HELO FUN TIME!
 

Fun stuff you've done in your helo.

Going through SARTU @ Valley. I was asked by a mate if I would take a gobby jet nav stude flying in the griffin during one of my training sorties. I duly asked my instructor, he said yes so off we went to do spme cliff winching(sits). Reversed the helo into a smallish crevice(nice word), blades apparantly 10' away from all solid stuff(probably much further, but I was only a stude at the time and I want to talk myself up a bit). Poor jet boy nav who was used to seeing all hard stuff 250' away at the very least almost had a coronary. We curtailed the sortie because he was feeling a little sick.

To his credit he did buy the beers that night.

I plead the 5th amendment... I will not incriminate myself!
But I have had some fun...
:P

Does noone on this forum talk about anything other than P of F or tech.

This is quite frightening as I get enough of that at work, and I don't understand it there either.

220 kts (groundspeed) in a Chinook @ 50ft. Cant beat it.

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Flat out in a Gazelle with front of skids in the (tallish) wheat crop. Watch out for those wire fences however.

Been winched-out @ 10K'. The ultimate 'space-walk'... allegedly :)

10000' in a 206, no doors and light CAT.

Sorry I miss read the subject, the above was NOT fun!

Fun things in a helicopter?

One of many was operating the hoist on BOs and BKs during certification tests and demos.I will never forget standing on the skids at 16,000 MSL (about 6,000 AGL) over the Rockies in December. Cold, but what a view!

Least fun in a helicopter? One of many was trying to clog an inlet seperator by flying in 1/8 mile vis in wet snow. 30 feet AGL, 30 to 40 knots, back and forth along the edge of the company parking lot for hours. "Turn left at the Ford, look out for the light pole". We never did clog it, but we had one customer who did regulalry. I always wondered what THEY were flying in!

Everytime I fly is fun ..... :)

So far though, when coming back along the coast, 75-100 yards off the beach at 50Ft, 80 Kias, with my CFI to back me up (Solo rental contract is no lower than 500' except to takeoff land at airports)

Doug and I had a blast.

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Marc

Winched out at the end of 250ft of cable, 10ft above the moor, trusty 12 bore in hand , shooting rabbits. Excellent coordination exercise for the whole crew.

Never had fun in a helicopter... Neither did a certain family member who was screaming at the time. How could she know whats scary until she takes her hands from in front of her eyes. I knew there was a wall there. Missed the tree by miiiles. No one else complained. Mind you no one else got in. Must have seen me drive. No, can't say I've had fun in a helicopter.
Keep your chopper up.

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Pleasure flying for the local kids' mental home. Ya Canna beat it.

Phil

50ft high club! (nookie on open ramp of Chinook while rest of crew give it wellie low level.)

Well worth the case of champagne.

Your favourite moment in a Helicopter!
 

Polar bear spotting - Churchill, Canada - 2000

My favourite moment in a helicopter....
 

Landing - upright, with my socks up and my watch still going.

4 hours undisturbed kip while on guard duty Detmold early hours one morning in 1981, six man seat back of Lynx Mk1 :zzz:
When asked by the guard commander where I had been, I said it was such a lovely night I thought I'd stay out and do the next guys stag for him. :ok:

Good job the Soviet Forces didn't decide to invade Europe that night :eek:

Nov 2003 with my shiny new PPL in my back pocket taking my first passenger, my mother, for her first helicopter flight.

When the starter didn't start at Beccles and receiving detailed telephone instructions from the Ch Eng on how to whack the relay with a hammer, she didn't turn a hair.

Cheers

Whirls

I'm sure he gave you plenty of opportunity to make up for it SS. How many extras?

I was at Deathmold too in 1981 and whilst on stag one evening and desperate for a pee I walked over to a Lynx and relieved myself out of view of anyone who might watching from the offices. Might have had a bit of flatulence too. Anyhow after zipping myself up and walking away the cabin door lid open and out stepped my Flight Commander and a young lady who he had been 'entertaining' therein.

Anyhow - I digress. My favourite moment is undoubtedly finally climbing out of the thing after 6 hours IMC in a goon suit.

Probably when I dropped off some people at a station in remote outback Australia, then flew back to where I was based. Doors off, sunset was beautiful, extremely peaceful as nobody next to me :}, temp was just right, flying (legally) low over the landscape.

Nothing unusually original but just one moment that sticks out in my mind.

Another great moment was my first solo in an R44, which so happened to be a SAR job

Accomplishing a training toe in, in an extreme confined area, at a rocky waterfall along a British Columbia mountian river. The whole area was scattered with boulders the size of Volkswagens, and it took a few minutes to find two positioned so that I could get a toe onto each, while not getting the rotor into the branches.

What a sense of satisfaction when I finally did it, and perched there for a minute or so!

Then my mentor held it, so I could take a photo...

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