Complimentary 2010 Calendar for Rotorheads Members
 

For the first 40 members here who post what they enjoy about flying helicopters you will receive a complimentary 2010 Helicopters at Work calendar.

Just make your post and send me a PM with name and postal address so i can send it off for you.

Cheers all and have a Happy New Year.

Ned

P.S. Senior Pilot - No names of product mentioned so hope this is ok :ok:

Woohoo!

I enjoy the stunning pay, fantastic meal services and the legions of gorgeous young women throwing themselves at my feet.

At least that's what I tell myself each month when I write the check for the student loan payment ;)

Honestly, though, the best way I could describe my love for flying helos to a potential girlfriend: the day after I learned to hover, I saw some movement on the opposite side of the practice field... and it took nothing more than a thought to sidle over to have a look, do a graceful pirouette and return to my starting point.

I never looked at fixed wing flying as being anything but boring after that.

Besides, all of my best friends are just a little nutty - they're all helo drivers. I wouldn't have it any other way.

All the best for 2010, everyone.

The Life!
 

Getting payed for sitting on my Ass!
gotta love this job.;)
FG

LAPD Famil-flight
 

Orbiting a South Central LA address, with an armed suspect inside a premises below, shooting at the LAPD SWAT team outside. Look on my mate's face next to me - PRICELESS!!:eek:

sweeping floors, getting the engineers coffee, hot fueling at -35, repairing nets., getting to use my helmet when the chokers break....

;)

The hover 1 m from the ground, the SAR missions with a f.... weather, the feeling after that kind of mission, crossing the main runway to land when 5 fixed-wings are waiting a for a final, taking off from an helipad or a taxiway, avoiding 10 minutes taxiing, flying over big cities at 1000ft and..and.....
Safe fly to all and all the best for 2010..;)

I love it all !:D

What I like about flying helicopters
 

Being able to land virtually anywhere.

Low level @ 120kts.

Flying on NVG, landing in a remote field or clearing, then looking under the goggles and realising how black it is out there and considering what we have just achieved.

Pinnacle landings - try that in a fixed wing!

I have to pinch myself sometimes and think to myself, I could be in a desk job or on a production line.

Happy New Year to all

To be able to go for a $100 hamberger, which is probably closer to $250 (each person) if you consider all the costs.

The best views in the world; to see the land from a different perspective. And if you miss something, turn round and have another look .... :ok:

Cheers

Whirls

The Best thing about Helicopters
 

Where do I start!.

- being able to hover
- Fighting a helicopter on a battlefield.
- CASEVAC
- not having to use an airport or runway
- Low flying
- Dust!

Seeing views that others would be jealous of.
Early morning lifts and watching the sunrise over the Canadian prarie
Taking people flying
The yearly Santa run to schools!

Unfortunately I have not experience the more glitzy life....maybe in a few years!

Regards

Ralph

I enjoy.....



....the Freedom while flying.......

As a private flyer, choppers provide me with the challenge and satisfaction that I don't get from my day job.

If only I were 20 years younger.. :}

Serious flying should be fun!

Blue Skies to all for 2010
- Dee

"suffering" in the deepest darkest places in central Africa...

...giving plank drivers hell about being able to do things they could only be envious about...

What do I like?
 

What don't I like!

That feeling after having off loaded a full load and suddenly being light with tons of power - reassuring!

Oh and of course hovering, and more importantly reminding our FW brethren about it :ok:

Just a reminder all to send me a PM with name and postal address after posting.

Cheers

Ned

Launching a darkened helo, from a darkened ship, on a no moon night, hunting with only your wit, a set of NVGs, and the balls to do 120kts at 50ft..... because we can.

I don't even like flying, but my daddy wants me to

No-ID,

Sorry mate but that doesnt count, come on.

Ned

Once you taste helicopters, everything else is,.....;)

All the best in 2010 to all of you !

Landing in places like Battersea and Issy whilst the fixed wing guys trundle 40 miles out of town.

The best thing about helicopters is taking someone for their first flight in one.

For most people, who only ever sit in a cramped seat in the back of a no frills airliner, it is a revelation - hovering, flying sideways, backwards, skimming over the ground - and all with a panoramic view of rhe landscape. nothing beats it.

Earning a living whilst loving what you're doing. Without doubt the highlights though are when your actions through SAR, CASEVAC, EMS or just being in the right place at the right time saves life.

Thanks Ned :D :D

SW

The best thing about about flying a helicotper is that no two flights are the same. There are always different views, weather, passengers and aircraft to worry about. It's this variety, often lacking in real life, that makes flying so special for me. It's about getting away from it all for a moment or two, isn't it?

The fact that many people say that helicopters shouldn't fly and we prove them wrong everyday is a bonus!

Just a reminder for Page 2 to send me a PM with name and postal address after you have made your post.

Cheers

Finding the perfect remote beach for overnight camp,cruising through the snow covered mountains on a still clear winters day,seeing tears of joy in the eyes of friends when I fly them round beautiful areas where they spent their youth.Being able to hover and land just about anywhere, not too sad to admit I have always been and will always be fascinated by helicopters.
R

...just to name a few
 

Seeing this beatiful country from the above, the sense of freedom.
"To protect and serve" feeling when flying police missions.
Flying people around and watching them enjoy...and asking for more.
Being able to land almost anywhere and anytime...especially when the nature calls :}, but also a handy option in adverse weather, beeing able to hover.
Picking up loaded Santa and bringing him to a children Christmass party.
Having great buddies at work and meeting a lot of interesting people around.

All the best to all of you! :ok:

"what they enjoy about flying helicopters"
 

It's the anticipation !!!
:ok::bored::eek::D

http://www.jollygreen.org/Humor/Reasoner.jpg
(Thanks to Senior Pilot for the link in the military forum)

Also it's instances where a simple patrol flight turns into a full blown high speed urban pursuit, decamp and foot chase.
Ending up with someone seeing the New Year in from behind a locked door.
(One of which we have just returned from)

Everything about helos!
 

Hovering
Low level flying
Landing almost anywhere
The views!

Hope its open to engineers Ned?

Been working on choppers since 82 , 206's thru to Chinooks, its got me all over Australia, Asia, Mid East and Europe, couldn't do a 9 to 5 job, worked with some great Pilots and Engineers and some ....others. Its been fun!

From Sycamore to Sea-King,and many more in between,to hover (not as well as a Kestrel though !),fly backwards,sideways, pirouette and dance, climb to 20000`ft, and feel like balancing on a pin,;sit in the hover at 40` over a cold dark ocean in the middle of the night,or sit in an icing -rig as the torque starts to rise and fall(hopefully); to thread one`s way into a jungle clearing in a monsoon to extract a wounded soldier; to have the tail-rotor and gearbox part company with you,or an engine failure to a pinnacle LZ; and then go dabbling the nosewheels along the surf on a tropical beach(when one was young ).To survive it all and want to go back for (some)more....Yes!!

Stopping, then landing.

T.D.

Simply getting paid to do the job you love.

FNW

An office with a different view everyday!

From flying people over to the Bahamas and Florida Keys for a fun night out or landing on a major highway to airlift a car crash victim. I love it all.
Not to mention getting paid for sleeping and working out while waiting for a call to come in. :ok:

I love it because....
 

I like the ease with which I can move around to precisely the spot I want to be in almost without moving the controls.

....and the view!

You have to do what you were born to do.

Used to fly planes with my dad in the 80s and at the time i thought that was good....
Until i started flying rotary as an adult!!!!!!!!!!!
What more could you want ????
to be able to go where no one else in any sort of aircraft can. (Harriers excepted)
to be able to stop and loiter at a beauty spot without circling.
to be able to fly backwards should you feel the need.....

Helicopters have been in my blood since i was a child but i thought they were prohibitively expensive , so i went for fixed wing instead.
What a mistake... you should not try to ignore what is in your heart.
Oh and i was right they are prohibitively expensive...
Happy New Year to all

Chester:ok:

The disengagement of surface friction
 

The best thing for me would the joyful sublimity of having the earth spinning beneath you. Although that would only be partually true, the Idea makes me want to give my disorganized romance another chance!

Crank it up for 2010!

After taking my older brother (who is a desk jocky) for his first flip in a heli, he was overheard saying to his wife on the phone: "...and then the litlle C%&T asked me how I liked his office...!!!"

one of those priceless moments in our love/hate relationship...

Landing, walking into the cafe, laying the keys with the helicopter key chain on the counter and having the beautiful women fighting to give me their phone number.








Well - at least I have the chance of a calender! :)

HTC