cheapest SPIFR type known to exist?
cheapest SPIFR type known to exist?
Out of pure curiosity: what is the cheapest/smallest helicopter known first hand by a member of this honorable community to be single pilot IFR certified?
I've seen a BO105, was today PAX in an IFR EC135, no big deal. But are there say MD500s that may do SPIFR? Or JetBangers? Or even piston powered types like Hu269, R44 ?
TIA
Peter
I've seen a BO105, was today PAX in an IFR EC135, no big deal. But are there say MD500s that may do SPIFR? Or JetBangers? Or even piston powered types like Hu269, R44 ?
TIA
Peter
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So, commercial IFR needs twins, got that. But what about corporate private helicopters?
Hauling the CEO & GF thru the clouds in an A-Star?
Anybody heard/seen something like that?
So, commercial IFR needs twins, got that. But what about corporate private helicopters?
Hauling the CEO & GF thru the clouds in an A-Star?
Anybody heard/seen something like that?
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No IFR allowed single engine in the UK, whether private or commercial. I heard that even in the IFR cert'd AS355 that Bristows train IR on, it all has to be flown VMC/Simulated!?! I will happily stand corrected...
You can (or could) in other parts of Europe as national deviations from JAA/EASA. Denmark for instance allow some flight in IMC, in IFR equipped single engined aircraft on a Danish reg, if not for commercial air transport...
You can (or could) in other parts of Europe as national deviations from JAA/EASA. Denmark for instance allow some flight in IMC, in IFR equipped single engined aircraft on a Danish reg, if not for commercial air transport...
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Do Bristow still use their SPIFR JetBox for IR's?
They bought a school at Staverton and renamed it part of the Bristow Academy.
Now training on AS355's.
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In the U.S. for a helo certified for SPIFR in current production, you'd be looking at something like an EC135, A109, B429 etc. Starting point around $7 million U.S. There are a handful of B206's and B407's that were approved for IFR on a case by case basis many years ago, but AFAIK, these were not in series production, and the FAA is no longer granting these special approvals.
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Not quite
Starting point for those aircraft are in the $5m US range, not $7m.
Now how much stuff you put on them... That's another story. You can gold plate 'em and get them up that high if you want to.
Now how much stuff you put on them... That's another story. You can gold plate 'em and get them up that high if you want to.
@AC: Come to Oz, we have several SPIFR B206 with glass screens, autopilot and they work very well.
Are you guys using them for commerical flights, too?
with paying passengers or yust long lining jettisonable cargo?
IMC flying with a helicopter sounds very uhm.. interesting:
riding in the basking sun when everybody else is below that white cloud blanket.
How does auto rotation emergency landing work in IMC? Not at all?
Some older threads:
Helicopter SE IFR
Approved single engine in IMC?
JAA single engine IR(H)
Reely340, IMC autos are (usually) taught regardless of whether you're SE or ME. Your comments indicate a certain lack of knowledge of Instrument Flying.
There was a Robinson R22 available some years ago for IR Training in Victoria, whether it is still around I'm not sure but it would have been....challenging!
Helicopter SE IFR
Approved single engine in IMC?
JAA single engine IR(H)
Reely340, IMC autos are (usually) taught regardless of whether you're SE or ME. Your comments indicate a certain lack of knowledge of Instrument Flying.
There was a Robinson R22 available some years ago for IR Training in Victoria, whether it is still around I'm not sure but it would have been....challenging!
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Interestingly Appendix*B*- EASA Airworthiness*Criteria*for*Helicopter*Instrument Flight (page 83 onwards) doesn't mention the certification requirement for two engines...