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[warning - large images] had the chance to fly with the Huey (Bell 205A-1)


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i hope its ok if i share these pictures directly in the huey forum section. i think fans of the DCSWorld Huey module can appreciate this!

 

Last Sunday they had the "Heliday 2016" at a local airlifting company in the sleepy german town of Ahlen. Apparently they are still operating some original Bell 205 models, also a bunch of 212s and other models. they are also some kind of official repair contractor to textron for europe.

 

there were lots of other helicopters and stuff to see (Lots of Jetrangers, a bk117, Bell412 and even a Super Puma), but i am not really the picture/video guy and rather want to enjoy the moment, instead of fiddling with camera/smartphone... so just some impressions:

 

D-HOOK - Bell 205A-1 - this looks familiar!

 

 

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the Grey Bell 212 (D-HGPP) is landing, D-HOOK and D-HBWP (Augusta/bell AB-212AM) in the foreground

 

 

 

 

a LOT of people wanted to fly with a Helicopter... D-HOOK is loading the troops :)

 

 

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after waiting for 2 hours in line, in the scorching sun with no shadows to hide... i sat down in the middle seat right behind the Cockpit of D-HOOK.

i was staring at the instruments and how the pilot handled the huey much more than watching the beautiful landscape...

 

 

 

 

it was such a great experience to actually feel the huey fly. how it starts to shake and rattle and you feel the lift. he did some pretty nice 30° turns where you could look straight down through the side windows onto a lake, while flying around 1,300 feet at 80knots. loved it.

 

Radio menu -> Cargo -> load Troops

 

 

 

 

there are much better pictures and also a couple of videos from people with their fancy cameras all over the web i guess, if you are interested try googling for "heliday 2016" or "D-HOOK".

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Nice...thanks for sharing

 

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Nice going! And that stick looks just like mine! ;)

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many thanks for sharing. I notice hes gripping the bottom of the stick and not the full thing. I guess that is how we should too.

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sweet !

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And it's readily apparent when using Komodo Cyclic. You can't do it with Warthog, but you can with Komodo. And it is *MUCH* easier to fly like that.

 

But in combat situations, I'm thinking you go to full hands on mode.

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You grip the bottom so you can rest your arm on your upper leg. Makes your arm/hand more stable and thus a more relaxed flying technique. It's something that will get hammered on when first entering the cockpit.

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Makes perfect sense since I started doing that for the same reason. I didn't know it was something that gets drilled into your head. For civilian flying, it makes a lot of sense.

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sadly i didn't get the chance to talk to the pilot, but obviously for him it was just a "normal" stressy workday, like a cab-driver. haha. he was literally just flying the same short 10 minutes hop around the area over and over again, while hundreds of people waited for their turn to get loaded up into the huey, the 212 and several 206s. occasionally one would fly over to the tanker truck and get fueled up a bit.

 

i did tip him on the shoulder and gave him a big thumbs up, before exiting the cabin though and probably was smiling like an idiot, which he acknowledged with a friendly nod.

 

it showed that he had probably thousands of flight hours with the huey, very casual and relaxed during each step of the short flight, but professional and cautious.

 

can't stop flying the huey in DCS now after this experience, even more than before :)

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nice find. yeah nowadays almost everyone is recording with their smartphones or fancy digicams. its crazy sometimes, so many people just stare at their recording screen all the time!

 

the video is actually from that very same day, just from later that day, i can tell by the clouds in the distance, cloudy weather moved in throughout late afternoon :D

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