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Ag with kids

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  1. Most...but not all...helicopters can autorotate if they lose engines. It's not a complicated process, but it IS one that has to be recognized very quickly so that the collective can be dropped in time. Then, it is kind of like gliding. However, Robinsons have low inertia rotors which make an autorotation more difficult. Pretty much all Bell products are designed to be easy to autorotate because they have high inertia rotors which slow down a lot slower when power is removed. You also have to watch out for being in the "Dead Man's Curve". In this area, you either don't have enough potential+kinetic energy or altitude to recover from many problems. That being said, losing the tail boom is pretty much a death sentence. Two of my pilot friends died in 2016 doing flight test when the tail boom separated.
  2. I've got 150 hrs as an FTE in a 412. It was an experimental helicopter used by Canada's NRC (their version of NASA). We flew some experimental control laws so basically the aircraft was being controlled by a laptop in front of me while I monitored a bunch of Simulink strip charts. Fun times. I was actually in the simulation modeling group so being able to get in a real helicopter was pretty cool for me. I've got well over a 1000 hrs flying the various simulators... PM me your cousin's name. It's possible I know him.
  3. Ah...it was a Robinson. Every single test pilot I worked with at my last job said they'd never get in one of those. And these are people that fly experimental helicopters for a living.
  4. And you're flying in the dead man's curve...
  5. Hey!!! We don't all have fat wives. Some of us just bang South Austin's mom and that's traumatic enough to give you PTSD.....
  6. FIFY... I don't know that the military would actually follow through on that order, though. I'm sure there are people in the chain of command that would, but are they in charge of the actually launching?
  7. I posted about the AMEX Plat deal...
  8. Well, they're persona non grata for a whole lot of federal government agencies already. We won't purchase any DJI product specifically for that reason - because we work with a lot of fedgov folks and want to make sure we can can continue to do so. But, I hope that if they pull that BS we'd put a full on ban/sanction against them. But, they ARE the market leader in commercial UAS so it'll be interesting.
  9. Oh...mea culpa. Don't know why I never connected that... Hey Diary, TIL I don't know shit about Sax music. I think I was was conflating it with Yakety Yak:
  10. And yet, here you are...
  11. Yeah...getting all those fucking passengers out will lower the stress on it. Maybe not on the passengers, though.
  12. Hence the word "thereby"...
  13. NVM... Read it incorrectly so my smartass comment doesn't work here Mea culpa
  14. DJI better not toss up a geofence around Ukraine at the order of the CCP...
  15. Break out the blankets?
  16. Seems to me that the FCC could control that even without giving the tactile feedback. Basically speed gain the amount of control to the rudder.
  17. We have a lot of hotels and 7-11s...
  18. Colonel General? Is that like Corporal Captain?
  19. I know that. It was a tongue in cheek comment because when the MAX had the accidents Boeing went OHHHHHH YEAHHHHH!!!! There's this MCAS thing on the aircraft. Maybe we shoulda told ya. Oops!
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