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Any Pilots Here?

BTW is saying "constant speed prop" (as I was brought up with) and "variable pitch prop" the same thing? I obviously confused complex with high perf, so i might be messed up on props too.

A constant speed prop accomplishes that feat by being variable pitch. It maintains a constant speed when the power is increased or decreased by varying the pitch of the the blades. So yes, same thing.
 
...same thing?.../Gilly

Gilly:

With a variable pitch prop you can set the blade pitch from fine to coarse with the propeller control, which has the effect of increasing or decreasing rpm. However, rpm will increase or decrease as the throttle is opened or closed, respectively.

With a constant speed prop you also adjust blade pitch with the propeller control, which affects rpm, but the rpm does not change with increased or decreased throttle, except at small throttle openings. So it's a "smart" variable pitch prop.
 
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Does This Count?

No auto pilot: Check
Guns: Check
Rockets: Check
Hellfire: Check
Stinger: Check, kinda (took it off a few years ago, the idea that we could shoot down a fixed wing aircraft didn't sit well with someone)
 

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Flew 1.7 today of evergency procedures with another IP today at Rucker. Maybe I should have limited the flight to 1.2:brow
 
Airline transport pilot
airplane multiengine land
gulfstream g100/ia1125 astra jet
beechcraft hs125 hawker jet
lockheed l1329 jetstar
north american rockwell n265 sabreliner
cessna c500 citatation
commercial pilot single engine land and sea
19,650 hours, but who's counting
 
Uh...

You escaped Lock'ees Jetstop...er "star" ALIVE; your surely keep'in count!
 
Lifeflight Hellycopter Pilot

USMC Aviator (retired) CH-53D & E, U/V H1N, VH-3D
Flew MU-2's for a year.....medical EMS helicopters since 1992...approaching 10K

ATP Rotor & MEL, SPIFR

nice to read about our aviation Beemerphiles
 
USMC Aviator (retired) CH-53D & E, U/V H1N, VH-3D
Flew MU-2's for a year.....medical EMS helicopters since 1992...approaching 10K

ATP Rotor & MEL, SPIFR

nice to read about our aviation Beemerphiles
What do you fly for LifeFlight? I am with PHI Air Medical......fly those weird french birds.
 
...those things are real killers...Gilly

I understand that the accident rates have decreased dramatically since the FAA mandated special type specific initial and recurrent training for the MU2Bs.

I have long been fascinated by these machines.
 
RetPD

Thanks for asking Retired PD!!! Air Methods Baptist Lifeflight program; I'm @ the Pensacola base (Lifeflight 1)..SPIFR EC-135 for years.....just went to EC-130...like our other bases (Mobile, Hattiesburg, & Greenville, AL.

Miss the 135...flew it for 8 years....but times change....no??:D
 
Giily & Rinty

They're pretty wild...you just can't fly 'em like a gentleman's aircraft.....gotta be on top of things if one of those Garretts burps!!!!! Taught me a lot about MEL flying!!
My favorite airplane ever tho' is still the North American T-28 (~700 hrs).:D
 
MU2s

Of course my experience is mostly from the 80s when they were killing pretty regularly.
 
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