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A helicopter pilot reported the tail rotor struck a concrete barrier when positioning on the helipad.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1552629 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201806 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | A109 All Series |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Taxi |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Tail Rotor |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Rotorcraft |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Ground Event / Encounter Object |
| Miss Distance | Horizontal 0 Vertical 0 |
Narrative:
I left solo to go down to ZZZ to the maintenance facility to pick up a part. My crew and I had been on a [reserve status] and then they were dispatched to do a ground transport. I needed to pick up the part and then was going to go pick up the crew. The maintenance pad to ZZZ is located between hangars and some 4 feet concrete barriers. When I arrived there was a running airplane between the hangars and the pad. There were also aircraft parked behind the pad. I landed on the taxiway and ground taxied into the pad. I was trying not to get too close to the running aircraft. When I turned the aircraft around I struck the concrete barrier with the tail rotor. I shut down the aircraft and notified the appropriate people. I should have not turned the aircraft once off the taxiway.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A helicopter pilot reported the tail rotor struck a concrete barrier when positioning on the helipad.
Narrative: I left solo to go down to ZZZ to the maintenance facility to pick up a part. My crew and I had been on a [reserve status] and then they were dispatched to do a ground transport. I needed to pick up the part and then was going to go pick up the crew. The maintenance pad to ZZZ is located between hangars and some 4 feet concrete barriers. When I arrived there was a running airplane between the hangars and the pad. There were also aircraft parked behind the pad. I landed on the taxiway and ground taxied into the pad. I was trying not to get too close to the running aircraft. When I turned the aircraft around I struck the concrete barrier with the tail rotor. I shut down the aircraft and notified the appropriate people. I should have not turned the aircraft once off the taxiway.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.