AH64-longbow
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Thank you for your reply, I understand the hearing ratio and I understand numbers, I flew the AH-64 Longbow for some time with the 101st Airborne; I am in Papua New Guinea, and the dirt/ gravel roads I drive on are not secondary roads but the main road between point A to point B; After 16 hrs in the vehicle and mountain altitudes reaching 10,000 ft, grades 20 all the way to 30% grade it’s very taxing on both vehicle and driver.I was fully loaded coming down a mountain north of Atlanta Georgia pulling a non-fuctional backhoe, and a LOT of cargo. Put it down to low range in first gear. The truck would basically brake itself. I rarely had to touch the actual brakes. I included a video of me going up an 18-20% grade at full throttle in first gear. Large amount of tire slip. It took a truck this big to get this stuff off the mountain. Now I know why it stayed up there until I picked it up!
Enjoyed your video. I will in future try to uplaod some videos of some road conditions I encounter. Thank you again,
Peter