scotsman

OB do you mean for a RPL flying a homebuilt heli or just whether CASA will let a homebuilt heli off the ground?

Nev which home built heli were you thinking of building/flying btw?

Saw your posts on BS just now....looks like you got the full treatment!

Oz B same reason that I am over here instead of there. Seems to be more Commercial HPPL types and I am just a lowly HPPL. They don't have much volume in terms of posts which doesn't help but some of the guys were quite helpful about licence conversions when I asked. PS.....still looking for my free ego as it did not arrive in the Kellogg's packet with the heli licence sadly

Yep a MacDonald's quarter pounder (emphasis on the pounder bit)

Nothing wrong with that! Love Scotsman

.....that this will be the most expensive trial flight ever! :ecstatic:Enjoy it and the licence that silently sneaks along with it

Hi Ken, Good to hear bud. I had a ten year break where I didn't/couldn't afford to fly and requalified my PPL A.....was a good decision to get back into it (until I had a 12 minute flip in a 22 which ended up a much more expense decision). Enjoy not being ground bound again! J

Scottish Italian? If not apologies for stealing your potential first choice of name on the forum!

Thanks Dazza. Hopefully will bump into a few of them in the next few years!

T thanks Phil. I also need to find me a rich friend so that he/she can let me fly their 44. 44 seems a lot more stable than the 22 or cabri. Hope you put those hours together for a licence in the near future!

Thanks HITC. I was also building a zodiac Cl/650 so I understand the joys of building too. Had to sell it before emigrating sadly. Which STOL ax are you building? Cheers J

Hi all, Just landed in Oz six months ago and attempting to convert a South African heli PPL to an Aussie one. Any other heli pilots out there (before the fixed wing guys lynch the lone heli pilot )? Cheers J

Lol I managed to get a five hundred billion note but not a trillion one sadly. Funny how a decrepit dictator can take over a country and a thread with ease!

Here's a slowed down link of the accident and I still believe that you can see the PIC punt the cyclic forward as he feels it toppling backwards. I guess that he thinks that the back of the rear skids are not on the pad. In terms of the gust from behind lifting the tail like that, the horizontal stabiliser isn't big enough to create that lifting moment even with consideration of the length of the arm (boom). And from the perspective of the disc a twenty knot guts for example would be the same as going through translational lift which doesn't cause this degree of nose forward. If this did occur at these winds speeds helicopters would be unflyable with this happening all the time. Another point that was raised on another forum was that the sea state behind the aircraft only shows a few white horses starting so the wing was guesstimated to be under twenty knots. A lot of people commenting on the other forums confused the downwash of the disc for storm winds. My Zimbabwean two cents....

Or potentially that the PIC thought that the aircraft was toppling backwards off the pad and over corrected forwards with the cyclic (echoes of the recent fatal accident on dolly which might have been in the back of the pilots mind). When you look inside the cockpit you see a large rapid forward cyclic movement. Would the dual controls not be removed this preventing passenger induced forward cyclic? No time on type so just curious.

Any photos of the build so far as I could not see any on kitlogpro?

I would turn the helicopter into wind and land across the runway..... sorry there's always one!