If I was a pilot, I’d also be concerned about using an Osprey. I’ve heard from people who’ve flown them how much they fucking suck and are hard to fly.
I had a friend whose dad worked on the v-22 program, knew a number of the engineers and guys who died on the early flights.
One night while he was “loose” he said that the plane was pretty safe and a lot of accidents are actually a fantastic way to explain the death of people they need to explain the deaths of.
It’s my favorite conspiracy theory, that these accidents are just battle casualties for things they don’t want to admit. That the v-22 is an “accident farm”
edit: for the sake of clarity, there is no evidence whatsoever for this at all. It was literally someone talking shit and they could have (and probably were) just been talking nonsense anyways. It’s fun to think of in the way a video game plot is fun.
I have absolutely no reason to believe this is true, but I like thinking it
I’ve literally said from start to finish it’s a wild conspiracy theory with no evidence, I have no reason to believe it’s true nor should anyone who saw what I said.
And I’ll add some “in case you’re a moron boilerplate” to it
Though in this scenario I’d be a 3rd party source, as I heard it from a first party. My credibility is suspect as you don’t know how valid my claim is anyways.
What they mean is you have a covert ops team doing missions they can’t acknowledge. Team takes heavy losses in a mission. How do you report those deaths/injuries? Easy: Osprey crash. It’s not assassinations, it’s being able to fabricate a legitimate cause of death for someone who died in a way you don’t want to admit. Not necessarily assassinations. Even accidental deaths could be covered up this way according to the rumor/theory if the accident was something they didn’t want to bring to light. Not saying all Osprey deaths are this or that only the osprey is used for this.
Until the cause of this one is determined, the only V-22 crash that wasn’t pilot error was due to a maintenance error where a mechanic wired the controls backwards.
Pilot error is rarely the actual cause, but is a convenient scapegoat. I worked in rotary accident investigation in the Army and that’s not something you’ll read in a report. There’s other issues; why is this aircraft in particular so prone to pilot error? Perhaps it’s poorly designed?
It’s because it’s a heavy rotorcraft. Not poor design, just rotorcraft physics. It’s prone to enter a vortex ring state if the descent rate in relation to forward velocity is too high. The same thing can happen with any normal helicopter, but the V-22 has a lot of weight for the disk area of it’s rotors, giving stronger vortices from the rotors.
It’s a pilot training thing, but I think they did put some sort of alert system on it if it’s getting close to the conditions that induce VRS.
Yes, but slower and less range than fixed wing. Likewise, it can’t do rotary wing things as good as a helicopter. It’s truly a “master of none” aircraft. It’s not great at anything.
Putting it in a rescue role is a terrible idea. You do not want a finicky to fly, unreliable aircraft in that scenario.
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