Greg Vos
Active Member
- Joined
- May 26, 2019
- Messages
- 755
- Location
- Cape Town
- Aircraft
- R44/22 H269/300 MD 500 Magni (all); Xenon RST; DTA; ELA; MTO Trojan
- Total Flight Time
- Stoped counting at 2000
Reading the comments on Terecel and such.....I have hundreds of hours on Xenon type gyro, I often see the in incorrect take off procedure being used.
I prefer to just pre rotate to 150 Rpm, then stick back and gently run down the RW letting the inflow air spin her up, at 200 Rpm the the nose will gently come up ...catch it right there and keep the nose wheel 10 inches off the deck now take power and when you see 60 Mph indicated fly it out.
This saves wear on the pre rotator mechanism and make the take off elegant and smooth ......now the front wheel is off the ground you have the stick in hand and if your not ham fisted the front wheel should not touch the ground so how much right rudder is used is irrelevant
As for power well that is one thing I will never complain about saying a 915 is not for a beginner is not correct I think a big problem is the flight training and making sure a student pilot is familiar with his machine.
I prefer to just pre rotate to 150 Rpm, then stick back and gently run down the RW letting the inflow air spin her up, at 200 Rpm the the nose will gently come up ...catch it right there and keep the nose wheel 10 inches off the deck now take power and when you see 60 Mph indicated fly it out.
This saves wear on the pre rotator mechanism and make the take off elegant and smooth ......now the front wheel is off the ground you have the stick in hand and if your not ham fisted the front wheel should not touch the ground so how much right rudder is used is irrelevant
As for power well that is one thing I will never complain about saying a 915 is not for a beginner is not correct I think a big problem is the flight training and making sure a student pilot is familiar with his machine.