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To be honest I have not seen or would want to see anything where a person gets hit by a spinning blade funny or not.
At EGKK I witnessed a person hit by a feathering prop blade and just with it rotating in the breeze the injury was substantial. He was an old hand who should have known better. I have been told of other stories where people have walked through a/c props and the outcome is grim and even stopped a celebs son walking through one.
Nothing like this should be taken lightly especially accidents where the outcome is pure tragedy
Working in a dangerous environment I am constantly aware of how easy it is for these accidents to happen
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At EGKK I witnessed a person hit by a feathering prop blade and just with it rotating in the breeze the injury was substantial. He was an old hand who should have known better. I have been told of other stories where people have walked through a/c props and the outcome is grim and even stopped a celebs son walking through one.
Nothing like this should be taken lightly especially accidents where the outcome is pure tragedy
Working in a dangerous environment I am constantly aware of how easy it is for these accidents to happen
TnT
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Whether or not you think I'm pathetic, and whether or not you find my comments acceptable, are matters of complete indifference to me - although reading your post (and your 'Report this Post' message in similar terms) gave me some amusement at the end of a long day.
I'm not sure if you've genuinely misunderstood my post or chosen to pretend you have in order to try to make a point. Whichever, I have neither the time nor inclination either to try to explain irony to you in simple enough terms for you to understand, or to argue with you.
If you wish to pursue the matter further, feel free to write to Danny.
BTW, "Super Moderator" is the PPRuNe designation for a few of us who, in addition to moderating a particular forum, deal with any urgent problems concerning PPRuNe which arise while Danny and the other two Administrators are down route. (They are long haul pilots.)
If you can persuade Danny to change our title, I'd be very grateful to you - I've always found it rather embarrassing.
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Whether or not you think I'm pathetic, and whether or not you find my comments acceptable, are matters of complete indifference to me - although reading your post (and your 'Report this Post' message in similar terms) gave me some amusement at the end of a long day.
I'm not sure if you've genuinely misunderstood my post or chosen to pretend you have in order to try to make a point. Whichever, I have neither the time nor inclination either to try to explain irony to you in simple enough terms for you to understand, or to argue with you.
If you wish to pursue the matter further, feel free to write to Danny.
BTW, "Super Moderator" is the PPRuNe designation for a few of us who, in addition to moderating a particular forum, deal with any urgent problems concerning PPRuNe which arise while Danny and the other two Administrators are down route. (They are long haul pilots.)
If you can persuade Danny to change our title, I'd be very grateful to you - I've always found it rather embarrassing.
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Come on guys, lighten up! It was a spoof video! Unless the guy stood over 8' tall! The blades on an R44 are 10' above the ground. I didn't see him jump up! Maybe I missed him jumping up.
There are hundreds of videos like that on the internet. How many people laughed at Monty Pythons Knight being reduced to a mere torso in one sketch?
How many people laughed at the video of the guy in the H269 trying to fly it with no experience? It was kinda funny but showed what may happen when trying things without incorrect training?
I can't remember laughing at any of the videos on the Robinson training tape. They sickened me to my stomach and stopped me flying for a week!
Too much PC bull**** these days.
Some things are not funny. Real accidents involving helicopters are not laughing matters under any circumstances but when shown like the now deleted link, they hammer home a message. Some of us obviously have differing senses of humour but hey, that's just one of the things that makes us all unique!
There are hundreds of videos like that on the internet. How many people laughed at Monty Pythons Knight being reduced to a mere torso in one sketch?
How many people laughed at the video of the guy in the H269 trying to fly it with no experience? It was kinda funny but showed what may happen when trying things without incorrect training?
I can't remember laughing at any of the videos on the Robinson training tape. They sickened me to my stomach and stopped me flying for a week!
Too much PC bull**** these days.
Some things are not funny. Real accidents involving helicopters are not laughing matters under any circumstances but when shown like the now deleted link, they hammer home a message. Some of us obviously have differing senses of humour but hey, that's just one of the things that makes us all unique!
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I deleted the link at the request of some Oz members who considered not only that the video was in bad taste generally but thought it was in particularly inappropriate to have the link in this forum at a time when one of their colleagues is in a critical condition, fighting for his life, after a rotorblade injury.
I agreed and removed it.
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I deleted the link at the request of some Oz members who considered not only that the video was in bad taste generally but thought it was in particularly inappropriate to have the link in this forum at a time when one of their colleagues is in a critical condition, fighting for his life, after a rotorblade injury.
I agreed and removed it.
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