Splatt
Heliman
Location: Australia
| A cunning stuntMy first stunt was an absolute act of brilliance, It came after about 20 litres of fuel (about 5 gallons). I had decided that i was going to do a roll so I flipped the switch to idle up and made a few 1/4 rolls and bailing out. I then landed for some reason and took off again, the pass was high speed and level, looking good, full right cyclic, heli goes upside down, collective comes back through to negative....engine revs drops back to idle !!- NOOOOooooooo!! I managed to continue the roll with the head speed decaying and losing lots of altitude, forward speed all gone. You know that point in time when your heli is still airborne but you KNOW it is going to crash??..I was there. It hit the ground slightly nose down but fairly level, to my surprise it bounced back into the air shaking like a dog coming out of water, totally out of control and flew about 5 meters into a leafy tree, I once again pre-accepted the inevitable as the wooden blades went slapping through the branches and leaves. I tried like hell to fly it out of and away from the tree and was once again amazed to see it under control, I could tell it was in a bad way, It was making some horrendous noise and I barely had enough power to hover. On top of all that it looked kind of messed up. I set it down gently near the tree and killed the engine. Damage was a bent right skid, and some of the covering had come off the blades and was flapping in the breeze, hence the noise and power loss.
It was a long time before I tried another roll, and when I did I made absolutely sure that I was in Idle Up!! |
. Im not going to post a poll because I can't think of a few categories, so just post your reply! It took me about 5 months I think, don't know how many gallons. I was wondering if I was just a slow learner or if it was just because I didn't want to trash my nice helicopter!
