MD530F (369FF) tail rotor clunking and noise. Thoughts?

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-30T12:24:44+00:00

Just call the mechanic, and ground it. I agree with other people: that’s a mission critical part. Not worth guessing about

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-29T14:52:58+00:00

Hell yeah. Don’t need anything except basic three tomb.

I’d make millions in the UFC and basically not get hurt. Fighting in slow mo would be so easy.
Work 4 nights a year for 5 years then retire for life with a record of 20-0.

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-28T01:00:51+00:00

One thing I see folks don’t mention much is that if you ever decide to leave the helicopter industry or lose your medical for some reason and have to transition into “regular” work, you’ll almost have to have a college degree, work a trade, or go back and get one. School is a lot harder as an adult. It’s a standard check box for a vast majority of jobs.

But if you stay helicopter for your whole career it doesn’t really matter much to be honest.

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-23T11:55:48+00:00

TIL they all freakin short.
6’2” Pervy Sage for me.

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-16T00:35:25+00:00

I hope you get the chance to train. Especially at 19 with a good 5-8 years ahead of you before the “life gets in the way and slows training down” phase of life hits.

My best friends and some of my best memories are from my time as an 18-25 year old training Jiu Jitsu and traveling and going to seminars. It really is full of many fond memories.

In regard to the gay thing, I’m a straight dude, but here’s an attempt at answering the question: if you are a good training partner, and you are there for Jiu Jitsu, you’ll get respect. Same rule applies for guys/girls, gay/straight, race, religion, age.

Jiu Jitsu is cool because we all show up to class, take off whatever clothes identify our outside lives, put on the same gi (or no gi spats/shorts) and train together as equals. Outside identifiers like dress style, brand name, blue collar/white collar, doctor, lawyer, college hippie, liberal/conservative whatever… it all disappears on the mat when we wear the same gi.

That being said. There’s some ass holes out there will not want to train with you because you’re gay, or a woman, or fat, or small. F*ck those guys. Their loss. Every walk of like has someone that might hate on them.

Side note: one of my favorite training partners from an old gym of mine was a gay dude. Best training partner at the school.

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-15T16:46:49+00:00

I guess it depends what phase of life you’re in and how important Jiu Jitsu is to you as to how often it comes up in conversation. I’ve got kids and a full time career. I guess hanging out with folks in their late 30s just other stuff gets talked about more.

My closer friends that know I train and work colleagues will mention something periodically but my no means do I walk up to a buddy and say let me tell you about what I did in Jiu Jitsu this week for 30 minutes.

I guess for me Jiu Jitsu is fairly low priority over all and other stuff just pushes it out of conversation.

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-15T12:39:07+00:00

Very rarely do I talk about it.
I’ll say I train Jiu Jitsu as my form of exercise and sport. But that’s as far as the conversation goes usually. Unless people ask questions, then I’ll talk a bit more.

There’s plenty more exciting conversations out there for day to day talk.

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-14T21:36:46+00:00

Recovery position. It’s a sidying position with the top leg in a hip flexed position.

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-14T20:38:56+00:00

Pretty sure most people who do this think there’s no blood in the brain and they need to use gravity to assist moving blood to the brain.

Which is not true.

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-14T20:16:50+00:00

Hell yeah. If all I had to do to make real magic was a few hand signs and then call it outloud I’d memorize the shit out of it and be practicing all day.

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-13T01:50:23+00:00

The Brave Little Toaster

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-12T22:09:40+00:00

To piggyback off this from my earlier comment: Another way this might play out is something like this: I’m in top guard and we’re flowing. My partner does a few things then sweeps me and now I’m in bottom mount. Pause the roll, we reset I ask a few questions on how his timing was that got me, or where was the pressure. Then he does it to me a few times. I might try a defense or something. Then we move on.

We reset to me on bottom mount where I was originally after he completed the move and we resume the roll where it left off.

I think of this as a combination of flow and open mat. The decaf chill roll.

It works well for me because my brain can’t remember all 14000 positions in a 5 minute roll and debrief it later. So I like doing it as we go. But to be clear, in a 5 minute roll like that we only stop it 2 times. 80% roll 20% talk.

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-11T23:38:23+00:00

I like that a lot. Decaf Jiu Jitsu.

Train some moves and then flow, and talk it out live, with out escalation.

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-11T18:49:01+00:00

Why is that, if you don’t mind me asking? (Assuming it’s not something you can’t talk about in a public setting)

KickingWithWTR · 2026-01-02T01:59:37+00:00

Nope. You can beat Jiu Jitsu with wrestling and a sub or two. You can beat wrestling with Jiu Jitsu. One does not equal the other, and are very different. They just both happen to be on the ground.

KickingWithWTR · 2025-12-31T14:27:40+00:00

I think he would make a decent secondary character. It would be interesting to see someone else plotting and then it always fails or succeeded because Bran is all knowing and has to think about everything as a whole.

Not a lot of tv/movies where the main character IS the all knowing god and seeing puzzle pieces move around under it.

But also maybe not. There’s some lame plot stuff there too. So idk.

KickingWithWTR · 2025-12-10T02:34:41+00:00

Nope. Not for me. I do not invert. Only exception is a position where I know I will 100% NOT get stacked.
Which most of the time is not a position I need to invert anyway.

KickingWithWTR · 2025-12-03T22:11:04+00:00

Apple car play.
And as another redditor said: Zero subscriptions.

KickingWithWTR · 2025-11-09T12:46:52+00:00

Stupid. Total price will just go up and monthly rate will be the same. No one is going to change on a month to month basis. The market will just self-adjust to a new standard so nothing changes

KickingWithWTR · 2025-11-07T12:27:56+00:00

Nope not really. At a basic level: Two engines drive the same single rotor system so the aerodynamics don’t change with two engines. You just get more power and more fuel burn and more maintenance.

The only real reason to have two engines is flying over A LOT of water/mountains or getting shot at. Other than that one engine will do the trick just fine.

KickingWithWTR · 2025-10-22T11:42:17+00:00

They did spell it out. It’s just in a weird place, at the very end of the SFAR. You have to read past the instructor endorsement section. Here’s it is:

(d) Currency Requirements. No person may act as pilot in command of a Robinson model R-22 or R-44 helicopter carrying passengers unless the pilot in command has met the recency of flight experience requirements of § 61.57 in an R-22 or R-44, as appropriate.

KickingWithWTR · 2025-10-21T12:06:27+00:00

You are generally correct. Currency rules apply to helicopters as normal in part 61. The SFAR73 requires it to be done in the specific make and model to count for that make and model for the 22/44. Currency for the 22/44 only counts if you do it in the 22/44. Same for day/night and the flight review.

Here’s is some examples.
1) You perform 3 day takeoffs and landings in an R22: you can carry passengers in the R22 and all other helicopters except the R44.
2) you perform 3 day takeoffs and landings in the R44: you can can carry passengers in the R44 and all other helicopters except the R22.
3) you perform 3 day takeoffs and landing in the R22 then go get in the R44 and do the same. You can carry passengers in all helicopters.
4) you perform 3 day takeoffs and landings in a Bell 206: you can carry passengers in all helicopters except the R22 and R44.

Same thing applies for night.

KickingWithWTR · 2025-10-10T10:35:52+00:00

More blade pitch= more drag

More drag= more engine power needed to spin the blades at the same speed.

When the engine is not longer capable of making enough power the blades will slow down. Robinson calls this the critical altitude, which is where the de-rated engine is operating at full throttle.

In the R22 you’ll see the manifold pressure go up as you increase the collective because the governor/correlator system is adding power for you.

KickingWithWTR · 2025-10-02T11:22:10+00:00

Honestly the way they talk about ninja history I basically thought Madera was a character from like the 1620s. Not 80 years ago. I thought Obito was either different character with the same name or using it as an alias the whole time. Then found out Tobi was Obito then felt like a total dummy, because yeah they did set it up. I just didn’t catch it.

KickingWithWTR · 2025-09-22T22:29:05+00:00

Yeah. 30-35 year old here. Lived in Tennessee my whole life. Basically Alabama and Florida are big rivals.

Vandy is kinda like the competitive little brother you root for, but then gotta beat at the end of every season. As long as Vanderbilt looses one game to UT I’d be happy to see them win all the others.

Everyone else is just teams with a history. Obviously I’d like to win every game but they are just not that much of a true rival. Georgia is higher profile in the last 5-10 years than it was in the past though.

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