I had this dream of a way to be saved by a hellicopter crash and free fall. Can it be true.?

Question

i was in a dream and was falling in a helecopter from hitting a hundred foot bridge. (i think it was from playing to much Gta 4)

anyway

about 5 feet before i hit the ground i JUMPED up...>UP< off the side of the hellicopter, and i guess jumpin straight up off the hellicopter before i hit the ground slowed my rate of fall.

DO YOU THINK THAT THIS IS POSSIBLE?

Answer 1

No. It is the same as asking if you are in an elevator when the cable breaks can you jump at the last second.

Say you are falling about 88 ft/s (60 mph) when you jump. At most, you could jump up about 3 ft. However, that is relative to the elevator (helicopter in your case). You would still be falling 88 ft/s.

Answer 2

The helicopter might still have enough lift so if it&#039;s almost floating it may save your life or reduce injury.  If it&#039;s falling straight down, you could save your life if you were a very good jumper.  I would think you would need some mechanical help to achieve that strength, although I haven&#039;t tried. (note: if you invent something, remember the acceleration that you are allowed to experience.. probably 50m/s^2 for a short time (and less for more extended time), and make sure you have the strength to hold yourself under that acceleration.

Note: Since you&#039;re on a helicopter, which is heavy, this will help.  However using something lightweight would be a bad analogy to compare it to, cause then jumping would push the object more than you .

5ft is kind of extreme, and you&#039;d likely die even if you did get the acceleration to stop in time.

However if you jump from higher, you have enough room to accelerate under maximum acceleration back to 0m/s or almost so.

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Let&#039;s say you&#039;re falling at 50-100m/s

100m/s...maximum acceleration (50m/s^2?) for 2s...2s(50m/s)=100m

50m/s...maximum acceleration for 1s...  =25m

either way more than 5ft.

Let&#039;s push it up to 80m/s^2 for maximum acceleration

100m/s...60m

50m/s... 15m

But this doesn&#039;t matter if you still have some flotation happening with the helicopter... you might not be falling as fast and may be able to make it.  Yes it helps.

Answer 3

In that case you would have been decapitated by the rotor blade (or portion of the blade) which will still be rotating from the airflow.

Next time, just before you jump, put the &#039;copter on it side so you can jump clear of the deadly rotor blades.