ben1000
Senior Heliman
Location: Gilbert, Arizona
| How on EARTH are you supposed to do 45 degree approaches to landing.
True, I'm very new at this, and I'm sure I'll read this in a month and kick myself, but after doing about 100 landings today, I have NO idea how you people do this.
My normal way to land (I'd like to do a 45 degree approach with a flare to landing) is to come in at 45 degrees. At about 5 feet, I pull back on the cyclic to slow my forward flight. Of course, I forget that this will increase my lift as the lift is directed upwards, so I quickly attempt to correct this with lower pitch/throttle.
Then, of course, as the heli slows, I lose lift, and the lack of pitch doesn't help, so I have to scramble to increase pitch so the heli doesn't hit the ground.
By now, I've overcompensated on the cyclic and am moving backwards, and as such am in danger of striking the tail. But I now have transitional lift from the reverse flight, and (see last paragraph) I increased pitch to compensate for the (now negated) loss of forward flight.
Basically, the heli shoots straight up into the air to about 50 feet. Rinse, and repeat.
All in all, it doesn't look very 'scale'.
Any tips?
B. |
. Easy to write, not so easy to do...
