StanFoster
Active Member
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2003
- Messages
- 17,139
- Location
- Paxton, Il
- Aircraft
- Helicycle N360SF
- Total Flight Time
- 1250
I just had a good laugh, and my wife is at least relieved I haven't totally lost my mind. I was sitting in my swivel chair going through "stuck pedal" maneuvers. Drilling these into my head thru repetition. I had my feet positioned with a little left pedal like I would have in cruise. My left hand had an imaginary collective and my right hand was positioned such that caught Barbaras attention. I was so zoned in I didn't know she was watching. Anyway, I would pretend I was cruising and finding out my pedals were stuck. I would lower the collective a little and swivel my chair to the left just like it would happen. Raise the collective back to where it was and my chair would swivel back to straight. I would then steer my chair to the right by pulling collective. My collective going down was accompanied by a left chair swivel, followed by up collective and the chair swiveling right, then I would be flying along with this new way of keeping the nose straight by changing torque via collective inputs. There are stuck left pedal drills, stuck right pedal drills, stuck anywhere drills, climbing and descending with the above, or just having no stuck pedals but pretending the teleflex cable or control linkage failed. Anyway, it must have caused concern as Barbara said" what is wrong with you?l. I stopped my practice as her comment caused me to crash, then I just laughed and told her what I was doing. She looked relieved but still laughingly said I wasn't all there. I definitely can't deny that! I will practice these in private. Ha. Stan