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Old 8th May 2021, 21:21
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Flying Bull
 
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Well,
it all depends….
If you do autos to a well known gras area - you ˋll be fine most of the times.
Had to do a OEI landing and went for gras - as always trained until then - and dug in quite a bit, cause it was on a non familiar airfield…
Had to do another OEI landing and went for the taxiway close to the hangar instead of the runway, thinking about blocking the runway with the skid equipped helicopter and the tow distance
Well the taxiway was not only smal, it also had a slight slope, so the helicopter drifted towards the adjacent gras.
Remembered the role over of the police helicopter in Hannover, which drifted onto the gras and put the collective a little faster down then initially intended, creating a nice curved skid mark on the tarmac.
Two times moving from the luck bag into the experience bag - which I use much more often by now ;-)
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