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Old 15th Jul 2019, 09:45
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Bravo73
 
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
RL77CHC - the technique you describe is exactly how I, as an ex-mil pilot, would have done it but what is the legality of flying the aircraft manually (even if you are following the blue lines on the FD) below VminI?

I'm not saying it is difficult, because it isn't if you have been trained for it and checked on it, just asking why it doesn't form part of the IR.
Crab, this is what I told you back in post 259. RL77CHC has just covered the detailed procedure for the AW139.

These departures are trained and tested under company OPCs (‘base checks’). They aren’t tested under the EASA IR for a couple of reasons: firstly, the procedure is aircraft specific, not generic. But mainly, the IR(H) is primarily a test of fixed-wing IR procedures. There are virtually zero helicopter specific procedures which can actually be used in ‘the real world’.
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