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

Och aye... so that's what's behind the sporran!

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 J. I am also new the Forum, ex CPL-A & CPL-H, with Instrument & Instructor Ratings. After 18 years of commercial aviation I opted for a ground based completely different career, but now I am in the process of get my PPL-A and have another look at the world from above.

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!

Welcome J, there are a couple of chopper pilots and ex chopper pilots on here.

T

Welcome Scotsman. . .anyone who trusts his life to a machine with an inherent built-in self destruct factor is a brave friend Sir. . . .We always cater for the more weird flying types here, so may I extend to you a very warm welcome to the Forum . . . .

 

I have around a coupla hundred hours flying whirlygigs, but never took a test as the training was dicombobulated and spread over four countries, seven different types and twelve years,. . . and then the money ran out. . . .but I vaguely recall what the controls were supposed to do. . . ,. . .but could never really successfully make them do what I wanted the machine to do. . . . . I flew a Robboe R44 a few weeks back with a very rich friend,. . .and that was nice and easy. . . but being a low inertia rotor,. . . I chickened out on the landing transition into the hover, so that he didn't have to tow it back home in a lot of bitz in a trailer. . . .

 

Phil

Hi scotsman,Yes there are a few of us, we generally keep our heads down as we're considered a bit whacky by the uninitiated, but what do they know eh ...?

 

I started in hanggliders and trikes in the 1970s, went to fixed wing in the 80s, commercial rotary in the 90s and 00s, now back to fixed wing, building a STOL to try and get into some of the types of places I could visit before ...

 

Welcome to the forum.

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

It took me a while too ... I concluded that's what Scotsman was subtley and very humbly saying ... what his 2c was worth - very droll His observations are worth the full 2c in any currency though, I'd say.

 

As I understand it Mugabe the Despot eventually capitulated and has now accepted the use of $US because currency printing costs became prohibitive and international commerce and trade relations had become completely stalled.

 

I was over there earlier this year and very disappointed to not be able to collect another 3 trillion dollar note for 5 bucks - twice it's face value - instead I had to settle for an uncirculated 100 billion dollar note for ten bucks ... not happy!

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!