Originally Posted by
SASless
HC,
If a Pilot in Command of a Passenger carrying helicopter has developed a mindset such as you have suggested possible....there is something sadly missing in his Helicopter Pilot DNA!
Imagine the guy realizing things have gotten all pear shaped and very dangerously close to the water....with a high rate of descent showing....alerts going off in his Ears....the Copilot telling him about too....and the SOB would first think through whether his abrupt raising of the Collective might cause the SLF to complain or question what happened?
You cannot be serious?
You reckon those same Passengers who wind up in the water because of his indecision might be prone to file a slight objection?
Like TM, you dismiss a possible human factor without proposing any other explanation. Rather negative, but of course such ideas don't fit your Vietnam vet mindset.
Regarding your last sentence, it seems you are proposing that such a possibility is not investigated lest it upset some of the passengers who ended up in the water. Surely you are demonstrating EXACTLY the mindset to which I am referring. I'm surprised you can't see it.