Somewhere in there, note the Red-Flocked Booby for your lifelist. Assuming you saw it before its impact with your pilot.
EDIT: Presumably, the article meant Red-Footed Booby, and given its range, you should really try to get a post out on EBird, if you're doing a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon.
"Unfortunately the odds of having the second set of controls installed in the helicopter on a tour is slim to none, so this is where you plummet to your death screaming."
Interesting tidbit: Helicopter throttles are generally set to 100% and left there for the flight.
On the one hand, this makes sense because what is normally your throttle hand is now busy with the collective stick.
On the other hand, this would be one of the many things which explain why helicopters need more maintenance per flight-hour, if you're running the engine at top speed all the time (even assuming that the "full" throttle is calibrated to something short of redline). I wonder how much FADEC helps with this.
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Date: 2016-06-06 09:14 pm (UTC)EDIT: Presumably, the article meant Red-Footed Booby, and given its range, you should really try to get a post out on EBird, if you're doing a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon.
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Date: 2016-06-07 03:12 am (UTC)Many pages of advice follow regardless.
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Date: 2016-06-07 01:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-06-07 06:15 pm (UTC)On the one hand, this makes sense because what is normally your throttle hand is now busy with the collective stick.
On the other hand, this would be one of the many things which explain why helicopters need more maintenance per flight-hour, if you're running the engine at top speed all the time (even assuming that the "full" throttle is calibrated to something short of redline). I wonder how much FADEC helps with this.