Originally Posted by
RVDT
As Gordy said the “yaw roll” couple can be interesting! I think at night you might be upside down with an engine failure in the cruise before you caught it with the pedals as you will not recover the roll with cyclic in a 206!
I would be hesitant to fly floats at night for that very reason....
Originally Posted by
RVDT
Gordy, get back to us with your technique at 9500 lbs! You might find the timing is a little different!
This is on our Huey----we are restricted to external load only. Even with full bag of gas, and full fuel extender and 2 pilots, the max weight I can get is around 7,800 lbs.
I do have a 205A++ and yep, full of people in the back, the zero speed "hang time" would remain the same but the acceleration phase would need to be tad higher. Having said that, ROD may be less due to higher pitch angle to maintain RRPM, but only on my second coffee---would need to think about this a little more......