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Old 2nd Mar 2013, 10:52
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fly911
 
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Live and re-learn

In my early days of helo flying, when my comfort zone was quite a bit greater than my instructors', he landed very close to the fuel station vent pipe. I got out and fueled the Hiller UH-12E and got back in. He said "You've got it". When I lifted off, I nearly rolled it over with so much cyclic away from the vent pipe so as not to drift toward it, that the instructor had it take the controls in order to avoid dynamic rollover. Now thousands of hours and many years later, I recently put another pilot in a situation beyond his comfort level and had to intervene. Live and re-learn.
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