- Joined
- Oct 30, 2003
- Messages
- 18,363
- Location
- Santa Maria, California
- Aircraft
- Givens Predator
- Total Flight Time
- 2600+ in rotorcraft
What can you say when someone flies fast and low and flies into wires?
He was distracted by his friends on the ground and should be aware of wires near an airfield as part of his flight planning even if he had never been there before.
The last time I looked wires were still the number one cause of crashes in helicopters.
Low level wire strikes are completely avoidable; a ten.
No amount of skill will save a gyroplane from a wire strike.
As people gain experience they get better at seeing them.
I practice vigilance by flying over the poles rather than the wires that are much harder to see.
There is a wire near KSMX that is strung across a canyon. It is a single wire strung between black wooden poles. I use it as a teaching aid to show people just how hard wires are to see. Not one of my clients has been able to see it until I point it out as we fly about 300 feet above it.
He was distracted by his friends on the ground and should be aware of wires near an airfield as part of his flight planning even if he had never been there before.
The last time I looked wires were still the number one cause of crashes in helicopters.
Low level wire strikes are completely avoidable; a ten.
No amount of skill will save a gyroplane from a wire strike.
As people gain experience they get better at seeing them.
I practice vigilance by flying over the poles rather than the wires that are much harder to see.
There is a wire near KSMX that is strung across a canyon. It is a single wire strung between black wooden poles. I use it as a teaching aid to show people just how hard wires are to see. Not one of my clients has been able to see it until I point it out as we fly about 300 feet above it.