Seating Arrangements

Viewed from the top, my rotor turns CW. As such I'm putting right pedal in
in a hover. This causes the ship to want to translate to the left and I
correct with right cyclic, which causes my right skid to be low. If I also
set on the right, it should tend to tip the ship more to the right and my
reaction would be to put in less rt cyclic,which would have the disc more
perpindicular to the mast. Also operating the radio from the left seat
with my left hand (the collective will set still for short periods) still
tends to produce some extra maneuvers. I've almost talked my self into
switching seats, except the instruments are set up for left seat driver.
Safari driver Stu
"Bart" wrote in message
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I was told by the factory IP's to put it in to the right (pilot side)
after the auto. This would cause the transmission to rip off
aft rather than coming forward into the cockpit. My MRs spin CCW, so this
would be different in an ship where they spun CW.

Certainly I would not have pax jump in the flare.

Bart

"Andrew Crane" wrote in message
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"Jack & Bev Biagini" wrote in message
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"Tim" wrote in message
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I was told back in the 50's when I was in the Navy as a mech, that the
reason the pilot was on the right was that in a ditching situation the
a/c
would pitch left on contact with the water

you mean "roll left", but why? Surely it's down to the pilot to decide
which
way to roll the a/c to stop the blades.

and pull the a/c to the left. At
that time the most likely guy riding shotgun was a JO or an enlisted
man
watching the engines ect. It was just a matter of economics, the PIC
being
the more valuable of the two.

I'd have thought the remaining would disembark in the flare rather than
wait
for the pilot to trap them in a sinking ship.

Surely the ability to reach the controls with the free hand would be a
more
convincing reason for putting the pilot on the right.

Regards
Andrew


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