Originally Posted by
megan
RL, I'm going back 51 years so the memory cells are a little corrupted. I don't recall the level of sophistication of the H-34 system, in the 70 hour course you never flew it hands off and don't recall if the aircraft even had the capability. Had SAS is about all I recall.
If the H34 ( S-58) is anything like the S61 then it had "heading Hold" with your feet off the pedals. You had to put your feet on the micro switches for turns as otherwise it would just roll and not turn. Took me a while to get used to keeping my feet off the pedals for turns in the 139 while needing to have them on for the 61.....