Rain: how does it affect our helicopters?
How "bad" is rain for our helicopters? After all those blades will be "hitting" the rain drops at a fair old lick and we all know how a pressure washer works. It does take care of those pesky squashed bugs though.
Are helicopters tested during downpours? I mean has there been some thought put into design how to deal with the masses of water entering the transmission deck etc.?
Certainly our wipers won't cope with much and they can not be used at cruise-speed.
What can our "test pilots" tell us?
Regards BS