Both hands on the control wheel?

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Yes for sure the R22 is a twitchy little coc......... to fly properly.


I had one in my flight school and wished I had bought a Hughes 300, but after a while I accepted that if they could fly the R22 they could fly anything.


My favourite helicopter was the Bell 204 Huey, it was a dream to fly.


But for pure flying fun the gyroplane is the best in my opinion.

[Colonel]

[quote]if they could fly the R22 they could fly anything[/quote]

Yup.  Graduation exercise is hover taxi down the runway
centerline at 3 feet and 10 mph ... while continuously
yawing through 360 degrees, over and over again.

[Colonel]

[quote]using both hands on the control wheel[/quote]

[url=http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/08/1 ... gests.html]http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/08/1 ... gests.html[/url]

[quote]men today are significantly weaker than their counterparts of the '80s.

Specifically, men could squeeze with 120 pounds of force in 1985 and only 95 today[/quote]

After WWII there was a guy with 20/7 eyesight
that [i]bent[/i] the control stick of the X-1.  Probably
didn't have much product in his hair or (gasp!) even
a facebook account.

[Gravel Digger]

[quote author=Colonel Sanders link=topic=3913.msg10457#msg10457 date=1471098509]
Take the auto-pilot queens and send them south
to spend a week in the sunshine, learning to fly
an R-22.  They will come back with a tan and more
stick and rudder skill than you thought possible.
[/quote]


My instructor on the Robby told me to become a Jedi to fly that thing properly. "If I see your hand moving the stick, you're over-controlling it...move it with your mind, man"

[Colonel]

I don't care how sharp a fixed-wing pilot someone is,
the R-22 will teach them to fly.

What a nasty little thing it is.  Hovering one is like
trying to stuff a banana up a monkey's ass, where
aforementioned monkey is high on meth.

[Gravel Digger]

Funny how the majority of chopper drivers are learning on the robby and then graduating to easier to fly platforms.
Yet, the fixed-wing world is made sure to train on the most forgiving aircraft from day one. Fiddle-dee-dee.

[Chuck Ellsworth]

The world of helicopter flying instruction has no comparison with the fixed wing world...


How in fuck did TC ever come up with the idea that the people who teach just learned to fly and have never held a flying job before can teach flying?


Ahhh well all you need do is have a look at who they just hired....the spiral can continue downward.

[Colonel]

It's important to realize that people advertise their
greatest weakness.

For example, if I drive through a smallish town, and
I see a [i]HUGE[/i] sign that says:

[size=36pt][b]HONEST TOM'S USED CARS[/b][/size]

it's probably a safe best that ol' Tom is not known
far and wide for his honesty, so that is his greatest
problem to overcome with his advertising - his name,
his brand.

This brings us to "Transport Canada Aviation".  I
might observe that:

- they don't transport anything
- they sure as hell don't represent my Canada
- they don't know diddly about aviation

[Nark1]

I learned to fly in a jetranger.
Not a bad way to start...

[Colonel]

Yeah, no shit.

No carb heat, like an R-22 or Bell 47.

You forget the carb heat in an H-13, you
get an airfield named after you (OZR at
Rucker, I'm sure you know it well).

I know, another useless history moment.