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Aussie_Paul
11-09-2003, 11:40 PM
Yesterday I had to conduct a flight check for one of my students who owns a beautifully made Raf with our &quot;effective&quot; h/stab. This gyro pilot had achieved 80 hours of solo flight time. The test was to sign him off for carrying passengers.<br><br>The day was quite rough, and I just had to sit there and observe. He flew ok and achieved the rating.<br><br>Then I got back into Hybrid with my student who had achieved 10 hours in a tin can 2 years ago and 5 hours training with me in Hybrid during the last couple of days. I felt so much more comfortable with the 5 hour student!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br><br>Gee!!!!! when you have experienced CLT stability, and you hop into an &quot;effective&quot; h/stab equipped Raf you realise just what the term CLT really means.<br><br>I was sooooooo happy when we got the &quot;effective&quot; stab operating. After no stab on a Raf I was just so over the moon. Now after CLT Hybrid, the &quot;effective&quot; stabed Raf is a heap of s**t compared to Hybrid.<br><br>It is not untill I have to swap ships immediately that I really fully appreciate CLT.<br><br>Ok, off my soapbox again and of to bed so that I can try these rotor blades tomorrow.<br><br>Aussie Paul.

mceagle
11-10-2003, 07:58 AM
And all this has happened in the last 2 years. Imagine how insignificient some of this will seem in 2 years time when we have progressed even further into the magic relm of trying to fully understand gyroplane flight.