Firstly here's my 2 cents worth.
Not to be too nit picky,
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(he is single pilot, no pax)
The Journalist mentions 4 people inside the helicopter.
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AnFI - I don’t know where you get the idea that the pilot in the Australian “LTE” video closed the throttle. Having seen the video many times and used it for teaching: this is news to me.
Me too.
AnFI
In Rio at 23.7 seconds this pilot attempts quite a hard but brief press on the left pedal which results in a small RRPM droop - the horn and buzzer come on
Am I missing something here ?
Where do you get this info from or is it speculation ?
In Summary - Do we have a general consensus on what more than likely happened here ?
Un-arrested right yaw - Caused by lack of left pedal, due to machine weather cocking ?
Overpitching leading to LTE
LTE - due to a quartering tail wind ?
Because to be honest I am stumoed after reading all of this.
Please note: Definitely not having a go or being rude toward anybody here, just looking to learn.
Now to my original question.
How to land at a one way pad, heavy with the wind behind you without getting into this situation ?
(Admittedly if this guy was trying to land downwind he had way too much G/S on.)
Here's a brief run-down.
1.Come to a hover into some degree of headwind element perpendicular to the pad or so.
2.Pedal turn toward pad
3.And very slowly drift in over the pad to land.
Look forward to everybody's genuine input.
Regards
Loachy
