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Helicopter hate thread, i'll start

Anonymous Mon 05 Nov 2018 23:48:02 No.1253834 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1253903 >>1253955 >>1254541 >>1257834

>be me
>in helicopter
>engine fails
>fall to my death with no hope for survival

>be me
>in Airbus A320
>engine fails 20 minutes after takeoff
>check map in pfd
>suitable airport within 10 miles
>has enough alt to glide to the airport
>survive

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Nov 2018 23:53:42 No.1253836 Report

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>what is autorotation
Casuals...

Not that it's all that comforting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Nov 2018 01:26:12 No.1253847 Report

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>be you
>shitpost on 4chan
>never fly a shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Nov 2018 03:34:30 No.1253903 Report

Quoted By: >>1254372

>>1253834
my only beef against helicopters is their range, I like their skycrane ability but holy fuck are they fuel consuming whores that go slow as hell.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 06 Nov 2018 07:20:23 No.1253955 Report

Quoted By: >>1257855

>>1253834
Honorable mention: hot air balloons. Never will I ever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Nov 2018 16:59:45 No.1254372 Report

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>>1253903
trucks vs. forklifts

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Nov 2018 17:49:58 No.1254389 Report

Quoted By: >>1254404

Helicopters should only permitted in emergency and military service 2bh, and maybe also in rural areas in general. The god-awful noise they produce in urban areas is completely unwarranted just for shuttling rich people around above everyone else's traffic jams.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Nov 2018 18:18:34 No.1254404 Report

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>>1254389
Buy a $15k Cessna, make air traffic jams.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 08 Nov 2018 00:38:07 No.1254538 Report

Quoted By: >>1254843 >>1254850

>be gyroplane
>helicopters laugh at you
>airplanes laugh at you
>nobody to party with

such is life

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 08 Nov 2018 00:53:32 No.1254541 Report

Quoted By: >>1257839

>>1253834
Assuming the gearbox and engine doesn't explode, autorotation will allow a helicopter to safely come back down to the ground.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Nov 2018 23:36:12 No.1254843 Report

Quoted By: >>1254854

>>1254538
dunno, they're easily the fastest growing light aviation vehicle.

https://www.bydanjohnson.com/gyroplanes-are-big-overseas-first-market-share-info-for-the-usa/

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Nov 2018 23:47:53 No.1254850 Report

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>>1254538
FAIL HOTDOG?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Nov 2018 23:57:42 No.1254854 Report

Quoted By: >>1255122

>>1254843
i dont see how

ultralight plane kits in the 5-20k range are extremely common

gyroplanes are either 5k gokart frames with a rotor or 60k fiberglass eggshells surrounding a 5k gokart frame

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Nov 2018 09:10:29 No.1254987 Report

Quoted By: >>1255002

Helicopters are the thinking man's aviation vehicle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Nov 2018 11:30:30 No.1255002 Report

Quoted By: >>1259229

>>1254987
this is true. thinking men are often the most suicidal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 09 Nov 2018 23:12:24 No.1255122 Report

Quoted By: >>1255147

>>1254854
gyroplanes fly like they have a permanent parachute attached, but without being dragged away at the slightest gust. even on a 5k gokart frame you can crash into rocks and walk away fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USvqxByDA78

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Nov 2018 01:10:58 No.1255147 Report

Quoted By: >>1255156 >>1255194

>>1255122
im not raggin on gyros as a concept, im a fan. i think theyre pretty neat and id love to add on certification for them

but everytime i think about it i hit two brick walls

1. gyro cfis are like super fucking rare (at least in the usa)

2. you cant rent them anywhere so you'd have to buy your own. then back to the rant on how they seem massively overpriced for what you get, when you could get a decent used airplane for the same price

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Nov 2018 02:00:05 No.1255156 Report

Quoted By: >>1255158

>>1255147
I don't think you need cfi to get a rating on a type. Granted you already have a rotor craft license, it should be very straightforward.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Nov 2018 02:30:47 No.1255158 Report

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>>1255156
i only have a fixed wing private, id still need dual instruction time in a rotorcraft

not really interested in private helicopter, nobody rents them for solo flight where i live

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Nov 2018 04:07:57 No.1255194 Report

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>>1255147
Wauchula, FL has a shit ton of them for some reason. I'd check there for a potential CFI and just do it on a vacation. That part of the state is cheap as heck, diggity. Go do it and let us know how strange it is.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 10 Nov 2018 23:33:03 No.1255414 Report

Quoted By: >>1255415 >>1255720 >>1257825

>people in the 80s were flying homemade tipjet helicopters

did people back then have a lot of balls or were they really bored

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Nov 2018 23:36:00 No.1255415 Report

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>>1255414
fuck that's beyond suicide and balls of steel tier. I'd say people back then were both

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 02:03:50 No.1255720 Report

Quoted By: >>1255780

>>1255414
wiki says 3 madlads were flying those in 1998

and 6 were flying these

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 07:06:54 No.1255780 Report

Quoted By: >>1257880

>>1255720
Ramjets at the blade tips were actually quite promising. E.g no torque to counteract with a tail rotor and overall simplicity of design.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Nov 2018 08:19:43 No.1255787 Report

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Yeah anon I am a helicopter avionics engineer and I personally hate the things. So all of the oil rig guys that fly on them too. I'll post pics later.

[spoiler:lit] most people get crushed by the gearbox on impact [/spoiler:lit]

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 17:42:27 No.1257825 Report

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>>1255414
I saw something similar in a Chinese PLA training military video

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 17:51:20 No.1257834 Report

Quoted By: >>1257850 >>1257876

>>1253834
Try to land an airplane on the roof.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 18:05:55 No.1257839 Report

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>>1254541
Given it's high enough
A below-minimum height to allow adequate autorotation is still a very lethal height to "fall" from

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 18:37:00 No.1257850 Report

Quoted By:

>>1257834
Challenge accepted.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 19:25:48 No.1257855 Report

Quoted By: >>1257911

>>1253955
Hot air balloon pilots are the blackpilled /n/ posters

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 20:54:36 No.1257876 Report

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>>1257834
I flew the Gullfire over Leningrad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 21:06:46 No.1257880 Report

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>>1255780
Thought the one French design was pretty neat that used a small turbine to run compressed bleed air through the rotors to nozzles on the tips. Same effect of not needing a tail rotor, and seems easier to work with/get started than ramjets. Seems like a likely design idea for small utility/personal helicopters; I'd wonder if you couldn't rig up a recip to some sort of turbo-compressor so it's even cheaper/easier than a gas turbine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Nov 2018 23:24:51 No.1257911 Report

Quoted By:

>>1257855
do we have balloonanons?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Nov 2018 22:50:23 No.1259229 Report

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>>1255002
underrated

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