Aviation Forum / General / Rotary-wing / November 2004

I had an hour introductory lesson in an R22 today and loved every minute of
it.  I've flown r/c helis and simulators for years so I was expecting to
have a lot of control familiarity, but I wasn't expecting it to be so
exhausting!  The instructor introduced the controls to me one at ...

Jetranger touch the Ground. Dangerous;is´nt it?
http://members.liwest.at/habermann2/heli kurz(divx lowq).avi
herb

Just on the news; a Robinson R22 went down today near the Arlington Airport.
Two folks on board- no survivors.
My condolences go out to the families.
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I found this great little site. I signed up two weeks ago and got 2 Disney tickets and this week they are sending me 2 Universal Studios tickets. Here's the link http://66.219.102.40/ and by the way I am a real person, this is my real email address. I'm not a spammer and didn't ...

Got a birthday comin' up in a few weeks and the "Whataya want for your
birthday?" bit has started already.  Normally, I tell everyone
"Nothing" since at my age, I consider birthdays just another day and
would be happy with a gigantic filet mignon, an even bigger baked

Had a rare weekend hop scheduled for Saturday..  Even more rare was
the time.  2pm.  Kinda buggered up my day 'cuz it's almost an hour
drive from the house to the field and I had some serious lounging
planned for the day.  To top it off, I was going to have to haul a.s

king KTR 900 any one got a pin out diagram  please  regards steve

I'm looking into (financial) alternatives to doing my CPL(H) training in the
UK.  Heli Adventures offer a JAA course in Florida (plus FAA and a work visa
for a year afterwards, which may or may not be useful). Anyone have any
direct experience of them?

Ok, this is getting annoying.  Last Friday I flew lousy, and the very
next day I did ok.  Yesterday I flew really poorly and today I did
really well..  Now if I could figure out WTF is going on, I'd be a
happy camper.

Check this very interesting gyro concept from Holland:
http://www.sparkdesign.nl/en/index.html
Also, click the link below to lead you to this amazing 3 wheel car and then
click video link (BBC Topgear)

I'm going to put it very bluntly.  I flew like crap today.  Absolutely
horrible.  Couldn't hover, couldn't do approaches, couldn't stick my
altitudes/airspeeds while in the pattern..  I sucked.
It'd been 8 days since I last flew.  Partially because of some

 This afternoon I made a flight with my Safari 30 minutes and after
refuelling I started  again the engine and there was a lot of smoke coming
from the exaust. very impressif. A guy from the local air club told me  this
could come from one valve not correctly positionned whenn the ...

I bet it costs more to put it back together than it will be worth at the
end? Just the labor alone has to be painful let alone 2  main blades, both
tail blades and an engine.
I wonder if projects like this ever get completed?

I was reading this thing:
http://www.drive.cranfield.ac.uk/cfml/dieselmotorbike4.cfm
Could this work for a small helicopter, like the kind BJ Schramm was marketing?
Comments?