Welcome to my Channel! It's a collection of my favorite activities all caught on digital.... Sailing, Scuba, Dual-Sport Riding and Flying. Some were shot during my "single days" so that's why I'm alone in a few videos. It's now time to share my adventureous life with my family! :) Please leave a thumbs up and subscribe. Thanks for visiting my world. Cheers! Rick
Since your awesome solo trip up to Alaska on your BCC, I have always tuned into your adventures. You inspired me to make my own trip from SF to Haida Gwaii in my PSC Dana and back. Thanks so much for my own 5 month adventure!
Hi! I’m so happy you cut the dock lines and headed North! It’s such a beautiful and amazing place to cruise. I’m still looking for my original footage and try to redo my videos. Stay tuned and thanks for subscribing! ✌️⛵️
I have 820 hours piloting these. Superb military aircraft, especially with a pair of 0.5 Brownings pointing out of the door. I also flew more advanced variants of the Super Puma as a civilian. These days I can only reminisce and remember fondly over 20k hours flying helicopters. My 1,200 or so hours fixed wing just isn't remotely as challenging or enjoyable.
Vibration and helicopters are a bad mix. The mechanics try their best to smooth out the vibrations through Rotor smoothing. Some aircraft fly super smooth and others will just not cooperate and fly rough.
It measures torque at the transmission. Since the rotor always rotates at the same rpm it is a power gauge. (torque x rpm = power) In a hover the engines have to do everything, hence the maxed out gauge. While in forward flight the airspeed helps create lift. If a helicopter is descending it can sail just like a sailplane while using zero engine power. In a climb the helicopter needs power to maintain speed so the torqe goes up again. Anyways hover is the least efficient state for any helicopter so they use the most power there.
