Can one see a graph depicting a ship's vertical motion vs time in such seas? Wondering if there is any predictability there at all.
Nice!
Never been airsick, but I think I'd toss my cookies after 30 sec on that ship.
Unless I am wearing a transdermal scop disc behind my ear I ain't going past the breakwater.
My first ship landing was onto a crew boat in the Gulf about 90 miles off Galveston. I had around 15 hours of turbine dual so there was no question I was a passenger and not a pilot. The seas were around 8-10 feet and the ship's mast was about 20 feet from the rotor disc. I was sweating bullets.
They served us lunch in the galley...ham and peas, just what I needed.
Couldn't get back in the air soon enough. I am not a sailor.![]()
A wise old man once told me... Never miss a chance to stay off a helicopter
That was Henning during his younger days....
He was not only driving the boat............ He was flying the heli at the same time.............
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Shoot, they have real helo decks on their boats. Yachts it's a freaking nightmare to have a helo onboard.Nothing I hate more than helo evolutions on the sun deck.
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I can imagine any deck chair / FOD / antenna is just asking to cause a rotor hit and crash....![]()
I'll take a helicopter over an airplane any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
Can one see a graph depicting a ship's vertical motion vs time in such seas? Wondering if there is any predictability there at all.
I spent a lot of time in the north atlantic. It's a blast when it's like thatNice!
Never been airsick, but I think I'd toss my cookies after 30 sec on that ship.
I spent a lot of time in the north atlantic. It's a blast when it's like that
Why do the rotors appear to be turning so slowly in the video? The rest of the frame doesn't look especially slow-motion. Is that a frame-rate strobing artifact?
Why do the rotors appear to be turning so slowly in the video? The rest of the frame doesn't look especially slow-motion. Is that a frame-rate strobing artifact?
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There's a grid pattern on the deck that the helicopter "bites" to with a belly-mounted hook (Harpoon). And yes, the Lynx is capable of negative pitch to hold itself down.
I was talking to a USCG helo pilot several years back and he said they were trying out a winching system where they come in on a hover, the deck hand hooks up a line on a high speed winch, then the helo gets pulled onto the deck in synch with the wave. I have no idea how it worked out or if it went operational.I thought it was an interesting idea though.