Mast Bumping

[Colonel]

Bueller? Bueller?

[Nark]

Very scary .


That’s why I chose to fly fully articulated hubs.

[Scudrunner]

I like choppers but that’s a lot of moving parts

[Nark]

I flew the jetranger. If I recall we had a limitation no maneuvers below 1g, for mast bumping protection.

I’m not saying I have any insight: but a hard nose over (say to avoid something?) unload the rotor, mast bumb, and boom: there goes the main rotor and probably tailboom from contact.

[Nark]

The NYC crash was definitely not a result of mast bumping as evidence of this pic:

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The whole transmission ripped from the roof.
Stress fractures/ corrosion issues.


When it’s your time, it’s your time.

Damn.

[Colonel]

The aircraft suffered structural failure?

Well, that’s not good. I understand it had 10,000TT?

Weird how the FAA is all over airframe structural replacement in high time fixed-wing aircraft (like the 400 series Cessna) but not on this?

[Slick Goodlin]

On the list of flying machines that I wouldn’t want to suddenly have a sunroof, all helicopters are probably tied for first place.

[Colonel]

I have spent thousands of hours sitting on parachutes and will continue to do so, but I don’t think this would have helped the pilot in this case - not much time/altitude to get out.

Pax might not like the sight of the pilot exiting, but they could probably get a refund?

PS even jumper dumping, you are foolish as a pilot to not wear a parachute. No aerobatics involved, but if someone fouls the tail, it’s time to go.