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206BIII on Fixed Float Q's
I've been seriously considering building a Jetranger to be on fixed
floats to accomplish some stuff I cant do easily another way. I've read through the ammendment to the Flight Manual for them, and talked to some mechanics that worked on them, and I have a burning question that's go/no go . The FM has a warning about having the machine anchored/tied down during run-up to prevent it from spinning. The trouble is that there would be nobody available to release lines when I take off from a remote location. Im sure as hell not gonna let a passenger (pilot or not) do it either. I won't hot load/unload anyone whos not a chopper pilot. Just how bad is this spinning? Is is possible to row the thing far enough away from land to let it just spin around during startup? The water is very flat where I intend to operate, and I could ususually land on the leeward side of the islands to further reduce the wave action and ensure that I dont drift ashore during runup/shutdown. Bart |
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If I recall correctly we did tests on a 350 where they shut down the engine
and restarted on Apical emerg floats. I think it rotated once or twice before the TR had enough thrust , not exactly spinning , dont know if the teetering rotor on a Bell makes it any more dangerous. Neil "Bart" wrote in message ... I've been seriously considering building a Jetranger to be on fixed floats to accomplish some stuff I cant do easily another way. I've read through the ammendment to the Flight Manual for them, and talked to some mechanics that worked on them, and I have a burning question that's go/no go . The FM has a warning about having the machine anchored/tied down during run-up to prevent it from spinning. The trouble is that there would be nobody available to release lines when I take off from a remote location. Im sure as hell not gonna let a passenger (pilot or not) do it either. I won't hot load/unload anyone whos not a chopper pilot. Just how bad is this spinning? Is is possible to row the thing far enough away from land to let it just spin around during startup? The water is very flat where I intend to operate, and I could ususually land on the leeward side of the islands to further reduce the wave action and ensure that I dont drift ashore during runup/shutdown. Bart |
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"Neil Fraser" wrote in
: If I recall correctly we did tests on a 350 where they shut down the engine and restarted on Apical emerg floats. I think it rotated once or twice before the TR had enough thrust , not exactly spinning , dont know if the teetering rotor on a Bell makes it any more dangerous. If you're starting a 206 in wind, and the thing starts spinning, things can get very interesting very quickly. The tailboom can be severed before you can blink your eye. Personally, I wouldn't even try it. -- Regards, Stan |
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