MD Helicopters MD 530F
Vertical rate at touchdown
Up to 100fpm
Full marks for the vertical rate at touchdown up to 100 fpm, on the rotorcraft curve; no note for a soft touchdown.
- G-force
- 1.20Gfull marks, the general curve
Not part of this aircraft's grade: an approach-speed target, a tail-strike check and a touchdown-zone window.
Light single-turbine helicopters from MD Helicopters, the 500E executive model of 1982 and the hot-and-high 530F with a 650 shp Rolls-Royce 250-C30 turboshaft.
Roundout scores this aircraft with the Rotorcraft (Helicopter) category's curves. The figures it uses are below.
How its touchdown is scored.
The score at each point of its curves. Between the points, scores fall in a straight line; the full method is in the scoring methodology.
No shared landings or board for this aircraft yet. Its figures appear once pilots with a public profile have shared 5 graded landings in it, and a board once at least 5 opted-in pilots have flown it 10 or more times each. See the boards there are.
For reference.
Aircraft data
- Manufacturer
- MD Helicopters
- Model
- MD 530F
- Variant
- 369FF
- FAA approach category
- A
- MTOW
- 1,519 kg (3,349 lbs)
- Vref in flight
- Not used
- MSFS source
- Payware (Shrike Simulations)
- Category
- Rotorcraft (Helicopter)
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