Hover checks and clearing turns

[trim it out]

Originally Posted by Marly Lite

Why didn’t your loadmaster clear above and behind? What’s the point of a clearing turn if you have crew who can do it?

Probably because the loadie was in the Herc not the heli

[SLFMS]

Originally Posted by albatross

In this age of everyone posting video of their every flight on various helicopter sites.
Whatever happened to hover checks and clearing turns before departure?
Seems a lot of folks just yank it off the ground ( a darn good way to roll over ) and commence an immediate combined pedal turn and nose down attitude and depart.
They are also doing commentary on the flight will doing this.

Oh didn’t you know, it’s not Cool to just yeet and go?
😉

[The Nr Fairy]

The late lamented Mike Green taught me a very valuable lesson in clearing turns. Generally pretty good about doing them, except when I was tired after spending an hour as a student instructor, and came to a hover after the last circuit of the sortie.

I spot turned right to head back to the spot a few hundred yards away, only for Mike to gently place his hand in front of the cyclic and point out the Twin Squirrel on very short finals, now in my 2:30 o'clock but which would have been in my 5:30 when I came to the hover. I got a gentle chiding in the debrief and had to make Leon a coffee for that one...

[maeroda]

AW139 after lifting:

All Green
No warnings
Flight Instruments Normal
PI
Target PI

Now you guess from what company's SOP this hover check comes from?