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Old 5th October 2013 | 21:10
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Reely340
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Plenty of choice here: Try a BO105. Practically impossible to fly in a calm way with your hand on the stick: Both CPLs I know fly them by trim only. I once was allowed a uhmm navigator place on a photo flight of said BO. The photographer in the back at the open sliding door naturally wanted us to do perfect, banked turns, no wobbling, no blades in his sight.
The CPL would adjust bank with the trim and slightly correct that from time to time.

Then he motioned me to try and fly her. First I was sure my calm hand with wrist on knee will do the trick, moving the stick with thumb and pointer only one mm a time. It definitely didn't work. Fly by trim is the way to go, albeit rather odd a skill to develop.

Then two days ago I was allowed to board the doctor's seat of a HEMS EC135 while somone got his TR/IR renewed. They did some ILS approaches, and finally a Cat 1 backwards ascend with simulated engine failue below 150ft (return to base) and another one past 150ft followed by micro circuit loop back to the takoff spot on one engine.
Granted there was some wind, maybe 10-15kt, but he was apparently gripping the stick good, poor EC was shaking like on cold turkey.

So if you really like something responsive to the point of being finnicky try BO105 or apparently EC135 (and probably BK117, direct successor of BO)

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