BHS - CHC in Brazil S92 recent event
I was talking about BEFORE the excitement!
It was a good recovery AFTER the excitement!
It was a good recovery AFTER the excitement!
When you stop the video at 0:09, there is no damage in the drive shaft area. So I suggest, that the tailboom blade strike occured during the hard landing. That would explain, why there was no spinning of the helicopter.
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The guy in front of the helicopter at the edge of the helideck also gave handsignals short prior TR contact, but then preferred to duck for cover...
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MR Strike, TR Strike, Horizontal fails from TR vibration as it doesn't seem to have hit anything.
Heavy landing etc etc. Write off I would say.
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Get out the barge pole.
Heavy landing etc etc. Write off I would say.
Registration noted - PR-CHR - SN 920112.
Get out the barge pole.
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At least two of the MR bladetips are looking undamaged, so i presume that there was no MR contact with the structure, just one or two blades flapped into the tailboom.
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Question for those who regularly fly long distances offshore - when something like this happens how the hell are they going to fix it. Obviously have to get new blades out there and I doubt its a 5 min flight to where it is. Do you just strap some spare 92 blades to the side of another 92 ??
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Question for those who regularly fly long distances offshore - when something like this happens how the hell are they going to fix it. Obviously have to get new blades out there and I doubt its a 5 min flight to where it is. Do you just strap some spare 92 blades to the side of another 92 ??
Good spot! I'd turned my attention away. Looks like the drive shaft must have finally disconnected in the last few moments because the TR is clearly being driven initially and is not slowing down on its own.
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With little or no wind we approach at as close to 90 degrees to the deck heading as we feel comfortable with. Either seat pilot is fully capable of landing the aircraft within limits. I'm very curious about the reasoning behind this approach.
[QUOTE=S76Heavy;9743102]Why would you come to a hover anyway except when already well within/over the aiming circle? I don't fly the S92, I fly something quite underpowered so we aim to fly Cat A to the deck. But not hitting solid objects takes preference over complying with the power requirements if we get it wrong.
With little or no wind we approach at as close to 90 degrees to the deck heading as we feel comfortable with. Either seat pilot is fully capable of landing the aircraft within limits. I'm very curious about the reasoning behind this approach.[/QUOTE
I just thought that must have been the plan as the aircraft appeared moving right into the camera frame.
We usually have the pilot with the best view of the helideck do the landing so in this case that would have been RHS.
I have no idea what the reasoning was in this case.
With little or no wind we approach at as close to 90 degrees to the deck heading as we feel comfortable with. Either seat pilot is fully capable of landing the aircraft within limits. I'm very curious about the reasoning behind this approach.[/QUOTE
I just thought that must have been the plan as the aircraft appeared moving right into the camera frame.
We usually have the pilot with the best view of the helideck do the landing so in this case that would have been RHS.
I have no idea what the reasoning was in this case.
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