Scout being flag tracked on the ground. Used to be standard procedure. HistoricArmyAircraftFlight HistoricFlt www.haaf.uk www.paypal.com/uk/fundraiser/charity/3254576
That is brilliant. This all happened before my time so I have never done it but it looks so simple. At my work now, to be within 6 yards of a moving vehicle is considered extremely dangerous so I'll show my bosses this video to show that I have hands on experience of real dangerous positions I used to work in.
WHY???? Why are they flag tracking??? There is so much great equipment out there that does fantastic work of showing the track of the blades and are faster and safer and can be used in the air. Besides that, track is no longer used as the method to smooth the rotor from imbalance of lift forces. The blades can each be creating different amounts of lift though tracking in the same tip path.
@@pimuceI’ve never seen this technique, but they are testing to see if the blades are all flying in the same plane. You adjust eh trim tabs on the blades to make it fly higher or lower. You want them all flying as close to the same “level” as possible. I’m guessing they have some chalk or something on the ends to make the cloth so they know which blade is which. The way I’ve done this is with a strobe light and you mount numbers on the ends of the blades. This means you can check blade track in flight too.
I wouldn't be standing anywhere near that pilot while he's operating a helicopter. He has that confused look and slow reaction response time that my old father and Joe Biden have. I've been flying for decades and have seen countless pilots age out who acted exactly like this guy. It's subtle to spot, but he's definitely not as sharp as he used to be.
If each blade does not follow the same path deep sh!t this checks the blades flight path to see what's going where you can adjust this flight path on each blade using the trim tabs on the ends of each blade by bending it a extremely very very very small amount you can change the path of each blade tail rotors way more scary to do
