V22 Osprey discussion thread Mk II

[JohnDixson]

Slopes

Lonewolf, part of the UTTAS eval was to train 10 Army pilots from the 101st in the aircraft ( Boeing did as well with theirs ). Part of that syllabus was to do the entire slope envelope. The Army pilots in the group had been selected to cover the range of individual piloting skills, and they could all do these landings, so don't sell yourself short. As to dynamic rollover, I always cringe when reading the scare stories, because the whole key to making steeper slope landings do-able is to do it slow and in perfect control all the way to touchdown of the downhill wheel, whichever one that is.

Relating this discussion to the V-22, I had been hopeful to learn what the V-22 configuration can manage as to slope landing capability. One would expect it to have very decent capability laterally, for instance. Should be OK nose up as well, leaving the nose down direction as the primary question and whether they can use all -7.5 degrees of aft tilt and whatever aft cyclic pitch is in the control system to provide a reasonable capability for a tactically used machine.

Thanks,
John Dixson