Georg Vollnhals wrote: >> But the external load seems to me not be an big issue >> at this crash. > Even if the bucket is not filled it is a weight some distance away from > the helicopter. And when your downpitching into autorotation it will > influence the CG of your a/c. And due to the load change it will start > to swing. And groundnear it may hook into the vegetation. > Many helicopter pilots hate external loads. > When I got some winch training many years ago with a Bell 212 I suddenly > lost my innocence when the pilots told me that it was absolutely > necessary in case of an autorotation to cut the line I would be hanging > on immediately - better loose one man than all the helicopter crew.
Heh, yeah. The one I trained with the guy told me that the cable wasn't even attached to the winch. If they let it out too far it would just wind off and fall. The last 20 feet of cable was painted red. Josh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
