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The Great "Ship" Controversy of 2021
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Author: Just Your Average Reader Date:
8/17/2021 11:04:59 AM +12/-1 |
The name Michael Maya Charles should be familiar to everyone on this forum. He's all-around good dude: Writer/author, musician, aircraft owner, pilot... He's been mostly an airline pilot, but he's also got good helo credentials, typed-in and flying a Skycrane fighting fires. In other words, he's not just a glorified Robby jockey. He knows a thing or two about aviation, unlike some of you mental "giants" who post here, for instance. (It saddens me to say that some of you must be really insuffereable pr*cks in real life. But hey, if you're a helicopter pilot, that's probably a given.)
Anyway, Michael got invited out to Garmin HQ to fly a Bell 505 with Garmin's latest helicopter autopilot and write about it for Vertical Magazine. In the article, he says:
"I simply hit the blue LVL button on the cyclic, and the autopilot did a nice job of smoothly returning the ship to straight and level, then holding that basic attitude for the pilot to re-engage an appropriate upper mode..."
If you're at all interested in this new development in helicopter technology (and you should be), you can read the whole article here:
Garmin’s gamechanger: Flying the 600H in the Bell 505 - Vertical Mag
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