StanFoster
Active Member
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2003
- Messages
- 17,139
- Location
- Paxton, Il
- Aircraft
- Helicycle N360SF
- Total Flight Time
- 1250
My aunt wanted me to fly up to her lakeside home yesterday and land. I had never really studied her back yard, so off I went. I always do a hi recon and then a low recon if the hi recon passes my litmus test.
I had to approach from the lakeside.....and that wasn't the problem. Her back yard was the only place with room for my rotor to set down in....but her back yard sloped down to the lake an estimated 5 degrees. I would have to either do a slope landing with one skid on the high side and then set it down...or land up slope touching down on the front of the skids first...then lowering it. I LOVE doing slope landings, but not when my cyclic is near its limits.
Trouble is my cyclic has 6 degrees left /right and for/aft and that does not give me a comfortable margin.
So...my hi-recon stopped me from attempting to land. I could have landed if I had to...but I don't operate with such tight margins.....so I just flew off and checked it off as an aborted landing attempt.
Stan
I had to approach from the lakeside.....and that wasn't the problem. Her back yard was the only place with room for my rotor to set down in....but her back yard sloped down to the lake an estimated 5 degrees. I would have to either do a slope landing with one skid on the high side and then set it down...or land up slope touching down on the front of the skids first...then lowering it. I LOVE doing slope landings, but not when my cyclic is near its limits.
Trouble is my cyclic has 6 degrees left /right and for/aft and that does not give me a comfortable margin.
So...my hi-recon stopped me from attempting to land. I could have landed if I had to...but I don't operate with such tight margins.....so I just flew off and checked it off as an aborted landing attempt.
Stan