Skids Up Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 "95% OF ALL ACCIDENTS HAPPEN DUE TO THE PILOT TRYING TO EXCEED HIS OR THE AIRCRAFT CAPABILITIES" Don, I want to borrow that for my newsletter! Can I??? Keith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmac Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 Keith: Go ahead, you can even make up the placards. Remember to give HEPAC credit. Don PS: I think Rick was with me at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bullet Remington Posted July 15, 2008 Report Share Posted July 15, 2008 I've been reading and everyting has been duly noted. Unfortunately I can not comment or offer an informed opinion yet (I am not a pilot yet but I want to be a safe pilot) and I am very curious. What is a DG? Thanks for you help. Murdoch DG = Directional Gyro. Common practice taught is that you set that thing to the Boy Scout Compass every 15 minutes. The Boy scout compass must be swung every 12 months and its accuracy recorded. Kinda like fornicating using a condom with a hole in it. You get a false sense of security while you're getting screwed. IFR guys MAy uise the DG and boy scout compass. Everybody else in the working world uses IFR as well. ( I follow roads) and a GPS - some MAy use a map. but the map users are getting fewer and far between! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murdoch Posted July 17, 2008 Report Share Posted July 17, 2008 Thanks Bullet. I appreciate the explaination. All of it. Funny though, I was in a military surplus store yesterday looking at a pair of coveralls with two clips on the left thigh and I thought that would be perfect for holding a map.... Murdoch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bullet Remington Posted July 17, 2008 Report Share Posted July 17, 2008 Thanks Bullet. I appreciate the explaination. All of it. Funny though, I was in a military surplus store yesterday looking at a pair of coveralls with two clips on the left thigh and I thought that would be perfect for holding a map.... Murdoch Murdoch; What you were looking at is a Military flight suit! And those litlle clips are made for holding maps. Gps is now used by eberybody! map reading is or was part of the flight training. Fewer and fewer people use maps, if fact a lot of pilot don't even carry maps!! While i do have a couple of GPS I won't fly without a map. If I get a power failure, The map, and pencil will still work!! PLUS, there are a trucload of 'rules of thumbs"for navigation by map reading. Ruke of thumb for GPS??? Turn it on!! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splitpin Posted July 21, 2008 Report Share Posted July 21, 2008 I've been reading and everyting has been duly noted. Unfortunately I can not comment or offer an informed opinion yet (I am not a pilot yet but I want to be a safe pilot) and I am very curious. What is a DG? Thanks for you help. Murdoch Directional Gyro. Something to do with Pilot stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elvis Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 WTF????? IDENTIFICATION Regis#: 24HM Make/Model: B47G Description: 47D/G/H, Trooper (OH-13 Sioux, TH-13T, U Date: 07/24/2008 Time: 0522 Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N Missing: N Damage: Unknown LOCATION City: JUNEAU State: WI Country: US DESCRIPTION PILOT WAS STRUCK BY ROTOR BLADE UPON EXITING THE HELICOPTER, JUNEAU, WI INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 1 # Crew: 1 Fat: 1 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: # Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: # Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: OTHER DATA Activity: Unknown Phase: Other Operation: OTHER FAA FSDO: MILWAUKEE, WI (GL13) Entry date: 07/25/2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
67november Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 the story so far is he picked up to check weight load and set it down cause it was to much, exited and was struck by a blade, as to which one (main or tail) was not released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamp76 Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 What's Causing Our High Helicopter Accident Rate ... perhaps........apathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bullet Remington Posted August 3, 2008 Report Share Posted August 3, 2008 perhaps........apathy That could be true, Swamp! Alot of people are getting or have been suffering a severe case of apathy,. Probably because until something happens to them, it seems like it can only happen to other folks. I've been tring to dispell thge apathy around here, but it having been working! I'm getting to the point now that i don't really give a crap!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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