helo pilots will do just about anything to get it out of the sky
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.............
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?
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.