r22butters Posted December 15, 2016 Report Share Posted December 15, 2016 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1712767739038692&id=100009164475697&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Foriginalforum.justhelicopters.com%2FDisplayMsgJH.asp&_rdr They say this is fake over at the other forum? I kept waiting for disaster to strike! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pokey Posted December 15, 2016 Report Share Posted December 15, 2016 that's not the dumbest thing i'v ever seen nor heard about. This one pilot extraordinaire, had a stuck valve in his 300 & needed to get it on trailer, so? he found 4 similar idiots, two on each side and he gave it all he could get out of 'er and the 4 maroons provided the additional lift to get it onto the trailer---wish it would have been caught on camera. this next one? well i don't know what i would have done if i was the student--how about you?... Upon their 300 setting down, the rear cross beam failed at a point where their cart wore it thin. The instructor informed his student to get out and put his shoulder midway down the tailboom so he could land 'safely',,, the student did as instructed and it had a happy ending. (personally? i think i would have waved bye-bye to the instructor from about 50 yards) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM_Coder Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 As far as I know the video is real and circulated first among Brazilian pilots because it was recorded somewhere in Brazil. That's pretty obvious for a Brazilian pilot because of the 44's callsign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r22butters Posted January 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 The link's working again, cool! If it is real the next question is, why'd he do it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM_Coder Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 The link's working again, cool! If it is real the next question is, why'd he do it? Just to say to everyone "Look mom, how I'm cool!". Despite parking a chopper like this is quite an achievement (keep it steady with so little room and a lot of confined turbulence requires a lot of skill), it's ultimately a risky, pointless thing I would never try to do, even if I thought I was up to the task. I was tempted, for a moment, to call this "idiotic", but maybe this would be harsh on at least some professional aerobatic pilots that most likely started doing things out of the book that would be equally labeled "idiotic". Likewise, some accomplished car racers participated in illegal street racing before becoming pros. Hard to judge. But ultimately I think this procedure was wrong, I would never allow it to be done with/within my property (be either the chopper or the place). Nor I would encourage anyone to try something like this. Cheers! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 "Despite parking a chopper like this is quite an achievement (keep it steady with so little room and a lot of confined turbulence requires a lot of skill), it's ultimately a risky, pointless thing I would never try to do, even if I thought I was up to the task." What he said. A wall of any height changes the flow from the rotor significantly. Sometimes it manifests as little randomness in flow, sometimes it changes the power demanded to hold the hover. I can only guess at how a ceiling that close above the disk would modify the rotor flow. No way, especially with a semi-rigid rotor. The worst occurrence I've had hangaring with ground handling wheels was knocking the anti-collision light off the vertical fin. Just not worth the risk hovering in, whatever you're hangaring to protect against is small potatoes compared to what happens when you hit something with a rotor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam32 Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 I would do it going forward but I don't know about backwards! The guy in the Italian Job with the black MD500 did much worse lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helonorth Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 There was a sheriff's office that started up in a hangar and tried to fly it out. It pulled down the insulation and years of accumulated dirt and debris down into the rotor system. I wish I could find a link. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heliflyknow Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 I think there is such a thing as ceiling effect, when I fly my RC copters inside and they get close to the ceiling they get sucked up to it. I can't imagine what could/would happen in an inclosed building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM_Coder Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 I think there is such a thing as ceiling effect, when I fly my RC copters inside and they get close to the ceiling they get sucked up to it. I can't imagine what could/would happen in an inclosed building.Hey, I'm not the only one that also flies (or more precisely, in my case, used to fly) RC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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