Here in a couple of days (whenever this mid-March winter storms decides to pass by) I'm planning on getting a helicopter demo in an R22.
1/2 hour ground, 1/2 hour flight.
To make out the most out of my 1/2 hour of flight, and learn the most about helicopters.
All I know right now is that the cyclic controls the rotor tilt and the collective controls the pitch and MP, and that you vary the pitch to produce more or less lift.
I would like to confirm some of this and learn more...
so if any of you are Helo instructors or if you know any website that has some good info, or if you fell like explaining some of here, then please do so. I would greatlly appreciate it.
Oh, and I'm fixed wing pilot, I know a little about flying those.
Archer
browsing google I found
www.helis.com
they have a pretty good introductory section on helicotper principles.
The one thing that I still don't understand is, is there a throttle control on the collective? Can you change the throttle setting or do you just change the collective pitch of the rotor blades?
It seems helicopters are the opposites of Constant Speed piston airplanes.
In those, you set an RPM using the prop lever, and the governor changes the pitch to maintain RPM for a given MP setting (which you adjust with the throttle lever).
It seems in helis it's the opposite,
you set the RPM with the MP (throttle), and the governor changes engine torque for a given collective pitch setting.
So in planes you set the MP, and the governor changes pitch to maintain RPM.
IN helis you set the pitch, and the governor changes MP to maintain RPM.
Correct me if my understanding is wrong
Archer