jimmyhua
Veteran
Location: Guam
| Barbary: You are one lucky person! I have heard of people permanently loosing fingers after a boom strike while holding the boom.
Squirrel: A couple of weeks back while the head was spooling down I began to place my hand on the hub to slow it down faster and got my leg into the blades.
Hey! That's a real common accident. Someone local here, it's happened too! I think I have a picture of someone's leg as he's ripped up a pair of jeans doing that number too.
The key here is patience. Let the heli spool itself down. When the blades slow down enough that it's NOT dangerous, then go up there and slow it down with your hands. In case it hits your legs at this speed, it won't be as damaging.
I've had the main blades hit my legs on a spool down. Blades weren't going fast enough to do any kind of damage. It hit a funny bone though, and I almost subsequently fell on top of my heli  . (Imagine a guy crouching over heli to mash on the head button. But before he reaches it, mainblades hit his right leg. Guy looses his balance, tosses his radio to the side; and ends up on all fours just almost impaling himself on the head button of his heli.) I'm a klutz.
Jimmy |
