Very weird 206 crash video Langley BC 20 May 2021
So going vertical is more expensive (fuel and engine stress), plus it puts one into a dead mans space, too high to land in one piece and too low to autorotate. Got it, trades one set of risks for another.
Not just "more expensive", because in many cases, the aircraft has power for an In Ground Effect (IGE) hover and transition to forward flight, but not enough for Out of Ground Effect.(OGE) or OMG.
It would count as a flight “from the moment the rotors start to move for the purpose of flight to the moment they stop”
Took off with HYD deselected? From my memory, apart from the position of the switch that isn’t 8n your immediate sight line, there is no other indication that HYD is selected or not until you lift into the hover and realise you need more effort than you expected with the resultant over controlling.
Only a guess.
Took off with HYD deselected? From my memory, apart from the position of the switch that isn’t 8n your immediate sight line, there is no other indication that HYD is selected or not until you lift into the hover and realise you need more effort than you expected with the resultant over controlling.
Only a guess.
If the HYD was off, the pilot would feel the feedback in the cyclic and the hugely increased effort in raising the collective - I doubt that anybody with a milligram of brains could try to yank it into the air without realising that the hydraulics were off.
Ascend, you are assuming everyone has common sense there ( if sense was common then everyone would have it ) I have seen quite recently a pilot get in a 206 on my home airfield and start his 206 up with the rear tie down still done up ! So I wouldn't put it past anyone to take off with hydraulics off
I'm going to cut the guy some slack on the basis that no qualified pilot could accidently wreck a serviceable helicopter in the way we saw that helicopter wrecked in that video. There must have been something seriously whacky with that helicopter which was outside the competency of any pilot to do something to change the outcome. For the life of me I can't think what that might be, other than the passenger yanked on the flight controls unexpectedly.
Media reported:"after undergoing maintenance", in an earlier post. One would think that the ground run part would include trying small control movements and looking for the correct rotor response ( assume one can move the pedals on this model before starting the engine and confirming that control input is free and properly phased. Then, before getting energetic about getting up and away, lift it to just skids beginning to break ground and again, small control inputs, after which a very slow lift to a low hover and repeat the control inputs etc. Not what the video shows, but then again, perhaps something went amiss as they were just slowly lifting and the result was beyond their ability to perform any corrective action. Test flights following maintenance have to be treated very carefully.
Ascend, you are assuming everyone has common sense there ( if sense was common then everyone would have it ) I have seen quite recently a pilot get in a 206 on my home airfield and start his 206 up with the rear tie down still done up ! So I wouldn't put it past anyone to take off with hydraulics off
I personally partially blame mobile phones for a lot of it, too distracting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTyJV8czKBU
Is this some crazy visual illusion, or is that thing spinning clockwise? The video doesn't appear to be reversed or mirrored, the tail rotor is on the correct side, the leading edges seem to point counter clockwise as they should. Any theories what is going on here? Media says this happened "after undergoing maintenance".
Is this some crazy visual illusion, or is that thing spinning clockwise? The video doesn't appear to be reversed or mirrored, the tail rotor is on the correct side, the leading edges seem to point counter clockwise as they should. Any theories what is going on here? Media says this happened "after undergoing maintenance".
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Media reported:"after undergoing maintenance", in an earlier post. One would think that the ground run part would include trying small control movements and looking for the correct rotor response ( assume one can move the pedals on this model before starting the engine and confirming that control input is free and properly phased. Then, before getting energetic about getting up and away, lift it to just skids beginning to break ground and again, small control inputs, after which a very slow lift to a low hover and repeat the control inputs etc. Not what the video shows, but then again, perhaps something went amiss as they were just slowly lifting and the result was beyond their ability to perform any corrective action. Test flights following maintenance have to be treated very carefully.
reflight! Preflight! Preflight!. If it's coming out of maintenance review the record and talk to those who did the work.
Part of the (my?) cockpit set up prestart checklist is run the controls through as much of their range as you can, watch the rotors change position appropriately.
The 206 cockpit is narrow, so one can't really 'wipe' the cockpit with the cyclic, but you can check for full and free movement of the pedals and collective. Full right pedal, open the door and lean out to look at the T/R blades for appropriate pitch.
The normal post start included checking that one could isolate the hydraulic system from the pump and the change in control effort is obvious. I can't remember if the controls moved to their trim position in the 206, but one would move them to assure that you could.
A guess as to why this aircraft crashed? A yank and bank gone wrong?
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sure looks to me like the left skid toe catches something as they start up. If you play it slow I believe i see the skid deforming a bit down at the same time the ascent is suddenly arrested.
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Probably not relevant but I seem to remember from my years ago on 206s, that it is possible to fit the main gearbox support links the wrong way round, as they are handed, and this can affect the handling when collective is pulled. It is however a memory from way back.
We also had a pilot who complained that the aircraft took off as he rolled the throttle up, so one of our engineers went out and took the collective clamp off and put the lever down.
We also had a pilot who complained that the aircraft took off as he rolled the throttle up, so one of our engineers went out and took the collective clamp off and put the lever down.