Too many years using all appendages to travel? https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?category_level1=Piston+Helicopters&make=ROTORWAY&s-type=aircraft&s-lvl=2 Upside, probably less expensive.
I've had MANY builders of Rotorways come to me for instruction in the Robinson Helicopter, WSF. None of them continued to fly their home-builts after they had the chance to look at how much safer the Robinson was than the Rotorway. The first Rotorways had a belt driven tail rotor system. MANY of them ended up for sale on Trade-A-Plane with "Slight rotor damage". You can buy a used Robinson for the money, and should.
Here ya go, Steve. I LOVE this little helicopter, and have about 2000 hours in different iterations: https://robinsonheli.com/r22-beta-ii-specifications/
Thanks, GB, I'll check it out. Strictly for curiosity, it would be fun to sit at the controls again but I probably couldn't pass a physical at 73. Besides, I survived 30 years flying those machines with no serious issues and I'd hate to press my luck. CNF
Faster, stronger, quieter, and safer now than ever, Steve. I lost my medical last year because of one of the meds my VA doc prescribed that the FAA doesn't like. (I wish I had investigated "Oxybutinin" before I admitted to the FAA I was taking it! I'd still be flying.) The little Robbie is a handful, like a powerful Sports car. But once you get the hang of it, it truly IS like strapping on a pair of wings. Go buy an hour somewhere. It'll take ya 15 minutes to get comfortable.
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Too many years using all appendages to travel?
https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?category_level1=Piston+Helicopters&make=ROTORWAY&s-type=aircraft&s-lvl=2
Upside, probably less expensive.
I've had MANY builders of Rotorways come to me for instruction in the Robinson Helicopter, WSF. None of them continued to fly their home-builts after they had the chance to look at how much safer the Robinson was than the Rotorway.
The first Rotorways had a belt driven tail rotor system. MANY of them ended up for sale on Trade-A-Plane with "Slight rotor damage".
You can buy a used Robinson for the money, and should.
Don't know much about the Robinson. Might check into it. How much can it carry, cruise airspeed? CNF
Here ya go, Steve. I LOVE this little helicopter, and have about 2000 hours in different iterations:
https://robinsonheli.com/r22-beta-ii-specifications/
Thanks, GB, I'll check it out. Strictly for curiosity, it would be fun to sit at the controls again but I probably couldn't pass a physical at 73. Besides, I survived 30 years flying those machines with no serious issues and I'd hate to press my luck. CNF
Faster, stronger, quieter, and safer now than ever, Steve. I lost my medical last year because of one of the meds my VA doc prescribed that the FAA doesn't like. (I wish I had investigated "Oxybutinin" before I admitted to the FAA I was taking it! I'd still be flying.)
The little Robbie is a handful, like a powerful Sports car. But once you get the hang of it, it truly IS like strapping on a pair of wings.
Go buy an hour somewhere. It'll take ya 15 minutes to get comfortable.
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