Let's see which DDH is happy to sign off students standing on the skids as a safe way to train.............................
Is there any news about MFTS that doesn't point to a slow-motion train crash?
The rest of the world doesn't seem to have a problem with that, crab@, and it's quite normal. However the view from inside the H145 winching seems to tell a different story?
Granted it's a poxy little door for retrieval (I reckon this photo is actually a BK117, but Airbus credit it to the 145), but the 145 has a markedly bigger access than my BK117 and that is still used around the traps in Oz. The original setup for the winch (from MBB) was on the port side and never too easy for the pilot (Dauphin was the same) but locally a stbd side winch was set up some 15-20 years ago and to keep the lateral CoG in limits, the battery was shifted from the nose bay to beneath the port engine exhaust. The rigid rotor has some fairly tolerant limits anyway.