Aircraft recovery 101

[peter]

http://www.optimaljet.com/OptimalJetHTML/mulchatnaHigh.htm

[The Inspector]

Ya do what ya gotta, 'cause it's a reeeeeeeally long walk back to Anchorage-nice work guys!!

[snj-5]

Here are some of the recoveries I've been involved with (a friend of mine
owns the company). These are in the Pacific Northwest (mostly
Washington State). Lots of helicopter long-line extraction work (often
times, it's the only way to get a wreck out of the woods/hills).

http://www.avtech-services.com/recovery_gallery.htm

Bela P. Havasreti

[daveymac82c]

Hey Bela,

That link you sent is quite amazing. Wow, what an eye opener!

Some of those recoveries come back with what just looks like a bag of airplane bits. Some were quite painful to look at, really.

Thank you for posting though.

Peace,

David

[snj-5]

Yes, some of those pictures are painfully illustrative of how bad things
can get when we pilots do something stupid in an airplane....

Many of those were weather-related, or density-altitude-related.
Don't push the weather and don't ask your airplane to perform
outside the designed envelope, and you've just increased your
odds of survival by orders of magnitude.

Best thing to do is endevour to learn from others' mistakes (nobody
lives long enough to make all the mistakes himself!).

Bela P. Havasreti

[daveymac82c]

Very true Bela,

Most accidents certainly do start with bad pilot decision making. Doing my flight training at in an aviation college setting was quite interesting because we had many human factors classes to sit through. We'd go through real life accidents and the accident reports from Transport Canada. I'd say that those classes are nearly on par in importance with lessons taught in the air by the instructor.

Peace,

David