FlightNight March 30: Oregon Trail

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This will be a scenic ride, with a little time built in to doodle around the peaks we'll see. This will be a helicopter mission.

Usual time for activities (remember UK is still in dismal wintertime clock mode) and is currently UTC+0 until March 31.

Kick off will be at dawn, using border of a high pressure for weather.

Helicopters: This flight, depending on how things in the week progress will be either

a) Bell 412 Griffin ONLY

fguk.me/hangar/rotary/summary/13-rotary-...bell-412-public-beta


The flight plan is:

4S2 Ken Jernstedt
Fix 11841
Fix JEFSN
Fix BCHLR
S21 Sunriver

112nm leg

BREAK

S21 Sunriver
Fix KS78E
64S Prospect State
Fix CUTTR
89OR Mucky Flat

97.2 nm leg

FINISH

Watch this space for updates, and see you there!

G

Gary will be pleased to know, I have released the current Development 412 as a public BETA. It is a stand alone package.

www.fguk.me/hangar/rotary/download/13-ro...bell-412-public-beta

So now you can use this one or the original 412 in the huey package. They are very different beasts.

Second (hah!) post updated

G

Yum.

VooDoo

You know Garry, about the saying " eggs in one basket". The new 412 has not been altitude tested.

Ahhh, the zest of danger. The essence of joie de vivre!

Bwahahaha!

G

Well after testing tonight, anything over 12k and your going to have problems.

No worries there, matey!

Top scratch would be Mount Hood, at 11,250ft



G

Rats! Unfortunately I will be unable to attend tonight's soiree as I will be in Chicago assisting Family.

There is a chance I'll be home 4ish so I may yet make the second half of the Flight. Have fun and be good. and if you can't be good be careful!

VooDoo

Wee problem at S21...…………

Yes, the scenery is a little farked here.

But not such problem if you got to the bit of the runway where the trees have been cleared...



G

Thanks to all pilots attending.

Had a shite of a day - FG problems prior to, and during flight. Also flight input problems. Apologies to all for being a shite lead, at around 20nm behind everyone for a chunk of the flight.

Excellent scenery area tho', well worth revisiting.

Cheers,

G

Me too Perhaps it's the region? Like Bermuda?
After 20nm (or a little more) no power, no torqe. Maximum collective and the cyclic in most backward position. And then a big mountain...

I had control and input problems on my pre-flight scenery grab , wasn't sure if it was me or my black widow flight stick or FG or what.
I'm crap at helicopters anyway, so rather than ruin the show I decided not to take part.

Happy flying !

Porcy

I know this is an old flight, but because I cannot join on Saturdays I often scan the FlightNight posts to follow what you did, and find they have useful destination ideas.

Just wanted to post here that I too have flight control input problems in this area, also in Washington State.

I was questioning my gear at one point but went to EGOD and all was ok.

I think its the number of trees in the scenery. I found lags in control input making graceful landings and cruising a problem. It felt like my i7 was really underpowered which is not normally the case.

I'm travelling from Vancouver to San Diego so the sooner I get away from all these trees the better !!