Top of the World: photos from Nepal
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VF
In your photo "Annapurna Base Camp South Rescue"
it looks like one of the buildings - the older grey one
has moved and is on an angle as it falls into the drop
behind it.
Is that an illusion or ?????
In your photo "Annapurna Base Camp South Rescue"
it looks like one of the buildings - the older grey one
has moved and is on an angle as it falls into the drop
behind it.
Is that an illusion or ?????
Thread Starter
Top of the World - coffee lots of coffee
Namaste Heliops
Yep the JetBox is quite a performer, but she MUST be handled very gently with all arrivals planned very exactly as she doesn't have any margin to play with when landing above 9,000' especially when landing at 16,000'
But Yes they are an amazing machine
would Love her to shed a few kilos & add the C20R 
Then I would take her to Everest Base Camp for a rescue. 
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Hi krypton_john
Nope not me?
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Hey 500N
Yep an illusion
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Hey krypton_john
No Chance
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Thanks for the great feedback Guys
Land Happy Always
VF
Yep the JetBox is quite a performer, but she MUST be handled very gently with all arrivals planned very exactly as she doesn't have any margin to play with when landing above 9,000' especially when landing at 16,000'
But Yes they are an amazing machine
would Love her to shed a few kilos & add the C20R Then I would take her to Everest Base Camp for a rescue. -------------------------------------------------
Hi krypton_john
Nope not me?
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Hey 500N
Yep an illusion
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Hey krypton_john
No Chance
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Thanks for the great feedback Guys
Land Happy Always
VF
Thread Starter
Kathmandu life
WoW pigeon meets JetBox, our nesting balcony Pigeon is perched on the same pinnacle ledge, hmmm used the same flat approach I use
Hi VF!
Now I know why you have no LTE issues with the Jet Box: secret, warped, high-altitude tail rotor blades, as seen in the picture above
Always impressed with your flying & photography
Now I know why you have no LTE issues with the Jet Box: secret, warped, high-altitude tail rotor blades, as seen in the picture above
Always impressed with your flying & photography
Last edited by Encyclo; 16th May 2013 at 01:06.
Thread Starter
Details
Namaste Anthony correct landing light is on; inside controlled airspace it's always gotta be on, 2 minute landing rotors running so leave lights on.
Thanks for the nice comments
Land Happy Always
Thanks for the nice comments
Land Happy Always
Thread Starter
LTE
Hey Encyclo
hehehehe Mate no LTE, judicious use of wind with carefully planned approaches. For a US machine, wind; Best around 10o'clock, French 2
LTE is real 
especially for a JetBox
experinced LTE once, not fun; I did not take into account the potential for a strong downslope wind from a small gully just in front/below my Helipad 13,307'. Approaching from up the main Valley into a steady 17 knots upslope. 150 meters to go, then BANG nose going fast right, me full left pedal? machines continues to yaw right, so I? Ass umed - TR drive failure, rolled off throttle to straighten on a hovering auto? Shut down, exit to find machine perfect? the ridge line Helipad I'm standing on there's a steady 15knots upslope? Hmmmmm, walk back to the edge of the pad & BANG, I'm hit by a freezing cold 15knots going straight down @ 90degrees to the prevailing wind & Valley, just there above the pad? Hmmmmm then I thinks? my TR went to VR state (LTE) from the wrong R sided cross-wind.... I lost TR authority 
I was already over the pad with almost no ground speed, so elected against a GoAround? 
We Live - We Learn
Cheers & thanks
Land Happy Always
hehehehe Mate no LTE, judicious use of wind with carefully planned approaches. For a US machine, wind; Best around 10o'clock, French 2
LTE is real especially for a JetBox experinced LTE once, not fun; I did not take into account the potential for a strong downslope wind from a small gully just in front/below my Helipad 13,307'. Approaching from up the main Valley into a steady 17 knots upslope. 150 meters to go, then BANG nose going fast right, me full left pedal? machines continues to yaw right, so I? Ass umed - TR drive failure, rolled off throttle to straighten on a hovering auto? Shut down, exit to find machine perfect? the ridge line Helipad I'm standing on there's a steady 15knots upslope? Hmmmmm, walk back to the edge of the pad & BANG, I'm hit by a freezing cold 15knots going straight down @ 90degrees to the prevailing wind & Valley, just there above the pad? Hmmmmm then I thinks? my TR went to VR state (LTE) from the wrong R sided cross-wind.... I lost TR authority I was already over the pad with almost no ground speed, so elected against a GoAround? We Live - We LearnCheers & thanks
Land Happy Always
Last edited by Vertical Freedom; 16th May 2013 at 04:30.
VF,
It doesn't look so dusty where you fly. Normally evident from blade leading edges. Have you considered getting rid of your particle separator?
A lot of of 206's in PNG were without them.
It doesn't look so dusty where you fly. Normally evident from blade leading edges. Have you considered getting rid of your particle separator?
A lot of of 206's in PNG were without them.