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Folks,

 

I will pick up a R44 in april, and have it flown to Georgia.

Myself only have 55hrs, and ofcourse I will need a instructor approved as a ferry pilot.

You should be a instructor keeping away hands from controls and let me fly.

Just in case I mention, I want to learn on the trip not just level flight.

As well have fun !

 

Best regards

Vertical Viking !

Roger Iverin

roger""iverin.com

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I am qualified to do it (I have already ferried 3 times from Robinson to the East cost and I am CFI). Please give me a phone number to call (or e-mail address to write) and I will contact you.

 

 

Folks,

 

I will pick up a R44 in april, and have it flown to Georgia.

Myself only have 55hrs, and ofcourse I will need a instructor approved as a ferry pilot.

You should be a instructor keeping away hands from controls and let me fly.

Just in case I mention, I want to learn on the trip not just level flight.

As well have fun !

 

Best regards

Vertical Viking !

Roger Iverin

roger""iverin.com

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I am qualified to do it (I have already ferried 3 times from Robinson to the East cost and I am CFI). Please give me a phone number to call (or e-mail address to write) and I will contact you.

 

 

Hi and thanks for your respons!

 

I supplied my e-mail on the post, roger""iverin.com but change "" with @ ;-)

 

 

JEFF, did you wish me luck in a good or bad way ?

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Just in case you dont know these are Robinsons requirements for flight instruction on ferry flights.

 

The PIC must submit to RHC in writing, the intended route of flight prior to departure for RHC approval. Dual flight

East in R22s will only be allowed from November 1 through March 31. No more than one passenger can be carried in

the R44 during ferry flights.

6. If the flight is to be flown dual, a copy of the passenger’s and pilot’s license or driver’s license must be submitted to

RHC to verify their weight. Fully loaded and main fuel tank full, the helicopter gross weight limit must not be

exceeded. RHC may require weighing of the occupants and other payload items.

7. All aircraft leaving RHC, with the front left seat occupied, both occupants of the front seats must have a helicopter

rating or all left seat controls must be removed and stowed in an aft seat baggage compartment. No primary flight

training allowed during ferry flights.

8. R44 Ferry Pilots must also meet the experience requirements specified in the Purchase Agreement Addendum in

addition to meeting the requirements of items 1 thru 7 above.

RHC reserves the right to delay the departure due to weather and to specify the flight route in the event the intended

route submitted by the PIC is deemed to be unsafe by RHC.

There will be no exceptions to the requirements given above, and this letter supersedes any letters on this subject

previously issued.

Yours truly

ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY

Frank Robinson

President

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I am qualified to do it (I have already ferried 3 times from Robinson to the East cost and I am CFI). Please give me a phone number to call (or e-mail address to write) and I will contact you.

 

My boss wants me to ferry another 10 Robinson's back to MN for our flight school that we have beside our fire fighting and pipeline contracts.....hopefully someone else is gonna do that for me...flying straight and level for about 26 hrs is just BORING.

 

Next time i just might put on both frictions as hard as possible and start to read some books like our fixwing buddies in on XC flights in their Cessna's ;)

 

Falko

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My boss wants me to ferry another 10 Robinson's back to MN for our flight school that we have beside our fire fighting and pipeline contracts.....hopefully someone else is gonna do that for me...flying straight and level for about 26 hrs is just BORING.

 

Next time i just might put on both frictions as hard as possible and start to read some books like our fixwing buddies in on XC flights in their Cessna's ;)

 

Falko

 

 

How about I get a couple pilots to take them from Torrance to Phoenix, Vegas, St George, something this side of Denver...then you can pick them up from there, shave a day off the flights.

 

Also, I know a commercial pilot that flies the R22 with both frictions full...yes, he is a FW..I DO NOT recommend this, just know of one guy that does it all the time...

 

Goldy

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I know a commercial pilot that flies the R22 with both frictions full...

Goldy

 

Does he have some sort of death wish? I can see if you have a collective that creeps up or down, and you apply just enough friction to hold it in place, while you ease the tension in your left arm, but I can see no reason to use the cyclic friction, or any friction fully locked, when airborne.

 

Experience should breed confidence, not complacency.

 

I'm off the soapbox.

 

P.S. I know Goldy would never advocate such an unsafe practice and this is not a personal attack on him or the pilot he knows. Just an observation.

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..I DO NOT recommend this, just know of one guy that does it all the time...

 

Goldy

 

Enough said..and in an R22 to boot...

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