tivopro
Senior Heliman
Location: Stockton, CA
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Well Mr. PaulGT3:
I could have simply blamed Align for making lame tail assembly gears that seperate/pop off during flight, but I manly stood up to blame my flying over water as a possible prime suspect. I don't recall anyone or flight training courses advising pilots not to fly over water. The only thing I recall is not to fly during a rainstorm, and since it was a very pleasant sunny and warm morning, found it to a helicopter pilots liking.
If I missed some policy along the line somewhere of not flying near water, then it was obviously not published where helicopter pilots could easily see it or find it. <G>
Now that you mentioned where you fly, shouldn't there be a policy about flying in the desert where dust and grit could easily be sucked into your motor/blades and cause a crash? I know there have been a many accidents in the Gulf wars of helicopter crashes due to the dusty enviroments, but not many crashing due to splashes in water unless shot down.
I will definately be in touch with your club secretary as I'm a club secretary too and will see if this policy your advising of should go down in the record books. Thanks for the advice!
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