Let he who be without sin cast the first stone! I think I might want to dig through my box brownie pics and cast a few away....maybe even burn some video stuff. Nope, not me....uh uh....nope never done anything like this.....not once!
Putting all the emotion aside....."just how does one explain to a civil jury in the United States, whacking a pedestrian on the noggin with a rotor blade?" All of the explanations I can come up with make me shudder to think how they would be received....particularly when the plaintiff's counsel starts passing around all the nice pics seen so far on this thread. Combine that with the written testimony and depositions......errr...chaps....I hope Mr. Tinny has a whole lot of liability insurance coverage for I fear he is going to discover what the wages of sin are. He probably could come up with some nice sounding stories for a crash following an engine failure or tail rotor failure but I dare say....this is going to be one very interesting explanation.
You can ignore the rules, regulations, SOP's, OPS Specs.....but you must never forget the liability you will have when it comes to court. Juries just love to give away your hard earned money. Our fellow helicopter pilot probably had the purest of motives here and except for the minor detail of getting a head in the program.....would not suffer too many dire repercussions from the FAA......although that in itself begs more than a few idle questions.
We will surely have to wait for the female rotund mound of sound to bugle before we know just how **** fares in all this. He might want to keep his Resume' up to date I fear.
Last edited by PedalStop; 11th September 2002 at 21:25.