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Stuart & Kathryn Fields  
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 More options May 7, 1:21 pm
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.rotorcraft
From: "Stuart & Kathryn Fields" <s...@iwvisp.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 10:21:28 -0700
Local: Wed, May 7 2008 1:21 pm
Subject: Re: R-22 vs Mosquito

"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" <skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net> wrote in
message news:mtm324pp09s3fdmmb8ouqamlr9q0fuhhhj@4ax.com...

> On Tue, 6 May 2008 18:07:46 -0500, "Maxwell" <luv2^fly99@cox.^net>
> wrote:

>>As simple, inexpensive, reliable and valuable as governors are, I can't
>>believe the are not included on every rotorcraft. It's just makes too much
>>sense.

> The correlator on the Robbies is pretty good..  Flying with the gov
> off isn't a whole lot different than with it on...

> One of the Schweizers I fly has a HORRIBLE correlator and you MUST be
> good on the throttle to fly this particualr one smoothly.

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


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