(Not) a good weekend for training!

[eoincarey]

erm yes, it would be the same sherburn that had a ground incident a while back.
Was up at sherburn today for a bit of plank flying, got shown a piccy of the r22 in question.
Sorta looks like a toy helicopter put in a blender.

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Question was this flight under instruction, or self fly????

[come in copper 1]

I was informed by a friend of mine that flies with the same company that is was a self fly hire with 2 POB.
Again from what I as told, it was dynamic roll over, but that has not been confirmed.

Good thing is that they both walked away, bad thing is that this is the third chopper to be damaged in a month from the same company.

The R44 from the last incident was beyond economical repair, so I have been informed.

Oops

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Keep it level!

[eoincarey]

I can confirm this was 2 self fly hire PPL's doing a bit of practice together. Not sure bout dynamic rollover, Mike in the flying club told me that he saw it just tip backwards and sink like a stone
Mind you, im f/w, and really dont know what the hell "dynamic rollover" (other than what I gleaned from a brief look in a textbook)!

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[somethinggood]

First on scene of accident

Hi there,

Just to clear things up.....I was at the accident..........two people involved.....both got their HPL's so no training was involved.

Pilot said that a gust of wind cought them.....blew them backwards.....skid possibly dug into ground......boom hit ground.....blades chopped through boom.......etc. Both people okay.

A lot of R22's crash cos there are a lot of them in the air.....not due to mechanical failure or any fault of the machine.