And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wet steel decks have no friction to keep the bird from sliding off a rolling and pitching deck, and civilian ships' pads are seldom coated with non-skid like military flight decks are. The net provides a better surface to keep the helo in place.
The reason they really don't like using nets anymore is because of the chance of hooking a skid into one. They've caused a crash or two that way. I haven't seen one used on a rig since around 1990. This does look like operator error though, unless he had a malfunction in the drive train.
What’s the purpose of the net? …. To restrain or secure the craft in turbulent seas..??
ReplyDeleteWet steel decks have no friction to keep the bird from sliding off a rolling and pitching deck, and civilian ships' pads are seldom coated with non-skid like military flight decks are. The net provides a better surface to keep the helo in place.
DeleteSomebody needs a couple of more flying lessons.
ReplyDeleteThe reason they really don't like using nets anymore is because of the chance of hooking a skid into one. They've caused a crash or two that way. I haven't seen one used on a rig since around 1990. This does look like operator error though, unless he had a malfunction in the drive train.
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a tail rotor failure or a stuck control pedal.
DeleteGood call; it looks like the tail rotor is about 1/3 speed at the end.
DeleteWhacking it on the flight deck probably didn't improve its functionality.
DeleteSome lucky dudes in that exercise in fubar!
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DUCK! That would have been a closed casket funeral for sure.
ReplyDeleteDude almost got the Vic Morrow treatment.
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