Pilot with zero experience tries to fly helicopter - GIF

Pilot with zero experience tries to fly helicopter.

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Story here:
https://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Hogg-N101DN.htm


Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...778#post140152
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...145#post134508
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...200#post145824
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...305#post192312
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...715#post201803

That looked expensive. Perhaps he was under the impression it is similar to flying airplanes.

Nominee for Darwin award!

Should have played more computer games as a kid.
Seriously, what an idiot! Good thing he didn't injure or kill someone or do damage to anything but his toy.

Does not matter how much money you have, you cannot buy brains.

That's an old video. Wonder where this guy is today?

dead, read the article in the link below the video

It amazes me it took two years to figure the cause of the crash was stupidity!

This is why military flight simulators exist. They're full scale and exactly like the real thing in every aspect, but you can't hurt yourself or the Sim. Can you imagine if that was an MH60R Seahawk?

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Originally Posted by meyer77

It amazes me it took two years to figure the cause of the crash was stupidity!

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This comment is not entirely true, yes, there was a level of stupidity here, but the finding was that the aircraft was "not maintained", so a dysfunction in the equipment was contributory.
I wonder how much better the instructor would have fared under the circumstances.

No he had zero hours in a rotary whinged aircraft! The condition of the aircraft had nothing to do with the crash.

I can attest to how it feels flying the first hour at the controls of a rotary winged aircraft even though my instructor was sitting right beside me, and we had flown many hours together already. For my first take off I bet every muscle in my body was tight as a banjo string, If it hadn't been for him constantly telling my 19 year old self to relax and make gentle movements we might have wound up like that guy did. The encyclopedia Galactica has 2 words written on the cover. probably the most useful words ever written " Don't Panic" One thing that is the same in a rotary wing and a fixed wing aircraft is they both will gladly kill you if you mess up, and the best way to avoid messing up is to follow every instruction your instructor give you. If he tell you that you can't fly today because the moon is in the wrong phase or the sun is shining in the wrong place or even if his daughter's pet purple cockroach died. Take him at his word. You may go on to be a flight instructor one day and have a reason you don't want your student to fly that day. I often wonder what I would be doing today if I had continued my flying instructions long enough to receive a rotary rating

Very true. Novices almost always overcontrol aircraft, even R/C aircraft. Smooth steady movements are key to maintaining control. Once you loose control it's over. Being an experienced fixed wing pilot only helps a little. Having gyro assist helps a lot (not likely in that thing). Rotary wing is also much harder because of ground effect and the number of axis you have to deal with. It's also less forgiving as can be seen. I doubt this was caused by equipment failure.