TC Bo105 Fatal Accident & the Cold Water Survival Problem
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TC Bo105 Fatal Accident & the Cold Water Survival Problem
In a recent thread, cold water survival in the Gulf of Mexico in the winter has been discussed. http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/176...ml#post9208485
More extreme is the challenge in the Canadian Arctic. A lot of lessons can be found reading a TSB report on the loss of a Transport Canada operated Bo105 doing ice reconnaissance from a Coast Guard ship.
Canadian Coast Guard Helicopter Accident: CFIT, Survivability and More - Aerossurance
More extreme is the challenge in the Canadian Arctic. A lot of lessons can be found reading a TSB report on the loss of a Transport Canada operated Bo105 doing ice reconnaissance from a Coast Guard ship.
Canadian Coast Guard Helicopter Accident: CFIT, Survivability and More - Aerossurance
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From: Escrick York england
In a recent thread, cold water survival in the Gulf of Mexico in the winter has been discussed. http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/176...ml#post9208485
More extreme is the challenge in the Canadian Arctic. A lot of lessons can be found reading a TSB report on the loss of a Transport Canada operated Bo105 doing ice reconnaissance from a Coast Guard ship.
Canadian Coast Guard Helicopter Accident: CFIT, Survivability and More - Aerossurance
More extreme is the challenge in the Canadian Arctic. A lot of lessons can be found reading a TSB report on the loss of a Transport Canada operated Bo105 doing ice reconnaissance from a Coast Guard ship.
Canadian Coast Guard Helicopter Accident: CFIT, Survivability and More - Aerossurance
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From: In the Alps
Sounds like it was not really necessary to fly low over water, altitude is your friend. A radalt would have helped as well for maintaining a minimum altitude, but the report doesn't say if the machine was fitted with it. The giant d*ck mounted on the front was for sure not helping.
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Just the thinking that a Mustang floater suit is in any way, shape or form the same as a full anti-immersion suit is ridiculous beyond belief.
If it does not have booties, cuffs around wrists and a neck seal, it is a floater suit. Even the poor SARtech that perished in the Fox Basin, had an immersion suit and HE survived for 8 hours before he succumbed...
I unfortunately fly over water lots in the arctic, without immersion suits available, but I refuse to wear a mustang suit...
But yes, low flying over glassy surfaces did no one a favor that day.
W.
If it does not have booties, cuffs around wrists and a neck seal, it is a floater suit. Even the poor SARtech that perished in the Fox Basin, had an immersion suit and HE survived for 8 hours before he succumbed...
I unfortunately fly over water lots in the arctic, without immersion suits available, but I refuse to wear a mustang suit...
But yes, low flying over glassy surfaces did no one a favor that day.
W.
