To: All re "Flying the disc"
I need some help but I don’t want to start an argument. Some of you address “Flying the disc” as standard practice and others state that their ops manual says not to do it. I spent a lot of time up in Greenland and in the Great Lakes as a flight mechanic both working on and flying in three types of helicopters. These were the HO4-S (S-55) the HO3-S (S-51) and the Bell HTL-1 (B-47) which was on floats. When the deck was pitching and rolling we had a lot of problems with the Sikorsky models during start up and in some cases we came damned close to going into resonance. The Bell had its’ own problems under the stated conditions. When the rotors were at speed we had additional problems regarding disc stability during heavy rolling and pitching which is common on icebreakers.
Now for the questions: What are you trying to counter by flying the disc? And, what do you do and in response to what. If you do fly the disc what in your mind would happen if you refrained from doing it?
Thanks for your assistance in this matter.