... I ve also discovered that rotary pilots views aren't welcome in this forum if it opposes a FW pilots' view!
The A/c flew in from the Barrow In Furnace direction, passed over the Swan at roughly 80/100 ft then had to climb to miss the trees at the rivers edge, after the trees, it then came down to around 30/40ft from the lakes surface.
...wish I was that good I could see and avoid ANY other traffic at that altitude.
What I can't understand is if five people on the ground saw the aircraft flying at less than 100' - how come no-one could see the registration or even recognise the aircraft type?
... I don't reconise most FW types or a lot of rotary types for that matter - why should a member of the public or 3 pilots who think they are about to die? As for the reg - again if you thought this machine was going to crash would you be trying to read the reg?
VFRPB gets slated for a 'cavalier' and 'threatening' attitude but are CIM remarks and many others really constructive? Or just as reactionary as the way VFRPB feels at a potential life threating incident?
HAD they collided how many here would have slated the FW pilot instead of defending him/her?
Perhaps VFRPB is concerned about bad press we rotary pilots already get. When was the last time a light aircraft incident/accident made national news? Every helicopter incident/accident does... check out the AAIB reports for the ratio of FW to rotary incidents!
Can I share you bunker VFRPB?
PW