Complimentary 2010 Calendar for Rotorheads Members
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Just started learning to fly Helos. I love the challenge, the complexity of the machine and the satisfaction and pride when it actually starts to listen to you and follow your orders... And it's only beginning for me, I can't wait to learn more 
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Pilots can't count
Am I the 40th person since the original post obviously doesn't count?
I am still trying to figure out the answer to your question after 40 fun years and some 15,000 helicopter hours - can I let you know when I have?
Trog
Bo
kks - Stuck in the Air beat me to it!
I am still trying to figure out the answer to your question after 40 fun years and some 15,000 helicopter hours - can I let you know when I have?
Trog
Bo
kks - Stuck in the Air beat me to it!
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Another ten calendars added to the give away so keep posting. It means all posters up to number 55 get one since that takes into account my posts 
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Well I love almost everything about it.
The view from the office is usually great, the feeling of fulfilment when completing demanding jobs, no day is like the one before and the list goes on...
...and it beats sailing around rough seas gutting fish for a living (I did that for too many years)
Happy new year people!
The view from the office is usually great, the feeling of fulfilment when completing demanding jobs, no day is like the one before and the list goes on...
...and it beats sailing around rough seas gutting fish for a living (I did that for too many years)
Happy new year people!
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I was once asked (by a non-pilot) "why helicopters?" and my answer then, as it still is today is by quoting the great Louis Armstrong " If you gotta ask the question, then you'll never know!"
so what's the best part about flying helicopters? Flying helicopters!
so what's the best part about flying helicopters? Flying helicopters!
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Flying sideways down the runway when the crosswind is too strong for the Fixed Wing Guys.
Being able to stop to admire the view.
Able to land in a field to sit out the weather.
Flying into my garden to take relatives for their first ever helicopter flight.
EddieHeli
Being able to stop to admire the view.
Able to land in a field to sit out the weather.
Flying into my garden to take relatives for their first ever helicopter flight.
EddieHeli
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Ned, any chance to include first 50 replies? :-D
Go on, make my day.
I can only grope the Vertical Mag only so many times till it doesn't give me that 'new' kicks anymore.
As someone said in the past, flying helicopter is the closest to flying magic carpet in real. I've only got 50ish hours from 2008 and sadly have to keep slaving another handful of years till I'm done with training and employable (if powers to be allow me to get at least instructor job).
Flying low level, hovering around, all the variety of jobs done with heli as future prospects should I be healthy and alive to get to do them.
Real hands on flying, unlike the holy grail of all those crazy wannabes wishing to be in the front of 737/320/777/747 etc.
I do want to do some airplane bush flying, seaplane flying.
I love gliding, but flying helicopter is the ultimate bush flying, hands on, varied, rewarding, international in the nature. Something those only walking or driving cannot understand. Also proper career, unlike gliding.
Cool to some, yes.
"Getting there being from ordinary family without fortunes and big loan options"? NOT COOL. I hope to finish up by 2012. NYE resolution - work towards my goals even harder.
Martin
EDIT: YEAAAAH!
Just read previous posts. Superb. I hope I don't have to send you my credit card details for verification purposes
Go on, make my day.
I can only grope the Vertical Mag only so many times till it doesn't give me that 'new' kicks anymore.
As someone said in the past, flying helicopter is the closest to flying magic carpet in real. I've only got 50ish hours from 2008 and sadly have to keep slaving another handful of years till I'm done with training and employable (if powers to be allow me to get at least instructor job).
Flying low level, hovering around, all the variety of jobs done with heli as future prospects should I be healthy and alive to get to do them.
Real hands on flying, unlike the holy grail of all those crazy wannabes wishing to be in the front of 737/320/777/747 etc.
I do want to do some airplane bush flying, seaplane flying.
I love gliding, but flying helicopter is the ultimate bush flying, hands on, varied, rewarding, international in the nature. Something those only walking or driving cannot understand. Also proper career, unlike gliding.
Cool to some, yes.
"Getting there being from ordinary family without fortunes and big loan options"? NOT COOL. I hope to finish up by 2012. NYE resolution - work towards my goals even harder.
Martin
EDIT: YEAAAAH!
Just read previous posts. Superb. I hope I don't have to send you my credit card details for verification purposes
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Flying anytime, anyplace and returning the machine to ya garage each night and not having to store at an airport.
Stopping to fish on rivers far far away.
All the best to one and all
Stopping to fish on rivers far far away.
All the best to one and all
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To (mis)use a quote from a movie: "Airplane pilots make movies,helicopter pilots make history".
To me , that is good enough a reason to get in each day and tame the beast.
Cheers to all and a happy and safe 2010.
Alt3.
To me , that is good enough a reason to get in each day and tame the beast.
Cheers to all and a happy and safe 2010.
Alt3.
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I enjoy the fact I get to spend both Christmas and New Year eating kebabs, longing for a cold beer, in a sandy place.
(Can anyone else hear that high pitched whine?)
Without the sarcasm: I still enjoy the opportunities that flying helicopters has given me, and the places I have had the privilege to see.
I also love the fact that I'm getting a free calander.
And.....picking it up into the hover never gets old.
Happy New Year to all from Libya.
Here's to a safe Twenty Ten.
(Libya - It's good for the liver, and I don't envy all of your hangovers... honest!)
(Can anyone else hear that high pitched whine?)
Without the sarcasm: I still enjoy the opportunities that flying helicopters has given me, and the places I have had the privilege to see.
I also love the fact that I'm getting a free calander.
And.....picking it up into the hover never gets old.
Happy New Year to all from Libya.
Here's to a safe Twenty Ten.
(Libya - It's good for the liver, and I don't envy all of your hangovers... honest!)
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The 3 ages of man
When I was a little kid I tried to lift myself up in a bucket by standing in it & pulling on the handle. In adolescence I got a degree in physics & found out why that can't happen. In my late forties I learned to hover & discovered the next best thing to lifting yourself up in a bucket.
Chief Bottle Washer
Thanks, Ned: certainly one of the quickest post counts for a thread in a while
Happy New Year to you all
Happy New Year to you all
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Just in case senior pilot's post is not counted!
because when i.....
pull the stick in my left hand, and i move the stick in my right hand, and use my feet to move the pedals to stop my bum cheeks from being sore(staying in balance i think it's called), and i get that all happening at once, it feels great!!!
pull the stick in my left hand, and i move the stick in my right hand, and use my feet to move the pedals to stop my bum cheeks from being sore(staying in balance i think it's called), and i get that all happening at once, it feels great!!!
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Senior Pilot nabbed the last one! His service to all of us certainly makes him worthy of any freebees any of us could give away. But anyhow . . .
I like the mental drill of dealing with off airport landings. When the plank drivers complain about airport markings or diagrams I think of what we enjoy at the unimproved sites and challenging helipads.
I like the mental drill of dealing with off airport landings. When the plank drivers complain about airport markings or diagrams I think of what we enjoy at the unimproved sites and challenging helipads.
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Keep posting guys and gals til it gets to Post No 70
DONT FORGET to send me a PM with name and postal address when you have made your post.
Ned
DONT FORGET to send me a PM with name and postal address when you have made your post.
Ned
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Originally Posted by Jolly Green
Senior Pilot nabbed the last one!
