Landing Helos

[SemperApollo]

Those guys on the "fishing" boat probably crapped themselves when they realized a SH-60 had been stalking them.

At that high of a descent rate and forward speed, are you diving in like an airplane would, or do you have the nose up?

 

[MasterBates]

Diving in like airplane, then nose up flare to stop..

 

[Brett327]

Those guys on the "fishing" boat probably crapped themselves when they realized a SH-60 had been stalking them.

At that high of a descent rate and forward speed, are you diving in like an airplane would, or do you have the nose up?

Ohh, the fearsome Seahawk!

Brett

 

[eddie]

Diving in like airplane, then nose up flare to stop..

That's sick as hell.

 

[hscs]

Like hell you would put in a 2500 fpm rate of descent in my helo on a takedown. That is an invitation to disaster.

 

[MasterBates]

Done the same way here in Mayport...

 

[Stearmann4]

I'd be interested to know was situation drove that kind of technique?

 

[Gatordev]

And yet, it's done. 2000 FPM? What's your limit? Mind you we're not talking an HVBSS delivery vehicle here. Perhaps something has been lost in the vagueness (which has been intentional).

 

[Brett327]

And yet, it's done. 2000 FPM? What's your limit? Mind you we're not talking an HVBSS delivery vehicle here. Perhaps something has been lost in the vagueness (which has been intentional).

Maybe Dev is just a better pilot, or maybe there's a negative correlation between piloting skills and whining about IAs.

Brett

 

[SemperApollo]

Laugh all you want, but I looked on youtube for a helo takedown demo and ended up with Airwolf clips. From the mental picture of how you described it though, it sounds f'n awesome.

 

[hscs]

My limit -- depends on how high I am, but then again -- over 500' and I get nosebleeds.

I am still with Stearmann --like to know what drives the need to fly that way.

 

[helolumpy]

Most of the ship take downs I've been involved with started with the helos transiting over water at 100-120 knts and about 20-40 feet.
Pop up at the last second and deploy the ropes. I know the C2 bird will generally start out high, but the troopships have usually come in very low.

 

[skidkid]

Ok,
These ops are still going on often if not daily. We cannot however publish our playbook on an open forum, that puts people at risk unneccesarily.

Please watch what you discus as far as profiles and procedures, Mohammed is probably listening.

 

[SemperApollo]

Sorry didn't mean to go too far into tactics. I think this next one is okay to ask: When a ship is pitching in heavy seas, how do you time your landing so you don't slam onto the deck?

 

[Sly1978]

Question, possibly a stupid one and I don't want to hijack the thread, but how do you even get 2500 FPM? That's about what we pull in an auto. Does the extra weight of the Bravo make that much of a difference?