Calling all rotor pilots

[ILiveAgainParticipant]

I’ve been contacted by a forum member asking about inroads to flying …. I tried to convince him that rotors are the devils work … but seems he wants over the dark side.

So can you guys reveal yourselves so he can message or ask questions.

Poor blind fool ?

Cheers chaps

[experiencedParticipant]

Because fixed wings never crash 🙂

"It seems like there's times a body gets struck down so low, there ain't a power on earth that can ever bring him up again. Seems like something inside dies so he don't even want to get up again. But he does."

[Anonymous 42]

There’s auto rotation, that’s sort of not so devilish. When I first showed up here I gave some good advice about flying rotor models, to beginners, always hide behind something to avoid decapitation, my fixed wing advice to beginners is CLIMB CLIMB CLIMB, THE GROUND IS YOUR ENEMY! You make a 300ft mistake at 500ft, but you can’t make 300ft mistake at 75ft!!!

Rotary is much more challenging, like a seal walking on a ball vs throttle up, pull back on the yoke.

With rotary you have to control the collector, swash plate, and tail rotor in constant unison and relevance to each other. I never spent hours laying on my back flying one like a kite, fixed wing I have. I know, don’t tell me, I already know 500 ft. is the maximum allowable AGL, but 2 or 3 thousand feet is where the steady wind is. I’ve had people look up and not even see the little dot in the sky, then say holy s~~~, that’s high! Airplanes just get heavier and heavier from all the repairs, but helicopters NEVER FLY RIGHT AGAIN, if it’s not a rotor balance problem it’s incidence (both blades with exact same pitch) or a combination of both, which causes enough vibration to tear something else apart.

Nothing’s more comfortable to fly than low wing with dihedral vs a high wing with struts, the yoke/joystick is always neutral no matter the attack angle, they go where you point them and don’t change pitch with increased power.

I went Rotary because my friend in California in the movie industry said there’s lots of work in areal photography, and that he could get some. Then a couple years later they came out with the drone. It seems I’m always a day late and a dollar short. F~~~!

[Anonymous 42]

[Big BossParticipant 4496]

I love this thread. Its buzzing my tower.

[RASmanParticipant 1994]

I was a professional pilot for almost 30 years, all fixed wing. Don’t like whirly gigs – not at all, even a little.

[HawkeParticipant 197]

I fly fixed wing machines only too. Helicopters are wingless demons 😀

Qui audet adipiscitur - Who dares, wins

[RedPillBonerParticipant 541]

I’ve flown helicopters for a long time. Started out in the Army and now fly EMS. What is the question?

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