The best thing about older aircraft...

Piperonca said:
What is this throttle coordinator of which you speak? :biggrin:
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It is a small metal box wherein the throttle and collective are connected and it filled with pixies and unicorn farts. Rumor has it, it actually does something..

Coulda fooled me!
 
IK04 said:
The throttle coordinator sorta worked, but I still had to constantly adjust the throttle during power changes.
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I wonder if it needed some rigging help. Ours works pretty good, or at least I think it does. It’s no governor but it does the job fairly well.
 
IK04 said:
It is a small metal box wherein the throttle and collective are connected and it filled with pixies and unicorn farts. Rumor has it, it actually does something..

Coulda fooled me!
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I thought it was called a throttle correlator.
 
Dan Thomas said:
I thought it was called a throttle correlator.
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Depends. If its a mechanical connection between the collective and the throttle it's called a correlator. However, on this those helicopters without a correlator its called the coordinator and is that sloppy link that connects the throttle, collective, and cyclic to the seat pan.:)
 
The helicopters I used to fly always had a loose nut on the cyclic.
 
Piperonca said:
The helicopters I used to fly always had a loose nut on the cyclic.
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How true. But remember we can always torque check the wingnut between the cyclic and collective or bleed the cockpit meat servo to keep things going.;)
 
Bell206 said:
How true. But remember we can always torque check the wingnut between the cyclic and collective or bleed the cockpit meat servo to keep things going.;)
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LOL! Thank you! Brings back memories of all those different wingnuts--some looser than others, and some with stripped threads that just flew off into the sunset. Of course on the ancient teeter-totter helicopters, the Jesus Nut was the most important one. If that one flew off, you have just enough time to say "Oh Jesus!"
 
Dan Thomas said:
A lot of old airplanes smell like stale 80/87 gasoline. Someone needs to come up with an aerosol can of that odor. Name it "Evening In Oshkosh" or something like that. An exotic aviation perfume.
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absolutly! You could do some blends w different versions- so Evening at Oshkosh stale 80/87 with essence of aeroshell” and such…

heck you know we all would be spraying it on ourselves! :)
 
And don't forget that special fragrance when you spill a little Camguard on the exhaust...
 
Speaking of manuals, I did an annual on a Socata TB-10 last year (think French Cherokee) and the maintenance manual was laid out in ATA chapters like an airliner.
Chapter 52 - Doors was 50 pages, Chapter 11 - Placards and Markings 176 pages!
 
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