Bell 429 Part 2 Cockpit and engine start

Flight Americas Editor John Croft gets a preview of the new Bell 429 medium-twin helicopter from Bell Canada experimental test pilot Leo Meslin on 20 May 2009 at Bell Canada's Mirabel plant - Part 2 of 3

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Bell Helicopter
• Bell 429
• rotorcraft
• flight test
• test pilot
• helicopter

[sanfranciscobay]

If you want to hear the engine start, it begins shortly after 7:35

[Strippednut1]

@MosJada The pilot flying the aircraft actually wrote the flight manual for the 429! He was one of the experimental test pilots in Mirabel.

[mmichaeldonavon]

This is what you call "Information Overload" - no question about it. What ever happened to a few "steam gauges"? Probably the designers, over cocktails, said: "Hey, what about doing this and doing that, and doing this, then we will have ALL of these pages on the MFD's, et al". WAY to much information - but, hey, maybe it's needed (?). And, like someone else has alluded to: Was there a checklist somewhere in the cockpit; I must have overlooked it.

[msnfab]

muiiiiiiiiiito legal..amo tudo isso!!!

[jeepers2655]

holy cow!.......too much to remember,I`ll let the pros fly.

[MAGICDJ5]

I LOVE HELICOPTERS TOO

[MosJada]

No checklist? Or maybe it doesn't need one?

I'll never forget the first & last time I attempted to startup by memory alone.

Looked like an idiot when I forgot something important, and thankfully it was on the ground instead of in the air.

If you got one, use it.

[blackhawk438]

@Hawk777th I thought it was the fuel pump

[oliviamulgrew]

wow fantastic

[BalticaBeer]

Здорово! Авионика весьма хороша