How do the helipods work? The manual states that the skids are only designed to bear weight from below and to put weight on top of them will be detrimental to the air frame.
I've got a set for my R22 and they have two hard points attached to the frame and the weight seems to be more suspended from them. There are a a couple of legs which fit into two brackets (one is an add on the other is the existing one in the wheel bracket.) I suspect the makers hope/believe the legs have sufficient freedom to move to allow the vibrations to dissipate around the pod.
Two sets of blades ago I could only use one pod cos when I added the second it caused a vibration so bad it used to turn off the GPS and rattle my fillings loose! (That was with a blade some goose had bent and rebent the tabs so much that even though they were out a bit the engineer wasn't game to try to bend them back anymore in case they broke. Anyway got rid of them and the new ones were fine.
So what I think I proved is that the dissipation IS affected by the pods so I only use them when I need them then take them off - even witht he new smooth blades.