#14
SInce faulty under carriage is not an isolated incident, why not make an emergency landing area for helicopters mandatory at larger airfields?
Fixed wing aircraft are provided for with under and over shoot areas, at great expense.
A few tyres pre-positioned in the corner of a field isn't asking a lot?
Design ideas for such a facility?
The German Army used to have this in hand 25 years ago for their CH-53s. They had piles of mattresses kept on the airfield. Buckeburg, I think.
In RAF Pumas we used to carry a "sandbag plan" made of fabric sheets and tapes which could be laid out on the ground and piles of sandbags laid thereon, according to the instructions with it and which gear had failed.
In the Cold War we had sandbags everywhere but I suppose they aren't so common these days. Failing that we would land on the crewman, Eh Baldrick?
