Ageing Choppers Near Disaster Over Glastonbury
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Ageing Choppers Near Disaster Over Glastonbury
From today's Wail on-line. Royal Navy Lynx helicopters came within 50ft of crashing at 92mph because they 'couldn't see properly through night vision goggles' | Mail Online
Thousands of hippies could have been frightened!
Royal Navy Lynx helicopters came within 50ft of crashing at 92mph because they 'couldn't see properly through night vision goggles'
* Near-miss over Glastonbury, Somerset, was caused by old equipment
* Crash averted by seconds when crew member took violent evasive action
* Report: 'Serious incident that could potentially have ended with fatalities'
* Near-miss over Glastonbury, Somerset, was caused by old equipment
* Crash averted by seconds when crew member took violent evasive action
* Report: 'Serious incident that could potentially have ended with fatalities'
Er, no. No excuse for running into trouble with even the old gen NVGs. Some great lines have been fed to the reporter there and a lot of what he has written in surprisingly good for the Mail.
To pick up on a couple of his points, NVGs have a narrow feild of view, you just have to move your head. Traffic warning systems - let's all have TCAS, it would really help in war. What has the Super Puma crash in August to do with this? I thank the reporter for the list of other, unrelated helo incidents.
Not very impressed.
To pick up on a couple of his points, NVGs have a narrow feild of view, you just have to move your head. Traffic warning systems - let's all have TCAS, it would really help in war. What has the Super Puma crash in August to do with this? I thank the reporter for the list of other, unrelated helo incidents.
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Should have bought a ticket like everyone else, bloody Navy cheapskates
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Interesting that one pilot reprted inflight vis as 10km, the other one 25 km.