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Old 7th Jul 2018, 07:59
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SARWannabe
 
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What about the fact it is simply outside the aircraft limitations and therefore totally illegal?

yes - it could be flown positive G throughout and the helicopter doesn’t know which way up it is.

yes - some rules we would like to break because we have our own logic behind how we can mitigate the risks to an acceptable level.

Yes - if suitably trained this manoeuvre MAY not stress the airframe unnecessarily.

.... etc etc etc the arguments in people’s posts are good, in a world without rules.

However like them or not, we do have rules, and we can’t all go writing our own, however much we’d like to. A blatant public disregard for the operating limitations of the aircraft through showboating outside the governed military/display environment, says a lot about a persons attitude towards being above the regulations. For many people i’ve flown with in the past this is exactly what makes them a danger to themselves, and others who look up to them, or fly the aircraft after them....

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