B206 sideways into the salty stuff?
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Gosh, I've been lucky.
All that time spent firefighting, rapidly dumping a few tons of water, put me in a similar situation every time. So did a couple of underslung loads that fell off hook some years ago.
Thank goodness I managed to miss the ground......by going upwards.
All that time spent firefighting, rapidly dumping a few tons of water, put me in a similar situation every time. So did a couple of underslung loads that fell off hook some years ago.
Thank goodness I managed to miss the ground......by going upwards.
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shytalk
not a similar situation at all! but if you had the bucket caut in a tree and tried to pull it out (not verticaly) that would be similar.
FLINGWING
from a hover, if you pull all available power and pole it over so not to gain hight. the result will be a verry nose down attitude (because the disc is sucking in new still air), but if you keep the agressive attitude once a bit of speed is achieved, the increase in airflow into the top of the disc means the disc now has to suck that down, aswell as the air needed for the job (like walking up the downward escelator), it will just plow in like old saltie!. more power will fix it though, but if you have no more, youll have to settle for reducing the forward thrust for some upward thrust (pulling the cyclic back).
FLINGWING
from a hover, if you pull all available power and pole it over so not to gain hight. the result will be a verry nose down attitude (because the disc is sucking in new still air), but if you keep the agressive attitude once a bit of speed is achieved, the increase in airflow into the top of the disc means the disc now has to suck that down, aswell as the air needed for the job (like walking up the downward escelator), it will just plow in like old saltie!. more power will fix it though, but if you have no more, youll have to settle for reducing the forward thrust for some upward thrust (pulling the cyclic back).
