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 More options May 7, 6:55 pm
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.rotorcraft
From: "Maxwell" <luv2^fly99@cox.^net>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 17:55:49 -0500
Local: Wed, May 7 2008 6:55 pm
Subject: Re: R-22 vs Mosquito

"Stuart & Kathryn Fields" <s...@iwvisp.com> wrote in message
news:ANidnYjnsJSDeLzVnZ2dnUVZ_hadnZ2d@iwvisp.com...

> One bad thing about governors, as witnessed in the turbine pilots trying
> to fly a non governed ship, is if the governor fails, hey sometimes
> electronics do fail,  you have a real problem if you haven't practiced
> flying without it and how many practice lazy pilots are out there?
> All that said, I would like to have a governor when the workload gets high
> like formation flying for photos, chasing coyotes at low altitude etc.
> I didn't try flying the R-22 sans governor.  I was having all the fun that
> I wanted trying to adapt to the cyclic.  The instructor, trying to be a
> nice guy, told some stories about ex military pilots checking out in an
> R-22 and using up quite a few hours.  It did make me feel a little better.

> Stu

I wouldn't want an electronic governor, mechanical is too easy, and too
reliable. When you think of it, we have all owned dozens of them. I've never
had one fail.

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