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Forum: Rotorheads
26th Apr 2024, 21:27
Replies: 20
Views: 3,596
Posted By justinga

You have the correct owner but the company...

You have the correct owner but the company trading name is well out of date, he’s probably holds the record for the most written off airframes in Australian GA charter in the last 10 years. Hence...
Forum: Rotorheads
26th Apr 2024, 14:37
Replies: 3
Views: 717
Posted By albatross

Put your butt on the yellow circle! A common...

Put your butt on the yellow circle!
A common error is for folks to focus upon and aim for the centre of the “H” which leads to both a too shallow approach at at bottom and the tail being too far...
Forum: Rotorheads
26th Apr 2024, 07:40
Replies: 1,610
Views: 440,998
Posted By 206 jock

Reminds me of my favourite...

Reminds me of my favourite movie...https://youtu.be/aplSQGHPmvI?si=MG27ydKzhMdHqVx5
Forum: Rotorheads
26th Apr 2024, 05:46
Replies: 3
Views: 1,002
Posted By RVDT

Just because you can I guess?

S.H.I.T.T.E.R!
Forum: Rotorheads
25th Apr 2024, 07:53
Replies: 1,610
Views: 440,998
Posted By Bravo73

Wasn’t that always the point for lots of them?

Wasn’t that always the point for lots of them?
Forum: Rotorheads
24th Apr 2024, 19:11
Replies: 7
Views: 2,222
Posted By KiwiNedNZ

Isnt that what a well trainied military aviator...

Isnt that what a well trainied military aviator does - the difficult and sometimes the impossible ???
Forum: Rotorheads
24th Apr 2024, 10:49
Replies: 14
Views: 1,665
Posted By Rotorbee

You can't imagine how on the point you are. ...

You can't imagine how on the point you are.

That autorotation is just that. An autorotation. Nothing revolutionary here. We have all done them like that at one point or another.

The French...
Forum: Rotorheads
24th Apr 2024, 06:37
Replies: 14
Views: 1,665
Posted By Lala Steady

Take a look at the windsock in that video - he's...

Take a look at the windsock in that video - he's got 15 to 20 kts through the disc, of course it is a slow motion EOL.

He is an absolute chancer.
Forum: Rotorheads
22nd Apr 2024, 08:15
Replies: 95
Views: 17,604
Posted By Lala Steady

And apparently M. Vuichard has a much better...

And apparently M. Vuichard has a much better technique for stopping it:E
Forum: Rotorheads
22nd Apr 2024, 05:51
Replies: 95
Views: 17,604
Posted By ascj

I figured it was none of the above but due to...

I figured it was none of the above but due to gyroscopic precession of the tail rotor.
Forum: Rotorheads
19th Apr 2024, 19:15
Replies: 95
Views: 17,604
Posted By Bravo73

Woah. 14 years. :D

Woah. 14 years. :D
Forum: Rotorheads
19th Apr 2024, 14:00
Replies: 27
Views: 3,262
Posted By nowherespecial

I saw some purchase contracts recently between UK...

I saw some purchase contracts recently between UK MOD and AH UK. I'll be polite and say that the UK MOD's negotiation team didn't know what they were doing. The less charitable answer is that the UK...
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Apr 2024, 23:53
Replies: 23
Views: 17,720
Posted By Bravo73

Are you watching, Dr Hill? (Although, TBF,...

Are you watching, Dr Hill?

(Although, TBF, it sounds a lot like a Gazelle. Maybe they should have played around with their fenestron blade placements…)
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Apr 2024, 22:20
Replies: 558
Views: 151,954
Posted By minigundiplomat

Election year - Leonardo will threaten to close...

Election year - Leonardo will threaten to close Yeovil, at the most opportune (politically) time the 149 will be announced winner.

Is there anyone that doesn’t realise NMH is a stitch up?
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Apr 2024, 14:16
Replies: 69
Views: 6,905
Posted By Torquetalk

605carsten, the 6ft incident was down to a...

605carsten,
the 6ft incident was down to a basic altimetry error. Quite a wake up to realise that for all the sophistication of GNSS, PBN and RNP, an ATC screw up and lack of crew awareness could...
Forum: Rotorheads
3rd Apr 2024, 16:54
Replies: 69
Views: 6,905
Posted By hargreaves99

Its easier to demonstrate IVRS when downwind as...

Its easier to demonstrate IVRS when downwind as you have to lose ETL. If you try demonstrating it into a 20 kt headwind you have to be moving backwards over the ground at 20 kts, which feels a little...
Forum: Rotorheads
2nd Apr 2024, 14:42
Replies: 69
Views: 6,905
Posted By Hughes500

I have said this before but here goes again. My...

I have said this before but here goes again. My only time in true VRS occurred at 2000 ft AGL. Student had done 6 very nice recoveries from IVRS. We had one last go. Down wind pulling 18MAP in a...
Forum: Rotorheads
2nd Apr 2024, 11:47
Replies: 100
Views: 7,000
Posted By paco

Nothing to do with bubbles.... I'm talking about...

Nothing to do with bubbles.... I'm talking about how the machine stops going forward all by itself. And talking of Nock Lappos:

“Pure book knowledge should be impeccable - every second of doubt...
Forum: Rotorheads
1st Apr 2024, 15:13
Replies: 100
Views: 7,000
Posted By PPRuNeUser0211

Tell you what kills pilots quicker than being...

Tell you what kills pilots quicker than being over-trained... Being under trained. I've seen plenty of people come a cropper because they didn't understand a system. If you're having to act rather...
Forum: Rotorheads
30th Mar 2024, 12:24
Replies: 100
Views: 7,000
Posted By helispotter

I thought some of you might be interested to see...

I thought some of you might be interested to see how John S Fay described rotor phase lag in his 1954 book "The Helicopter and how it flies". He then goes on to indicate that "some rotors can...
Forum: Rotorheads
30th Mar 2024, 09:34
Replies: 69
Views: 6,905
Posted By Torquetalk

The Vuichard video I have seen shows the aircraft...

The Vuichard video I have seen shows the aircraft in a stable state sinking through in its vortices. Lovely and stable, apart from the increasing ROD. But as you say, the aircraft can be all over the...
Forum: Rotorheads
30th Mar 2024, 09:07
Replies: 69
Views: 6,905
Posted By 212man

I’ve said it before - he’s a travelling snake oil...

I’ve said it before - he’s a travelling snake oil salesman
Forum: Rotorheads
30th Mar 2024, 08:12
Replies: 69
Views: 6,905
Posted By Torquetalk

That is a horrible accident Robbie. The pilot...

That is a horrible accident Robbie. The pilot made a bad decision to continue for the rooftop, when they had space and height ahead to recover. The commital point was much much later than than the...
Forum: Rotorheads
29th Mar 2024, 14:43
Replies: 86
Views: 28,027
Posted By hargreaves99

Because it's all a massive gravy train for the...

Because it's all a massive gravy train for the people at the top, while the public get fleeced because they think a big shiny sexy thing is going to swoop down and save them, when in reality they are...
Forum: Rotorheads
29th Mar 2024, 09:13
Replies: 69
Views: 6,905
Posted By jellycopter

Surely this is a couple of days early for April...

Surely this is a couple of days early for April Fool’s? Or is it Darwinism in waiting?
Forum: Rotorheads
29th Mar 2024, 06:04
Replies: 69
Views: 6,905
Posted By SLFMS

That would be a firm no thanks from me. ...

That would be a firm no thanks from me.

Instructing VRS, one thing I learnt is how unpredictable it is sometimes you couldn’t find it sometime you flirt with it and other times you got a hell of a...
Forum: Rotorheads
28th Mar 2024, 19:47
Replies: 100
Views: 7,000
Posted By RVDT

Maybe -

Maybe -
Forum: Rotorheads
22nd Mar 2024, 18:30
Replies: 1,610
Views: 440,998
Posted By SWBKCB

Wow - it knows the weather before it even lifts...

Wow - it knows the weather before it even lifts off.?! Where can I get one of those? At my airfield the wind direction and speed can change four times before I taxi to the end of the runway...
Forum: Rotorheads
21st Mar 2024, 15:46
Replies: 100
Views: 7,000
Posted By 212man

When you have been here (on Pprune) long enough,...

When you have been here (on Pprune) long enough, it seems like 'groundhog day'! Waiting in the queue, we have HV curves, PC1/PC2/Cat A, and many more topics to bring up
Forum: Rotorheads
13th Mar 2024, 17:32
Replies: 18
Views: 3,078
Posted By Minquanlu

Alright alright alright! Gather 'round everyone,...

Alright alright alright! Gather 'round everyone, because it's time to celebrate a true legend, a flying grandpa with more stories than your nan after a sherry – it's the one, the only, the Sea King...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Mar 2024, 20:54
Replies: 18
Views: 3,078
Posted By TUPE

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/...

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1220/dsc05313_1__7a6b810e1a07c5e1b428cdf0fcd969b828f384ef.jpeg
The Big Yellow Fun Bus
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Mar 2024, 16:07
Replies: 18
Views: 3,078
Posted By Phil Kemp

Sixty Fifth anniversary of the Sea King first flight

Sixty five years ago, on the 11th March 1959, the prototype Sikorsky YHSS-2 helicopter took to the air for the first time. This model became the SH-3A Sea King and also evolved into the legendary...
Forum: Rotorheads
1st Mar 2024, 16:41
Replies: 1,610
Views: 440,998
Posted By Bengo

It is about IP. Having worked in ths...

It is about IP.

Having worked in ths automotive supply chain it is very much the case that you do not supply or make anything that does not come either with its own set of drawings from the buyers...
Forum: Rotorheads
1st Mar 2024, 10:08
Replies: 1,610
Views: 440,998
Posted By 206 jock

Do people really think that this aircraft will be...

Do people really think that this aircraft will be flying in 2024? That's my hat safe if not - my shoe was already saved by the lack of flight in 2023.

More like 2026...if at all.
Forum: Rotorheads
1st Mar 2024, 09:15
Replies: 1,610
Views: 440,998
Posted By Agile

Oh my god, Hill is trying to incinerate a...

Oh my god, Hill is trying to incinerate a dumpster with a raspberry Pi processor development kit, out of the back of his garage. The Safran guys must have so much fun passing that video around at...
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