Completely unrelated to OP but interesting:
Unfortunatly Harry was mislead on one point. While its true helicopters don’t glide they can autorotate which is a form of gliding. Simply stated if all you have is an engine failure and you quickly quit trying to apply lift (lower the collective which controls blade pitch) you can fly the thing to the ground. When you do that the air going “up” thru the blades will keep then spinning (think about pinwheel on a stick it spins as air move thru it) You can control the aircraft all the way to the ground and then pull the nose up slow down and use the collective to increase blade pitch and lower the aircraft on to the ground using the stored energy from the blade inertia. Of course the rotor RPM will decrease dramatically so you need to be very precise. I have done a thousand or more of those in training and as a instructor pilot full contact to the ground and to water (on floats) from every flight condition low level, high level, 180 degree turns, etc. Once you get over the terror it’s the best roller coaster ride you have ever taken!!! So while I was never afraid of engine failure because you learn to fly always aware of where you can go if the engine fails, unfortunately engine failure was your “best case” emergency. All the hundreds of other things that can go wrong with a helicopter were the issue, some of which you might survive with great skill and others for which there was no probability that you had any input as to saving. In the UH-1 operator manual Emergency Procedures section (which I to memorize verbatim to obtain my instructor rating) the manual states “in the event of a tail rotor failure the best course of action may be to initiate an immediate autorotation, but in some cases this will only exacerbate the condition”Well, there is a new CMR update that popped up in FDRS first for the Mach E and also for the Lightning. I wonder if this is the new version and Ford used the same OTA name?
I have zero experience with any of this. The most complicated thing I've even flown is a 2-handed kite, and this makes perfect sense to me.
I should mention you have about 3 seconds to make the right decision. But I still love the damn things!!Agreed. Just finished my Labor Day trip to Pamlico Sound/Oriental NC, going to using the southern route and returning to my home using the northern route.
The idea that you even have to apply any pressure is kind of dumb IMO. This and the eye tracking are my only two major issues with this truck. I get a couple of alerts with one hand on the steering wheel just going a few miles from my house. With my wife’s Honda it seems to use like an infrared or touch capacitive sensor instead. You just need a finger or two on the wheel and it never disengages no matter where you have your hand on the steering wheel.
Well, it's all annoying compared with BlueCruise hands-free. How often do they update whatever maps or algorithms they use for that?
I’m so tired of having to move the steering wheel to get rid of the “keep your hands on the steering wheel “ message. I go down a straight road for about three miles and I get that message at least four times. I wonder, can I sue Ford when I get or does the hitting of someone in the oncoming traffic because I have to move the steering wheel because of a stupid message on the dashboard?
