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Old 7th Apr 2003, 20:52
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CRAN
 
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IMHO I think you would be poorly advised to use a simulator for this purpose. Due to the highly simplistic way in which the rotor/aircraft aerodynamics have to be modelled for real-time simulations correlation with the true behaviour can be poor. Therefore, you will find significant differences between the simulated behaviour and the behaviour of the real machine.

I think you would be better off spending your money on the real thing.

NOTE: There are many areas of helicopter training, in which the use of a simulator would be a valuable aid to training, but I don't think autorotations is one of them.

CRAN

PS: If you are looking for an R22 simulator, the only one that I know of is Prof. Gareth Padfield's at Liverpool university. I believe one of the helicopter operators at Liverpool airport has a contract to carry out flight training in it.
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