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As far as I know, you'll need to open the door.

 

For repair, you'll need to shut down the bird.

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Just be sure to put the throttle in the lowest position before you refuel and then when it's complete you can bump it back up to auto.

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As far as I know, you'll need to open the door.

 

That's one way to communicate with the ground crew.

 

Another is to select Ground crew intercom on the Radio Intercom SPU-9 Panel. :smartass:

 

To reiterate, refueling and rearming shouldn't require any kind of system shutdown.

 

But for repairs, the engines must be shut down and I think the repair timer won't start until the rotor blades have more or less stopped rotating.

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Is there a way to use the rotor break without damaging it further to speed this process along or do you have to just let them come to rest on their own....I'm constantly staring at them saying just stop already....

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Is there a way to use the rotor break without damaging it further to speed this process along or do you have to just let them come to rest on their own....I'm constantly staring at them saying just stop already....

 

You should only engage the rotor brake below 30% rotor RPM IIRC, or maybe even below 20%. If you stick to that, it shouldn't be damaged (unless some kind of battle damage took it out, obviously).

 

What I tend to do when I'm in a rush to get the blades stopped is to just raise the collective. Of course not too much, since I don't want to bounce right back into the air, but it doesn't take long after engine shutdown that you can safely pull full collective. With the high AOA, the blades should stop much sooner than with the collective bottomed out. I never actually measured the time, but I think it works. :)

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Is there a way to use the rotor break without damaging it further to speed this process along or do you have to just let them come to rest on their own....I'm constantly staring at them saying just stop already....

 

after the engines are shut down (double check!) raise the collective to full, and the rotors will slow down enough to set the brake within 5-7 seconds.

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You don't have to adjust anything to rearm or refuel. Just switch to intercom (not sure if the crew chief can hear you shouting out the open door with the engines running and rotor turning ha ha) and request what you want. While it doesn't hurt anything to lower your throttles while you wait, as soon as the rotor RPM's drop below ~76%, your generators drop offline. All those systems that require generator power will now go cold. Example: if you had a certain flare program set in the UV-26 panel, you'll have to re-program that when it comes back on.

 

If I'm going back to the battlefield, I want all my systems to stay initialized, so I'll keep my throttles at AUTO. Doesn't hurt anything, and I've never heard the crew chief or armament guys complain about it. :D

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If I'm going back to the battlefield, I want all my systems to stay initialized, so I'll keep my throttles at AUTO. Doesn't hurt anything, and I've never heard the crew chief or armament guys complain about it. :D

 

Hehe. :)

 

Good point about the generators cutting out, though. In case of repairs, there's no way around that, but with ground power requested and enabled prior to engine shutdown, all system will stay online (works for other aircraft types as well). :thumbup:

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Yup, IIRC, it's safe to use brake <= 20% RPM.

 

You can use the brake when the rotor RPM drops below 40% IIRC.

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