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Old 10th Mar 2009, 20:54
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flyer43
 
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Oviously repaired as it was sold by BHL in 1983 & is still flying in France as F-GDPD.
In fact it had to go through an even greater repair scheme in 1981. In the very early days of my time as a commercial instructer, I let my student impose substantial damamge to that helicopter at the end of a practise EOL!
Windsheer at about 150ft caused a dramatic increase in the rate of descent - yours truly reached for controls at same time as student applied very harsh flare, putting tail rotor through the ground! The rest of the ride was quite exciting!
I still have the largest remaining piece of the tail rotor as a momento.
And to save any of you out there the effort, it was entirely my fault - a case of leaving things just that little bit too late! However, we both survived. I did another 3 years basic instructing and my student completed his CPL/H.
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