I read about the limitations concerning speed and bank angle in the FLM. What puzzles me most -beside the fact of the accident itself- is, that even pilots with that amount of knowledge -and i guess it is without a doubt to say that he was fully aware of the limitations- still get caught out that badly.
I do not think there are too many people around doing that kind if flying at about 75ft AGL (
) but it reminds you in a drastic way of how fast things can go pear-shaped.
In case it was Siegfried (Siggi) Hoffmann i saw him in another video (BO105 - The flying tiger) and was amazed about what he (heard it was him) did in low level flight - in a forest - with the rotordisc one or two feet above the ground (i guess the trick is not to use more than 30 degrees bank angle flying that low but i am not even rated on type).