Flying Bull Cobra landing went wrong
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Originally Posted by Good Vibs
Of course.
But no matter what type of helicopter you are flying if you must get very close to an obstruction you have someone standing there to quide you.
Guess you've never done confined areas in Canada either.....
Originally Posted by Good Vibs
Of course.
But no matter what type of helicopter you are flying if you must get very close to an obstruction you have someone standing there to quide you.
Guess you've never done confined areas in Canada either.....
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Point is, though - someone could have been marshaling the heli in this particular instance and obviously wasn't.
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Marshalling, getting close to obstructions, blah, blah, blah. This guy had an entire airport to land on. This was no confined space operation. There was absolutely no reason to get that close to that structure. He couldn't walk an extra 10 feet or drag a fuel hose an extra 10 feet? Or 20 feet?
What am I missing?
Throwing myself under that same bus, mind you, as there is a hangar that I regularly land at where I tuck close in order to minimize effort pushing the ship down an alley into a side door. Maybe time to reassess that behavior...
What am I missing?
Throwing myself under that same bus, mind you, as there is a hangar that I regularly land at where I tuck close in order to minimize effort pushing the ship down an alley into a side door. Maybe time to reassess that behavior...
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He couldn't walk an extra 10 feet or drag a fuel hose an extra 10 feet? Or 20 feet?
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Or make some special edition cans out oft the aircraft's aluminium, maybe add some diluted all-natural cobra venom instead of the taurin, and sell them at an auction.
Should get in enough money to sponsor adequately long fuel hoses for that airfield (if they aren't in place already).
Two other low flying RedBull pilots messing things up
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An complete fark up.
As other posters have said, there is a whole airport and even the huge apron out the front of the hangar to land. Marshalling!.....spare me!.
Pure and simple the guy just Fkd up!. Deal with it.
As other posters have said, there is a whole airport and even the huge apron out the front of the hangar to land. Marshalling!.....spare me!.
Pure and simple the guy just Fkd up!. Deal with it.
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It is only pure luck and blessing at none of the bystanders got injured with flying bits and pieces of that big heavy blade.
see this video here, close call
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHCbGmsuX4s
see this video here, close call
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHCbGmsuX4s