About Helicopter Life

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HelicopterLife is a magazine. It is a lifestyle magazine produced in the UK, Since the last issue I have been doing a type rating on the Cabri G2, a machine which may well come to be the R22 of the future, see the article on page x. One of my greatest joys in learning to fly the G2 was using the flight manual, which really needs a native English speaker to go through it and make a few changes, but is, nonetheless, delightful as it is! Here I learnt to “roll-off throttle frankly” when doing “autorotation practice abortion” (painful!) And that the G2 has “no natural tendency to depart in roll or pitch”. There are many others and I hope that when it is, as it inevitably will be, put into proper English, the older version will be kep.