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. If you have been to a page previously,
be sure to
refresh it as they often are updated and your computer
may pull up the old page from memory.
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Most of the photos
in this section have been taken during my Pre-flight instruction airworthiness
inspections of several hundred Rotorway Helicopters. I have posted them
here so that you can see pictures of actual events that have occured and
will occur again. Don't let them happen to your ship!
Today is 11/18/08.
This web site has been up for nearly a year now and I am still seeing
many ships without the vertical stabilizer mods completed, the fuel tank
outlet fittings unmodified, and many other safety issues not addressed.
Don't procrastinate. I have put this web site together for your benefit,
so that you will be able to enjoy your ship without experiencing the same
problems that I have in over 5,500 hours flying Rotorway helicopters.
Please take your flying and maintenance seriously. You can benefit from
my experiences for free, you do not need to make the same costly mistakes
that so many others have made. That is why this web site is here, for
you.
I always enjoy
hearing back from anyone that has enjoyed the web site. Feel free to email
me with any comments at orv@flywithorv.com
It is a good idea to at least review the hints and tips and to accomplish
those that you feel are needed on your helicopter before I arrive to provide
flight training in your Rotorway helicopter. Some of the modifications
can be completed at
a later date but some may need to be completed before I get there or,
once I arrive, we can complete them together. If you have any questions
call me at 417-464-9999 or email me at orv@flywithorv.com
I am looking forward to helping you achieve your
helicopter piloting dreams. It is always fun but even more so when we
have confidence in the reliability of your helicopter. Since there are
so many different builders, there is a big difference in the methods used
to build each individual helicopter.
The hints and tips on this web site are included
to help you keep your Experimental Helicopter in the air and to not become
a statistic. For example, during our sessions of maintenance training
on your own helicopter I will teach you a reliable way of checking the
belt tension on all belts and when the procedure is followed a belt failure
would be rare. This method is much simpler than the way some check their
belts tensions. Below is a photo of former student Nick Stoltzfus making
a modification to his fuel sender unit as per our suggestions that are
found in Hints and Tips.
The list of items in the check list section
includes the regulatory requirements to insure that both you and
your helicopter are legal for the rigors of helicopter flight training.
The following areas in this section address the mechanical issues
that you should be aware of. If you have any questions about any
issue regarding yourself or your helicopter before I arrive for
your flight training, please contact me so that we can discuss those
issues and resolve them before I arrive.
The energy and time put into this
and other areas of this web site were invested to aid the builder
(EXPERIMENTAL HELICOPTERS) and pilots in making well informed decisions
based upon actual in-flight experiences of real pilots that are
actually flying these helicopters.
We may never meet all of those who
view these pages but we hope you find benefit from what you read
here.
We would encourage anyone who has
found this information of particular benefit by helping you avoid
a potetial problem to drop us an email with your story and or a
photo so that we can share that information with others on this
site. If you would like to add your own experiences and photos please
send them to orv@flywithorv.com
and we will try to post them on the web site ASAP . Let's all learn
from eachothers experiences so that we do not have to learn by making
the same mistakes on our own.
So please enjoy and note the disclaimer
on the bottom of each page, you alone are responsible for the decisions
you make regarding the use of the information presented on this
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