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[camwyn]

That being said, yesterday's actual lesson out of Lawrence was wonderful. It was emergency procedure practice day, including learning to handle settling with power (this happens when you're hovering at altitude and start pulling your own rotor-tip turbulence back in, resulting in the loss of altitude despite ordering the engine to produce more power), flying during a governor failure (easier than it looks if you remember not to touch the throttle very much), and autorotations.

We also went over the emergency chapter in the Robinson R22 handbook. 95 percent of helicopter emergency procedures fall into one of two categories: Land Now, and Land Right The Hell Now. (The remaining five percent are Turn It Off Then Turn It Back On And If That Doesn't Work Land Right The Hell Now, or they're related to water landings.)

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[eor]

Always make sure you check the fuel level before you leave. The owner of one of our local ISPs was a former lifeflight pilot. Amazing he survived, Portland Harbor is cold at the best of times.