PSP Pass-over Pisses on Pre-game Party Pandemonium
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Nah. Wagner doesn't scare OSU people. You gotta go deeper into their psyches.
Happy Valley types, though? Hmm ...
Of course, I'm basing that on a sample of one individual.
i love the smell of tailgate in the morning... smells like.... fail.
cheers,
sirhr
cheers,
sirhr
Still amazes me how those whirly birds can stay aloft with such slow rotors......................
It has something to do, I think, with something akin to the reason that helicopters have Jesus nuts. Rotary-wing aviation is a matter of falling forward gracefully and keeping the faith. Although, that would have been a terrible autorotation.
They operate off the principle of FM. Freakin' Magic!
Learning to teach the theories of rotorcraft flight (both ground knowledge and actual flying) was one of the hardest and yet most enjoyable parts of all of my flight training. But yeah, it's dark magic all the way. Attachments
One of my favorite photos about autos is attached.
As to the nature of the OP. This would likely fall under the perveiw of 14 CFR 91.13 "Careless or reckless operation," and 91.119(a) regarding altitude restrictions. LEO or not, the pilot both put persons/property at risk of injury or damage from rotor downwash, and also operated in a manner that would place persons or property at risk of undue hazard in the event of a power unit failure. I haven't looked up the H/V curve of the Bell 407, but I'm fairly confident that an auto from that height would be more or less unsuccessful from the standpoint of the aircraft occupants getting away unscathed, and would be downright lethal for several individuals on the ground. Somebody's gonna get their peepee whacked!
Attachments
One of my favorite photos about autos is attached.
As to the nature of the OP. This would likely fall under the perveiw of 14 CFR 91.13 "Careless or reckless operation," and 91.119(a) regarding altitude restrictions. LEO or not, the pilot both put persons/property at risk of injury or damage from rotor downwash, and also operated in a manner that would place persons or property at risk of undue hazard in the event of a power unit failure. I haven't looked up the H/V curve of the Bell 407, but I'm fairly confident that an auto from that height would be more or less unsuccessful from the standpoint of the aircraft occupants getting away unscathed, and would be downright lethal for several individuals on the ground. Somebody's gonna get their peepee whacked!
LMAO at the patch ... "To ground level, and below!"
Hahaha, awesome! Maybe I should get a patch made that says that in smaller letters just below Buzz, in place of the unit number!
Hahaha, awesome! Maybe I should get a patch made that says that in smaller letters just below Buzz, in place of the unit number!
Glory is forever,
Skids are wear items,
And chicks dig scars.
It's all fun and games until you suck a piece of tarp or a Dixie plate into the intake. I worked with a pilot who damn near died when he sucked a styrofoam tray into the intake on a 206B. He had just enough power to do a semi-controlled fall to earth and walk away.
Yeah, I could just see that happening with a poncho or a shelter half. Poetic justice here would have been a PSU beach towel.
Nevermind the intake (though obviously an engine "failure" is bad enough), but how about either rotor system! You wrap a tarp around the swashplate or any of your pitch links and you basically lose any ability to control the aircraft or raise the collective to cushion your "landing." To quote Russell Peters, "Somebody gonna get a-hurt a-reeeeal bad!"
Yep. It's kind of amazing how many things can go wrong with a plane and still land safely. All it takes is a very minor oops with a helicopter and shit comes apart real quick.
Having done more vertreps from the deck of a tiny ass cutter that was pitching, rolling and bobbing than I ever care to I can say with 99.103% certainty that I hate fling wings!
Only way to fly, IMO. I'll get my stuck wing add-on eventually because they're WAAY cheaper to rent for pleasure flying, but helis will always be better to me!
It amazed me how many of the helicopter pilots I worked with that had never bothered to get their fixed-wing add on.
I was working on both tickets at the same time (didn't finish either of them) and would share fixed wing time with them. I can still hear our CFII screaming "AIR SPEED! AIR SPEED! AIR SPEED!" when the helo jocks were shooting an approach.
I can also still hear the endless stream of "I'm gonna die" profanity from the rotor-wing pilots as they took their lives in their hands teaching me to hover.
