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Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese
How do you train to do these sorts of things? How long does it take to be able to "feel" the weight shift and counter it?
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I was not a CH-46 pilot so I didn't do much VERTREP. Like all things aviation, "rocks and blocks" takes practice. And remember, the ships are underway, moving targets!
I have about 20 hours in the CH-46 flying with the Marines during my initial night-vision goggle quals.
What made the H-46 an ideal VERTREP platform is the counter rotating main rotors. Unlike the traditional main rotor/trail rotor set up in the helicopter I flew, the H-60, the H-46 is much less dependent on relative wind...it flies equally well forwards, backwards, etc.
My old ride:
