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Old 30th Dec 2023, 12:52
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albatross
 
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
Constant attitude EOL - 30-35kts, don't chase the airspeed below 100' just hold the attitude, wait until the green turns to grass (ie you are very close to the ground say 20'), NO flare (unless you want to lose the tail), a sharp upward check with collective and hold, wait until it looks like a hover EOL and then use everything you have left keeping straight on the run on.

Sport of Kings
Thanks, we used to refer to “Constant Attitude” under the moniker, “Night Autos”.

I was a proponent, for day VFR autos to go initially for “Long” Range ….you could always shorten it up. Amazing to some how much further you could go. RPM bottom of the green, 80 plus 1/2 the windspeed seemed to give best results. We would demo a bog standard auto from over a spot then repeat going to long range immediately, An eye opener to some as we zipped over the landing point of the previous auto.
All autos at the company were full ons with 0 speed landings. We were operating in the bush and the chances of having space or terrain allowing a run on were somewhere betwixt 0 and nill.
Fun daze.
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