225 in a 225
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From: Aberdeen
225 in a 225
Strong wind today - got 225 kts groundspeed in the EC225.
Sorry about blurry photo - it was not that rough, just shook the camera at the wrong moment and by the time I took the next one it was 224 kts which spoilt the effect.
Maybe someone should post an S92 doing 92 kts (they do go that fast, don't they?), 61kts in an S61 etc. The interesting one would be 332kts in an AS332L...
HC
Sorry about blurry photo - it was not that rough, just shook the camera at the wrong moment and by the time I took the next one it was 224 kts which spoilt the effect.
Maybe someone should post an S92 doing 92 kts (they do go that fast, don't they?), 61kts in an S61 etc. The interesting one would be 332kts in an AS332L...
HC
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From: Lost again...
Used to have an ongoing competition of who could get a photo of the highest G/S with a pal of mine who flew the same type for a different company.
He became very frustrated that i always managed to post one 5 kts higher than anything he managed.
It was ages before he realised that i had taken a series of photographs in the sim one year with increasingly large "tail-winds". It was a good game while it lasted.
He became very frustrated that i always managed to post one 5 kts higher than anything he managed.
It was ages before he realised that i had taken a series of photographs in the sim one year with increasingly large "tail-winds". It was a good game while it lasted.
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From: Downeast
332 Knots in a 332.....er...ah...no thank you! Only way that would happen is sans blades probably!
The Bell 47 was probably well named....as that was about the average GS it could maintain.
The Bell 47 was probably well named....as that was about the average GS it could maintain.
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From: Land of the Trolls
I was speaking one day to a SAR captain about flying the Seaking in his previous job
He told me of a callout one evening in a storm (west coast Norway)
and headwind was in the region of 100kts
They had to turn back as they travelling so slow they calculated that they would run out of fuel before they got to their destination
pv
He told me of a callout one evening in a storm (west coast Norway)
and headwind was in the region of 100kts
They had to turn back as they travelling so slow they calculated that they would run out of fuel before they got to their destination
pv
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From: North America
What the..?
Got caught in a lee side wind that slowed us down to less than 30 mph ground speed. We decided we weren't going anywhere so we turned around and by the time I got the camera out we were already slowing down from a top speed of 250 mph (not knots) in the 350 BA. Amazingly smooth ride though for a estimated 90-120 mph (foehn?) wind.
That is close to 350 for a 350 (km/h).
Foehn wind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HC
Was your AVCS not working? I thought these 225s were supposed to be very smooth.
Was your AVCS not working? I thought these 225s were supposed to be very smooth.
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From: Downeast
HC....are we not becoming too rigidly glued to procedure here?
A slight nudge on the cyclic...or in your case a bit of push on a button lowering the nose a tad....and you would have been back at that magic number!
THINK Laddie! Walk on the wild side now and then! What's a hundred feet in altitude for a sublime pleasure?
A slight nudge on the cyclic...or in your case a bit of push on a button lowering the nose a tad....and you would have been back at that magic number!
THINK Laddie! Walk on the wild side now and then! What's a hundred feet in altitude for a sublime pleasure?