bones
11-07-2007, 09:35 PM
Fellas there is only one real one way of putting this, and it goes something like this;
The old lets forget where the hell we are, and what the f*ck we are doing thing struck again, :Bat1: and it struck me yesterday, i been flying for most of the day got home about 10 mins before last light, landed fine, with a bit of a roll with the tail wind, that is the good bit. I then look around to see the 2 kids horses standing beside the gate that i go through to get the house, so with my mind on them and what they are thinking, i drove through the gate, taxi over to near the house, to where i park the gyro(like i had done 100+ times before), and on the concrete pad is the block of wood that i had used to "handbrake" that morning, and with out thinking to much of getting ready to stop like i normally do, i even think i took my feet off the peddles, but the gyro with the tail wind, had about 2 kts too much speed for the piece of timber, and it jumped over it, so then(tired and still sick from the day before, had a vomiting virus) just sort of froze and by the time realsied to do something, i guess thinking about it now, paniced and pushed the wrong friggin peddle steering the gyro towards the post at the side of the house. :nervious: So with the usual damage resulting from a set of rotors coming to a complete stop from about 170-200rpm, it certaily woke me up good and proppa i can tell you, :blink: so of course there was some language and things getting thrown(still looking for me sunglasses). I turned off the engine and stepped out of what was left of my machine, to find that not only were my 100 hr rotors now no longer as there were 5 secs before, but my Ivo prop, was also worse for wear, so the old saying is true about $1000 per second once the sh*t starts hitting the fan, and i figure about 6 seconds worth(still not sure if the motor is damaged yet) so it could be more. :'(
So another reminder people do not get complacent, and please keep your whits about you til the rotors and motor have stopped spinning. :evil2:
The old lets forget where the hell we are, and what the f*ck we are doing thing struck again, :Bat1: and it struck me yesterday, i been flying for most of the day got home about 10 mins before last light, landed fine, with a bit of a roll with the tail wind, that is the good bit. I then look around to see the 2 kids horses standing beside the gate that i go through to get the house, so with my mind on them and what they are thinking, i drove through the gate, taxi over to near the house, to where i park the gyro(like i had done 100+ times before), and on the concrete pad is the block of wood that i had used to "handbrake" that morning, and with out thinking to much of getting ready to stop like i normally do, i even think i took my feet off the peddles, but the gyro with the tail wind, had about 2 kts too much speed for the piece of timber, and it jumped over it, so then(tired and still sick from the day before, had a vomiting virus) just sort of froze and by the time realsied to do something, i guess thinking about it now, paniced and pushed the wrong friggin peddle steering the gyro towards the post at the side of the house. :nervious: So with the usual damage resulting from a set of rotors coming to a complete stop from about 170-200rpm, it certaily woke me up good and proppa i can tell you, :blink: so of course there was some language and things getting thrown(still looking for me sunglasses). I turned off the engine and stepped out of what was left of my machine, to find that not only were my 100 hr rotors now no longer as there were 5 secs before, but my Ivo prop, was also worse for wear, so the old saying is true about $1000 per second once the sh*t starts hitting the fan, and i figure about 6 seconds worth(still not sure if the motor is damaged yet) so it could be more. :'(
So another reminder people do not get complacent, and please keep your whits about you til the rotors and motor have stopped spinning. :evil2: