Smoke's Student Driver..

Well the best I can tell is he was in the water on purpose probably droping off some type of special forces team for a demo or he was already single engine. Now when he takes off he gets up no problem but looks like he loses a engine or he does not have enough power to hover single engine. He takes the landing flat as is procedure. Now he has to perform a single engine water take off. Which is basicly a water taxi until you get about 5-15 knots ground speed and then taking off. Somewhere between 3-15 knots airspeed you hit translational lift. Translational lift requires less power. Which is ideal if you are already maxing out your power required. Then he puts in to much nose foward (to build up ground speed) and causes the rotors to impact the water. You can't put more then just a few degrees of nose down (forward) when you water taxi. BTW this helo is designed to land in the water. It's bottom is just like the hull of a ship. Much like the mighty SeaKing.
 
FlyingLow said:
Well the best I can tell is he was in the water on purpose probably droping off some type of special forces team for a demo or he was already single engine. Now when he takes off he gets up no problem but looks like he loses a engine or he does not have enough power to hover single engine. He takes the landing flat as is procedure. Now he has to perform a single engine water take off. Which is basicly a water taxi until you get about 5-15 knots ground speed and then taking off. Somewhere between 3-15 knots airspeed you hit translational lift. Translational lift requires less power. Which is ideal if you are already maxing out your power required. Then he puts in to much nose foward (to build up ground speed) and causes the rotors to impact the water. You can't put more then just a few degrees of nose down (forward) when you water taxi. BTW this helo is designed to land in the water. It's bottom is just like the hull of a ship. Much like the mighty SeaKing.
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Thank you Professor Smoke... :) :D That pilot must have had the crappiest feeling knowing he just sunk tens of millions of dollars...
 
Black1 said:
Jesus MAN!!! :eek: That was pretty spectacular! WTF happened? Wind Shear? :dontknow:
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Wind shear, not hardly. That actually made me laugh. No they were on final and the attaching gear that connects the tail pylon to the tail boom kept tearing up the gear teeth. This location is where the tail folds up for storage on a ship. Anyway the teeth were worn away so much that they lost the tail rotor drive. When this happens you no longer get the anti-torque from the tail rotor. So the aircraft yaws right which is opposite of the main rotor. All you can do is descend and pull the engines off. Pretty much going to crash no matter what you do. To fix this we now have go-no go gauges. It is a wedge that the try to fit into the gear teeth. If it fits then you are a no go.
 
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