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Forum: Rotorheads
9th May 2024, 11:55
Replies: 2
Views: 661
Posted By Luther Sebastian

UK AAIB(H) May 2024

AW139 unfamiliar with parking area gets rotor strike on lamp post while being marshalled [edit: wasn’t being marshalled]- link ...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Apr 2024, 10:50
Replies: 0
Views: 812
Posted By Luther Sebastian

AAIB (H) UK April 2024

355F1 right-side doors pop open on sight-seeing flight, precautionary landing. Seems the doors weren’t properly closed, so they closed them properly and carried on. Link...
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Mar 2024, 19:49
Replies: 0
Views: 972
Posted By Luther Sebastian

AAIB(H) UK March 2024

Sure we’ve had this already reported, G-MCGT gets pitch oscillations following selection of Transition Down AFCS SAR mode, but the report is in March’s bulletin: link...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Mar 2024, 20:30
Replies: 1
Views: 909
Posted By Luther Sebastian

Amateur speaking here, and in the UK, but in five...

Amateur speaking here, and in the UK, but in five years I can remember exactly one time when the forecast turned out to be spectacularly wrong, and even then it just meant we had to do the exercise...
Forum: Rotorheads
3rd Mar 2024, 18:20
Replies: 14
Views: 4,582
Posted By Luther Sebastian

Got about 150 hours on the Raven 1 and to my...

Got about 150 hours on the Raven 1 and to my shame can’t remember seeing that behind the flap - if it’s even there on the one I fly. Only ever primed with the throttle.
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Feb 2024, 11:19
Replies: 5
Views: 1,295
Posted By Luther Sebastian

UK AAIB(H) February 2024

Two in the record-onlies:

500 gets engine out at 1000ft AGL, autos and ends up on its side on rough ground. Cause may be mechanical or pilot error.

Gazelle lifts off then big gust hits, rotor...
Forum: Rotorheads
2nd Feb 2024, 15:44
Replies: 14
Views: 2,435
Posted By Luther Sebastian

Looks like I’ll have to book a hotel. Unless I...

Looks like I’ll have to book a hotel. Unless I can work out something with the helicopter rental place.
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Jan 2024, 05:59
Replies: 35
Views: 10,418
Posted By Luther Sebastian

Good point, I might have misread Hughes500’s post.

Good point, I might have misread Hughes500’s post.
Forum: Rotorheads
13th Jan 2024, 18:36
Replies: 35
Views: 10,418
Posted By Luther Sebastian

As far as I was aware, if I’m not an instructor,...

As far as I was aware, if I’m not an instructor, the aircraft can’t have dual controls installed if the occupant of the left seat isn’t a rated pilot. As a PPL(H) I have taken people up, but I’m...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Jan 2024, 18:10
Replies: 35
Views: 10,418
Posted By Luther Sebastian

Here’s another for Jan 2024 - I saw it earlier...

Here’s another for Jan 2024 - I saw it earlier but now they must have fixed the link. Ground handling wheel falls off Rotorway: link...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Jan 2024, 14:28
Replies: 35
Views: 10,418
Posted By Luther Sebastian

UK AAIB(H) January 2024 Welshpool: Passenger given control of helicopter before crash

R-22 dynamic rollover during an air experience trip. Student appears not to have much natural talent. link...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Dec 2023, 14:14
Replies: 105
Views: 19,656
Posted By Luther Sebastian

Now all of THAT, I can agree with. In fact I most...

Now all of THAT, I can agree with. In fact I most frequently fly two up with passenger weight no more than 400lb, and even with full fuel, neither W&B nor power is going to be a problem over the East...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Dec 2023, 06:33
Replies: 105
Views: 19,656
Posted By Luther Sebastian

Really impressed you’ve met every R44 pilot and...

Really impressed you’ve met every R44 pilot and found them wanting at W&B, though strangely I can’t remember meeting you, or you might have realised there was at least one exception. Other exceptions...
Forum: Rotorheads
24th Nov 2023, 10:25
Replies: 44
Views: 7,740
Posted By Luther Sebastian

I remember seeing reported in Pilot magazine that...

I remember seeing reported in Pilot magazine that helicopter pilots tend to the fathers of more girls than boys, accounted for by the effect of vibration on the, er, sweetbreads.
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Oct 2023, 20:44
Replies: 7
Views: 1,440
Posted By Luther Sebastian

AAIB(H) UK October 2023

Hoist hook falls off AW169 during pre-start, a possible victim of ‘procedural drift’ - link (https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aaib-investigation-to-aw169-g-unib) (it’s in inverted commas only because...
Forum: Rotorheads
3rd Oct 2023, 11:33
Replies: 19
Views: 5,202
Posted By Luther Sebastian

Might indeed be a gentle nudge, but bearing in...

Might indeed be a gentle nudge, but bearing in mind the lever arm, could be a good idea to look closely at the boom attachment bolts.
Forum: Rotorheads
3rd Sep 2023, 16:51
Replies: 39
Views: 8,566
Posted By Luther Sebastian

I’ve been getting emails for weeks, then they...

I’ve been getting emails for weeks, then they phoned me up and I ‘explained’.
Forum: Rotorheads
17th Aug 2023, 19:50
Replies: 0
Views: 827
Posted By Luther Sebastian

UK AAIB(H) August 2023

Link to the record-only investigations here. (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/aaib-record-only-investigations-may-june-2023/aaib-record-only-investigations-reviewed-may-june-2023) I don’t...
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Jul 2023, 06:37
Replies: 0
Views: 817
Posted By Luther Sebastian

UK AAIB(H) July 2023

Cabri ‘departs controlled flight’ while approaching to private site. Two fatalities, damage so severe that only possible contributing factors can be surmised - Link...
Forum: Rotorheads
27th Jun 2023, 17:46
Replies: 105
Views: 19,656
Posted By Luther Sebastian

I found it was a significant advantage to learn...

I found it was a significant advantage to learn in something I could later use (taking family and friends up say), which for me meant the 44. There is a lot to be said for 150 hours of familiarity...
Forum: Rotorheads
15th May 2023, 05:28
Replies: 4
Views: 1,722
Posted By Luther Sebastian

AAIB (H) UK May 2023

A109SP arrives at hospital site, but the hospital wasn’t expecting them - Link (https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aaib-investigation-to-aw109sp-g-taas)

Sorry about posting late, I was on a cruise....
Forum: Rotorheads
16th Apr 2023, 08:57
Replies: 58
Views: 5,812
Posted By Luther Sebastian

I have done auto entries in a light-ish 44 on a...

I have done auto entries in a light-ish 44 on a thermally day, and quite often it floats like a competition glider - takes ages for any RoD to appear at all. Not quite ‘bring something to read’, but...
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Apr 2023, 05:16
Replies: 2
Views: 1,464
Posted By Luther Sebastian

AAIB(H) UK April 2023

Just one, in the Record Only Investigations - B206B manouvering slowly to touch down over the pad, TR comes into contact with ‘a CCTV mounting on the hangar’ and round she goes. At least they should...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Feb 2023, 10:54
Replies: 8
Views: 2,298
Posted By Luther Sebastian

AAIB(H) UK February 2023

F280FX lands heavily after TR drive problem, maintenance issue - Link (https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aaib-investigation-to-enstrom-280fx-g-ojbb)

Heating duct failure in AW189, bits of...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Jan 2023, 11:23
Replies: 2
Views: 1,105
Posted By Luther Sebastian

AAIBH (UK) - January 2023

After the HEMS injuring someone in his back garden reported a couple of months ago, now we get a 206 landing at Usk Lighthouse and blowing a poorly-secured sign into a waiting passenger - link...
Forum: Rotorheads
9th Jan 2023, 06:29
Replies: 9
Views: 2,280
Posted By Luther Sebastian

Didn’t expect them to say it was noisier. The...

Didn’t expect them to say it was noisier. The big takeaway for me is, I’ve been pronouncing it wrong all these years (FENestron rather than fenESTron).
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Nov 2022, 11:27
Replies: 20
Views: 4,325
Posted By Luther Sebastian

AAIB (UK) H November 2022

HEMS 169 making a standard confined area departure, downdraught at decision point causes flying debris in a garden below injuring a bystander - Link ...
Forum: Rotorheads
2nd Nov 2022, 23:39
Replies: 1
Views: 946
Posted By Luther Sebastian

G-MCGT AW189 AFCS software fault

Apologies for the fascinating title, but just found this on the AAIB website - selection of transition down mode of the AFCS causes unexpected pitch oscillations in an AW189. July 2021. Link...
Forum: Rotorheads
2nd Nov 2022, 22:37
Replies: 80
Views: 24,677
Posted By Luther Sebastian

Update on the story (serve me right for posting...

Update on the story (serve me right for posting so early, it didn’t have pictures at 6am when I first came across it): link (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63478147)
Forum: Rotorheads
2nd Nov 2022, 06:02
Replies: 80
Views: 24,677
Posted By Luther Sebastian

November 2nd 2022 - BBC report heli down in Wales

Crash in woodland, four taken to hospital - Link to BBC story (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63478147)
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Oct 2022, 08:11
Replies: 11
Views: 2,423
Posted By Luther Sebastian

UK AAIB(H) 2022 and Record-Only Investigations

Apologies for falling down on the job, but for the last year or so I thought the Record Only investigations presented at the bottom of the monthly bulletin only concerned UAVs. Some of the titles...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Sep 2022, 11:39
Replies: 39
Views: 8,566
Posted By Luther Sebastian

Majority of the stands were for drones /...

Majority of the stands were for drones / associated tech. Ex-Sikorsky guy I spoke to (we had time for a nice long chat, thoroughly enjoyed it) gave me to understand that they wouldn’t be back. No...
Forum: Rotorheads
19th Aug 2022, 12:11
Replies: 39
Views: 8,253
Posted By Luther Sebastian

The NTSB are political appointees, not the same...

The NTSB are political appointees, not the same as being recruited for their technical expertise.
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Aug 2022, 13:55
Replies: 0
Views: 851
Posted By Luther Sebastian

UK AAIB(H) August 2022

A109C can’t stop right yaw on short final, heavy landing - here (https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aaib-investigation-to-agusta-a109c-g-hbek)

Rotorway Exec 162 exhaust fire, rolls over after auto -...
Forum: Rotorheads
24th Jun 2022, 07:32
Replies: 18
Views: 5,686
Posted By Luther Sebastian

AAIB (H) UK - serious incident report June 2022

HEMS MD900 parked on the pad for several hours in heavy rain, random electrical problems on the subsequent flight due to water ingress. Landed uneventfully.

Link: here...
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