Female Pilot Taxis a Stearman into R44
 

The papers today are running a almost full page on a female who it seems is wanting to re-create a previous female record flight to Australia,..

Sadly though she seems to have put this on hold by taxi-ing into a stationary R44 at Goodwood.. shock to her old stearman may mean a new engine , plus sorting out the insurance for the parked R44 totalled Heli by the looks of it, darn good job the 44 was empty.

But hey the good side is the 44 owner can now buy something better..:ok:

And why did you say 'female'? If it had been a bloke, would you have said 'male pilot taxies Stearman into R44'?

Ouch!
 

Pilot Tracey Curtis-Taylor bidding to emulate Amy Johnson hits a parked helicopter | Daily Mail Online

Not a good year for Phoenix Helicopters. Thats 2 Airframes written off this year.

For the same reason they reported this woman trying to steal a jet.

Equal opportunity. Women have every opportunity to screw up in aviation, as do men. Their successes and failures need not be suppressed by reporters. If people are going to make a big deal about the woman pilot in a feel good or success story, and make deal about her gender, then ... what's good for the sun is good for the moon.

I'll be she feels terrible about that accident, as I would were it my mistake.

She is a professional pilot and has plenty of time on the Stearman. Just shows it can happen to any pilot, especially when taxiing a Stearman.

She was my heroine before this anyway, having watched her documentary flying all that way over hostile territory - but now having publically expressed her feelings about Robbo's she's even more my heroine.
Excellent Tracy :D

We will know that sexism is dead when the newspapers print photos of a male pilot in cocktail attire after an accident.

Best thing to happen to a Robbie.

One assumes that the Stearman was still perfectly serviceable after slicing the Robbie?

After breakfast you just have to clean the prop, let it burp and good is.:E

Hero? professional? Nope, a pilot who taxis their aircraft into another one at their home base, in a location where it is known that aircraft/helos park, needs to wake up. There could have been a couple of people in the front of that Robbo.

What was the FISO doing?

eating Robbies
 

:ok: :ok:

Give the girl a medal:D ....and invite Vertical Freedom (from his Nepal thread) to pin it to her chest :):)

DoT

Perhaps a read of this could open some eyes.

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...ew-africa.html

CC

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I love the way the prop removed that T-Bar cyclic contraption ... give that girl a raise.

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Read the post by Sam Rutherford on the linked thread from Checklist Charlie - it indicates how 'professional' she is.

She's very attractive so who cares! (Or am I being too shallow)

DB

Great job saving her own Life :D luckily in that Shearman but from those savage Man eatin' Robbi's :yuk:

;)

Nope, you're being a pilot. :cool:

Luther,

Would you really like it if I had written:-
"A Dozy Blonde Bimbo Pilote cuts into Robby 44" or perhap if I described her as a" Lady of a different Gender"...no, that would have been wrong so I described her as we all see her!.. A good looking Blonde girl with good hips and a good pair ..well you know what.

Dont be a pillock, Females are good to be with ..possibly you should try it. instead of becoming one of the Politically correct Pillocks we all bump into in this day and age.

Peter Russell-Blackburn Lancashire

Come and see me,... I am sure my point will win..!:=

There are indeed lots of reasons I am a pillock, but this isn't one of them. I'm just saying the fact that she's a she isn't relevant to what happened. And I know females are good to be with, I work in a large team consisting almost entirely of them and look forward to going to work every day!