This little gem of a video has appeared recently. I leave others to pass judgement

JetRanger (over) torque turn.

I personally have sweaty palms after watching that little one.
Wow...he judged it well Huh ?

NOT !

PS - The passenger bit was a tad unthoughtful I thought.

In my time with the AAC i have done a few run on landings but that was, well, erm wow.

OH MY GOSH!!
Just lucky the pilot levelled the ship. Still, what a ASS***E anyway, especially with pax.

Wow!!!!.........HMMMM

If you look closely at the point of touchdown, you can get a view of the tail boom flexing!..have a look also at the coning angle !!

Im glad the spectators thought it was funny! I hope he got his @SS kicked for that!....i bet thats the last helo ride for those pax!

Oh...if anything good advert for Bell of the ruggedness of their ship! but im sure they would have found a few things to look at anyway!

Don't think the landing was intended. He just ran out of airspace due to him doing the wingover exit downwind. Watch the windsock in the last part of the clip. A big no-no if your are going to do this that low. I am sure someone in there needed a pants change after that

Does anyone know if he intended the landing?

Thomas Couplings doing what they were intended to do I guess.

I agree with oryxs, he simply ran out of airspace to recover.
Fortunately he was 'skids level' when he hit.

I witnessed the exact same maneuver, but using a b47, in front of a small crowd like that, but unfortunately it didn't end so happily for the two onboard.

This guy was lucky. VERY lucky.

And if he'd been on high skids.............




Ohlsdorf: little place near Hamburg?

...err, no John I don’t think so.
I know a little German (he lives down the road) and apparently Ohlsdorf is German for Dic*head.

The touchdown was surely unintentional, the result of his lack of understanding of how to do that kind of maneuver. The impact was gentle, as measured by the skid deflection, which was small (a few inches) and not permanent. The tail cone oscillation is big, but actually at the high end of normal (try it on the ground, and see how it bounces when you shove on it.)

One lucky guy, who really did nothing to earn that luck, judging by his first pass, which was so low it was actionable all by itself.

In any descent maneuver like that "torque turn" the pilot should never still be in a true maneuver state as he approaches the ground. Display pilots know that you just exit the upper maneuver and stabilize the descent, then smoothly fly down to the desired pass altitude with virtually no G on the aircraft. This guy was still in his pullout trying to avoid the ground when he touched. Very bad technique, not likely to turn into a habit!

I found Ohlsdorf - as far as I know it is not an other word for ****. It is in Austria.
Ohlsdorf "Airport"

It is the "airport" of a modell airplane club. That guy did his stunt on a runway for radio controlled airplanes. That probably explains why the runway was smooth enough that nothing happend.

In the long run it will probably save lives if the FOCA of Austria revokes the license of that pilot.

It is totally , utterly unfair, that Pilot treats his 206 like a childs toboggan,

where I would pamper it , and wash and polish it at least once per week, and keep it pristine for the days when the sun was shinning, ready to get off some where exotic,

well I can dream, can't I

What a pratt of a pilot, some one , one day will buy that HELI,

Vfr

Hmmmmm

several VERY lucky people in that machine.

Can anyone translate the commentary, which seems to miss the gravity of what is going on. A gnat's cock lower in that recovery and there would be a lot of high energy sharp bits of 206 amongst the onlookers.

What an utter dork

Oddly enough I flew this JetRanger in the early days of its history in Austria...seeing this...no comment...man this could have gone wrong badly. Thanks John for your input...

There is an Oz media pilot who did a similar move when he was in the army - in front of the General - and rolled it up big time. He left the army soon afterwards.

The commentary tells more or less how good the pilot is:
"It shows how far the pilot can go, he touched the ground with the skids."

Na, that guy did not realise how close they where to an absolute tragedy.

I really wonder what happend to the pilot afterwards.

Am I the only person that thinks this is an Radio Controlled (albeit rather large!) helicopter?

When I first looked at the clip, my first impression was that it was certainly a large RC ship. But after a few more viewings, I wasn't so sure.

But then someone says it takes place at an RC field. Too much coincidence for me.

The pitch rate of the fuselage when it touches the ground seems to high for a real JR. I believe the real thing would have more inertia, slower reaction rate, and probably sink further into the ground, etc. Also, the occupants just look too, well, fake.

I've seen a clip of a F-14D RC model that you'd swear was the real thing, and the clip started at TAXI !! It was flying from a scale airport, right down to the taxiway signs. But, after carefully watching the motion, you could tell it didn't weight 100klbs.

Reminds me of the old "Sea Hunt" scenes that were filmed in a pool with little models.

Of course, if it is, then the crazy person is anyone standing that close to a huge unmanned skilsaw !

HOSS

HOSS,

That film has the right scaling and the right sound effects, I'm gonna bet it is quite real.

if that guy had crashed, which i think we can all say we are suprised he didn't, then that would have been one other example of how the public would see helicopters as a menace. hopefully, the owner of the machine or the appropriate authority would ban that sh*&head from ever flying again.
i get asked to do hammerheads from stupid customers all the time and i have always refused. i don't have the right to fool around like that with someone elses machine and certainly not with pax on board, even if they are morons.