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- From: ch@eiaut2.tuwien.ac.at (Christian Kral)
- Subject: Re: Nose in hovering
- Message-ID: <1992Oct8.180814.7658@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Sender: ch@eiaut2.tuwien.ac.at (Christian Kral (Visula))
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- Organization: Technical University Vienna, AUSTRIA
- References: <1992Oct8.133510.10580@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:08:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct8.133510.10580@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, goza@norm.JSC.NASA.GOV (Mike Goza) writes:
- |> The second method is the one that was described to me and works well. It is the one that I chose
- |> to learn the maneuver with. It requires though that you be fairly proficient with forward flight.
- |> Basically, fly the heli to a nose in position 40-50 feet (or higher) off the deck and slowly
- |> progress into a nose in hovering posture. When you get in trouble, just increase forward cyclic
- |> and pitch to climb away. Circle around and do it again. With practice, you will eventually
- |> learn to hover nose in at a safe altitude. Once that is done, start lowering the circuits until
- |> you are as close to the ground as you wish. Then learning to take off and land nose in is easy
- |> at that point. I used this method and managed to learn nose in without damaging the heli.
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- Thanks for telling this method, Mike!
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- |> Hope this helped.
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- I hope it will!
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- Christian Kral
- (ch@eiaut2.tuwien.ac.at)
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