heli crash at the Michigan Whirlybirds Fun Fly 9-13-09

[erniemcdowell]

What a reckless dickhead

[suhbliem]

I fly at this club, from what I understood the guy who was doing the flyby did pay for the damage costs, although I heard he initially did not want to.... I've also heard the guy is a total jackass and refused to pay for damages from similar instances

[ewaf88]

I loved the slowed down voice especially the Oooooh

[sandmansamperson]

fun fly more like done fly

[puggster]

man i would be shoving that radio up the other pilots ass and taking his wallet lol

bet the other pilot that was hovering thought he lost a blade at first lol

its as if he couldend belive what just happend lol, hovering there nicley then bowchicawowow BANG!

spectacular crash though atleast thats one thing good about it lol :)

[LYono22]

LMFAO.. Kevin.. did you fuck up your shit or what dude? What are the odds of that shit? hahahahahahahahah

[JaleelJohanson62]

Wonder what Judge Judy had to say about this???? LOL

Shitty luck for sure!

[studioeffects]

Good job spotters.

[wrxsavvy]

i just watched it again and wondered imagine the odds of both helis being at the same latitude and longitude at the same time.

[michchristy]

....a few weeks later the pilot of the Logo 600 ploughed his brand new rebuilt 600 into a tree on a test flight. It looked like the tree chomped on the heli and spit out the wreckage. Kinda felt bad ...it was so nice and shiny and new .....

[michchristy]

I meant 500.

[Raptor50aus]

I thought a simple "follow the circuit" rule would apply. It does at my heli club. or we call low pass right to left or vice versa. Looked like no communication between pilots and they should have been standing side by side.

[SpenceFactor]

I hope that pilot walked up to the other pilot with his wallet open and offered to re-build!

[Jeremy198206]

putting "RC" heli crash would have saved me 1:14 of my life.

[pofrani]

lol - why the heck would you be looking at real heli crashes?

[Pintabona1]

Thank you for the great footage

[z3cougars]

where was the yellow helis spotter on that one. you have to think about that befor you just go and blame the pilot i mean yea he made a careless mistake but the spotter could have told him there was some one flying. right?

[duck9191]

spotters where not required until after this incident.

[JlerchTampa]

Even then, spotters can not anticipate bone head decisons on the part of the pilot.

When your riding in a car, you cant anticipate the driver jumping over a barrier instead of going around like a sane person might do..

[paintballkidz]

guy flying the yellow heli is at fault, he flew into another pilots flight zone..

[jasmine2501]

Oh BTW...

PWNED!!!

Had to say it :)

Looks like the situation is being handled ok. Thread is on RunRyder if you want to read.

[jasmine2501]

I have seen a few collisions in my time, but I've never seen one where someone was so clearly being careless and dangerous. The yellow heli is at fault and I'm not sure how you can argue that. He did a high-speed low pass into another flight box with no idea what was in front of his bird. What if a person had been standing there?! This is careless behavior, and could have resulted in an injury. If he's not banned, he's certainly going to be "unwelcome" there. It almost looks deliberate.

[JohnSCC66]

@jasmine2501 Do you have a link to the thread, theres hundreds on that forum, thanks, John

[jasmine2501]

@JohnSCC66 I think it is gone now... it was pretty ugly. Can't post links here anyway.

[JRCrowley]

That was just terrible luck, guys. Sorry to see this.

[TheTruthHurtsYup]

Boohoo, this is hobby and a mid air is the same as smashing into the ground. Do you ask for reimbursement from the ground? C'mon its a gamble when you put your machine in the air, if its too much to handle a crash then don't fly it.

[duck9191]

i would agree if it was just two helis that met at the edges of there flight box, but when you intentionally fly over a handful of flight boxes its more then just the price to play the game.

[elministere]

Very stupid ideal here, for nobody is controlling the ground in your scenario.

Very few crashes in full scale and RC involve mid-air collisons but most always involve the ground/water. So much for your theory.

[TheTruthHurtsYup]

That made no sense whatsoever. I want to mid air that comment.

[elministere]

Eh, not the same as hitting the ground. In this video the guy doing the hitting was well out of bounds in both flying space boundries and respect and sportmanship as well as flying safe. That could have just as well been somebodys head he hit like that.

So how in the Hell can you compare sentient actions of a person to the inert,non-living, stationary..........ground??

You sir, make no sense whatsoever.

[kevinarnold211]

That was awesome.

[dwntyme]

Yeah the guy flying the 500 was out of line However the idea of a spotter is to watch the other heli's/planes to inform the person he is spotting for , not watching his pilot fly...If the spotter was doing what he was supposed to be doing maybe this would not have happened... My .02

[JlerchTampa]

You getting the "Useless Spotters" T-Shirt too? :-)

[321Heli]

It's at times like this that you find out what people are made of. Soooo, did the guy who did the low, high speed pass in front of the other pilot's flight station take responsibility and offer to pay the damages and write a check?

[dillzio]

If I was hovering my heli, and some cowboy swooped down at high speed and destroyed it right before my eyes like that I think i'd be forced to kill him

[JMULIKOW]

So what happens in this case? Does the guy at fault end up paying for the other guys heli...or is a simple aplogy suppose to make up for the loss of the guys heli???

[JlerchTampa]

In theory you buy your ticket and you take your chances.

In practice heli events have 100 foot boxes. Pilots don't fly into another pilot's box.  If you want high speed passes, you do it out past everyone's flying box, in free for all territory.

Financial enforcement against blatant idiotic behavior is difficult as your dealing with the type of person that does this type of stuff.

I am curious to know how this event was resolved.

[xflames]

the assurance will cover the damage. u know what, If it was me, I will just go and punch the retarded guy,

[JlerchTampa]

[quote from video] Talk about hogging the field [/quote]

Ya Think? :-0

I hope the electric heli pilot made right by the 700 pilot.

[duck9191]

as far as i know the electric guy said it wasnt his fault and wasnt gonna do anything for the guy he hit.

[TheSunsetTrio]

that electric guy doesnt sound to smart.If thats what he thinks then the whirlbirds should band him

[bigcarp1976]

wow that guy flying the elec one was out of order flying in to other guys flying space at speed.

[TechnexLOL]

Wow!