feddoc
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Mine was flying, but, it wasn't any of the crashes.
We had just flown in for a Special Needs airshow at Grand Junction. Wonderful FBO, great crowd and overall good time. It was early spring, 1998 maybe.
As an aside, nothing will humble you like a handicapped kid asking for your autograph.
Anyway, we were on the way back. Normal brief, nothing out of the ordinary. The HAC had about 5,000 hours in type and was very trusted.
Somewhere near the Wasatch mountains, we took an unbriefed, unplanned tour, just to see some scenery. There was weather, but, nothing unusual. Then we got into a mini-blizzard, nothing above, below or to the sides except snow. And ice.
I was in the back, but we were all hooked up to comms. No holes to fly to and we were nearing our altitude ceiling. I could hear a change in pitch of the main rotors and knew they were icing up. What I did not know until the debrief was that the HAC was experiencing vertigo. Anyway, we found a hole, and flew home.
Mine was flying, but, it wasn't any of the crashes.
We had just flown in for a Special Needs airshow at Grand Junction. Wonderful FBO, great crowd and overall good time. It was early spring, 1998 maybe.
As an aside, nothing will humble you like a handicapped kid asking for your autograph.
Anyway, we were on the way back. Normal brief, nothing out of the ordinary. The HAC had about 5,000 hours in type and was very trusted.
Somewhere near the Wasatch mountains, we took an unbriefed, unplanned tour, just to see some scenery. There was weather, but, nothing unusual. Then we got into a mini-blizzard, nothing above, below or to the sides except snow. And ice.
I was in the back, but we were all hooked up to comms. No holes to fly to and we were nearing our altitude ceiling. I could hear a change in pitch of the main rotors and knew they were icing up. What I did not know until the debrief was that the HAC was experiencing vertigo. Anyway, we found a hole, and flew home.