Lucky Swiss display pilot

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LotusOmega375D

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Friday 17th February 2017
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saaby93

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177 months

Saturday 18th February 2017
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How did he manage to twang the wire without taking it into the ground yikes

Eric Mc

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264 months

Saturday 18th February 2017
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Luck.

ukaskew

10,642 posts

220 months

Monday 20th February 2017
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Serious lack of planning / risk assessment there surely (unless the wires were moved)?

Steve_D

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257 months

Monday 20th February 2017
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ukaskew said:
Serious lack of planning / risk assessment there surely (unless the wires were moved)?
From the video it looked like the camera system was hung from the cable car. you don't move those around in a hurry.

Steve

Lotus Notes

1,197 posts

190 months

Monday 20th February 2017
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Reminds me of this..

The pilots were initially aquitted..

FuzzyLogic

1,636 posts

237 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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when I was undertaking my flight training, one of our instructors (ex fast jet & retired airline pilot) told me a story about his squadron carrying out a training exercise in a middle eastern country a long time ago.. They were undertaking some very low level flying in the middle of a desert - the only building was a small hut with some steps leading up to it with a steel hand rail.

Apparently one of the squadron thought he would scare the guys in the hut & carried out a very high speed pass at low level. In the process he collected the handrail.

Aircraft landed safely, still with the handrail folded around the leading edge of the wing...


FurtiveFreddy

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236 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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Steve_D said:
From the video it looked like the camera system was hung from the cable car. you don't move those around in a hurry.

Steve
It would probably have been a lot worse if it had, as the cables for those are a lot heftier.

The camera was running on its own cable system. Presumably, as it was temporary, nobody told the pilot about it...

Boatbuoy

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161 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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FurtiveFreddy said:
Steve_D said:
From the video it looked like the camera system was hung from the cable car. you don't move those around in a hurry.

Steve
It would probably have been a lot worse if it had, as the cables for those are a lot heftier.

The camera was running on its own cable system. Presumably, as it was temporary, nobody told the pilot about it...
Indeed, this is a system that travels around to the various FIS skiing events, i.e. temporary. Looks like a comms error between the organisers and the Swiss AF.

Steve_D

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257 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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Boatbuoy said:
FurtiveFreddy said:
Steve_D said:
From the video it looked like the camera system was hung from the cable car. you don't move those around in a hurry.

Steve
It would probably have been a lot worse if it had, as the cables for those are a lot heftier.

The camera was running on its own cable system. Presumably, as it was temporary, nobody told the pilot about it...
Indeed, this is a system that travels around to the various FIS skiing events, i.e. temporary. Looks like a comms error between the organisers and the Swiss AF.
My error, on first viewing I saw the guys doing repairs on the cable car pylon and thought that was what had been damaged but the commentator says the camera cable, once severed, had been deposited over the cable car cables.

Steve

AlexIT

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137 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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Actually having read some reports on the Swiss papers, TV (SRF) had informed long before the Air Force about the installation of this system and it's height. What is not confirmed yet is if the height given by SRF was the actual height of the installation or if it was installed differently -in which case they would be to blame- or if it has been a pilot's error who flew lower than planned.

Super Slo Mo

5,368 posts

197 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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Those type of camera systems tend to use rope rather than steel cable. It's a lot safer if it snaps and weighs significantly less too.