TheWitness
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| I'm not going to use my regular name because I'm not as though as coleopter when it comes to taking criticism against me and the last thing I want is to generate attacks for myself.
I was there and this is what I SAW happened. He did what a lot of us watching thought was an awesome pirouetting death spiral then came out of it also pirouetting into an inverted fast forward piro but like sluggo said the trees were behind the heli. I think that because it was so late and dark he was flying using the outline of the helicopter against the cloudy background but when he came out of the spiral the heli went in front of the dark trees so he lost the outline and couldn’t tell the orientation anymore.
When I asked him what happened instead of coming out with some lame excuse like radio failure he, unlike most of us when we crash, had the balls to admit his mistake and actually said something like “I dorked it. I couldn’t see it anymore. It was my mistake for letting it get in front of the trees and for flying when it was this dark”. I can respect that. When I asked him why was he flying so far he said it was because he didn’t want to fly close to as many people as there were watching the pilots. He’d rather lose a heli than hurting someone.
Regarding the piro flying on Saturday. You said you saw some “piro craziness”. At no point was he flying close to people or in a dangerous manner. I don’t know about you but what I saw was piro tic-tocs, traveling piro tic-tocs, piro-rolls, piro-tumbles, piro-funnels (real fast funnels with the heli almost in a vertical knife edge not those so called piro-funnels that looked more like fast piro-circling that some other people were doing), piro stalls like the XFC maneuver, an endless set of piro-loops, piro-immelmans (spelling) and all kind of piro-whatevers but the one maneuver that I loved was the piro-rolling-circle. Yes he crashed on Saturday but this time it wasn’t his fault. He was in a stall doing nothing but waiting for the heli to come down and for some reason either he lost a link or something else the tailboom broke or there was a boomstrike or something like that. I want to see how you won’t crash your heli if that happened to you. He spent the rest of the day repairing the heli and had it back up at the end of the day.
Also I went to ask him how he did the piro-rolling-circle and he was nice enough to explain it to me in detail. He explained how to go from the piro-flipping to the piro-roll and then how to slowly turn it so it would describe a circle with stick movements and everything and I understood it! as opposed to every other pilot that I went asking about how to do a maneuver who just gave me the typical lame “I don’t know I just do it” answer. They won’t tell you **** no matter what.
One thing that was pretty weird was that at no point were the flight stations full. They were even asking on the PA system why there were not that many pilots filling the stations. After seeing how they diss people after the event I can see why nobody wanted to risk being criticized like this.
Contrary to your perception I believe we just saw the bar raised to a new level where much more complex maneuvers that require a whole lot more pilot ability than the typical ones we see in the everyday demos.
I just want to express gratitude to him not only for his explanation to me but also for all the information he shares here with us. All I can say is I’m sorry for your loss but keep up the good work.
After all how many of you bashers can do a piroueting death spiral let alone a piroueting rolling circles like we ALL SAW him do??? He can do it as easy as I can do a roll over and over and he believes and tells you you could do it too. |
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