Aviation Forum / General / Rotary-wing / September 2003

I'm in need of an MD500 electrical system schematic for a lesson I'm
developing.  The flight manual I was provided is missing the systems
description section, and the training manual I scrounged up only has a
pictorial showing component locations.  If you can help, please

I have seen a few Bell 47's lately and they look cool.  Does anyone
out there on this group own one?  I hear that the model G or G2 is a
good one and they sell pretty reasonable.  
How fast are they?  How about altitude performance.  Can a guy land

I am presently being bombed by viruses that are under the guise of a
Microsoft upgrade.
There's a discussion on alt.comp.viruses, they have a theory that it seems
to be targeting people that post on newsgroups. The reason I ask this

I have updated my site, come by and take a look
www.hueyhelicopters.com
Best regards,
Tim Pruitt

I've been seriously considering building a Jetranger to be on fixed
floats to accomplish some stuff I cant do easily another way.
I've read through the ammendment to the Flight Manual for them, and
talked to some mechanics that worked on them, and I have a burning

If you're on Long Island next weekend, you're probably paying way too much
in taxes to somebody, but at least you have a shot at checking out the
airshow to be held at the former Grumman/Navy plant in Calverton.  Dates:
September 20 and 21, 2003.

I'm interested in contacting groups or individuals who are working on
human powered vertical take-off vehicles or ornithopters.  I have a
number of design ideas I would like to share and get feedback on and I
am also interested in materials.  Some of my ideas are as follows:

I am a student pilot, working on my PPL-H right now, and I have 6 hours
in the R-22 so far.
I have considered purchasing a pair of Active Noise Reduction headsets,
Bose or Sennheiser etc (haven't compared them yet). However, the chief

Just letting you know about a yahoo group that is interested in using
diesel. engines in Planes and Gyros.
Some Planes already exist and are using diesel car engines.
Like

What are the limitations on rotor brake use?
Can you throw off the lead-lag if you "stomp the brakes"
too hard?
Bill

 I bet this has been covered many times before, and I apologize for
asking yet again. I further apologize for the long post. I'm one of
those new, soon-to-be pilots that needs a lot of advice. I thought if
I gave a bunch of information, some might see how serious I am and

Can any one in here tale me, or rather explain to me how to hover ??
I have tried it in a R22, but it tilt / turned, every time.
First I hold only the height, then height and pedals and that was OK, but
when