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Old 15th October 2008 | 03:54
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Pilot DAR
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During very closely supervised confined area training, when landing with the rotor disk about 7 feet from a tree, you're watching the disk very carefully. You really have a hightened sense of clearance, when the mentor pilot tells you that a blade strike on even to smallest of branches requires a $135,000 inspection and mandatory replacement of parts.
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