Aviation Forum / General / Rotary-wing / September 2004

I'm quite curious about this groups response to an announcement of a new
magazine about experimental helicopters.  There has been essentially no
response.  I'm sure surprised.  Is there a basis for this group that I'm
unaware of that would create a total lack of curiosity or ...

I'm not on the flight schedule until Tuesday morning so I'm not really
thinking about flying Sunday as I'm watching Drew Brees overthrow
disgustingly wide open receivers and seeing the Jets walk all over the
Chargers.  (go team..  yawn)  I'm well into the 6 pack I reserved for

How does one communicate with ATC when one is deaf?
Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone
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Does the Rotax 'After-Muffler' part 878967 really work, reducing noise?.
I'm running a Rotax 503DC on my Gyro and constantly operating between 6000 &
6600 rpm.
Interested to hear from anyone who has fitted / heard one operating with

Got in another hour this morning before work.  Ship was fresh off a 50
hour maintenance workover so the preflight went smoothly and quickly.
Almost got complacent during the preflight by not looking at the
checklist for each step.  Caught my omission (forgot to check throttle

Monday morning I got up early, got the kids dressed and fed and hauled
'em off to school.  Dropped 'em off with the usual back seat
shenanigans (or however you spell it) and headed to the field.  Having
been disappointed the past couple times down because of maintenance, I

3rd hop this week and I got to fly a ship I'd never flown before.  4th
R22 Beta II I've flown and this one is by far the quietest of the
bunch.  Today was the same deal as yesterday.  Up at the crack of
dawn, roust the kids and hit the road by 7 - only the kids did pretty

Anyone have details?
Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

I don't post here often but I have read w/ interest your diary of
flight lessons. A few questions if you don't mind:
Why are you cooling down an R22 ( I assume from your threads that is
what you're flying) for five minutes before you disengage the clutch?

Im after a video link that was posted on this newsgroup sometime ago..
It was a long video (approx 30mb) of a Schwiezer/Hughes 300 doing
aerobatic manouvers at low level at an airport! I remember it had a
sound recording also including Robbie William :(

Kruger National Park in South Africa, early 70's. Working with game
rangers to do health checks on elephants. Using a Bell 206 with doors
off, game ranger with a dart gun and heavy duty tranquilizers, a
specific herd of elephants... get them moving out in line to avoid the

Here's something I was reading:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996380
So beyond the mere claim of being more efficient, why would it actually be so?
The claim of hovering for 4 days is quite a jump, when compared to Global Hawk.

I am looking for a list or a library of Disk Loadings and Power Loadings for
some rotating-Wing Aircrafts (especially VTOLs). I have found some peculiar
data on V22 Osprey (different DL in a site and in a book??), so I wnted to
make sure...

I've been looking for a gyroplane ready to fly. I've seen a few
offered on eBay, went to look at them and they we rarely described
correctly. I've seen one on ebay that's in California and it has a
good description, good pictures and so on, but that's quite a drive to

My daughter (28) is very interested in a career as a helicopter pilot.
She has been doing some flying and says she wants to pursue this
career.  I need assistance in gathering information about this career
so she can be better informed in making a decision.  My understanding