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WOW. Hope they survived.
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Why Warn me? Firefox handles WMV by playing in external player! Image

Nice Landing. Every Landing you can walk (or swim) away from is a good one! Hope no one drowned.
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And as for the vid: Holy crap! Image
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0wn3d!!1

[Edit] Both that chopper and Mobi Image
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Hope they were ok.
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The irony of getting a WMV from vorbis.com
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Post by Will Robinson »

Wow, I think I played with that guy in Desert Combat last night.

Seriously though, I hope they all survived, that's some scary shiz!
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HOLY SH!T!!!! is all i gotta say
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Hmmm.. You know, if bush wasn't in office, that probably wouldn't have had to happen! Image
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HAHAHAH!!! you wrong for that dude.


that was a pilot error, he misjudged his distance and descent rate and well.......you see the result after his rear port landing gear became tangled with the "overboard" fencing, thus causing the chopper to roll over from the aborted landing as the pilot tried to pull away from the ship to avoid a even more deadly accident of a JetA+ Fuel explosion and sailors being cut in half by the rotor blades.


now if you ask me as a helo pilot myself, i noticed he approached that ship alitter faster than he should have so he could judge the winds and the amount of pitching the ship was doing while underway.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by AceCombat:
<b> HAHAHAH!!! you wrong for that dude.


that was a pilot error, he misjudged his distance and descent rate and well.......you see the result after his rear port landing gear became tangled with the "overboard" fencing, thus causing the chopper to roll over from the aborted landing as the pilot tried to pull away from the ship to avoid a even more deadly accident of a JetA+ Fuel explosion and sailors being cut in half by the rotor blades.


now if you ask me as a helo pilot myself, i noticed he approached that ship alitter faster than he should have so he could judge the winds and the amount of pitching the ship was doing while underway.

RULE OF THUMB: Always take more time to analyze a situation, than rush into it to save time.</b></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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Anyone want to take this one?
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Having ridden in quite a few Helos in my day (Heliski guide for a time) and being a glider pilot, my only comment is that he was FAR TOO LOW on his approach.

The idea behind a helicopter is VTOL - not rolling landings. At Altitude you get a much better idea of glide slope using RELATIVE MOTION. The relative motion from within that cabin told the story: too low (and too much forward speed - yeah).

Given the mostly excellent forward and downward visibility from helicopter cabins, there's never a reason to approach like that: you come in high and descend. The most obvious reason is in case of a turbine failure (I imagine that craft had 2 x dual turbines so it's an unlikely event - but not impossible) in which case you need altitude for an autorotation landing.

Ace - how well do Helo's convert forward speed to altitude in autorotation? My guess is "surprisingly badly". Image

And yeah - that WMV file from the last post crashed my work PC 3 times, and my home PC twice before I gave up!
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Gavotte:
<b> Image

Anyone want to take this one?</b></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yes, I'll keep it brief and simple:

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Gavotte:
<b> Image

Anyone want to take this one?</b></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

piss off Gav
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Mobius:
<b> EDITED: STUFF ALREADY KNOWN AND STUDIED FOR 4 1/2 years
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Mobi, maybe your intro rides in a helo were alittle basic for you, a helicopter CANNOT make any upward lift in a AutoRotation situation your engine power is no longer availablethe only lift being produced is what the rotors can still make from their rotation but that is dwindling very fast. the only way to save that rotation speed is to drop your collective pitch to damn near neutral, and let your helo "ride the wind" keeping your rotors turning by putting minimal resistance at them, and using the last bit of translational lift at the last moment to decelerate and come to a jolting but safe landing that may damage your skids and thats about it.
have you ever even sat in a helo while it was in a AutoRotation landing? i seriously doubt it.....i have.....i once had to do a AR landing due to ice in my fuel line. its not fun, its scary, its quick, and one simple mistake in a VERY small margin of error situation results in plain and simple death or severe injury.

plus i bet you have never seen a helo do a "rolling" landing have you.........probably not.......i have

have you ever seen a wheeled helo taxi out just by pitching the rotor forward in pair with forward cyclic directional thrust? maybe you have........have you ever done it..........seriously doubt it

how many helos on skids have you seen do a "Sliding" landing on soft surfaces?...........probably none........i have performed those many times


i could go on and on about stuff you have no idea about in the Rotary Wing world of Aviation
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Ace, please. You missed the point of my entire post... it was a joke, sarcasm if you will. Image It's just like you said ace...
<font face="Arial" size="3"> RULE OF THUMB: Always take more time to analyze a situation, than rush into it to save time.</font>
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Am I missing something here? It looked to me like Mobius was actually asking a legitimate question and Ace jumped all over him.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by AceCombat:
<b> Mobi, maybe your intro rides in a helo were alittle basic for you, a helicopter CANNOT make any upward lift in a AutoRotation situation your engine power is no longer availablethe only lift being produced is what the rotors can still make from their rotation but that is dwindling very fast. the only way to save that rotation speed is to drop your collective pitch to damn near neutral, and let your helo "ride the wind" keeping your rotors turning by putting minimal resistance at them, and using the last bit of translational lift at the last moment to decelerate and come to a jolting but safe landing that may damage your skids and thats about it.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by T-Bone:
Am I missing something here? It looked to me like Mobius was actually asking a legitimate question and Ace jumped all over him. </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

i did answer the question, and at first i was alittle smart, everyone jumps on me right? so why cant i jump back?

here is the answer to his question......
<font face="Arial" size="3">a helicopter CANNOT make any upward lift in a AutoRotation situation your engine power is no longer availablethe only lift being produced is what the rotors can still make from their rotation but that is dwindling very fast. the only way to save that rotation speed is to drop your collective pitch to damn near neutral, and let your helo "ride the wind" keeping your rotors turning by putting minimal resistance at them, and using the last bit of translational lift at the last moment to decelerate and come to a jolting but safe landing that may damage your skids and thats about it.</font>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Mobius:
<b> Having ridden in quite a few Helos in my day (Heliski guide for a time) and being a glider pilot, my only comment is that he was FAR TOO LOW on his approach.

The idea behind a helicopter is VTOL - not rolling landings. At Altitude you get a much better idea of glide slope using RELATIVE MOTION. The relative motion from within that cabin told the story: too low (and too much forward speed - yeah).

Given the mostly excellent forward and downward visibility from helicopter cabins, there's never a reason to approach like that: you come in high and descend. The most obvious reason is in case of a turbine failure (I imagine that craft had 2 x dual turbines so it's an unlikely event - but not impossible) in which case you need altitude for an autorotation landing.

Ace - how well do Helo's convert forward speed to altitude in autorotation? My guess is "surprisingly badly". Image

And yeah - that WMV file from the last post crashed my work PC 3 times, and my home PC twice before I gave up!</b></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Well, having been stationed on a Frigate I can tell you that when a Navy helo lands on deck it doesn't come in vertically. He comes in from the back or side. Which ever way is going to give him the most head wind. I have to agree with Ace on this one. From the looks of it this guy came in to fast.
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Does it scare anyone else that Ace is a helo pilot?
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How does Ace have his D3 controls setup? Are they like they should be or are they the D3 default?

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Does it scare anyone else that Ace is a helo pilot?</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Richard Cranium:
<b> How does Ace have his D3 controls setup? Are they like they should be or are they the D3 default?

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right now they arent setup period, but why you ask that and then put that quote makes no sense. a helicopter flies much different than a pyro does, effectively.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by [NuB] Dedman:
I have to agree with Ace on this one. From the looks of it this guy came in to fast.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


and too low
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jesus H. Christ, AceCombat makes a "intelligent" comment to an answer and you are all like "stfu" and all that jazz, give it a rest, it gets old. Don't be ragging on him, if he says something stupid by all means, wail on him. as in this thread, if you have nothing to contribute as to the cause, don't diss other peoples observation.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by [NuB] Dedman:
Well, having been stationed on a Frigate I can tell you that when a Navy helo lands on deck it doesn't come in vertically. He comes in from the back or side. Which ever way is going to give him the most head wind. I have to agree with Ace on this one. From the looks of it this guy came in to fast.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Agreed. Looked like the pilot came in like a bat out of hell. From the looks of it, he pulled the nose up to slow down as much as possible, and was just too low to land properly. He/she got half-way on the pad and just didn't have enough umph to get all the way there, tried to pull off for another run, and lost control. I'm suprised nobody got hurt from the rotor blade pieces flying all over the place.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by MD-2389:
Agreed. Looked like the pilot came in like a bat out of hell. From the looks of it, he pulled the nose up to slow down as much as possible, and was just too low to land properly. He/she got half-way on the pad and just didn't have enough umph to get all the way there, tried to pull off for another run, and lost control. I'm suprised nobody got hurt from the rotor blade pieces flying all over the place.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

well to stop a helo in forward movement you usualy have to pull back, but i do agree on how far they did pull the nose back it was alittle excessive.

they were most definately too low to make a proper landing, but when they struck, the landing gear got tangled up in the OverBoard Guardrail ( just basic steel fencing ) and when the pilot "Pulled" power on the rotors and engines, the landing gear refused to snap loose of the fencing and thus rolled the helo over as they tried to pull away. <-- we know from watching i just wanted to comment on it. "Pulling Power" is a term for applying as much collective and engine torque as safely possible to abort a landing and quickly climb back up to prevent a crash or even possibly landing on a person ( when cargo hooks are in use ). this is what the pilot did once he/she felt the jolt of striking the ships deck and the crew members told him/her that a failed landing had occured.
<font face="Arial" size="3">"I'm suprised nobody got hurt from the rotor blade pieces flying all over the place." </font>
most of the rotor blades got absorbed and broken off in the water and thus only a few remaining broken peices were "Flung" airborne. Image
now if he had hit the ship with his rotors.........oh man im not even going to comment on that.


one funny note: notice the guy in the hatch window just aft of the right pilot seat, when the chopper flips over, he grabs the chopper side in a funny "Roller Coaster" grip. its kinda funny to watch him just grab the flat side of the helo in a vain effort to keep his body from snapping back and him breaking his back and/or his neck on the top of that hatch.
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heh. sounds like ace knows his **** when it comes to this.
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Well I'll tell you what, flying helicopters in Desert Combat is hard, and is real hard to land them straight up and down! So I usually just go with a rolling landing. Besides, Apaches have wheels so it doesn't hurt the chopper one bit.

here's a pic of the cockpit:
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Desert Combat is the greatest thing to happen since sliced bread.
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Oh yeh man I'm addicted to that ★■◆●. And DICE (company who made BF1942) signed a deal with Trauma Studios (guys who made DC) so they will be working on future projects. Like maybe an official Desert Combat expansion pack for Battlefield Vietnam oh my god this is off topic srry!
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Sage:
Well I'll tell you what, flying helicopters in Desert Combat is hard, and is real hard to land them straight up and down! So I usually just go with a rolling landing. Besides, Apaches have wheels so it doesn't hurt the chopper one bit.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

you think thats hard, go get you a copy of MS Flight Simulator 2002 Professional or 2004 A Century Of Flight, and try to pilot the Bell 206B JetRanger III or the Robinson R-22 Beta.

i promise you even at that, helicopter flying is VERY VERY hard. you are using both arms and both feet simultaniously whilst looking around making sure nothing is getting close to your rotors and you arent flying too close to buildings, other planes and helo's, and then on top of that....listening to ATC and doing what they tell you........................ Image WOOOF talk about a hard job................oh yah...forgot this, its easy to start a car right...........it takes 24 steps to start a jetranger and those same 24 steps in reverse to shut it down


<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Arial" size="3">Originally posted by Ferno:
heh. sounds like ace knows his **** when it comes to this.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

why wouldnt i?? ive been flying for 4 1/2 years with CAP
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Ace, believe me when I say that I am quite aware of how hard it is to fly something that large. A good friend of mine flew a chopper just like one in the video over in Iraq for some time. During a wargame, a british destroyer accidentally fired on him, and lets just say he pulled some very rapid turns to evade the shells. (amazing what doesn't make the news eh?) Thankfully, he's back on US soil and I don't think he'll be shipped off to Iraq anytime soon.
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