Mountain Flying And Vertical Reference

[epicyclic]

Dont get too focused on the line...remember you are flying the helicopter. dont get caught staring at the line and then realizing your moving sideways into something....use your instruments....your Altimeter is accurate....note your altitude when your at the top of ur line...add 20-50 bepending on your obsticles, and thats ur target height when u place the load back there. Just as you pick a couple refrences when you vertical out of a spot....do the same with longlining. pick a fore and lateral reference on your recce to the spot and fly to your tagert...dont worry about the line...it will follow....just glace every now and again to make sure your clear of snags.....Hope that helps a little

[MMike]

Just watch Firebirds 3 or 4 times and 6 episodes of Heli-loggers, and you'll be good to go. That's what I did and now I know all there is to know. And I'm not even a pilot.

[Helilog56]

Dont get too focused on the line...remember you are flying the helicopter. dont get caught staring at the line and then realizing your moving sideways into something....use your instruments....your Altimeter is accurate....note your altitude when your at the top of ur line...add 20-50 bepending on your obsticles, and thats ur target height when u place the load back there. Just as you pick a couple refrences when you vertical out of a spot....do the same with longlining. pick a fore and lateral reference on your recce to the spot and fly to your tagert...dont worry about the line...it will follow....just glace every now and again to make sure your clear of snags.....Hope that helps a little

 

Jeez.....and all these years, I been hanging out a door looking down ???!!!??

[KiloMike]

Dont get too focused on the line...remember you are flying the helicopter. dont get caught staring at the line and then realizing your moving sideways into something....use your instruments....your Altimeter is accurate....note your altitude when your at the top of ur line...add 20-50 bepending on your obsticles, and thats ur target height when u place the load back there. Just as you pick a couple refrences when you vertical out of a spot....do the same with longlining. pick a fore and lateral reference on your recce to the spot and fly to your tagert...dont worry about the line...it will follow....just glace every now and again to make sure your clear of snags.....Hope that helps a little

 

Intersting

[cyclic monkey]

 

I thought I was meant to be looking down !!!!

 

If I'm supposed to be looking at all that stuff around me, why do they call it Vertical Reference ???

 

HMMMMMMM ????!!!!????

 

[wcobra]

I thought I was meant to be looking down !!!!

 

If I'm supposed to be looking at all that stuff around me, why do they call it Vertical Reference ???

 

HMMMMMMM ????!!!!????

I've never seen a picture of a Pilot with that much thought going on!! Amazing what you can do with photoshop!