Umm,...I just don't know what to say?

[r22butters]

[Wally]

Uh.- yeah, that's a heads-cratcher alright. A little more confusion for you????:

 

CAAN carrying out preliminary investigation of Simrik Air’s incident at Grande Hospital

Posted on Jul 1 2018 - 10:36am by S Karki

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Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) examined the crash site and has started the preliminary investigation of the Simrik Air’s AS350B2 Helicopter that crash landedat Grande Hospital’s rooftop helipad yesterday at around 2:45pm local time.

The helicopter with registration ‘9N-ALR’ crash-landed while approaching to land at the rooftop helipad and fortunately, the single occupant of the helicopter pilot Hareram Thapa escaped without any injury. After successfully airlifting a patient from Charikot to Grande, the helicopter was again on the way to Bharatpur to evacuate another patient after refueling at TIA and was landing at the helipad to ferry the medical team.

Simrik Air on its press statement thanked Nepal Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force, fire fighting team, security officials from Hospital and all others involved in the timely rescue operation.

“Simrik Air is always standby at your service and assures that its normal operations shall not be obstructed by any means owing to this incident. We would equally like to thank you all for your concern and cooperation throughout”, says the company.

[Eric Hunt]

The aviation reporters over there are taking lessons from ours - "on approach to land??"

[Nearly Retired]

I'm with Butters on this one; I don't know what to say either. In an Astar, the *right* pedal is the "power pedal" - without a tail rotor the chopper would spin uncontrollably to the LEFT. But this one spun to the right. And spun...and spun. What gives, Mr. Pilot? Were you asleep in there? Get rid of that tail rpm/rotor thrust and it will stop spinning! And I think that was, like, your...umm...job.

[TailEndCharlie]

Who hasn't had one of those dreams that you're falling? His just happened to be real when he woke up. Lol!!!

[takefootoff]

Ain't Nepal in a tropical climate? Remember seeing this article a while ago;

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/warm-weather-makes-it-hard-think-straight/

[Thedude]

I'm with Butters on this one; I don't know what to say either. In an Astar, the *right* pedal is the "power pedal" - without a tail rotor the chopper would spin uncontrollably to the LEFT. But this one spun to the right. And spun...and spun. What gives, Mr. Pilot? Were you asleep in there? Get rid of that tail rpm/rotor thrust and it will stop spinning! And I think that was, like, your...umm...job.

Maybe it’s the video frame rate playing tricks on me but it looks like the rotors are spinning to the aircraft’s left. Also at around 17 seconds in the tailrotor appears to not be spinning.

[Nearly Retired]

Frame rate illusions. If the tail rotor weren't spinning there's no way that thing could be yawing to the right.

[Whistlerpilot]

Ive landed on the Grande Hospital rooftop pad many times. Its a very slippery steel deck, there is virtually no ground friction. Hareram is not very experienced and probably doesnt know that neutral pedals is not flat pitch. In order to have no tail rotor thrust an Astar pilot must push left pedal 2 cm past neutral pedal. Hareram probably landed and held some collective for a few seconds. Then he lowered collective but didnt push left pedal forward. On normal pads dirt concrete etc the Astar has friction and doesnt spin. Obviously he froze and didnt do anything once the spin started. Full down collective and full left pedal should have stopped it but if not then shut engine off and he wouldnt have continued to spin off the roof. He was lucky to go that way, all the other sides are 12 story fall to the ground.