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Post by medic22 on Feb 2, 2020 12:25:44 GMT -5
When I get back out Saturday, ill take a hazmat suit and dispose of it. I doubt anyone finds it where it is, but still.
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Post by medic22 on Feb 1, 2020 23:55:04 GMT -5
I can't find that picture at Bluegrass on Facebook I think the page admins took it down (even though they shared it). It was an adult "toy"
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Post by medic22 on Feb 1, 2020 20:31:28 GMT -5
I did find a couple of great buck beds today. Both are likely spots where my #1 buck was hanging out last year.
Wasnt nearly as interesting as finding this
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Post by medic22 on Feb 1, 2020 17:38:14 GMT -5
Oh man the public did not disappoint with the comments.
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Post by medic22 on Feb 1, 2020 15:06:57 GMT -5
Sooo. We went to check cameras today and do a little shed hunting. We didnt find any sheds...........I did find what has pretty easily become the weirdest thing ive ever found while shed hunting. I'm sure it likely violates the rules so for those interested, check out the "friends of blugrass fwa" page on facebook. It should be pretty easy to find the picture. Woody Williams if you see the picture Ill let you decide if it is appropriate, my guess is not.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 31, 2020 16:49:10 GMT -5
Good luck on last minute hunts. I booked a hog hunt in Tennessee out of boredom, same place I went last time, gonna be a good test for these massive 200 grain broadheads.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 31, 2020 10:07:32 GMT -5
I finally shot these through a chrono. 203fps
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Post by medic22 on Jan 29, 2020 20:58:13 GMT -5
Im hoping to stretch the 7mm out to 1,000 this year, maybe my 308 as well.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 29, 2020 13:35:09 GMT -5
Just missed the Mountain by 20-30 feet.... FFA was taking it on the chin it appears! Yeah, Ive never seen an NTSB press conference over a crash, I expect this is due to the high profile nature of this one. Perfect opportunity to put them on blast. HTAWs are great, but I dont think it would have helped here. CVR and FDR they are talking about are recorders like the black box. As they said towards the end, just cause they missed that hilltop by 20-30 feet, doesnt mean they wouldnt have hit another one, or just crashed on the other side.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 29, 2020 13:26:17 GMT -5
Also, apologies if my posts seem like ramblings in this thread. I earn my living flying in helicopters so anytime these happen im constantly dissecting circumstances and thinking of relevant things. Did you see the NTSB briefing from yesterday? youtu.be/Vwk6NaQSuPAInteresting .... any thoughts? Just watched it. Thats a pretty intense decent. They supplied some insight while at the same time not really answering anything. I did learn, and I havent verified this myself, but the company does not have an IFR certificate so that explains why he was flying VFR.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 28, 2020 13:37:54 GMT -5
I miss the days that rural king had so much stuff you could still buy it discounted in march.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 28, 2020 13:30:48 GMT -5
Also, apologies if my posts seem like ramblings in this thread. I earn my living flying in helicopters so anytime these happen im constantly dissecting circumstances and thinking of relevant things.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 28, 2020 12:57:35 GMT -5
Another thing that bothers me, and could potentially help in a case with a pilot medical issue, is why was the autopilot not engaged? Did they have one?
If not, the pilot being instrument certified is again useless.
If they did have one, I doubt they used it since he was clearly using the highways as a visual reference.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 28, 2020 12:50:49 GMT -5
One thing not clear is why it went from 2500 ft to 1400 ft after the ok to proceed. Why did the tower request 1400 ft? It seemed the tower was ok at 1400 ft and 1400 ft is still plenty high to clear the hills. Why didn't the pilot response to the tower requests near the end of the flight? It is a sign. There was communications the whole time until then. I think the pilot had a major medical issue. That's what It seems to me from the tower communications between the two. He was never at 2500 feet. He was told to maintain VFR at or below 2500 feet because he was flying through the approach pattern he was being vectored around. The tower did not request 1400' they stated the ceiling was at 1100'AGL (likely reported by their automated weather), he then responded he was at 1400' MSL which is to verify his altitude matches the radar altitude. Then there is this reported by the sheriff "The pilot suddenly and rapidly climbed from about 1200 feet up to 2000 feet. However, moments later—around 9:45 AM—they flew into a mountain at 1700 feet. Flight tracker data shows they were flying at about 161 knots." Which suggest that the probably did go IIMC, as the first thing you do in IIMC is climb, i believe that this is when the pilot became disoriented and crashed. It is reported at the end the aircraft took a left turn and banked. This is all consistent with spatial disorientation. Hes also not flying 1400' above ground, thats 1400' mean sea level, the elevation at Van znuys is 802' which means they were less than 600' above the ground. So at some point they were as low as 400 feet off the ground. A medical issue is not out of the realm of possibilities but to imply 20 years of piloting makes him immune from mistakes is just absurd. Nearly the entire aviation community agrees (including at least 3 airports that were reporting the field as IFR) that the weather was not appropriate to fly VFR conditions. All things point to weather and pilot error. And the reason the pilot didnt respond at the end is because he was in a ball of fire on the side of a mountain.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 28, 2020 10:39:40 GMT -5
Differently Human error.. The police/sheriff helicopters in area were all grounded..... but a private pilot has the say if he wants to fly or not! Crazy I'm not a pilot so I don't know but I gotta ask. Would something that large have instruments to tell if there was terrain coming up that was at their height or was it strictly VFR? I don't know if there was a mechanical failure or not. That aircraft would have a terrain avoidance system to alert the pilot if it was equipped to be IFR. It is possible that flying in mountainous terrain at 1400 feet that he potentially muted it. I know the airframe is certified IFR, but that doesnt mean that particulary helicopter was IFR
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Post by medic22 on Jan 28, 2020 10:32:22 GMT -5
I'm not a pilot so I don't know but I gotta ask. Would something that large have instruments to tell if there was terrain coming up that was at their height or was it strictly VFR? I don't know if there was a mechanical failure or not. 20 years flying and certified. It was either mechanical or health issue of the pilot. Little chance pilot error per the radar tower report. Time (months) will tell. Are you referencing his instrument certification? Because that is irrelevant when youre flying VFR conditions and go into inadvertant instrument meteorlogical conditions. No matter how much experience you have, you can still get disoriented without visual references. My job in that case is to watch the instruments and make sure the pilot is keeping the aircraft level and the altitude remains good, while Im doing that he is on with ATC getting IFR clearance and setting the GPS for vector approaches, all of that takes time. Ive seen pilots with 30 years of experience set the altimeter wrong in an IFR, thats kind of a big deal. Anyone can make a mistake.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 28, 2020 10:11:01 GMT -5
Differently Human error.. The police/sheriff helicopters in area were all grounded..... but a private pilot has the say if he wants to fly or not! Crazy Someone on the LEO side is probably a lead pilot and made the decision to ground the aircraft. It appears the weather was legal for flying, dont confuse legal with safe here. The weather was safe, for an IFR flight, that my understanding the pilot was certified for and I know the airframe is certified for it, instead he chose to fly VFR in IFR conditions. All of our pilots have legal minimums and their personal minimums. Their personal minimums may be higher than legal minimums, but they cant be lower. Every pilots has different personal minimums.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 27, 2020 9:26:38 GMT -5
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Post by medic22 on Jan 27, 2020 1:01:55 GMT -5
I have had zero luck asking for permission so I wont be of much help, butnI came into my reduction accident purely by accident.
The wind blew my boat over one night, and I happen to have my boar skull sitting on it. Well the neighbor dogs took off with it, so I went over looking to see if they had found it. I got to talking to the neighbor (who I had yet to meet as we had only lived here about 5 months). He offered me permission to hunt his family property bordering his house. There are good transitions and funnels on this small parcel, leading to much bigger Ag nearby, and it borders the 1,000 acre chunk of untouched Alcoa land (I say untouched but I know people trespass on it). This small transition piece will likely lead to access to more of their properties that are laid out the same way.
The problem, I spend so much time chasing mature bucks on public land that I just dont have the time for it.
Anyway, moral of the story. Sometimes, it just happens out of nowhere.
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Post by medic22 on Jan 26, 2020 17:54:03 GMT -5
Ugh. Saw another buddy share it, didn't check the date. Edited to remove link
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