heliman41
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Location: Valparaiso IN. USA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | I too believe its 90% the weather in the USA thats holding back the waivers. Im not rich but after attending many yrs of heli flyins I can tell ya there is more than a large number that are rich, and a $6000 turbine to them is like taking my wife out for dinner so it definatly not the moola holding them back. Also I believe for scale flight(the turbine waiver), all that is necessary is hovering along with nose in hovering, FF figure 8 in both directions, one hi altitude climb, and apply all the startup and shutdown rules already in place is nuff. Nobody flying a scaler like a scaler is doing loops and rolls thats just silly! A lot of fellas have the patience and skills to buy and build beautiful scalers but its going to take some more time(probably sim time), to make them great pilots as well. I think between the weather and low flying time skills its going to be a slow crawl seeing the turbines blossom. Ive seen a LOT of scale guys who could just barely hover so................................. If I could afford a turbine id sure as heck be doing it and I can do stationary rolls, autos, and flips and wouldnt be afraid to do it on a turbine. IF I was only rich, but Ill have to settle for spectater, bummer............ |
