This question asks for information about gear extension on a landing shown in a Youtube video. We already have a general question about lowering the gear and the new one covers essentially the same ground but for one specific flight. Should we allow/encourage these questions, with the risk that w...
(or my standard answer: A helicopter proved that all such mechanical contrivances are inherently unstable flying deathtraps. No sane person would get in one!)
I don't think I'd call it a crash - a "landing incident" sure
looks like everyone got the hell out of the way before it could chop any people up, sot that's a good thing :)
(also, seriously? When it started sliding down the hill people didn't run?! Are people STUPID?!)
@Farhan it looks as if he already powered down, getting the rotor spun back up and trying to takeoff would have made that a much more dangerous situation
@Farhan ...which one? (I declined a bunch of spurious copyright things, the only one I think I zotted was the Larsen comic because he is pretty explicit about "I'm not licensing this stuff for online use")
((which is kinda ridiculous - it's like the Napster BAD logic that was disproven when shared music actually had more people buying albums, but whatever...))
I don't think I ever explained my flag-handling/moderation style: "Completely arbitrary an capricious: If you don't like the result flag again 24 hours later and the random number generator may give you a different answer" :-)
But I know (from experience) that if I call the Coast Guard to report a foundering vessel they're going to want my latitude and longitude to the nearest minute, and I assume CAP would work the same way: Any other location info I give gets put on a chart and converted to D/M/S (? any CAP folks around?)
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@voretaq7 If you're missing something then I'm missing it too. If you're circling overhead then your fix is going to be pretty accurate, at least from the point of view of a professional S&R team that often has much less to go on
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