Just a little question
When in vortex ring state will the VSI and Altimiter read or show the helicopter is desending
Just a little answer as I do them repeatledy in C& T, just today again.
Firstly, your VSI will indicate almost immediately, then it willl slow right down as you quickly get out of it. That is how that instrument works.
Your Alt will not register the event until after it has happened. That is because that instrument always is slow to wake up. It will portray it fairly well when it does though.
For your info you can look up other threads that go into the detail, but it is impossible to retain any machine in VRS for a period of time longer than; OMG it's dropping like a stone, f@@# what was that.
Please do not enter VRS below eighty feet AGL, as that is about the usual drop in a light helicopter. (inadvertant or deliberate, all tied up in the physics you know, nudge nudge, wink wink)
Any factor the balance of eighty is the only factor that will
EVER remain painful.
Any factor that balances nigelh will be an freudan expression in itself. He still hasn't worked out that nearly all EOT is done in ab initio training, in R22's. Poor boy!
Perhaps he should volunteer his squirrel for this type of work?