Guardis civil helicopter incident

[Vertical Freedom]

From post #20...that style of Rescue in the Himalayas is an SOP nudging in on Your right side with your rear door open is fine, good view & good escape options.... I'd never toe in

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Gedney - I would expect that he only has a very light contact with the ground such that he is essentially in the hover rather than having landed - this would allow lateral cyclic and the most minimal addition of collective to effect a flyaway, even if he dragged the skid a bit towards the cliff edge.

Try doing the same thing with both skids in contact when the only option is a rearward movement - not impossible but much more difficult.

I agree a winch-equipped aircraft would be better but many countries don't have that facility either by choice or necessity.

[tistisnot]

SilsoeSid

I'll bite ...... "The rule only applies when the sound represented is ‘ee’. It doesn’t apply to words like science or efficient, in which the –ie- combination does follow the letter c but isn’t pronounced ‘ee’.

Neither does the rule apply to any word without the ee sound, even when there is no c involved, such as foreign, feign, beige, forfeit"

[SilsoeSid]

Thats weird, what species are you tistisnot?

[tistisnot]

SilsoeSid ...... Purveyor of Pedants, perhaps?

[helisdw]

Crab and Megan - thank you for your replies.