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I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb. I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
That is pretty cool. How do the turbines handle all the sand?What a pile of dust for the poor buggers on the ground when the bird powers up.
I never liked landing when I couldn't see the ground, but I'll bet F-18 Hornet pilots don't like a night trap on a CV either...just part of the job
What a pile of dust for the poor buggers on the ground when the bird powers up.
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are. Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!
Quote from: Flyin6 on July 05, 2015, 11:00:05 PMI never liked landing when I couldn't see the ground, but I'll bet F-18 Hornet pilots don't like a night trap on a CV either...just part of the jobWhen you were "in", did you ever have any ambitions to fly a fixed wing rocket like the 18/15/16? Apologies if it's sacrilegious to ask a helo pilot that :DSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Really awesome video. Thanks for sharing it! I have to believe the guys attaching that cargo sling at night with that bird right above their heads had a pretty decent pucker factor going on. :o And I imagine every bit as bad for the pilots trying to keep it steady!
Cool stuff D. I particularly liked the aggressive maneuver where the nose went down, and the tail went up, and pivoted around the nose and then dropped back down. Hard to imagine something that big being that maneuverable.
Quote from: TexasRedNeck on July 07, 2015, 05:00:31 PMCool stuff D. I particularly liked the aggressive maneuver where the nose went down, and the tail went up, and pivoted around the nose and then dropped back down. Hard to imagine something that big being that maneuverable.Very maneuverable and agile stuck out to me. I didn't realize these big birds were that agile. That turn was something else. Also liked the tail dropping of the men, I know there is a real name for this. Got to be a handful parking the rear end and still flying the front. I know Don has talked about some of the spots he's dne this.
One day I have an Apache escort...Regular Armee guys. They are escorting me while I go in to do an extraction of some SF dudes. I maintained my airspeed until I was almost overhead, then did that maneuver, then flared hard enough to stick the aft gear on the ground then lowered the thrust until the front wheels touched. All that in the span of a few seconds. The apache guys thought I had just crashed! So the SF dudes hop on and like 10 seconds, while the Apaches are coming back to see if I crashed, I pulled pitch and come out of that LZ like a rocket. I gave the code word and they tucked in on me as I accelerated to around 160 knots, but they couldn't keep up, so we slowed to 150 or 155, can't remember.
please explain the green ring at the edge of the blades under NVG's
One question D. So dropping the tail on the the mountainside LZ with the nose in the air....there has to be a calculation (mental or otherwise) of the angle of the mountainside, the angle of the craft and how far back the blades spin past the tail to keep you from chopping rock with the blades.How does that work?
I'm not sure that answered my question, or I am not commanding the english language well.When the LZ is on the side (sloping part of the mountain) and you put the ramp down on that slope, it seems like the blades get awfully close to the mountain and at some point the mountain would be so steep as to contact the blades if you guessed wrong.
How do they judge that slope to know, "oh yeah, I got this"?
Exactly, but I have seen vids of just that, spec ops guys being put out on the downslope with the tail rotors awfully close to the ground. How do they judge that slope to know, "oh yeah, I got this"?