Hangar Flying - HL 177 (3)

767 Crew  Needed!

Ajax Babo (Bilborch@aol.com) 

Hi Mark,  A friend of mine is looking for a currently qualified crew to ferry a 767-300 from Africa to Phoenix, AZ toward the end of August.      If any of your readers are interested please respond to fasgsl@aol.com.

Thank you, Bill Borchert  

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From: David L. Roberts Date: 8/5/2013 6:52:21 PM To: MY AVIATION PHOTO FANS Subject: Fwd: Mississippi Delta Crop Duster Pilot on Vimeo

Thanks to Doug in McDonough for sending this.


This pilot has almost as much fun as Rick F. and I did killing trees flying the ole C123 in "Operation Ranch Hand" in Southeast Asia!  Regards Doug R.     

Takes a special kind of pilot!

http://vimeo.com/69854648

 

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From: dick@thedillers.net
To: DWSkjerven@aol.com
Sent: 6/15/2013 9:03:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: Helicopter Pilots....

 

Anyone who's flown these things know this to be absolutely true.

 

 

This may help explain the  extremely fond thoughts most pilots have about HELICOPTERS!

 

 

• Helicopter flight: A bunch of spare parts flying in close formation.

 

• Anything that screws its way into the sky flies according to unnatural principals.

 

• You never want to sneak up behind an old, high-time helicopter pilot and clap your hands. He will instantly dive for cover and most likely whimper ... then get up and smack the crap out of you.

 

• There are no old helicopters laying around airports like you see old airplanes. There is a reason for this. Come to think of it, there are not many old, high-time helicopter pilots hanging around airports either so the first issue is problematic.

 

• You can always tell a helicopter pilot in anything moving: a train, an airplane, a car or a boat. They never smile, they are always listening to the machine and they always hear something they think is not right.

 

• Helicopter pilots fly in a mode of intensity, actually more like "spring loaded", while waiting for pieces of their ship to fall off.

 

• Flying a helicopter at any altitude over 500 feet is considered reckless and should be avoided. Flying a helicopter at any altitude or condition that precludes a landing in less than 20 seconds is considered outright foolhardy. Remember in a helicopter you have about 1 second to lower the collective in an engine failure before the craft becomes unrecoverable.  Once you've failed this maneuver the machine flies about as well as a 20  case Coke machine.

 

• Even a perfectly executed autorotation only gives you a glide ratio slightly better than that of a brick. 

 

• While hovering, if you start to sink a bit, you pull up on the collective while twisting the throttle, push with your left foot (more torque) and move the stick left (more translating tendency) to hold your spot. If you now need to stop rising, you do the opposite in that order. Sometimes in wind you do this many times each second. Don't you think that's a strange way to fly?

 

• For Helicopters: You never want to feel a sinking feeling in your gut (low "g" pushover) while flying a two bladed under slung teetering rotor system.  You are about to do a snap-roll to the right and crash. For that matter, any remotely aerobatic maneuver should be avoided in a Huey. Don't push your luck. It will run out soon enough anyway.  If everything is working fine on your helicopter consider yourself temporarily lucky. Something is about to break.  

 

• Harry Reasoner once wrote the following about helicopter pilots: "The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by its nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by an incompetent pilot, it will fly.  A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other.  Having said all this, I must admit that flying in a helicopter is one of the most satisfying and exhilarating experiences I have ever enjoyed: skimming over the tops of trees at 100 knots is something we should all be able to do, at least once".

 

• And remember the fighter pilot's prayer: "Lord I pray for the eyes of an eagle, the heart of a lion and the courage of a combat helicopter pilot."

 

• Many years later, I know that it was sometimes anything but fun, but now it IS something to brag about for those of us who survived the experience. 

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