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Helicopter air taxi pilot reported entering instrument conditions and an unusual attitude while operating with night vision goggles.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1527257 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201803 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.TRACON |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | Marginal |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Eurocopter AS 350/355/EC130 - Astar/Twinstar/Ecureuil |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 135 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Flight Plan | VFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Rotorcraft Flight Crew Commercial |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control Inflight Event / Encounter VFR In IMC Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
Flight encountered IMC at night on nvgs which resulted in an unusual flight attitude almost immediately. During the regaining control of the aircraft into a stable flight path; no call was made to approach declaring an emergency or a change to the aircraft squawk due to the task saturation. Once the aircraft control was regained and stabilized; we then started with the company IMC procedures; but regained VMC at that time prior to making the appropriate emergency call or squawk. [Operations] was informed that VMC had been regained and we proceeded VFR. Given the situation; all focus and effort was on aircraft control and any change to radios would have compounded the issue. Had we remained in VMC after regaining control of the aircraft we would then have proceeded with the IMC checklist which includes making the appropriate calls and squawk change.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Helicopter air taxi pilot reported entering instrument conditions and an unusual attitude while operating with night vision goggles.
Narrative: Flight encountered IMC at night on NVGs which resulted in an unusual flight attitude almost immediately. During the regaining control of the aircraft into a stable flight path; no call was made to approach declaring an emergency or a change to the aircraft squawk due to the task saturation. Once the aircraft control was regained and stabilized; we then started with the company IMC procedures; but regained VMC at that time prior to making the appropriate emergency call or squawk. [Operations] was informed that VMC had been regained and we proceeded VFR. Given the situation; all focus and effort was on aircraft control and any change to radios would have compounded the issue. Had we remained in VMC after regaining control of the aircraft we would then have proceeded with the IMC checklist which includes making the appropriate calls and squawk change.
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.