This is one scary flight! (movie)

Tom Viper posted this on R/C Groups
I just want to share it with the Eco community [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
This movie really freaks me out, I imagine myself in that thing, what would I do???

http://members.aol.com/copterjok/helocrash.wmv



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PILOT HAD PURCHASED THE AIRCRAFT RECENTLY AND WAS LEARNING TO FLY IT. HE WAS SCHEDULED FOR HIS FIRST FLIGHT LESSON ON THE DAY OF THE ACCIDENT. THE CFI REPORTED THAT HE HAD TOLD THE STUDENT PILOT TO WAIT FOR HIM AND NOT TO TOUCH ANYTHING. WHILE WAITING FOR THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR, THE NON ROTORCRAFT RATED STUDENT PILOT STARTED THE AIRCRAFT, RAN IT UP TO FULL RPM, AND THEN BEGAN TO INCREASE THE COLLECTIVE PITCH CONTROL. THE HELICOPTER CLIMBED VERTICALLY TO A HIGH HOVER AND THE PILOT LOST CONTROL. THE PILOT STATED THAT HE HAD NOT RELEASED THE CYCLIC FRICTION BEFORE BECOMING AIRBORNE. THE PILOT INDICATED HE HAD ABOUT500 HOURS OF FLIGHT TIME BUT DID NOT SPECIFY THE TYPE AND NO SUBSTANTIATION OF THE TIME COULD BE MADE.

[Radd]

And Lets see?...Hum?...I wonder what this red button does?..AHggggggg....well I guess it's not bad flying for a three year old.....No! on second thought my son isnt that stupid..."wait a minute!!!! that's the guy that wanted to fly my chopper last weekend.....Yea! he said it looked simple...I wondered where he went!

[Fredrik W]

It is better to be down here wishing you where up there, than being up there whising you where down here.

I wonder if he ever tried a flight sim? It sure doesn't look like it.

As they say, " whatever goes up, must come down, it's the how that counts".

[Bejay]

Pilots also say "any crash you walk away from constitutes a landing".

Buzz

[BertVK]

I can walk away from ALL my RC landings!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]