When being taught I was taken out one roughish day to sample flight in high wind conditions, Wind was westerly and steady at 28/30 knts, the R22 with two up hovered directly into wind with 15" showing on the gauges it almost felt like god was truly embracing the Heli, so like all good CFi's I was then told to swing round and hover with the wind behind us, this I tried several times and found that the R22 was not able to hold that hover and actually was starting to run out of rear stick,
Left and right was no problem, but rear wind at that wind speed was a NO NO. I spent nearly 1.5 hours just seeing what the wind did to us on that day, some may think that boring, but I learnt a lot from that windy day!
Hope that helps you, RavenX
Peter R-B
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