Last night I was at the rather excellent Mill Hotel in Alveley for HeliflightUK’s Christmas Party. This is a great opportunity for all the staff and customers of Heliflight to mingle and meet other fellow helicopter pilots, along with their partners and friends.
All the guys were looking rather dapper in their suits and dinner jackets, [...]
I had some more work published recently in RotorTalk the official newsletter of HeliflightUK Ltd.. They used several of my photos from Western-super-Mare Helidays back in July. I also wrote an article for them comparing model helicopters with flying full-size machines.
You can download the newsletter below, it’s just over 2MB in size so [...]
Ready to throw the whiz-wheel out the window? Have a look at this flight planning spreadsheet that includes the solution to the Triangle of Velocities. With a convenient knee-board sized output and large clear display of all the most important information, you may never need your whiz-wheel again!
Simply enter your desired track, true [...]
I’ve added a page for different aircraft checklists. At the moment it just contains the startup and shutdown checklist for the Robinson R22 helcopter. I’ll add more as I find them.
I’m in the process of designing a flight planning spreadsheet so that I don’t have to keep doing all the repetitive calculations by hand. One of the calculations involves working out the heading required to maintain the desired track in windy conditions, or in other words, how much you have to turn the aircraft [...]
I’ve now updated my helicopter weight and balance spreadsheet to include the Robinson R44. I have maintained the same format for both the R22 and the R44 so that the look, feel, and use is the same for both. The R22 page simply has the rear seats and doors greyed out.
Having spent some time looking on the internet for a good Weight and Balance Calculator for the Robinson R22 Helicopter and finding most of them to be poorly designed and difficult to customise, I decided to create my own.
This MS Excel spreadsheet has a clear layout and simple tables for adding additional aircraft details.
Simply enter [...]
Western Helidays is a four day Helicopter Fly-in along Weston Sea Front. This years event was held over July 25 to July 27. Helidays is the largest annual event staged on Weston-super-Mare sea front, taking up 3/4 mile of the Beach Lawns at peak holiday season, and attracts all age groups from all [...]
