V22 Osprey - Israeli TP Comments
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V22 Osprey - Israeli TP Comments
An interesting comment from one of two Israeli Air Force TP's who have spent time in 2011 and 2012 flying them in the US.
From Flight Global:-
(my italics).
Another case for the PlayStation generation... ?
From Flight Global:-
"The plane is naturally energetic. The accelerations are literally breathtaking and the mid-stage in which the plane transitions from a vertical standpoint to a horizontal one is problematic as well," he says.
"The pilot uses a control stick and a system that is similar to a throttle. In one standpoint, the control stick serves to determine altitude while the 'throttle' serves to determine speed. In the other standpoint, each of them serves the opposite role. In the mid-stage you feel like you're losing control of the plane. I imagined that the fly-by-wire system would function more smoothly, but discovered that in some cases we needed to intervene."
"The pilot uses a control stick and a system that is similar to a throttle. In one standpoint, the control stick serves to determine altitude while the 'throttle' serves to determine speed. In the other standpoint, each of them serves the opposite role. In the mid-stage you feel like you're losing control of the plane. I imagined that the fly-by-wire system would function more smoothly, but discovered that in some cases we needed to intervene."
Another case for the PlayStation generation... ?
In one standpoint, the control stick serves to determine altitude while the 'throttle' serves to determine speed. In the other standpoint, each of them serves the opposite role. In the mid-stage you feel like you're losing control of the plane.
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Kind of a moot problem for the UK, seeing as we will never be able to afford to purchase any, but that's by the by.
Any transition to get a tiltrotor 'on the wing' will involve this effect; it goes with the territory. Given the Spams can handle it, it's clearly not that uncontrollable!
Any transition to get a tiltrotor 'on the wing' will involve this effect; it goes with the territory. Given the Spams can handle it, it's clearly not that uncontrollable!
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Arguably once the GR4's go, we need something to replace them.
The V22 wouldn't really add much to what we do now, and finding a carrier to put them on might not be simple. Just sayin'. It's a fab tiltrotor, just built for a niche mission that we don't often need to execute, and if we do, the answer's a Herc and 2 Chinnys. Now what's the question?
The V22 wouldn't really add much to what we do now, and finding a carrier to put them on might not be simple. Just sayin'. It's a fab tiltrotor, just built for a niche mission that we don't often need to execute, and if we do, the answer's a Herc and 2 Chinnys. Now what's the question?
Getting them off the Wing might pose a problem for the Brits however.
