Hi everybody,
I've just started to fly with a Pilatus Porter B2-H4, for skydivers activity, and i saw some video on the web, where some PC6 dive to follow skydivers after they jump.
Now I'm at the beginning of this experience so i'm still trying to understand all the limit of the airplane, and what can really be done with it.
But I'm really courius to understand how to dive like that. From all the video it seems that the porter dive at an angle near 90° (but maybe is only an illusion of the images), in beta range for sure. What i can not understand is if they let the velocity arriving near the VNE, or in reality they dive a lot only at the beginning when the speed is still low, and then they push back a bit the stick.
Because i know that dive at speed higher than 110-120 Kts is not very safe and good for the plane.
Any one of you guys have tried this, or know something?
Thaks =)
Here an example of what i was talking