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[dragoon500ly]

There may another reason for for the chopper crash. Even the best quality NVGs have issues with depth perception. Landing in an enclosed compound, with partial cloud cover would create problems for pilots using NVGs. Some of the stories that are floating around state that the pilot may have hit either a wall or one of the compound's building with a rotor which would have caused the crash.

But no one was reported hurt in the crash, OBL was killed, lots of intell was gathered and everyone made it home safe.

In my book, a successful operation!

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

There may another reason for for the chopper crash. Even the best quality NVGs have issues with depth perception. Landing in an enclosed compound, with partial cloud cover would create problems for pilots using NVGs. Some of the stories that are floating around state that the pilot may have hit either a wall or one of the compound's building with a rotor which would have caused the crash...

I would not be surprised at all if this turns out to be the case. There was a situation here in Western Australia in the very early 1990s where the SASR had to medevac a driver at night because he crashed the patrol Landie into a ditch that didn't show up very well in his NVGs. Gave him some broken ribs and lung complications as I recall.