Sorry RAF, I am afriad I don't understand. If you want to become an AME you go to AME school. Lucky for me, it doesn't take a Masters Degree in Engineering to become an AME. To answer your question, unfortunately having a Masters Degree in Engineering does not meet the minimum requirements to be eli...

It's been a while, 18 years ago more than 70% of the instructors were heli-guys and many of the generic lessons taught used helicopter systems as examples. (Simple DC electrical system lesson would be based on a Bell 206 schematic) This gives you a good head start. You did have manditory tasks on fi...

I would recommend Northern Lights College in Dawson Creek.
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lol Well at least R22 jokes have moved up to the Lithium Battery Power Tool level. The rubber band jokes were getting old.

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Sorry to hear that, wish I could have helped.

Make sure you monitor that teardown closely, you may have a warrenty issue if it turns out the resistance from the failing pump damaged your engine. But as usual, it will be hard to prove what came first the chicken or the egg!!!

Good luck,
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I imagine your Fuel pump is a constant displacement pump with excess Fuel flow returning to the inlet side of the pump. A sheared shaft may be due to some type of Hydraulic lock or restriction. I have had a HYD pump shaft shear due to a restriction on the return side.

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I am sure you have explored this option and I may be speaking out of turn in that I am not familure with your aircraft type. My question is are you sure you have a genuine pump failure and not a indication problem? Does your FP suddenly go to zero, or do you have a low FP caution light. Is it possib...

No no, just thought I would bring back a little blast from the past.

What's the snag on the U/S pumps? Low FP?

Cat, do you ever talk to Cruella?

Hmmmmm

Cat, this single seat thing is kind of new with helicopters. How would you go about getting a check-out on something like this. I know it is nothing new on the fixed wing side but I have never heard how this is done. Kamax pilots have to go to the KAMAN factory and get a Husky check-out which appare...

Altiplano wrote "Cause chances are they're gonna crash."

According the the NTSB, the Bell 2o6 series helicopter is the safest single engine aircraft. Yes AIRCRAFT, that includes fixed-wing as well.

Over 32,000,000 flight hours.

Not bad for 10,000 bits rotating in tight formation.

Cheers,
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STL I checked out their website, $24,000 US for the kit and a additional $12,500 for the T62-T32 Turbine (150 HP). It appears the turbine is originally used as a GPU engine. Interesting start, you can hear him crank and then pause. Also, seemed like alot of modulation required for the start. Cheers,...

Westland Lynx @ 400.87 km/h is pretty fast. Don't ya think?

Cheers,
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Hi Bandit 1, sounds a little hard to believe. That's like saying you can't fly both single and twin engine helicopters because the engine failure procedures are different.

Cheers,
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Great Video, with one minute to reload I guess you sure hope you don't miss with the first 30 shots. lol

Didn't seem to have much recoil. Do you think he had a light re-load or is the Automatic action soaking it up?

Scootermp "helicopters just don't have the systems that aircraft do" Can't helicopters be called aircraft too? Please!!!!!!!! I know the seized rotor community feels that the Theory of Rotory Wing flight is based on the fact that the Earth repels them, however it would be nice to still belong to the...

As stated above, which direction does your friend wish to go? I have seen engine overhaul techs make the transition from engine overhaul to Aircraft Maintenance Engineering but not without the AME coarse. Many of the standard practices are transferable but much of the experience he/she will gain at ...

Boy oh Boy, everyone in the helicopter world must be too busy working their butts off to have time to post.

Here's one for you Chevy 2 pilots out there. High skids or low skids? I have heard all sorts of pro's and con's for both but thought it might start some healthy debate.

Cheers

I think that one would be tough to explain to your boss on the Sat Com.

Have a look in the Maintenance Forum.

There is a post which states that Air Canada forcasts a 700 maintenance staff layoff by June this year.

Sorry Blacksmoke I'll try again and remember these numbers are just estimates. Monthly base pay of between $3300 to $3700. This is paid to you each month 12 months per year regardless of your current location. This is dependent of you working 6 weeks on and 6 weeks off. Incentive pay of $150 per day...

Hi STL, A year ago I heard rumors that VIH was sliding out of the light market and moving more towards the medium-heavy side of the industry. West Coast Oil perhaps? If this was true it would open alot of doors for smaller operators. But with the addition of the Grate Slave resources I am not sure w...

Sorry for the mixup blacksmoke, the Monthly should be between $3300 and $3700 not $2300 and $2700.

I forgot to mention that you also get a Day Rate for each day worked somewhere around $180 CAN

I think I have probably done a good job in confusing you.
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