I have experience, and my military training for flying rotary was over 1 year and about 250hrs with the fixed wing and rotary combined.
Even with a black hawk, which is a big bus of a helicopter and fairly stable, you ain't going to fly it with just reading an operating manual! Sure you may be able to start it, get the rotors turning and up to speed, but pulling pitch into the hover with out training, nah.
Saying that I did go solo in a helicopter after about 8hrs of hands on flying.
In my defense, I did say someone with basic helicopter experience. If you know collective, cyclic, power and how to use the pedals, my premise is that with the use of the manual to get it started, said person could get it off the ground and fly it like the video showed. Low and slow. Not high performance, not evasive, not navigation. Could this be possible, or am I wrong? I honestly don't know, but am curious.
Really sorry my bad, I didn't go down the page enough and see the first which are Hinds, and then the Black hawk ground taxiing - I just read the title!
yes I suppose with the manuals a novice could start and ground taxi it like it's shown. Not that difficult to do.
Yes I wasn't critiquing your post, and yes I suppose if you had the tech manuals/FRC's etc then feasibly you could start it.
I only flew the Black Hawk once, my time was on smaller helicopter's without stability controls, just hydraulics and single engined. There isn't a chance they could fly my old cab without training.
I'm assuming the Black hawk has stability control ( I flew one on exchange back around 1997 along with the AH1 W "Cobra" and can't recall what the system was) but even if it has I still doubt it as novices will over control their inputs and very quickly without coordination it becomes a shit show. If you can hover in a 1 acre field initially you are doing well!
On balance then I doubt it, even just in the low hover the inputs would need careful handling, especially landing it unless it's just dumped quickly.
I have experience, and my military training for flying rotary was over 1 year and about 250hrs with the fixed wing and rotary combined.
Even with a black hawk, which is a big bus of a helicopter and fairly stable, you ain't going to fly it with just reading an operating manual! Sure you may be able to start it, get the rotors turning and up to speed, but pulling pitch into the hover with out training, nah.
Saying that I did go solo in a helicopter after about 8hrs of hands on flying.
In my defense, I did say someone with basic helicopter experience. If you know collective, cyclic, power and how to use the pedals, my premise is that with the use of the manual to get it started, said person could get it off the ground and fly it like the video showed. Low and slow. Not high performance, not evasive, not navigation. Could this be possible, or am I wrong? I honestly don't know, but am curious.
Really sorry my bad, I didn't go down the page enough and see the first which are Hinds, and then the Black hawk ground taxiing - I just read the title!
yes I suppose with the manuals a novice could start and ground taxi it like it's shown. Not that difficult to do.
My mistake for not looking far enough.
Yes I wasn't critiquing your post, and yes I suppose if you had the tech manuals/FRC's etc then feasibly you could start it.
I only flew the Black Hawk once, my time was on smaller helicopter's without stability controls, just hydraulics and single engined. There isn't a chance they could fly my old cab without training.
I'm assuming the Black hawk has stability control ( I flew one on exchange back around 1997 along with the AH1 W "Cobra" and can't recall what the system was) but even if it has I still doubt it as novices will over control their inputs and very quickly without coordination it becomes a shit show. If you can hover in a 1 acre field initially you are doing well!
On balance then I doubt it, even just in the low hover the inputs would need careful handling, especially landing it unless it's just dumped quickly.
I didn't scroll down and see the bottom twatter, they are Russian Hinds as someone else pointed out!
No worries, brother! Let's get out country back!