Pleasure - I will put one up with just the fly throughs at night for you - no music etc !

Pleasure !

Hi there- that was a garmin virb xe , but that has been discontinued unfortunately

I agree - it’s a proven way to combat complacency !

Wow!

Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it!!

U.K. - Cotswolds !

We have quite a few LCY videos!!

That’s right!

I haven’t tried dcs with rtx !

@@ABHelicopters Well your game rig graphics look really real. Judging by your post. But why fly a sim of a pathetic weenie rotor like Robinson R..., well any Robinson. Its sim, just go straight to turbines. 406 for starters. Fun real world fact. 406 struck a wire. The wire cutters slice dthrough. Pilot landed ASAP. He had some explaining to do as to why he was below 500 AGL in violation of local FAR. Took a hot on his cert, his insurance bumped up, and had negative impact on his career. Sucks for him. He flew rich skiers to and from Aspen. Was a good gig. Robinson R44 struck a wire. Boom separated, cabin sliced through and crushed, main hub separated, two dead.

I am afraid I don’t know the 406… I have heard of the bell407 however?

@@ABHelicopters Touche, but its only a single digit. Has a single digit error ever ended anyone in aviation?

@@ABHelicopters 406 is a 'civilianized' OH-58 Kiowa. Demilitiarized. Engines deratred and IR suppressos removed. Common for engines to swapped, and only airframe is sold. 407 is civilian build from factory.

I have been a big fan of Aerofly over the years and bought many versions but they have now moved to Aerofly FS Global ,

They are incredible to watch in person, especially in formation!

Great question James! So in this case, from the pre flight planning, realising that a vertical climb is required, you can go into the flight manual- section 5 on performance - in an r44 raven 2 , you look at section 5-5, OGE performance - which is what a vertical climb is. For the given weight, temperature and pressure conditions, you can see if you have the required performance . Then, in flight , before you commit to landing, you do a power check, in the 44, this is at 55 kts, and compare power used straight and level the max power permitted for the day. If you have a power margin of 6-7 inches MAP you can hold a OGE hover, and greater than 7 inches , you have sufficient for a vertical climb. You can also do a power check in the hover , usually you need about 10% more power to climb OGE than IGE, which translates to about 1.5-2 inches MAP

@@ABHelicopters Many thanks for your detailed response. I had a training flight today where I did a total of 10 take offs and landings including a running take off, a cushion creep take off, a towering take off, a running landing, a zero zero landing and a vertical descent, all the time paying regard to the parameters which you refer to in the R44 II POH. I also learnt not to be too hasty raising the collective to MCP when doing the down wind power check as this led to an unwanted increase in height. My instructor, incidentally, advises doing the power check at 53 knots. Even though the outside air temperature (OAT) was 30C, the aircraft had bags of power so these exercises were largely academic. However, as my instructor pointed out, had the aircraft at that OAT been fully loaded with 3 pax plus full fuel, the available power margin would have been substantially reduced so the exercise was very useful.

Glad to hear you had a good lesson, I used to love practicing the zero zero landing - it really improves your handling skill as you judge the power requirements and trade them off against the speed to touch down. The power check is usually flown at Vy- the minimum power speed , so check the flight manual for the correct value.

The 44 has plenty of power in the U.K., but still can catch pilots out, as you said, if you are heavy and suddenly demand power, perhaps if operating downwind or into a tight spot ! Keep up the good work and best of luck for the rest of your training. Feel free to ask any other questions on these videos and I’ll try and get back to you asap

That was a battery start , correct !

It is a c20b

Glad you enjoyed it! Yep- the departure was 2 up!

Hey there - thank you for your support as always- sorry it’s not a 500 this time!!!

Once described as the ‘affordable’ helicopter. Still around £600k though, new!

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Thanks for the comment as always! The vector display is good in some respects - you can also show altitude and the track, but it often gets very cluttered , so I tend to go with a ‘less is more ‘ approach , unless trying to specifically show something. Yes it’s GPS derived. Re the altimeter settings - Denham is at 249 ft, Blackbushe at 325ft so should only be around 2 and half mb difference, however the circuit / arrival procedure at Blackbushe is done at 800ft based on the QFE, or, height above the airfield - hence the change

That case was a rotors running drop off , and then pick up, all in a few minutes . The landing fees are a bit high, each slot is only 15 minutes or so anyway! We have a load of heli route tuition videos , if you want to brush up on them before hand!

@@ABHelicopters i will definitely watch them. I didn't know that you needed a 15mil insurance on the heli to land at the heliport and do a familiarization flight either. I called to ask and that's what I was told and also the website had it listed.

The fam flight with a qualified pilot or instructor doesn’t incur the landing fee . Which is nice!

They are very popular in the law enforcement/ hems world

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Really good advice! Slow is smooth, smooth is fast !

Could you possibly share the details of what sort of set up you use ?

@@ABHelicopters Currently I have a beefy PC, Reverb G2, small amp with two budget shakers and a 2 DOF NLR V3 motion platform, which I modified ( hacked ) to make the pedals move with the seat. I am in the - slow - process of building a Departed Reality DIY motion platform to replace the V3. Which is already awesome by itself but I just want to experience 6 DOF. Motion is not the most important part of the sim, but it is the most unnerving, anxiety inducing, part. Doing a manoeuvre and feeling the ( some ) consequences, really makes you want to handle the aircraft gently. The only fundamental DOF missing on a pitch - roll platform is heave, all the rest can be simulated. Especially yaw is way more realistic than you would imagine, made possible by the fact that the pilot is not in the CG of the aircraft.

Wow - that’s one hell of a setup! I’m very impressed. It is something that you have been building over time , or did you take the plunge and build most of it at once? What’s your take on VR, is it the future of gaming and simulation ? Do you ever suffer from vertigo induced by the goggles or does the coordinated motion help offset any disconnect between the senses ? How about support for other simulations - is it easy enough to adapt to DCS , or X plane , for example ?

@@ABHelicopters Thanks for the friendly words. It was built over a short timespan. About 1.5 years. VR : the greatest thing since sliced bread. If you have set it up correctly, there is no going back, especially for VFR, and thus pretty much 90% of heli ops. Started out with a face tracker ( SmoothTrack ) on a big monitor, but never used it again since the G2. The only downside you could say is, it stops me from trying a virtual ATC because there is typing and writing involved, not too handy in VR. My Hotas, pedals and a couple of keys on the keyboard, is all I can manage to manipulate when wearing the goggles. Vertigo or motion sickness : very little in the beginning, and it very quickly went away. Motion is super convincing in VR. If you yaw the heli to the right, you don't have the feeling that the seat is tilting forward and left, you actually feel that you are thrown out of the heli, but still in the horizontal plane. I did start out with DCS and so my first VR experience was on that platform in an F-5 jet. The only thing I could think when I first saw the VR was : "I am finally there" :)

I hope not!!

@@ABHelicopters damn, hell really has bad internet

At north weald, the spitfire starts up outside Rosie leas cafe , and at Duxford the whole flight line is visible

Unfortunately we don’t offer tours for charter , so the cost depends on where from and how long, but have a look at Elstree , Redhill and white Waltham for tour operators

It’s fantastic to watch - such a raw sound as it starts

Thanks for the advice and info!

Glad you liked it !

Sorry you didn’t like it- we have a version with no music too, to cater for both tastes

Very cool location!!

Many times!

It looked amazing in person