Davy07
Review the video and read the accident report, which quotes the pilot:
"The pilot told Safety Board investigators that he had made his approach downwind due to noise abatement concerns and set it up with left turns in mind. He said he entered his downwind leg from offshore at 1,000 feet msl and airspeed of 110 knots, and gradually began to descend and slow his airspeed. As he neared the base to final turn point, he noticed that he had misjudged the winds in the area and he found himself "slower and lower than he wanted to be." He said that as he turned final at 75-100 feet agl, he perceived that he was in a settling with power condition. He said he immediately applied left pedal to turn the helicopter back into the wind, but the helicopter continued to descend, so he applied more collective and heard the low rotor rpm horn come on just before he contacted the ground. The pilot stated that the helicopter "hit hard" and sprang back into the air. He said he followed the left turning tendency of the helicopter with the cyclic and lowered the collective to get the helicopter back on the ground.
The pilot later told FAA inspectors that he "misjudged the winds, and ended up down wind, low and slow.
The pilot said that after the accident the winds were out of the east about 25 knots."
The only mention of an engine failure is on this thread!
P1
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