Anyone flown a helicopter?

[Dano]

Reality is that it requires repetition learning and once you've mastered that, it becomes second nature like driving. And yes they have stabilising systems to stop you spazzing out, auto hover etc.

Exactly, if it was that hard there would be far fewer helicopters in use, it might be harder that driving or flying fixed wingbut it's hardly something that only a select few can learn, ignoring the cost anyway...

It does wind me up when I see pilots in films yanking the stick around though, Trinity would have had all sorts iof issues the way she was throwing the cyclic around in the Matrix.

 

[PiKe]

Does R/C count?

 

[Thunderbolt]

I was told that it cost the Navy £6000/hr to train on a Lynx

 

[Cosimo]

Does R/C count?

That is difficult.

 

[Broadie]

Nearly beaten to it

1. Flying is hours of boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.

2. Hovering is for pilots who love to fly but have no place to go.

3. Every one already knows the definition of a 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. But very few know the definition of a 'great landing.' It's one after which you can use the airplane another time.

4. A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become random in motion.

5. Helicopters don't fly. They beat the air into submission.

Never flown choppers but have flown fixed wing (even managed a solo once) but its damned expensive

 

[m0rte]

I've had a couple of gift lessons in the past. I can fly in sims and games no problem but the real thing is completely different. They're much more sensitive then i'd imagined (smaller choppers are probably harder to fly than bigger) and coordinating the controls/your feet & hands obviously takes hours and hours of practice.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

My wifes been known to handle a chopper! It's quite hard by all accounts.

 

["andy"]

if those idiot princes can do it then anyone can do it

in reality i dont think id ever even want to be a passenger in one nevermind fly one. just too many things to go wrong

 

[PiKe]

if those idiot princes can do it then anyone can do it

in reality i dont think id ever even want to be a passenger in one nevermind fly one. just too many things to go wrong

No less safe than a plane.

 

[merlin]

Flown a small Robinson, I'll echo what others have said here in that that are ULTRA sensitive.

You catch a sudden breeze and move off course/drift - you move the stick to counter - but you over counter, then it all goes horribly downhill very very quickly.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Yes, poorly, in BFBC2.

 

[PiKe]

Flown a small Robinson, I'll echo what others have said here in that that are ULTRA sensitive.

You catch a sudden breeze and move off course/drift - you move the stick to counter - but you over counter, then it all goes horribly downhill very very quickly.

Like this guy:

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Looked like a good laugh till he hit the ground.

 

[Gerard]

5. Helicopters don't fly. They beat the air into submission.[/I]

Nope, that was a saying that was attibuted to twin blade helicopters like the huey, the "whoppa whoppa" sound it produced was said to beat the air into submission, not the case on 4 blade heli's.

 

[Gerard]

Like this guy:

Yeah that fool actually bought one and went flying it himself with apparently no prior experience.

 

[Gerard]

And lest we forget, the best looking Helo of them all

 

[PiKe]

And lest we forget, the best looking Helo of them all

Epic.

 

[Pate]

ouch, some painful looking errors there :/

 

[Cosimo]

Not very good:

 

[AMG]

helicopters are not supposed to fly, turn off the engine and you will find out why. ( not in real life)

you can't just let go of the stick and it will go level it will probably nose dive

I have treid a navy copper pilot sim in one of thier recruitment trailers, I managed to get it on the carrier it was a bit of a **** through