500guy.......Finally someone who knows what he’s talking about...
The technique adopted by Aeropower to pull backwards with a “SIDE” pull is beyond comprehension....
while pulling in an AS350 with the “Mackpull” as they used or in general a side pull you have a view of the up coming tower out the rear left hand door... even if it’s only the base of the tower, you have plenty of time and room to allow for it....
In this case the Chief Pilot, who was incompetent at performing stringing tasks himself trained a pilot with no stringing experience in a handful of hours and then let him loose.... the pilot being trained was a capable pilot...... but to be thrown in the deep end with zero experience and high commercial pressures imposed, is a recipe for disaster which has been proven...
the company involved in this unfortunate incident has a track record of accidents....incidents.....that reads like a horror story....
when will a stand be taken by the relivent authorities to stop this insidious culture from taking another life....