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Old 27th Nov 2010, 04:02
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Brian Abraham
 
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The 'report' (does it deserve that title?) makes no mention of what the effect of the coupled flight director might have been, or even if it was coupled at the time of the impact. Although I imagine they would have been 2-Cue if coupled, they could have been 3-Cue and it would have been pertinent to explore the effect that would have.
One of our chaps had a bird hit the top of the windscreen divider (glass screens) which only knocked the fire handles out of the detents, of course that dropped both generators off line, which means no helipilots. I can only imagine having a cockpit full of flying plastic and bird remains, and perhaps a crew member knocked unconscious, as happened to a 206 pilot at night over Chicargo (had a stab system and woke up an unknown time later and able to resume control). Argument for helmets and visors "down" here?
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