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01-09-2010, 03:00 PM
Tanksmasher
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Well you was right, Zuludelta, looking thru one of my dad's old train-modelers books. It had a page in it with a chart, the Scale, and popular products at the time, and converted it to how much was a foot in that scale. I will post it for you if you want, when I get a chance. But O Scale was 1:64th, HO Scale 1:87th, and N 1:144-1:160th.
So far my Helicopter unit is in 1:72nd scale. Contains 2 Blackhawks (Target and Hobby Lobby versions) and 1 Jayhawk (Corgi). So for a person who barely has 70 troops and kinda want to keep my Force small. So how does this sound, could the secondary seat be filled by someone who has civilian helicopter training? That's how I view Flint (In Chain of Command rather than a military helo pilot), Zap (Marvel Comic Book) and Recondo (Tiger Force)? Makes me wish I picked up Lift-Ticket with GhostHawk when I had the chance.
Could someone chart out for me the possible ranks with each armed services of helicopter pilots and how the 2 seats in side by side seating works, are they both pilots, are they flight cdr and pilot, or which one main pilot which is co-pilot...
W-1 to W-5, O-1 to O-10 [Army, USN, USAF, USMC, USCG]
I finally found out what a CHALK Unit is after days and weeks of searching, guess I gotta find another word for that because not all of the 2 squads combined are helicopter inserted.
Takedown, here's a typical breakdown of the Army's Assault Company for the UH-60.
The company has an HQ and 3 platoons of blackhawks, 5 helicopters per platoon. Since there are 15 helicopters, there are 30 pilots.
HQ:
Commander (O3)
Aviation Safety Officer (W3) - a pilot
Aviation Standardization Officer (W3) - a pilot
Tactical Ops Officer (W3) - a pilot
First Sgt (E8)
Platoons
Platoon Leader (O2) x 3 - all are pilots
Senior Instructor Pilot (W3)
Instructor Pilots (W2) x 3
Aviation Maint Officers (W2) x 3 – pilots
Aviation Life Support Officers (W2) x 3 – pilots
Aircraft Surv Equipment Officer (W2) – a pilot
UH-60 Pilots (W2) x 13
Platoon Sgt (E7)
Asst Crew Chiefs (E4-5) x 15
Air Crewmembers (E3-4) x 15
Helicopter pilots use their left hand for the collective and their right for the cyclic and in most helicopters where the radios are in the center of the aircraft it makes sense to sit in the right seat so that you can let go of the collective with your left hand and switch frequencies. Military PICs can sit in whatever seat they want (afterall they're in a 2-crew aircraft and the pilot not flying handles the radios and checklists) but usually they sit in the right sit, unless they’re hauling a load and they need to be in a better position to look outside.
Also, both pilots take turns flying the aircraft. When one flies, the other does everything else. The Pilot In Command (PIC) is simply the senior of the two, although both are typed in the helicopter and can serve in that capacity. I'm the SIC for my aircraft but only because the airlines only require the Captain to be type-rated and I'm a First Officer. If I were type-rated, I could log PIC time, but since I'm not, I only log SIC time.
Hope this helps some.
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