MD500 Crash - Caversham, 24 March '17
The 500 has very good pedal authority and flying in all sorts of bad weather , tail into serious wind etc I find it hard to believe a qualified pilot could let it spin . In my experience if you put the pedal in it does as it's told !! Strange , but at least the pax are ok .
Hughes - not if you raise the lever
Well crab, the forward and down is for pulling lever up ! Need to keep it flying forward and down as you pull lever up. Otherwise you would come to a complete halt well away from where you want to be Probably lost in translation
Nigel, can't agree more think it was lazy / paralysed feet
Probably lost in translation Nigel, can't agree more think it was lazy / paralysed feet
Probably lost in translation
I got the impression that they were trying a yawing turn into wind from a downwind (or cross downwind) approach - ie a very low speed downwind quickstop.
Hence my comment to keep the nose down a bit to retain speed and ETL until that yawing turn is completed and the need for lever to help hold the height until facing into wind and finishing the approach to the hover in the time-honoured fashion.
Whatever they did, they seem to have completely porked it.
Crab
Yup spot on, that is what they were trying to do but keep translational lift on while making a cylic turn rather than pedal turn. So both right, I believe they allowed the airspeed to wash off too much, so a double whammy of loss of translational lift at the same time as bringing in too much power with causes nose to come up too high hence more power needed and more pedal etc etc. well to show a 500 can do it !!!
https://www.facebook.com/aitchconser...5252028500892/
Yup spot on, that is what they were trying to do but keep translational lift on while making a cylic turn rather than pedal turn. So both right, I believe they allowed the airspeed to wash off too much, so a double whammy of loss of translational lift at the same time as bringing in too much power with causes nose to come up too high hence more power needed and more pedal etc etc. well to show a 500 can do it !!!
https://www.facebook.com/aitchconser...5252028500892/
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The witness, who was at his son's football training at the time, thought the pilot was "showing off".
He said: "To be honest all those watching thought the pilot was showing off but naturally that was just an assumption.
He said: "To be honest all those watching thought the pilot was showing off but naturally that was just an assumption.
