Originally Posted by
Gordy
Exactly, when doing buckets on a 100’ line into the dip sites on cloudy days, you are on the edge of it all the way in the latter portions of the approach. I need pilots to recognize the incipient nature and make a cyclic adjustment without losing more than 20’ of altitude. It can be done, we sit right on the edge in training and go in and out of the start of it multiple times on one training event.
And I presume a sidestep manoeuvre isn't very practical with a 100' line and water bucket underslung.