Who has the coolest PRUNE name
 

An open discussion.
What does a PRUNE name say about a person, a log book and what they fly. Which is your favourite and you can even nominate yourself if you have to. Names seem to come from many catagories, from the obviously descriptive that says, I am cool, I dont need a cool name, the technically cool turbine engine part name and the cryptic rubics cube obsessive types. Why dont i get us started.
Wocker you must fly hueys.
Wunper has spent far to much time track and balancing to be anything but a bell pilot.
Screwed How did you put the little trade mark symbol on your name. This indicates far to much computer literacy to be flying more than 300 hours a year.
Canadian Rotorhead would be one those old legend CHC types. I bet he is in single digits on the senority list and only comes to work for cool jobs. Co-joes gather around him in the cafeteria begging for war stories.
Sasless I realise that I am messing with prune royalty here. Is this a statement about stability or personality.
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who's next

Whats in a name?
 

Grenade,

In response to your question.....either or both would be correct according to whom you ask.

The long story...Aramco ordered some very nice Bell 412's complete with Sperry Kit and Air Conditioning. They were very nice aircraft as evidenced by the two they actually bought.

Some very enlightened decision making by some in management at that time (and apparantly old time PHI survivors from Arabian Helicopters) resulted in the order for the 412's being cancelled and 212's being ordered. They paid extra to make the change and decided in a real bit of genius to do away with the Sperry Kit and elected to have unstabilized aircraft vice fully kitted out IFR machines. (without Air Conditioning either).

When line pilots suggested flying an unstabilized 212 sixty five miles offshore at night in hazy weather was not a cool thing to do....the then Chief Pilot stated clearly that it was not a problem because it was VFR flying and thus an IFR machine was not required.

As any idiot knows....offshore at night without surface light reference....is not visual flying no matter what the law says or the Boss thinks.

I was so impressed by that kind of management thinking that I chose "Sasless" for a room name.

My inability to calmly deal with people of that lack of commonsense probably allowed me to use a similar rationale for the same name thus it fit the bill on multiple levels.

"Sasless I realise that I am messing with prune royalty"

Are you calling SASless a Queen????;)

Best Name???
 

Off ya Rotor is a great name. Can be interpreted in so many ways!!:ok:

Hey Sasless, you failed to finish the story, had you done so the ARAMCO decision would make perfect sense. The Tanajib B212's which started life as B412's are mostly flown by expats, so of course you'd take out the IFR kit and aircon. The RT B214's are mostly flown by Saudi's, so of course you'd leave the IFR kit and aircon IN.

That's just the way things work over there!

I've always thought "headsethair" was a good one. Very universal, could be suitable in just about any of the PPRune forums, and one we can almost all relate to.

BTW, mine is derived from a penalty stroke in Golf (since I play on occasion) "Out of Bounds".

hello .

In an earlier life I flew RW for Aunty Betty, but it was so long ago that my grasp on things rotary has slipped slightly, so I tend to lurk more than post. Later I joined another part of Betty's workforce, the type that fall out of aircraft rather than attempting to control them. The unit had its origins in a Victorian Militia that comprised artists, hence Airborne Artist.

Is that sometimes known as the Artist's Rifles?

Yep, that's the one. If you can't shoot your enemy, why not just paint them into oblivion :E

When I first joined Pprune and before I had started flying, I thought Thomas Coupling was his real name! I am still looking out for aircraft bits called The Nick Lappos and The Shawn Coyle just in case I make another faux pas.

A blast from the past – Vortex What …Ouch” is a good name and I like the names that are puns on something else like ShyTorque or Anne Tenner.

But, my all-time favourite, and I must have giggled for seconds when I got it, is Art E. Fischler-Reisen!

Cheers

Whirls

Because I am !! :ok:

At least I try to be.............

Because I could!!!!!!!!!!:}

Because I am 2 m. and nearly dont fit any heli :}

Wait, Thomas Coupling isn't his real name?!?

ToTall: I think you may be missing an 'o' there?

I quite like 'FlingWing', even though the term appears to have been around for a while.

My Folks gave me this name. Sort of stuck with it and dont need to hide behind my sometimes idiotic postings......(Im not asking for agreement either)
Was going to use the name my ex-wife gave me, but the PPrune folks would not let me use a55hole.

Canadian Rotorhead certainly belongs in the legend category, and I've sat around many a cafeteria, airport lounge, hangar, cockpits and bars swapping war stories with him. Most definetely a treat!

wasn't TooTall in a Mel Gibson film flying hueys in Vietnam? Cant for the life of me think of the name of the film. Was for the same reason though from what i remember!

My name's not cool at all as it just comes from being too hot. At the risk of offending Whirls :} , when I started flying in tropical climes many years ago, I started wearing boxer shorts to allow a cooling flow of air around the male nether regions and try to prevent the dreaded 'jock itch' :ooh: . Needless to say, when the humidity is very high they still get very soggy :( . I have also always been a fan of Art E. Fischler-Reisen and I always liked Snail Trails.

Soggy,

Be a Man....do like the Scots and start wearing a Kilt and standard undies worn under them.


Course at your advanced age it might not be the temperature and humidity that is causing the problem. :p