HINTS
AND TIPS
The Buttons below will take you through
the different hints and tips that I feel will make your helicopter
safer and more reliable.
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The photo below
shows what I saw when I first inspected a student's Rotorway Exec
90 prior to giving flight training in it. Needless to say we replaced
the Rod end prior to flight. He had bent it in a vise to allow the
controls to conform to the dog house
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As I was on the airliner
to my students location to begin his flight training in his Rotorway
Exec 90, he was checking his chain master link by slowly turning
the main rotor by hand while looking down through the window in
the chain bath. He inadvertently steadied himself by putting his
other hand on the non -rotating swashplate. When the rotating swashplate
came around his finger was crushed and torn open between the two.
He was there alone and had to push the rotors further finish tearing
through his finger to free it. I took this photo when he arrived
back from the hospital emergency room. Be careful where you put
your hands around moving parts. |
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Another area of control movement that may be an
issue on your helicopter is that you might not wish to fly with the
passenger collective control installed unless flight training is taking
place. When you fly solo you will usually need more right cyclic travel
to offset the shift in CG to the left. Install your passenger collective
control. Now sit in your helicopter, finished or not, and raise the
collective to the normal flight position, about parallel with your
center thigh. Now move the cyclic control to the right as far as you
can. You will find that your right thigh may be sandwiched between
the pilot's cyclic control and the passenger's collective control.
Now lift your right leg out of the way and see how much more cyclic
travel you are able to achieve without your leg in the way. This is
why I advise all of my students to the center
collective control while practicing their solo flight maneuvers. |
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