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Old 25th Sep 2014, 11:51
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Originally Posted by mdovey
In this case, however, I just can't work out what the pilot was trying to do or why.
I'd suggest: Plenty of power (3 up) to showboat with a towering take-off and climbs without problem. At 12s - 13s he throws it around with large nose down attitude (still showboating), causing machine to start to sink. Already at high-ish collective, pulls more to arrest descent. Change of direction and possibly now downwind exacerbates situation leading to low-time instinctive response of pulling even more collective. Horn starts at 16s and sings all the way to impact as he tries to straighten the ship and level wings to get any ground effect he can from that glassy surface whilst working out how he’s going to get that RRPM back without dumping the collective at this late stage in the game. Very sad that he took two others to their watery grave in the process.

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