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re: Aircraft down in GOM (Dec 29, 2022)
Posted on 12/30/22 at 1:44 pm to choppadocta
Posted on 12/30/22 at 1:44 pm to choppadocta
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Yeah frick that rope swing. Did it once to go fix a broken aircraft on a toadstool. The seas weren't even that rough but that boat was pitching up and down and left and right like you wouldn't believe probably one of the most dangerous things I've ever done and this is coming from someone who has thousands of hours flying in helicopters, including the engine failure to Auto rotational landing
Rope swing?
Try jumping off a Zodiak inflatable hull onto a round hull submarine in the middle of the Indian Ocean
This post was edited on 1/3/23 at 9:53 am
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Posted on 12/30/22 at 2:01 pm to Cajun75
quote:Someone missed the Q thread by
Could all of these 'copter crashes be related in some way to the sabotaging of power plants and food processing plants happening across the country? I'm sure there are a number of wackos who would like to hurt the O & G industry any way they can.
That much.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 2:37 pm to choppadocta
quote:2 is 1 and 1 is none.
as well as the "twin engine aircraft are safer" line of thinking that has come about. Single engine aircraft have been in the GOM since the piston engined Bell 47's used by PHI way back in the day. I dont buy it myself. Yes you have 2 engine redundancy, but now you are twice as complex, with double the moving parts. And the two engines still feed into 1 main transmission and rotor system and one tail rotor system.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 2:42 pm to Traveler
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Not true. The LG was down. I saw the video and the pictures. And, as mentioned, it was a AW139.
That flight crew did a phenomenal job. It wasn’t a text book emergency and it’s a credit to the two pilots.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 2:45 pm to chew4219
Manufacturing defect caused that AW139 incident. Hats off to the Pilots for getting that one right. No Emergency Procedures existed for their problems that day,
Posted on 12/30/22 at 2:46 pm to Tigeralum2008
quote:zodiac?
Kodiak
Posted on 12/30/22 at 2:50 pm to Tigeralum2008
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jumping off a Kodiak inflatable hull onto a round hull submarine
Done that and I've done the rope swing onto a rig... both will equally make your a-hole clinch
Posted on 12/30/22 at 2:51 pm to choupiquesushi
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Kodiak
Ole baw was riding on a can of dip....my hats off.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 2:56 pm to choppadocta
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Main rotor system developed from the OH-58D
They got that design right from the start. They learned from all the mistakes made on the first gen 412 M/R/H & M/R/B and weren't going down that road again.
This post was edited on 12/30/22 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 12/30/22 at 3:03 pm to Traveler
Oh so you know about that stacked rotor head and what a nightmare it was.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 3:15 pm to choppadocta
I know the story very well. It was an interesting and hectic time to be in FT Worth to say the least.
This post was edited on 12/30/22 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 12/30/22 at 4:08 pm to choppadocta
quote:
Manufacturing defect caused that AW139 incident. Hats off to the Pilots for getting that one right. No Emergency Procedures existed for their problems that day,
I’m well aware and had 1200 hours in that airframe.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 4:28 pm to jpainter6174
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The coast guard released a picture of the "debris" it appears the helicopter departed from the skids since the floats were deployed and you can see the skids.
Bird is upside down under the skids and floats. That’s why they flip you over in the pool during HUET training.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 4:41 pm to redstick13
I don't think so. How are you coming to that conclusion?
Posted on 12/30/22 at 4:44 pm to redstick13
Posted on 12/30/22 at 4:45 pm to Traveler
Normally that is the case and why HUET trains for it. However I think in this circumstance the body parted from thr skids, hence why they can't recover anyone.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 4:51 pm to all_over_it
Looks like a rotor blade just under the water to me. If it is then it’s still attached to the fuselage.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 4:56 pm to redstick13
Then they would have found the personnel and recovered. But they found debris
Posted on 12/30/22 at 5:07 pm to redstick13
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That’s why they flip you over in the pool during HUET training.
I couldn’t sleep the night before I did that training because I was so nervous about that. LOL
It really wasn’t that bad though
Posted on 12/30/22 at 5:08 pm to redstick13
If the fuselage was still attached to the cross tubes you would definitely see it and the fact the cross tubes are so high in the water means there’s no weight holding the floats down.
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