Originally Posted by
TorqueStripe
Isn't the Feldberg just under 5000ft ? Not much "real' mountain rescue going on there, I think :-p
Isn’t a mountain just a big pile of rocks?
There are steep and remote areas, where a winch is quite useful.
The instructors, which do the mountain training course with the German police flying school, where pilots from the border police and the different german states train together in the Alps tell, that with the 145 it is nearly about impossible to train flying to the limits, cause the 145 still operates with bleed valves open, mostly below the so-called blue line, which indicates safe OEI operation capability, which would make an engine failure at approach/departure an non event.
Asked, to take firewood up to a mountain hut, where outsidelandings are practiced, the 135 crews calculated, if they could take one or two bundels, the 145 crew said, we take them all 😜
Doing checkrides at normal altitudes, you can’t fly the proper OEI procedures, if you have a cloudbase around 1500 feet ground, cause if you use the 30sec and 2min power flying the book, you will rocket into the sky on one engine witch ROC between 1500 to 2000 feet /min....
So from the power available, AEO and OEI you really can go with the 145 😉