I Want To Fly A Helicopter, Not Look At A Bunch Of Crazy Dials
 

Thought some of you might find this amusing (apologies if someone has already posted it)

http://www.theonion.com/4006/opinion1.html

He hehehe, sounds excactly like my approach to my first flight.
I have just about got the fuel gauge sorted out now........ a couple more to go. :}

Does anybody pay real money to buy that paper?? With articles from "reporters" who have obviously never set their backsides in a helicopter?

Biggest load of cr@p I ever read, it was meant to be amusing, but missed the mark by a couple of futz-meters.

Easy, A.C. -

it is a satire paper - nobody pays for it, and I'm sure you are right that the writers haven't been in a helicopter.

The Onion is pretty funny the way SNL is pretty funny - sometimes LMAO funny, sometimes no so.
The Onion

Maybe it's me, but I laughed out loud at the whole thing. Really funny article - but obviously meant in jest!

funny?? i didnt see anything even humerous. just a confused fella that flew in the wrong machine for what he wanted to do. if he just wanted to have fun why didnt he take somthing with less gauges??:hmm:

boy....some people just don't get irony...:p

The Onion is a satire, folks
 

And a pretty good one, too. My wife showed me that article when I came back from LongRanger training. She said that it sounded just like I did when I was starting out in this helicopter stuff.

Did anybody else laugh out loud at the part where they guy talks about that annoying buzzer that always comes on "...30 seconds into your flight"?

Cheers.

would he take a trawler skiing? or a road train to the drags?
ive never been in one, maybe thats the problem:confused:

Help, I'd love to read that article but the original link directs to the most current paper now...May be it's me but I couldn't find an archive section...