Originally Posted by
Gazzer1uk
Well finally have my first ever trial flight lesson booked in a whirly bird, either the R 22 or R 44. I gather fatties could have an issue at around 17 stone. Like I say in a court of law, I likely might get the beak looking down their glasses at me if I said, 16 st 12 lbs..... What's the point of lying your way into a deathly situation!
So choice is (apart from dieting, I have been 3 stone lighter) risk being refused flight or simply going straight to the R44.
Should I only worry about the extra money and just go enjoy the R44?
Using the trusty iBal (which takes kilos, pounds
and stone
) the R22 can take you with a max weight for the instructor of 80kg/12 stone 8lbs and no more than 68lts fuel
When dealing with overweight pax and CG issues, the (again) trusty iBal makes a disconcerting
bzzzzz as soon as it goes outside limits. I had a heavyish pax in the EC130 recently, we were able to joke about it as he reluctantly accepted the back seat on the basis of the output from the iPhone
