Pheweeeeeeee!!! That was close!
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Pheweeeeeeee!!!
Just browsing the forum over breakfast and read HughMartin's post in the Who's Who thread, March 6. Most memorable flight?? Think I'd remember it - like forever! 
Awseome pictures.
Hey Hugh, next time you post something like that, put a hazard warning at the top. Spilt coffee all over my clean shirt.
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Awseome pictures.Hey Hugh, next time you post something like that, put a hazard warning at the top. Spilt coffee all over my clean shirt.
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Last edited by Bronx; 8th March 2004 at 23:14.
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I still get shivers when I think about the time a few years ago I was dropping off hikers on top of a cliff. On the first drop off I had trouble picking a spot as I had not long been flying in the bush
I was flying a KH4 and I landed on the cliff edge with my tail sticking out over the drop hoping the quaka didn't set the spinnifex on fire. I was wriggling the tail, making sure everything was firm as I lowered the collective, sniffing the air for smoke, and not noticing that as I lowered the collective I was moving the cyclic further and further forward to keep the ship level.
I did notice however when I ran out of forward cyclic and the aircraft started to fall backward over the cliff. To say that I sh1t myself is the biggest understatement I could ever make.
I was flying a KH4 and I landed on the cliff edge with my tail sticking out over the drop hoping the quaka didn't set the spinnifex on fire. I was wriggling the tail, making sure everything was firm as I lowered the collective, sniffing the air for smoke, and not noticing that as I lowered the collective I was moving the cyclic further and further forward to keep the ship level.
I did notice however when I ran out of forward cyclic and the aircraft started to fall backward over the cliff. To say that I sh1t myself is the biggest understatement I could ever make.
