Chopper crash

Kevin,

Water always feels like tall grass to me. I'm always so busy trying to make
sure that I don't fubar that I never did a scientific study, and I don't get
low enough to the corrosive stuff to be totally IGE. One thing you really
gotta watch for though is to not "white" yourself out with the sea spray. I
got into that once and it was a tad spooky. It was a lot like dealing with a
snowy LZ; you really have to mind your attitude indicator as well as whats
going on outside.

Bart


I've actually wondered about the over water stuff myself. It's been
drilled into my head that hover IGO over water takes more power, but
other than some surface wave action dissipating the downwash, the
water is, in effect, a solid surface. (Ever jumped off a 40' cliff
into water? It spanks you pretty hard!)

The only water I've hovered over was a small pool near a stream and
while power required was about an inch more MAP than over the hard
pack dirt area we taxied from, I wondered if the tall grass/shrubs
surrounding the pond might have had something to do with that.


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