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Bart
September 18th 03, 05:20 PM
I've been seriously considering building a Jetranger to be on fixed
floats to accomplish some stuff I cant do easily another way.

I've read through the ammendment to the Flight Manual for them, and
talked to some mechanics that worked on them, and I have a burning
question that's go/no go .

The FM has a warning about having the machine anchored/tied down during
run-up to prevent it from spinning. The trouble is that there would be
nobody available to release lines when I take off from a remote
location. Im sure as hell not gonna let a passenger (pilot or not)
do it either. I won't hot load/unload anyone whos not a chopper pilot.

Just how bad is this spinning? Is is possible to row the thing far
enough away from land to let it just spin around during startup?

The water is very flat where I intend to operate, and I could ususually
land on the leeward side of the islands to further reduce the wave
action and ensure that I dont drift ashore during runup/shutdown.

Bart

Neil Fraser
September 18th 03, 11:50 PM
If I recall correctly we did tests on a 350 where they shut down the engine
and restarted on Apical emerg floats.

I think it rotated once or twice before the TR had enough thrust , not
exactly spinning , dont know if the teetering rotor on a Bell makes it any
more dangerous.

Neil

"Bart" > wrote in message
...
> I've been seriously considering building a Jetranger to be on fixed
> floats to accomplish some stuff I cant do easily another way.
>
> I've read through the ammendment to the Flight Manual for them, and
> talked to some mechanics that worked on them, and I have a burning
> question that's go/no go .
>
> The FM has a warning about having the machine anchored/tied down during
> run-up to prevent it from spinning. The trouble is that there would be
> nobody available to release lines when I take off from a remote
> location. Im sure as hell not gonna let a passenger (pilot or not)
> do it either. I won't hot load/unload anyone whos not a chopper pilot.
>
> Just how bad is this spinning? Is is possible to row the thing far
> enough away from land to let it just spin around during startup?
>
> The water is very flat where I intend to operate, and I could ususually
> land on the leeward side of the islands to further reduce the wave
> action and ensure that I dont drift ashore during runup/shutdown.
>
> Bart
>

Stan Gosnell
September 20th 03, 05:54 AM
"Neil Fraser" > wrote in
:

> If I recall correctly we did tests on a 350 where they shut
> down the engine and restarted on Apical emerg floats.
>
> I think it rotated once or twice before the TR had enough
> thrust , not exactly spinning , dont know if the teetering
> rotor on a Bell makes it any more dangerous.

If you're starting a 206 in wind, and the thing starts spinning,
things can get very interesting very quickly. The tailboom can
be severed before you can blink your eye. Personally, I
wouldn't even try it.

--
Regards,

Stan

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