I saw an episode of 'The Biggest Fat B@st@rd' tonight which had the wickedest yellow R44 spiriting three people off to their prize. The people are contestants in a weight loss contest. Unfortunately, they had not lost a lot of weight. (Well, they certainly were outside the standard pax weight parameters by about 5 standard deviations.) I estimated that the two men and a woman must have weighed in at 300 kg or more.
Is the R44 capable of carrying that weight with the pilot? Is the R44 CofG an issue with heavy pax?
I note that the cameras did not show the aircraft being loaded - juts disappearing into the sky with a vertical take-off. Did the aircraft take the pax?
