If you forget the strobes in night IMC, it will mostly be a large, large irritation. If,however you forget to douse an old rotating beacon, the red spot sweeping the cloud cannot be resisted. I don't care if you're Lindberg himself, you WILL chase that red spot. You will not forget it there after.
Carrying passengers for hire at night without an IR? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's illegal.
For fixed-wing it is. I don't see anything about it for rotorcraft, so perhaps I'm wrong.
The media are generally run by idiots. They love a good hero story and a pilot who dies while not taking out a slew of people on the ground are generally going to be hailed as a hero regardless of the decisions that got them into their predicament.
Even in that weather I don’t necessarily see a problem. Weather mínimums in class G airspace for helicopters are 1/2 mile and clear of clouds during the day. I have flown in similar weather numerous times in a less capable VFR only helicopter without issue or anxiety. It boils down to pilot ability and knowing where you are. I think he could have been fine there in that weather had he stayed over the water. Once you start throwing tall buildings that extend into the clouds you start to have problems.
Helicopter weather mínimums in class G are less than fixed wing as stated above.
I don’t know why the FAA would say this. Legally he looked okay per 91 minimums, unless they’re referring to the TFR.
As a result of all those accidents helicopter EMS pilots must have a IR regardless if they fly IFR now.
I think one thing that promotes panic is the "178 Seconds to Live" video that is on the Web. No mention is made of the fact that none of the test subjects had the instrument flying instruction that later became a required part of private-pilot training. (They were also flying partial-panel in an unfamiliar high-performance airplane.)
Won't link the video here, but will say he went out in a blaze of glory, literally.
To finish this side trip on the OP, we would watch the video above and the one you reference every mx recurrent, but more out of respect. Never met CZ directly, but flew with pilots that had and enjoyed a number of flights that he would have approved.
Holy mackerel!!! Now that’s some skill and ballz!!!i never heard of this guy. Guess I’ll be watching vids all night. Where does a guy learn to fly like that!
Yep, he's alive. I speak German and read the wiki.
Nice depiction. See if you can add the crash site to it. Would get Indra of lineI've tried to figure out where the video was taken from and make estimates of the flight path...image from Google Earth attached.
At the start of video you can see a ferry dock (?). Notice there's a floating support half-way across the ramp to shore. I think the video was taken along the shore near the intersection of 20th and Avenue C.
If this is where the video was taken, the helicopter comes out of the vertical dive to the South-East of the camera, then proceeds North up the East River. It seems to disappear from view roughly offshore from the 34th street heliport. Any folks familiar with NY city that can validate these guesses?
I wonder if he was trying to return to the departure point? Or perhaps he get disoriented and thought he was continuing South towards the Williamsburg Bridge? If heading back to the heliport, wouldn't he have descended?
I think beny was being sarcastic.