpuma type we will not know if the current paradigm has survived this incident. And they are not back in them yet, and I have heard of...
Forum: Rotorheads
31st Aug 2013, 09:19
Replies: 2,609
Views: 876,687
Posted By Ray Joe Czech

Seating

It may be that the oil companies will have to look at leaving the centre seats unfilled on all types to pacify their workforce, except maybe those seats that are beside a jettisonable door.

That...
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