Full-On Autorotations
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Full-On Autorotations
Nice Bell Training video.
Nice to see the zero speed touchdowns.
Nowadays all we seem to see posted are touchdowns with run on landings that involve a change of postal codes and a map.
Nice to see the zero speed touchdowns.
Nowadays all we seem to see posted are touchdowns with run on landings that involve a change of postal codes and a map.
I think it’s partly a risk reduction strategy. I used to see it a lot with OEI rejected take offs - little droop and high run on speeds. I used to train for max performance per the RFM graphs. I remember one occasion on the 92 where the trainee was adamant he could not land any slower. I did a demo - zero ground speed then picked up and did a 360. The message got through……But, if all your trainers are looking after their bacon and happy to use all the runway and not all the power/Nr, I guess the trainees are not to blame.
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I think it’s partly a risk reduction strategy. I used to see it a lot with OEI rejected take offs - little droop and high run on speeds. I used to train for max performance per the RFM graphs. I remember one occasion on the 92 where the trainee was adamant he could not land any slower. I did a demo - zero ground speed then picked up and did a 360. The message got through……But, if all your trainers are looking after their bacon and happy to use all the runway and not all the power/Nr, I guess the trainees are not to blame.
When the early Astars came out some folks from down the road us were doing run ons because “It is impossible to stop it on a no wind day.”
This surprised us as we had soon discovered it was indeed possible to stop it with in 0 wind no problem at all.
Both companies used the same small airport for training and it was fun to watch one Astar land on the spot and the next one slide down the runway. After a couple of weeks everyone was doing 0 speed touchdowns.
The companies may have been competitive business wise but we got along great together in the field. We often stopped and had lunch together during these training sessions and shared information freely. (In the field deep in the bush and you are all stuck in a tent at -30C you learn to get along.) It was quite normal to see engineers from 2-3 companies helping each other with inspections. Everybody, pilots and engineers, got along just fine.
In the bush it was normal to borrow stuff from each other and help each other out as need be.
