Mike Durant

And the stage fields, they call them, are basically, most of them, are six parallel runways.

And they're in opposite traffic.

So the aircraft are flying opposite, you know, right hand turns on one side, left hand turns on the other.

You're landing in the same direction, but you're making opposite.

So these two guys come around and they both overshot.

And then when they tried to level out to the right altitude, the bottom helicopter, not seeing the top helicopter, crashed into the belly of the second helicopter.

Cut the landing gear off.

Cut the antennas off the tail boom.

Of course, they got six hours.

Neither one of them knew what in the world happened.

One of them thought he had an engine failure.

He didn't have an engine failure, but he treated it like it was an engine failure.

They both got the aircraft on the ground.

And both continued on with our class, I think.

Wow.

Yeah.

But the point being, six hours is not a lot of time.

But pretty much everybody figures out the hardest thing is hovering, because hovering is you're having to do things with your feet and both of your hands, and they're all doing opposite things.

And it's just a coordination drill that you have to sort out.

And most people get it.