Originally Posted by
megan
Only the autos were adventurous, fell out of the sky like a brick and absolutely no inertia in the rotor system. Other than that it was an absolute delight to fly, about the nearest thing to fighter handling, best governor ever, no overspeeds or droop no matter what you did with the collective. The down side was that being such an early example of a turbine helo its capabilities (payload/range) were somewhat less than a Kiowa (B206).
[Wasp] And you must remember overcooking the recovery from practice autos and provoking the machine gun stutter of compressor stall. No sweat, because the Nimbus has a first stage centrifugal compressor to sort it out. Engine off landings were really exciting with the ground approaching ridiculously fast and no margin for error in the flare.
As for payload and range, you develop an acute sense of point of no return over the sea.