37 Taipan helicopters destroyed by the ADF

[Bobby]

60 Minutes Sunday night.

The ADF destroyed 37 Taipan helicopters when there was
nothing wrong with the basic design.
They could have been given to Ukraine.
It was most likely a hi-tech helmet that the Taipan pilots were using that night
called the TopOwl which was retro fitted that caused the deaths.

https://9now.nine.com.au/60-minutes/tai ... 48d5ae893c

The TopOwl has been used by militaries around the world for the best part of two decades.

It comprises a helmet-mounted sight display on which is projected critical information about the aircraft, including altitude, height above ground, pitch and roll (attitude), ground speed, vertical speed and whether the aircraft is climbing or descending.

The latest software upgrade for the TopOwl, HMSD V5.10, was found to carry significant risk, according to an experienced test pilot with the Army Aviation Test and Evaluation Section (AATES).

He found that when the aircraft was in a turn, the displayed angle of bank washed out if he looked to the left or to the right; a 30 degree angle of bank would, for example, be represented as 23 to 25 degrees if the pilot turned his head 90 to 120 degrees either side.

In the test pilot's own words, the "ambiguous aircraft attitude" represented an "unacceptable risk to flight safety".

Even more alarmingly, the test pilot found the new software could result in "Controlled Flight Into Terrain", making it a "substantial risk of multiple deaths".

Greens Senator David Shoebridge, who has been probing the safety of the Taipan ever since one ditched in Jervis Bay, four months before the Lindeman Island incident, said the AATES report from June 2019 was deeply concerning.

"This is the kind of report that should ground the fleet. 'Substantial risk of multiple deaths', if that doesn't ground the fleet, what does ground the fleet?" Shoebridge says.

[Jasin]

This should be interesting.

[Bobby]

This should be interesting.

60 Minutes cast the ADF in a very bad light.

It seems they have wasted $3.7 billion on those helicopters -
our tax money pissed against the wall.
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/ncb-edite ... ic-taipan/

They did unsafe upgrades on them and all the details are being held up with 4 different enquiries.
If they had just left them alone they'd still be there and be OK
and no one would have died.
4 soldiers died in the accident near Hamilton island.

[Jasin]

It 'all' seems a waste. Waste of taxpayer money, waste of Taipan full potential, waste of lives, waste of not giving to Ukraine.
Taipans are poisonous.