Can you rate this landing?🚁

Extremely interesting. My guess is that they had a thruster failure (NOTAR tail rotor equivalent) and mitigated with forward speed, landing in a very long skid. Halfway through, the mechanical failure destroyed the whole tail (you can just see it explode from the inside) but it looks like there would have been no casualties, so good save.

Fine until the tail fell off...🤪 (Was this a fixed-wing pilot forgetting he was landing a helicopter??)

Looks like he forgot 😂

The pilot did some great rotor-work to keep that bird in one piece as long as possible. and upright after the tail broke up. Looks like a shaft failure in the mid-section of the tail. Airspeed was used to mitigate a failing or failed tail-rotor.

That was high altitude, maximum weight, autorotation flight testing of new NOTAR technology at the FLG airport (I was there). Don’t critique something you don’t have all the facts about.

I'm thinking this pilot has done this a few times before. It would seem the thump in this video wasn't enough to fracture the tail structure (of and by itself) unless, this had been done several times before, resulting in a weakening of the structure with metal fatigue. Otherwise, I'm not confident to be on this model bird in a storm.

Not obvious what caused the tailboom structural failure as the sink rate at touch down was not excessive.

Prob autogyro after engine failure. Looks like crew will walk. 10/10.

Autorotation all the way to the ground. A/c manuals usually recommend doing an auto onto a hard runway to stop the skids digging in. Looks like it landed okay, but the main rotor chopped the tail rotor boom off. Usually caused by the rotor flexing beyond normal limits.

5 stars for what the pilot had to work with.

Safe

Let’s just say… we won’t be adding that one to the Sovereign Jet training manual. 😅 Precision matters.

I would give it 100% percent, as all occupants are alive. It was probably an autorotation landing.

Sliding, parts falling off, but fairly controlled… I give it a 6. 6gs should be enough to break the tail rotor free.

Did the company that built the boat that the front fell off, get into the Heli biz???

Good for a running landing, when you have a tail rotor malfunction.

So he honked back on the cyclic and chopped off his tail Yea, I’d call that below average

An airplane pilot’s first attempt to land a helicopter. 😅

Excellent landing, the tail notar assembly was clearly due for replacement and the pilot did half the job so that those AMTs could finish their coffee and donuts.

Detected severe failure, imminent death, yet managed complex mitigations within seconds of disaster. And, walked away from it. The ‘copter? Definitely a 1 for mechanical fitness. And that’s being gracious. But the Pilot?

I rate it...expensive

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11/10!

Walked away… so good.

Good. Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. If you can take off with the same aircraft afterwards, it’s a great one.

I give it a 10! A Mother F*cking 10! for Creativity. 😈

The real star of Speed

Was there a rotor bump on the tail structure or a mechanical failure???

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It looks like a fixed wing pilot trying to fly a rotary wing aircraft.

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When the boom breaks off after touching down, it’s a 10/10.