Dude claims to have 3000 hours in helicopters, including 250 in 47's, so the owner becomes his friend, and asks for help troubleshooting.  They get in a hover and the owner hands off the controls to the non-pilot,  who instantly wads it up.    Fake pilot admits he lied, has a problem with lying, and is in therapy for it.



On August 27, 2019, about 1716 Pacific daylight time, a Bell 47G-4A helicopter, N6064H, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near North Las Vegas, Nevada. The pilot and a passenger were not injured. The helicopter was operated as a Part 91 personal flight. According to the pilot, he purchased the helicopter in August 2018 and had flown it only twice. On what would have been his third flight, the pilot was air taxiing about 40 knots when he observed that the engine was not generating enough power to keep the rotor speed in the green arc of the tachometer, so he terminated the flight. The pilot reported that witnesses informed him the engine was backfiring during the hovering. The pilot sought assistance from an acquaintance who professed to be a commercial pilot with 3,000 hours helicopter flight experience, and 300 hours flight experience in Bell 47 helicopters. On the day of the accident, the pilot and the acquaintance cleaned and reinstalled the sparkplugs. They then repositioned the helicopter to a helipad with the intent to run the engine and hover over the helipad. The pilot stated that he lifted the helicopter to a hover, and it was difficult to control. He transferred the flight controls to the passenger, believing that he had more flight experience in the helicopter model. The passenger acknowledged that he had the flight controls. According to the pilot, the helicopter “rapidly tipped and tracked backwards to our right toward the parking lot.” Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspectors interviewed the passenger, during which he admitted to making false statements of being a certificated pilot. A review of FAA records confirmed that the passenger did not possess a pilot certificate. Review of this security video reveals that, shortly after takeoff to a hover, the helicopter drifted aft, banked left, and yawed to the right. The tail rotor impacted a fuel cart about the same time that the main rotor impacted the ground. The helicopter then rolled onto its left side. The pilot and passenger exited through the right door with assistance from first responders. Examination of the airframe revealed no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation. Examination of the engine revealed that the No. 1 cylinder inner and outer intake valve springs were fractured and had collapsed, which reduced the height of the springs.

With friends like this who need enemies

Lol to the idiot passenger. Why lie when you can be killed? Moron!

How hard can it possibly be? I can knife edge between buildings on GTA5. Pretty much the same.

Oldie but a goodie:

It must be harder than it looks.  

Whoopsie!

Usually it’s when idiots collide, this time it’s when aspiring clowns get together for amateur hour at the clown show!  

So much stupidity I’m not even going to say anything except lol and it sucks that a pair of idiots destroyed a helicopter.

That's why it's so expensive.  

We all know at least one tard just like that.

They always produced exciting and comical situations when we were kids and had nothing of value to tear up.

Now that we are adults, they are to be shunned.

If you're going to confess to lying, doing it before you take the controls is better than after.

Maybe on paper he is, but That’s being generous considering he couldn’t save his own helicopter from a crash while hovering.

Also, why did owner have an annual done but didn’t have the mechanic diagnose the misfire and low power problem?  If the low power problem is so severe you can’t maintain normal rotor speed you’ve got a big problem.  Sounds like he bought more aircraft than he was willing/able to afford.  

I stand by my conclusion that the owner is a clown.  

ETA: looked him up on faa website, he only has helicopter private.  Ie. He isn’t a military pilot so a lot of things a military pilot would take for granted he’s probably never learned or experienced.  Like guarding the controls enough to prevent your aircraft from hitting things you don’t want to hit.  Especially when letting a guy you’ve never flown with fly for the first time.  Stupid should hurt, it’s just a shame a chopper destroyed in this case.

No way that is worth the time/effort/money on such a helicopter if everything is done by the book.  

It’s gonna look like the clown world helicopters I used to deal with when people don’t want other people to know where things come from:

The people that do that sort of thing generally do it as a hobby, not to make money.  It will probably end up in the hands of someone that has a hangar full of other bent 47's.

Yeah because a "military pilot" has never crashed a helicopter before due to pilot error.  You can be trained in the civi or military world and still be an idiot, a clown, or just have an accident.