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#Inspect battery and electrical connections | #Inspect battery and electrical connections | ||
#Inspect primary and auxiliary fuel pumps and fuel lines | #Inspect primary and auxiliary fuel pumps and fuel lines | ||
| + | #Inspect main drive shaft, belts, fans and condenser | ||
| + | #Inspect vertical drive shaft, centrifugal clutch and sprag clutch | ||
| + | #Inspect steam turbine for integrity | ||
| + | #Inspect boiler for cracks or damage | ||
| + | #Open boiler door, inspect burner, close door | ||
| + | #Open drain valve, verify water flow, close valve | ||
| + | #Inspect whistle | ||
| + | #Verify steam vent closed | ||
| + | #Inspect tail rotor drive shaft | ||
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| + | '''Tail Rotor''' | ||
| + | #Inspect horizontal stabilizer for security | ||
| + | #Inspect tail rotor for security | ||
| + | #Inspect tail rotor hub and pitch-change links | ||
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| + | '''Left Side''' | ||
| + | #Verify smoke box clear of obstructions | ||
| + | #Verify water level 75% or higher | ||
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Revision as of 17:19, 11 April 2022
SECTION 4. NORMAL PROCEDURES
1 PREFLIGHT
A thorough pre-flight inspection is essential to the safe conduct of your flight. The following procedures are recommended:
Front
- Inspect bubble for cracks
- Inspect landing lights
- Inspect airspeed anemometer
- Inspect beacon and front nav lights
- Inspect right skids and struts
Right Side
- Inspect battery and electrical connections
- Inspect primary and auxiliary fuel pumps and fuel lines
- Inspect main drive shaft, belts, fans and condenser
- Inspect vertical drive shaft, centrifugal clutch and sprag clutch
- Inspect steam turbine for integrity
- Inspect boiler for cracks or damage
- Open boiler door, inspect burner, close door
- Open drain valve, verify water flow, close valve
- Inspect whistle
- Verify steam vent closed
- Inspect tail rotor drive shaft
Tail Rotor
- Inspect horizontal stabilizer for security
- Inspect tail rotor for security
- Inspect tail rotor hub and pitch-change links
Left Side
- Verify smoke box clear of obstructions
- Verify water level 75% or higher
2 STARTING
Use the following procedure for normal starts:
- Controls – neutral
- Collective – full down
- Throttle – idle
- Beacon – on
- Fuel Cutoff – on
- Rotor brake - off
- Switches (Bat., Gen., Fuel/Feed Pumps) – on
- Collective – raise slightly, then lower (verify low rpm horn sounds)
- Volts – verify > 9 volts
- Water level – Verify 100%
- Vent valve - open
- Ignitor – on
- Fuel Flow – 5%
- Boiler fire – verify
- Fuel Flow - full
- Boiler Temp. – monitor
At 212F Boiler Temp.
- Vent valve – verify steam present
- Wait – 1 min.
- Vent valve - close
- Boiler Press. - monitor
At 200 psi Boiler Press.
- Throttle – 5%
- Amps – verify not negative
- Boiler Press. - monitor
At 300 psi Boiler Press.
- Fuel Flow – apprx. 25%
- Throttle – increase to 2000 RPM
- Governor – on
- Throttle - increase to 2400 RPM
- Governor - verify active
- RPM – verify between 2700 and 2900
- Fuel Flow - adjust to center boiler press. diff.
3 TAKE OFF
4 CRUISE
5 PRE-LANDING
6 AFTER LANDING
7 SHUT DOWN
Use the following procedure to shut down the engine:
- Controls – neutral
- Collective – full down
- Governor – off
- Throttle – decrease to 2000 RPM
- Fuel Flow – cutoff
- Ignitor – off
- Rotor brake – on (when below 200 RPM)
- Switches (Bat., Gen., Fuel/Feed Pumps) – off
