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Title: How does this even come close to happening?
Post by: tweeter55 on March 09, 2018, 05:24:10 PM

http://youtu.be/qHMhsD8OFCs (http://youtu.be/qHMhsD8OFCs)

Title: Re: How does this even come close to happening?
Post by: MAN OF BLUES on March 09, 2018, 05:25:50 PM

Quote from: tweeter55 on March 09, 2018, 05:24:10 PM

http://youtu.be/qHMhsD8OFCs (http://youtu.be/qHMhsD8OFCs)

fixed for you...
http://youtu.be/qHMhsD8OFCs (https://youtu.be/qHMhsD8OFCs)

Title: Re: How does this even come close to happening?
Post by: maxtog on March 09, 2018, 05:33:02 PM

"helicopter violence"

Title: Re: How does this even come close to happening?
Post by: gPink on March 09, 2018, 06:44:55 PM

A waiting period would have prevented that.

Title: Re: How does this even come close to happening?
Post by: Rubber_Snake on March 09, 2018, 10:15:45 PM

How anyone wasn’t killed in that is remarkable.

Title: Re: How does this even come close to happening?
Post by: Nosmo on March 10, 2018, 12:01:37 AM

Preflight checklist:

1) Prior to starting helicopter, remove head from anus.

Back when I was an A&P mechanic, one place I worked at was at King County Airport near Seattle.  The local medi-vac helicopter company shared a hangar and ramp space with one of the TV station news choppers.  I witnesses several scenarios that came within a few feet of the same thing.  One day a news chopped came in in a hurry and almost landed on top of a medical chopper that was taxiing out with a patient onboard.  Missed by about ten feet.  One of the med chopper mechanics was taxiing one of their aircraft to their maintenance hangar, turned a corner too close and chewed the corner off a neighboring hangar with the main rotor.

The expression "$4it" happens was invented for helicopters.

Title: Re: How does this even come close to happening?
Post by: mikeyw64 on March 10, 2018, 03:25:27 AM

Quote from: Nosmo on March 10, 2018, 12:01:37 AM

Preflight checklist:

1) Prior to starting helicopter, remove head from anus.

Back when I was an A&P mechanic, one place I worked at was at King County Airport near Seattle.  The local medi-vac helicopter company shared a hangar and ramp space with one of the TV station news choppers.  I witnesses several scenarios that came within a few feet of the same thing.  One day a news chopped came in in a hurry and almost landed on top of a medical chopper that was taxiing out with a patient onboard.  Missed by about ten feet.  One of the med chopper mechanics was taxiing one of their aircraft to their maintenance hangar, turned a corner too close and chewed the corner off a neighboring hangar with the main rotor.

The expression "$4it" happens was invented for helicopters.

I think that should be "pre landing" checklist rather than " pre takeoff"


1) Check Area Clear
2) Leave enough room
3) Land

Title: Re: How does this even come close to happening?
Post by: Conrad on March 10, 2018, 07:39:30 AM

Wow! The second pilot should lose his license for being so damned stupid. Obviously, the crew prepping the chopper on the ground placed it in the wrong position and there was no room to land as normal, the pilot should have been aware of this and either waited or landed with one skid on the grass.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nzx-jhuQE0o/UG2bRDS8aaI/AAAAAAAAHuY/MoyUOQUUsuE/s1600/+dk-barney.jpg)

Title: Re: How does this even come close to happening?
Post by: sanmo on March 11, 2018, 11:33:58 AM

The video would have been more complete with a NASCAR style slugfest between the pilots.  :(

Title: Re: How does this even come close to happening?
Post by: B.D.F. on March 11, 2018, 12:12:06 PM

I think most of that will buff out.....

Look at the bright side, if it does NOT buff out, two more sales for some helicopter manufacturer. My mother always used to say "It is an ill wind that does not blow someone some good.". There should also be some added work for the people who paint the numbers on the tarmac, for the paint mgf. and supplier ('cause those numbers have to be bigger, obviously), training time for helicopter pilot instructors, helicopter maintenance people instructors, etc., etc. ad nauseum. And it all goes into the US GDP bottom line.... so I, for one, say 'Well done, Pasadena Police, for providing this unexpected and gratuitous boost to the American economy!'.

Brian

Quote from: tweeter55 on March 09, 2018, 05:24:10 PM

http://youtu.be/qHMhsD8OFCs (http://youtu.be/qHMhsD8OFCs)