The take off bit starts here.
(Cross post from reddit.com/r/aviation)
Scary stuff,
Rattlegun
Confined area take off.
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- chappo
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Re: Confined area take off.
Bloody oath scary
What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?
- aaron
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Re: Confined area take off.
oh bugga, they were lucky
- Stems
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Re: Confined area take off.
Mate what a wake up call. I’m definitely going to listen more intently to my instructor next time we do turns around the tail and CA departures. What a great reminder to us all.
- hand in pants
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Re: Confined area take off.
And you'll notice not ONE person in the crowd made any attempt to warn the pilot/crew as to what was about to happen and obviously no aircrewman to assist with clearences during the take off.
That kind of job is high pressure and I think I can sympathise with the pilot. He was proberbly composing his resignation as the sat in the paddock waiting to shutdown.
Just imagine how bad it could have been if the tail rotor got the wires and not the main rotor. Roof mounted throttles in the 76??????
That kind of job is high pressure and I think I can sympathise with the pilot. He was proberbly composing his resignation as the sat in the paddock waiting to shutdown.
Just imagine how bad it could have been if the tail rotor got the wires and not the main rotor. Roof mounted throttles in the 76??????
Hand in Pants, I'm thinking, my god, that IS huge!!!!!!!!
- bangequalsbad
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Re: Confined area take off.
hand in pants wrote: He was proberbly composing his resignation as the sat in the paddock waiting to shutdown.
Had THAT feeling before
BUT...
What happened to planning your way OUT before planning your way IN ? Wonder if he thought "S**T, that was tight, I'd better have a walk around on shutdown."?
I was once privy to a lecture by a rescue pilot in a 212 about how he was planning to takeoff from a small country field. He had taxied downwind from the main apron in amongst the hangers to refuel from our depot, and with full tanks and 3 SOB (or is it POB?), he declared his departure was going to be vertical over the trees (and powerlines...and railway lines...and cattle yards.) Helmets, Ray Bans, and gloves all applied, the old dragon was fired into life and the show began. The crewman hung from the door, the power was pulled...and pulled...and pulled...and there she sat, 2ft from the tops of the trees. There was lots of heads moving and lips moving. I'm not sure what the gauges were saying, but all progress had stopped. Then it started creeping forward, and kinda up, to clear the trees by not much.
I had 500hrs.
They had thousands.
I would have suffered the dirty looks and taxied back the way they came in, nodding and smiling at the people complaining about a few tons of downwash, rather than suffer the angst of wondering about all the bad stuff as the machine clawed its way over all that crap.
Pity that 76 pilot hadn't seen the same thing...
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