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Post subject: Re: Hughes 500 models (ownership/mx/training) Posted: 27 Aug 2021, 16:19 |
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Joined: 11/20/17 Posts: 10 Post Likes: +11 Company: HEMS provider Location: Space Coast, FL/Northeast TN
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How much can you travel for training. I’m assuming no rotary now? Recently lost my flight trg mentor - however his 2 pri. recommendations have long been one is better served being power-limited thru training (eg piston then check-out in turbines, much cheaper in addition to the norm. flow though Bell’s factory school is oriented more to owners) & flying multiple aircraft types more quickly develops a skilled pilot. Check out the Guimbal Calibri if you do conversion in pistons….it has force trim like the turbines you’ll fly.
Jetranger: Teetering rotorhead like Robinson (but in high-inertia) and TT strap replacement ($$$); Considered to have outstanding autorotation characteristics; Bell’s factory school has long been known for full-touchdown autorotations and very experienced instructors to my knowledge that remains. For turbines full-touchdown autos are basically Bell 206/MD500 only….there’s a school in Prescott which does outstanding training I can connect you with.
Suggested Reading: The Little Book of Autorotations, and Cyclic & Collective by Shawn Coyle (full disclosure friend & mentor to his passing earlier this year Mr. Hangen can give you an unbiased opinion); Helicopter Aerodynamics by Ray Prouty.
For the MD500 there are several engine ratings from the original base engine up to the latest mark for the MH-6 which as you know goes as the 530 model. Believe there are a couple different options for avionics upgrades now. Welcome to message and I’ll connect you with what resources I can….aka people who actually know what they’re talking about.
Something Shawn Coyle told me on the phone last year, he named his primary work on helicopter flight Cyclic & Collective after Wolfgang Langewiesche’s Stick & Rudder: Both in tribute to, and with the personal goal of creating a RW text that measured to - early this year soliciting input to improve while working on what would’ve been the latest edition. Headed experimental flight test for Transport Canada, couple Corps. incl. Bell IIRC, and RW at USNTPS & NTPS. Why he took daily time for my inane questions is beyond me. Apologies for the sidetrack…..Stay safe,
Heath
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Post subject: Re: Hughes 500 models (ownership/mx/training) Posted: 27 Aug 2021, 22:50 |
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Joined: 11/19/12 Posts: 359 Post Likes: +251 Company: North Air Flite Location: Greenbush MN
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Username Protected wrote: My favorite helicopter of all time. Sorry, have no real info, just know it's a pilots helicopter, a little Ferrari. Everyone I've spoken to that's flown them, love them. That would be the 530.
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Post subject: Re: Hughes 500 models (ownership/mx/training) Posted: 28 Aug 2021, 01:45 |
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Joined: 11/20/16 Posts: 6405 Post Likes: +7870 Location: Austin, TX area
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I got to try an OH6 on once. Flying it was fine. Hovering, well I looked like a drunk on a unicycle.
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Post subject: Re: Hughes 500 models (ownership/mx/training) Posted: 28 Aug 2021, 09:14 |
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Joined: 12/22/07 Posts: 12813 Post Likes: +13205 Company: Cogswell Cogs, LLC Location: KPTK (SE Michigan)
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Username Protected wrote: Miserable to be relegated to the back seat. Upgrade to the Family Truckster! Night Stalkers Don’t Quit [youtube]https://youtu.be/IX4fbsUsgc4[/youtube]
_________________ Life is a DiY project.
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Post subject: Re: Hughes 500 models (ownership/mx/training) Posted: 29 Aug 2021, 16:31 |
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Joined: 08/14/16 Posts: 30 Post Likes: +22 Company: RCAF
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I highly recommend reading Low Level Hell, by Hugh Mills. It's a great read about OH-6 Loach scouts in Vietnam, by an author who knows how to tell a story (and describe an aircraft without sounding like the engineer who built it). One certainly comes away from the book with an impression of an immensely strong airframe (photos of hitting a "snag" tree at over 100kts, and the author being shot down three times in one day!). Recently, I completed my A&P syllabus for helicopters, which validated that view of the design - it's a flying roll cage.
Another aspect of the ship that Mills' book conveys is how nimble they are. All swing-wing drivers have heard the Ferrari comparison, with none of that messy hydraulic to wipe up, but two instances in the book come to mind: during initial in-country check out, a senior scout pilot shows then-junior author how to fly right down next to soldiers foot prints to detect which direction troops were moving on the trail; and second, a suspicious rice farmer who dodged being detained was chased down by the helicopter, knocked down into the mud, and the helo's skid positioned across his chest until US troops could make their way through the mud to detain him. Great flying, and great reading.
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