[Vhfcn-l] Comment from today's pilots

[Roger W. Ek]

> On Jan 13, 2019, at 2:09 PM, John W. Hart via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> wrote:
> 
> After tactics, we transitioned to the UH-1 for 10 hours, mostly UH-1A models. 

When I went to Rucker for gun ship training, I had a few transition flights in the UH-1A. I had flown the UH-2C in the Navy which had TWO GE-T58-8C engines of 1,450 HP EACH. That’s 2,900 horsepower on a twist grip. The UH-1A had 1/4 of that horsepower and was somewhat of a dog to say the least. Good thing it was February and a little cooler in Alabama. 

In the UH-2C, from a hover you could just dump the nose 45 degrees, haul on the collective and transition to 165 knots ricky tick. When I got to Fort Rucker, I had never flown a square pattern. The Navy flies round patterns and just straightens out to hit the center line on a carrier. Mr. Smith was offended when I asked why the Army did that. 

The UH-46 (racing hook) has pretty much the same engines as the H-2C. The USMC called the H-46 the Phrog. 

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