Wires. What wires?
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Given that an entire R44 seat assembly is only $800, it's probably worthwhile buying new rather than trying to hose down the old one... 
Still, at least the battered Avanza MPV escaped further injury.
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Still, at least the battered Avanza MPV escaped further injury.
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What ever happened to good old basic Airmanship ie: SWAT checks - pre-landing???
What ever happened to good old basic Airmanship ie: SWAT checks - pre-landing???
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Lucky, Blind & Stupid...Fvk Me....what was he thinking or looking at/not
What ever happened to good old basic Airmanship ie: SWAT checks - pre landing???
What ever happened to good old basic Airmanship ie: SWAT checks - pre landing???
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My friend, flying a Hughes 300, almost did the same thing. But I waived him off and the blades just grazed the wires. Dammit, you can't see those bloody things in the air.
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I don't suppose the Wooden Poles and Cross Arms up that there at Eye Level meant anything to the Pilot?
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It looks like the pilot knows the wires are there, flies over them and comes down the other side and then tries to fly / land while having to pass under them.
Is that correct ?
Is that correct ?
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Lucky, Blind & Stupid...Fvk Me....what was he thinking or looking at/not
What ever happened to good old basic Airmanship ie: SWAT checks - pre-landing???
What ever happened to good old basic Airmanship ie: SWAT checks - pre-landing???
When you eventually do, you're going to love all the armchair criticism........
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Spot on mad boom. Things like this are better discussed as a learning exercise - the video highlights lots of pitfalls;
Dusk
Last minute change in approach
Waving arms on ground
Positive ground marshalling (but by whom?)
Moving Car
Impending Brown Out
Was he/she trying to fly under wires
What was the experience level
What was the task - weddings/proms can actually be quite daunting with lots of folk about.
All in all its good that they survived - we can learn from it and teach others from it.
Dusk
Last minute change in approach
Waving arms on ground
Positive ground marshalling (but by whom?)
Moving Car
Impending Brown Out
Was he/she trying to fly under wires
What was the experience level
What was the task - weddings/proms can actually be quite daunting with lots of folk about.
All in all its good that they survived - we can learn from it and teach others from it.
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This is unfortunately something that is so easily done.
The first day of this years spray season I very nearly became a statistic due to a wire strike. The field we were spraying had a power line, like the one in the video, running east and west along a road that marked the field boundary. In the north east corner it made a ninety degree turn and then ran down the north/south field boundary. We were going to spray the field on the other side of the road, which meant that I was going to be free of worrying about the wires as I was running north/south.
Well for some reason on the second to last run I got it into my head that my next left hand turn was going to be "wire free". I pulled up, turned and set myself up to do the last run..............completely forgetting the wires were there. At the last second I saw them and managed through blind luck to pull up and go over them. I can still see them now out the door passing under the booms. It scared they heck out of me.
I had only flown over them about two hundred times that day! It is one of those moments in my flying career that will stay with me until my last breath. I have thought about it over and over as to what I was thinking. Still don't have a rational explanation.
It can happen to anyone.
The first day of this years spray season I very nearly became a statistic due to a wire strike. The field we were spraying had a power line, like the one in the video, running east and west along a road that marked the field boundary. In the north east corner it made a ninety degree turn and then ran down the north/south field boundary. We were going to spray the field on the other side of the road, which meant that I was going to be free of worrying about the wires as I was running north/south.
Well for some reason on the second to last run I got it into my head that my next left hand turn was going to be "wire free". I pulled up, turned and set myself up to do the last run..............completely forgetting the wires were there. At the last second I saw them and managed through blind luck to pull up and go over them. I can still see them now out the door passing under the booms. It scared they heck out of me.
I had only flown over them about two hundred times that day! It is one of those moments in my flying career that will stay with me until my last breath. I have thought about it over and over as to what I was thinking. Still don't have a rational explanation.
It can happen to anyone.