Wow! The tail on the water from cyclic climbing, mast moments ouch....
This type of work is fun and easy for inexperience to suck you in, as it looks to be the case.(Hopefully)
Ive covered these types of jobs with rescue divers and Film crews before from height and very low (all under company and CP approvals)
Try to aviod them these days as they can shorten my life... Wont go into detail.
As for old mate flying and trumatising spectators, im sure he had enough moments in there to open his eyes up, if not maybe study your flights on utube,
"Dam internet, cant do s#!t these days"
An old pilot said to me one day "Tell the photographer to get in a boat if he wants to get that low"
He also added "Choppers arn't ment to fly at night... Night time is for drinking and rooting Chicks" not relevent but great excuse to shutdown at sundown..
That old pilot still learks around on here at times.
GF some what concerned for inocent bystanders??
GF out
Hmmm... R44s racing in the Southern 80 now?
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Re: Hmmm... R44s racing in the Southern 80 now?
There is always an option.
- Bedouin Prince
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Re: Hmmm... R44s racing in the Southern 80 now?
godfather007 wrote:An old pilot said to me one day "Tell the photographer to get in a boat if he wants to get that low"
He also added "Choppers arn't ment to fly at night... Night time is for drinking and rooting Chicks"
I love both of those philosophies.
A good one that I think I read on here and have used in the past is if the photographer is hasseling you then when they're not looking wind the altimiter down so that when they ask again you can say, "see, we got lower", without the need to actually decend lower than you're comfortable with.
I'm a pessimist, that way I'm either always being proven right, or pleasantly surprised.
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Re: Hmmm... R44s racing in the Southern 80 now?
Wow, some pretty polarized views here. 1) Even if CASA had approved it to be that low...when was the last time that lethargic burden to the professional pilot have done anything right? 2) Either end of the shaded area (low+slow or low+moving) require exceptionally high levels of skill, or the same amount of luck, for emergencies to be completed without certain death. 3) As for a helicopter even being the best form of transport to film the event...a nice camera on a hot boat would have probably done the trick. 4) No matter how impressive the TQ turn and hover may have been, nobody will remember that the day it all goes BANG and you roll up. and 5) (Unfortunately) The 44 flying backwards is faster than a 206 with the doors off.
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