Hey, Y'all WATCH THIS!

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Well, the helicopter pilot is an idiot for doing this. I don't know much about heli's and all of the possibilities of what could have gone wrong, just assuming that it was pretty dangerous to operate around all of those people.


On the other hand - it looks like it would have been really fun to hang on and jump off the skids. People cliff dive and heli-ski. Those aren't risk-free activities either.
 
What an idiot.

Ok - education for me... I do believe he has to stay 500 feet away from people, but I have some doubt about a park ranger making this statement:
A spokesman at the Corps' Nashville District office says using any aircraft so close to one of their lakes without permission violates federal law and could result in a $5,000 fine or 6 months in jail.
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Is he correct?
 
I was under the impression that the rules were considerably different for helicopters due to their ability to hover and autorotate. If not, I can't see how they could carry out many of the activities they routinely do.
 
That's just good, clean fun......until someone gets your tail number. :D
 
steingar said:
I was under the impression that the rules were considerably different for helicopters due to their ability to hover and autorotate. If not, I can't see how they could carry out many of the activities they routinely do.
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Ah, yes - I didn't think of that. I should have, having been a paramedic and loaded plenty of patients into helis on highways as well as from our small ER to go to Univ of Chicago.
 
Still, under part 91 we are restricted from dropping (or allowing to be dropped) objects from an aircraft without ensuring there is no undue hazard to persons or property below. I don't think this video passes that test.
 
Yea helos can fly a lot lower, but im pretty sure this guy is screwed... Someone will call it reckless endangerment etc... Long story short, shouldnt have been doing it with all those people around... And probably an faa waiver... Bc with a waiver, anything is possible!
 
See the news story, see the posts condemning the video~ wonder why no one wants to be a pilot anymore.
Women. Let em vote and they start wrecking the place. Mother and Nurse pffft She should stay inside away from men being men and the real world and all the spinny choppy things that exist in the real world.
 
ClimbnSink said:
See the news story, see the posts condemning the video~ wonder why no one wants to be a pilot anymore.
Women. Let em vote and they start wrecking the place. Mother and Nurse pffft She should stay inside away from men being men and the real world and all the spinny choppy things that exist in the real world.
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Dude, I know chicks who play with big balls, not many but they do exist.;) They would be paying for gas for the chopper to take them up. He was fully in control of the machine and operation. He climbs quickly, but he should.
 
"The nurse and mother" was inconvenienced by the stunt and reported it. With the added notoriety of it all, she dramatized the event for the purpose of making a story out of it to help the news sell more time.
If she had not reported it, would anyone know? If someone from the party boat reported it "as a fun time", how would the news have reported it then?
It's interesting that the registration has expired. Did the original owner fail to reregister it when the FAA altered the process? Is the helicopter sitting on a ramp somewhere waiting for the next new owner? Or is the head of maintenance screwed because he let someone "borrow" it for a vacation out on the lake?
They missed the real story. It should be about the utility of a helicopter.
 
Interesting.

If something had gone wrong - if the chopper had suddenly lost power and had to autorotate and came down on the raft of jumpers - I get the feeling that every single person on this thread would be condemning the pilot for his stupidity of performing stunt tricks around a bunch of people who had no idea of the risk they were in.

But since nothing went wrong, the outrage is that he got NARCED on...
 
Ya, know, I gotta say I'm surprised at the reaction here. If we can't police our own, we can expect that our elected officials will make sure the government does it for us.

Remember that most of the threads on PoA are indexed by search engines and come up in general searches by the public. Is this who we're sharing the skies with? Is this who we WANT to be sharing the skies with?

Yeah, luckily no one got hurt, but from what we can see, this appears to be a really, really bad idea & certainly doesn't make the general population more enamored of general aviation. If the pilot is guilty of what he appears to be doing, he ought to be held accountable. Stuff like this hurts all of us.
 
wsuffa said:
Ya, know, I gotta say I'm surprised at the reaction here. If we can't police our own, we can expect that our elected officials will make sure the government does it for us.

Remember that most of the threads on PoA are indexed by search engines and come up in general searches by the public. Is this who we're sharing the skies with? Is this who we WANT to be sharing the skies with?

Yeah, luckily no one got hurt, but from what we can see, this appears to be a really, really bad idea & certainly doesn't make the general population more enamored of general aviation. If the pilot is guilty of what he appears to be doing, he ought to be held accountable. Stuff like this hurts all of us.
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He should be held accountable but the story was, as the news often does, sensationalized. It used to be that the news reported the facts without all the drama. Now, even if there isn't a story there, they'll make one.
The FAA will hunt down the culprit and hopefully nail him. The problem is, the story stays out there as a overblown drama and unless you really dig, NO ONE will know the results of the FAA investigation nor the penalty.
As often happens, this nonsense was frontpage news in 18 point font. The rest of the story will be an inch or two buried on page 12 in 8 point.
 
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He should be held accountable but the story was, as the news often does, sensationalized. It used to be that the news reported the facts without all the drama. Now, even if there isn't a story there, they'll make one.
The FAA will hunt down the culprit and hopefully nail him. The problem is, the story stays out there as a overblown drama and unless you really dig, NO ONE will know the results of the FAA investigation nor the penalty.
As often happens, this nonsense was frontpage news in 18 point font. The rest of the story will be an inch or two buried on page 12 in 8 point.
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I don't disagree - and if all the posts in this thread reflected that it would be a different matter. Our posts here will stick out more than the results of the FAA investigation. In other words, the attacks in this thread will be seen in the same kind of negative light that some pilots see the reporting.

As pilots, I think we need to send the message that the kind of behavior that this pilot engaged in is a problem, even if it's only the appearance of unsafe behavior. Perception = reality.
 
Hey everybody become a pilot. We are great. We will condemn anything you ever do that is not straight and level cookie cutter paved runway to paved runway fixed wing flight. And we will help nannies and news media hang you out to dry if they ever see anything that scares them(reasonable or not.) But that is not all, we will also implore our fellow pilots to not post stuff on a random forum on your behalf. Pilots make me embarrassed to be a pilot.
 
silver-eagle said:
He should be held accountable but the story was, as the news often does, sensationalized. It used to be that the news reported the facts without all the drama. Now, even if there isn't a story there, they'll make one.
The FAA will hunt down the culprit and hopefully nail him. The problem is, the story stays out there as a overblown drama and unless you really dig, NO ONE will know the results of the FAA investigation nor the penalty.
As often happens, this nonsense was frontpage news in 18 point font. The rest of the story will be an inch or two buried on page 12 in 8 point.
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Unfortunately that's the way the news media works. We don't expect any less (more?) from them, now do we?
 
ClimbnSink said:
Hey everybody become a pilot. We are great. We will condemn anything you ever do that is not straight and level cookie cutter paved runway to paved runway fixed wing flight. And we will help nannies and news media hang you out to dry if they ever see anything that scares them(reasonable or not.) But that is not all, we will also implore our fellow pilots to not post stuff on a random forum on your behalf. Pilots make me embarrassed to be a pilot.
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I feel ya but I seem some real bad judgement in that pilot there. Bad idea is bad.

Regarding the registration, perhaps recently transferred. When I bought my Arrow, the FAA was running at least a month behind in updating the db.
 
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