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Old 17th Oct 2012, 19:37
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Nubian
 
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Grenville Fortescue,

Before you go on and send your recommendations to the CAA.

Ask yourself this:

Did this accident happen due to the:

1. Nationality of the helicopter?
2. The maintenance state of the helicopter?
3. The pilots lack of loggbooks, papers etc.??

OR

4. Did this happen due to one individual pilot, which disregarded CURRENT rules and regulations, and flew past his capabilities, became disoriented and killed himself???

The pilot in question would have done the EXACT same thing with a G-reg'ed machine..

This is the same argumentation as it was in the Colin Mcrae thread a few years back.
Then it was also a big focus on the ''papers'' of CM, incl. logbooks, but it WASN't why he crashed. His machine was G-reg'ed...


Businessmen, rally-drivers etc. and other ''Championes'' or successful people(not ALL ofcourse), which gets their license and a helicopter, tend to being used to being very good at their respective occupations/hobbies and automatically think that counts for them while flying as well.

The problem here is: ATTITUDE towards flying and awareness of own capabilities.

Just for the record, there are some pilot's out there with all the papers in order, flying both Private and Commercial, aircrafts with correct papers and in good conditions and are accidents waiting to happen due to this.

As JTobias nailed above:
Let's not forget, that the LPC only demonstrates that the pilot is competent at that exact moment, and does not have any bearing on the flying style of the pilot when an examiner is not on board the aircraft.

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