F . A . Q
This case questions and answers is a list of questions most frequently asked by our clients both on the regular line, as on other flights or during their first flights. If you have any general questions, technical or pilot we will be happy to answer them.
- At what altitude fly a helicopter?
Although the altitude record for a helicopter above 10000 meters, flights are generally between 500 and 1000 metres.
Cdt Christian MEYROUX
- What are the autonomy and the speed of a helicopter?
A helicopter about 2:30 autonomous flight and its speed is about 230 km / h.
Cdt Michel MATHIEU
- Why are there helicopters with which the rotor turns to the right and others with the rotor that spins to the left?
During the Second World War, Mr Fokher invented in Austria an helicopter with 2 rotors contrarotatifs, on both sides of the cell and presented to the Fuhrer. At the end of the war, wreckage of this helicopter was recovered by the Allies in Cherbourg and dismantled in England. The Americans recovered a rotor with its transmission box and the French kept the second to increase their manufacturing programme helicopters. The 2 rotors working contrarotatif, one turned to the right and one left. It can therefore be inferred that the Americans have recovered the rotor turning to the left (BELL for example) and the French rotor turning to the right (EUROCOPTER for example).
Cdt Michel DRELON
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