A US military Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan’s Yakushima Island in southern Kagoshima prefecture on Wednesday, with eight people on board, according to a spokesperson from the Japan Coast Guard.
I have never understood why any airport/airspace is VFR. I used to work at one that was (as a weather observer) and sent in an unofficial (15 minutes before the station opened) WOXOF report for an incoming medic flight cause the ceiling was below 50’.
Pilot landed by the skin of his teeth, then came to my office to thank me. If they hadn’t had the report they would have had to fly another 380 miles return to drop the patient off.
I don’t know what you would have to pay me to get into a helicopter, but it would be a lot. Planes scare me enough as it is.
Helicopters are very safe. These things appear to be death traps.
Kobe Bryant told me to downvote your comment. But at least he didn’t go out in a fucking Osprey.
VFR into IMC is pretty deadly no matter which way the rotors are pointed.
I have never understood why any airport/airspace is VFR. I used to work at one that was (as a weather observer) and sent in an unofficial (15 minutes before the station opened) WOXOF report for an incoming medic flight cause the ceiling was below 50’.
Pilot landed by the skin of his teeth, then came to my office to thank me. If they hadn’t had the report they would have had to fly another 380 miles return to drop the patient off.
I’ve done a few heli tree plants and riding in the chopper was the highlight of our day!