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Post by nm on Feb 18, 2008 19:08:01 GMT 1
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Post by nm on Feb 18, 2008 19:21:21 GMT 1
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Post by nm on Feb 18, 2008 19:23:35 GMT 1
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Post by eric on Feb 18, 2008 22:42:28 GMT 1
Have you see this one? I stood on the ski slopes of Couchevel last year and watche this myself....with my jaw in the snow!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFzP9CRFdWw&NR=1Trust me, it looks even worse when you are watching it for real!
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Post by nemesis on Feb 19, 2008 1:22:02 GMT 1
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Post by Mark on Feb 19, 2008 1:37:53 GMT 1
That mountain strip has gotta be a really difficult approach. It only takes a gently down slope to fool you into approaching too high (I used to have a PPL, long since expired), or a gentle up slope to make you approach too low. I'm guessing that they don't allow untrained casual fly-in visitors there. Nem's Piper video is a brilliant approach. Awesome pilot !! Here's what it looks like from the inside uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sH4sQ5iwVDY&NR=1
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Post by nemesis on Feb 19, 2008 1:50:49 GMT 1
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Post by Mark on Feb 19, 2008 2:32:46 GMT 1
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Post by nemesis on Feb 19, 2008 12:12:30 GMT 1
Oh yes, that's a classic. Talk about an ego prob, lol. The guy actually though flying a helo was easy and decided to show his friends that anyone could do it. What a loon.
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Post by nm on Feb 19, 2008 12:57:15 GMT 1
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Post by Achtung!! on Feb 19, 2008 13:28:47 GMT 1
Or after everyone has found out that Nem & Nap actually had baked beans for lunch.....
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Post by swanrail on Feb 19, 2008 13:48:03 GMT 1
I used to be a manager of a training film production unit, and one of our jobs was to produce a set of videos for RAE Bedford. This was to show evacuation tests from an aircraft, and involved about 100 volunteers who were paid a few pounds per day. For this, the situation was made very realistic, including use of smoke to fill the cabin, and several got hurt. It was interesting to see in a real panic sitiuation, some "passengers" actually climbed over the seats to get out - very dangerous but understandable!!! The film also highlighted the effectiveness of the aisle low level lighting, without which passengers would have been disorientated. These videos were scientific tests to try and improve emergency exits in relative safety!
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Post by swanrail on Feb 19, 2008 13:55:30 GMT 1
Re the helicopter crash, in my youth i attended the AST unit at Hamble, where I was trained to be a radio officer. Alongside us, there was the air training school itself, designed to take students, mostly foreign, from scratch upto commercial pilot level status. At weekends, persons such as myself were allowed to take the place of the usual sandbags to get a flight, over Southampton. It was the first time that I had flown (in a Dakota DC3). While I was there, AST decided to start helicopter courses, which at that time were unheard of in the UK. So they bought 3 helicopters from the USA, transported by liner into Soton docks. Within a week, all three had been written off!! First one, the student started up inside the hanger and hit the roof! The second one got 50 ft off the ground, and then for some unknown reason the student turned off the fuel supply switch! The third lasted a bit longer but came down too heavily. Luckily, no one was hurt, only their pride!!!
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Post by Achtung!! on Feb 19, 2008 21:23:29 GMT 1
I think the word that best sums up all this
"DOH!!"
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Post by eric on Feb 21, 2008 17:17:11 GMT 1
Just had some interesting chats with a couple of freinds. One is an Airline pilot, the other is an RAF Tornado avionics tech. Both fully agree that the aircraft would take off as normal on the treadmill, regardless of how fast the treadmill went backwards. The RAF chappie put it like this; if you were jogging on a treadmill, you do not move forward.......but if somebody standing beside you put his hand on your back and gave you an almighty shove, you would shoot forward....and that is how the thrust for the engines work, they shove the aircraft forward throught he air, regardless of what is happening to the treadmill. Sorry to bring THIS one up again but I was so pleased when they argeed with me, that I had to say something! (I promise never to mention it again)!!!!! HONEST!
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