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What's better than watching an expertly executed emergency landing on a beach? Having Kenny Loggins on location to make a danger zone reference!

http://www.10news.com/news/military-hel ... ocal-beach

that is one big helicopter

Sorry for me being a prick, but what's so impressive in landing a fully working helicopter in a beach? Helicopters are supposed to land anywhere by design. It's not gliding 747 with engines out.. Nowdays every landing is impressive landing so it seems.

par2005 wrote:Sorry for me being a prick, but what's so impressive in landing a fully working helicopter in a beach? Helicopters are supposed to land anywhere by design. It's not gliding 747 with engines out.. Nowdays every landing is impressive landing so it seems.

Fully working?

Yeah, I mean they noticed low pressure, but it didn't look like a autorotation to me

Yeah, I mean they noticed low pressure, but it didn't look like a autorotation to me.

It would have been a single engine approach to a non-prepared surface. It's not really a big deal if the helicopter had just the crew on board, but if there was any cargo/pax or even just a full bag of gas, a single engine approach means there's no power to hover. Thus it's a forced landing once you drop below translational lift. There's also the issue of leaking oil passing over engines running at 700 degrees, which would may have caused a fire.

davidspreckeriii wrote: that is one big helicopter

It is. Here's the MH53 variant in KDLH, this one with lasers to shoot incoming stuff down, and that ugly balding guy is me.

Talk about a spacious cockpit..... If I may ask, what do you do in relation to the helicopter? Pilot, controller, ogler?

Nelson L. wrote:Talk about a spacious cockpit..... If I may ask, what do you do in relation to the helicopter? Pilot, controller, ogler?

All of the above hehe.