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FLYING A GYRO
The Australian Sports Rotorcraft Association's website describes a gyroplane as an aircraft that flies using freely-turned rotor blades.
Modern gyroplanes have two propellers, one overhead and one behind the cabin, and are light and easily manoeuvrable.
They are slower than aeroplanes but faster than helicopters.
However, unlike helicopters, they cannot hover.
• A typical single-seat gyroplane is about 4.25m long and 2.4m high. When empty, it weighs about 230kg.
• Most gyroplanes fly under 920m above ground because most pilots like the scenery at the lower altitudes. Specially modified gyroplanes have gone 6km high.
• The gyroplane is a stable flying platform. This is not so with helicopters, which pull the air down through engine-powered rotor blades making it possible to hover, but also making the aircraft very complicated and expensive to fly.
• Most gyroplanes fly between 70kmh and 100kmh.
• Gyroplanes depend on air currents for flight and can only fly if there is wind.
The Australian Sports Rotorcraft Association's website describes a gyroplane as an aircraft that flies using freely-turned rotor blades.
Modern gyroplanes have two propellers, one overhead and one behind the cabin, and are light and easily manoeuvrable.
They are slower than aeroplanes but faster than helicopters.
However, unlike helicopters, they cannot hover.
• A typical single-seat gyroplane is about 4.25m long and 2.4m high. When empty, it weighs about 230kg.
• Most gyroplanes fly under 920m above ground because most pilots like the scenery at the lower altitudes. Specially modified gyroplanes have gone 6km high.
• The gyroplane is a stable flying platform. This is not so with helicopters, which pull the air down through engine-powered rotor blades making it possible to hover, but also making the aircraft very complicated and expensive to fly.
• Most gyroplanes fly between 70kmh and 100kmh.
• Gyroplanes depend on air currents for flight and can only fly if there is wind.
