Fareast driver

I think the pickup was actually in the engine on the freeturbine drive. Hence the large carrying handle that the Turmo was equipped with!!!

My mistake. Too much time with Makilas.

Hi,

whith so much knowlede about Pumas here, I would like to forward a question from a model builder, which I couldn´t answer, cause I fly different helicopters...

For a stand up model with "animation" he would like to know, how the lights are operated in and out and in which direktion the main rotor turns viewed from above.

about the lights, he wants to know about the interior lightning, signal lights, colors of the lights, landing lights, frequenzy of the strobes and anti colision light.

Photos would help him (yes, he could google - but I´m sure, you have better stuff - don´t you?)

wbr
Udo
"Flying Bull"

Switches in the overhead consol. Rotor Clockwise from above; tali rotor inwards at the bottom.

Instrument and interior white. Standard warning panel multiple white, amber or red lights.

Puma: single LL retractable the nose and some with another retractable under the boom. Super Puma: Retractable under the nose and a floodlight in each sponson.

One anti-coll on the doghouse (MRG canopy) and one on top of the pylon. Some Super Pumas had strobes on the sides of the sponsons. The original 330C (RAF) had a flat blue night formation light on the doghouse instead of an anti-icoll with a further two on top of the sponsons.

BIMS
 

I was once despatched from Odiham to take an HC1 to Aerospatiale Marignane (Sp?) to collect some new door rails that would hopefully prevent the doors falling off in-flight. Our aircraft had an F700 entry on the BIMS that limited us to 30 minute sectors between shutdown external checks. Luckily, we went U/S near Guildford for some reason and that was the end of what would have been a very tedious flight!

You could have stretched that out to a couple of months on Rate 1s.

Many TX´s to fareeastdrv!

Fareastdriver - When did you last fly Puma? Not sure if it was modified but Alternators trip off at 220 Nr and have done since I've been on it in 2000 😬

The Puma HC1;1971-1978. The 330J; 1978-1982. The 332L/1; 1981-2008.

A Cat; British, Australian and Chinese licenses.

They were modified after the Belize crash in 1976. This is Shy Torque's post on that thread which describes it.

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The Pumas electrical system was modified after this accident. The normal main rotor speed (Nr) limits were 258 to 272. If the Nr dropped to 240 for 2 seconds, the alternators tripped off. The system was modified to remain on unless the Nr dropped to 220.QUOTE]

Up to that point if an engine failure occurred at a heavy weight and high power demand the rotor would droop more rapidly than one could be expected to correct for it. Later Pumas with the Makila could cause no more concern than a decibel failure on one side.