CNATRA always made me take a sandbag.
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Left seat or right, big deck or small boy, FLIR up..or down?
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MasterBates
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I have flown helos that needed bags or such in the other seat for W&B if the pilot was light (I don't have that issue)
Oh , no, I know they did! I'm just saying that the Bell 206B3 series aircraft (aka TH-57B and C in all respects) are happily flown single pilot with no one in the left seat and I have ferried may a helo that way.
I get it that CNATRA has their own rules.
and there have been many a HT-8/18 IP who decided to depart on a solo flight on a Saturday afternoon without their student on board while weekend RON on a cross country
and there have been many a HT-8/18 IP who decided to depart on a solo flight on a Saturday afternoon without their student on board while weekend RON on a cross country
Haven't seen that. I would submit that they're stupid. How would you conceivably explain that if something went wrong? I'm not about living one's life by cya, but for god's sake, leave yourself a plausible story!
Thoughts from an old guy
There is an film at the AHS Museum that attempts to chronicle the actual reasons for the pilot being in the right seat in helicopter... The various reasons are provided by early helicopter pioneers with several, obviously bogus, reasons provided by me... My favorite as an H-2 guy was that the co-pilot had to sit on the left so that he could signal turn intentions to the cars following your aircraft as it was towed back to Lakehurst...
There is an film at the AHS Museum that attempts to chronicle the actual reasons for the pilot being in the right seat in helicopter... The various reasons are provided by early helicopter pioneers with several, obviously bogus, reasons provided by me... My favorite as an H-2 guy was that the co-pilot had to sit on the left so that he could signal turn intentions to the cars following your aircraft as it was towed back to Lakehurst...