Steve
I think you are missing the point. Transport Canada has restricted certain helipads in Canada to Cat A performance. The aircraft you fly is not certified to land there. If you land there you are illegal.
Flying your approach like you are doing a zero speed auto scares me and will end up increasing the controlled flight into terrain statistics. Even though an excellent pilot like yourself could put the aircraft on the spot from 500' with both donkeys gone I am sure that the average bloke can't. When you train with your fellow pilots how many guys can put the aircraft on the numbers zero speed OEI. We are trying to make this aircraft do something that it wasn't designed to do.
The point of this thread was to find out which "new generation" birds have this capability. Not that many by the sound of it.
Lets talk specifics. The S76A cannot land at these helipads legally, nor can a 222A, the S76C is only certified to land at these restricted helipads "day only".
Pilots and operators don't understand the effect of the restriction.
Shawn
I don't feel that the regulators understand the effect of the restriction also. How could they? The pilots that are supposed to be current on type don't understand.
As we all agree we would rather have such things as range, reliability, and payload in our Xmas stockings long before we ask for Cat A helipad performance.
Maybe the restriction should be by "type" depending on the reliability of the engines installed.
Last edited by Xnr; 3rd January 2003 at 13:42.