In the USAF my job allowed me a couple hours stick time per quarter in
the aircraft whose pilots I trained on an instrument trainer/flight sim.
I had a few rotor heads as students. Without autopilot I can attest to
the tenderness of choppers to control input. Even flying a truck
(HH-47, a large Sikorsky recip) I found to be challenging as the
slightest stick movement caused large A/C motions. I had to rest my arm
on my knee and use light pressures rather than movement of the
controls. I'm no rotor head, just a fixed wing kinda guy but credit
where credit is due the pilot in the clip had a hand as cool as "Luke."
Even with auto-stabilization, auto-hover, auto pilot, etc. when it is
just man and machine sans computer stuff like in the video clip the
pilot showed his virtuosity.
Patrick NJ5G
On 9/25/2015 10:14 AM, Gene Smar wrote:
Gents:
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