r22butters Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
METT-TC Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 That ball cap while walking under the rotor gave you a twitch? It does me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionHeart Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 So.... they just yell real loud? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolftalonID Posted January 15, 2017 Report Share Posted January 15, 2017 Love that tail strike on pick up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM_Coder Posted January 16, 2017 Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 Despite the tail rotor is reasonably protected, such tail strike is an unacceptable event during a instructional flight, that the CFI *must* prevent by all means. I thought that it was always this way, but this video shows otherwise. How things changed over time. Nice video anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBuzzkill Posted January 16, 2017 Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 We struck the tail all the time in flight school with nothing happening other than a scraped up tail stinger. Learning to take off, hover, do autorotations, etc. I trust the IPs at Fort Rucker to know what they're doing... It's different when it's the government's dime I guess. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam32 Posted January 16, 2017 Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 The stinger is there for a reason...not just to walk into doing your pre-flight... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM_Coder Posted January 16, 2017 Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 Maybe there's a cultural difference here. The only thing I can say for sure is how I was taught, but of course this is not necessarily the "right" or the "best" way at all. The stinger is dubbed here as "snitch", ready to point a finger on the last person who flew the bird and happened to do a tail strike. I didn't know this was a local thing. Well, in the end, both approaches work, as any trained pilot is supposed to never contact the tail to the ground anyway. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r22butters Posted January 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 What that dude did was nothing, a mere tap! You want a tail strike here ya go! ,...still like to know why they aren't wearing headsets? When he goes solo it looks like there's couple hanging up behind them,...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo828 Posted January 16, 2017 Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 That will buff right out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam32 Posted January 16, 2017 Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 It's Oklahoma...that's how they til the land before planting season... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
500F Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 That ball cap while walking under the rotor gave you a twitch? It does me. I've seen it many of times. I've done it a few times, but always had my hand on it. The only time I've seen a hat come off was from people standing 20-30 feet away when the helicopter pulled pitch. In the case I saw it take a tumble it went down and away, but I'll be in the right situation it could get into the vortex and come up into the rotor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
500E Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Not doing up the seat belt clip is a big nono buckle moving about in the works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Hunt Posted February 12, 2017 Report Share Posted February 12, 2017 What is wrong with it? Student didn't get a thumbs-up before entering under the rotordidn't hold his cap while under the rotorinstructor wasn't guarding the collective while student clambered over itstinger strike = stop the flightcap wasn't keeping the sun out of his eyes, but let the camera see his steely-eyed stare OKsolo wasn't solo, as the cameraman was on boardstudent left aircraft with engine running, but luckily the weight-on-seat switch turned it off for the Wings Presentation Luckily I learned to fly in 1969, when colour had been invented. Wouldn't like to fly under grey skies all the time, I like a bit of blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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