Funnily enough, some of the best pilots I know are atrocious drivers! :rolleyes: Not enough instruments or something makes them complacent... ;)

Re: Bloody dangerous machines
 

There are only two times that one should get worried when flying a helocopter:

1. When it quits leaking oil and or hydralic fluid.
2. When it suddenly gets real quiet, and you are not parked in the hanger or on the pad.

Mike
FWA
Over 600 hours in an H46

oh and also when:

- you hear a loud bang
- vibration increases
- you see a brilliant flash of light followed by a bit of noise
- the lady says: rotor low - rotor low
- the lady says: fire engine1 - fire engine 1
- you suddenly get a real nasty kick in yaw
- the main gearbox fire warning comes on
- you can't see the instruments because of all that smoke
- the smoke and fire warnings in the boot come on
- your torque has increased by about 15% and the windscreen is frozen solid
- you suddenly discover a low forward speed combined with a bit of vibration and an unusual high rate of descend
- you find yourself in cloud with the attitude indicator showing you really funny things
- you are in low G and you hear a loud bumping noise from the mast
- you go through a cloud with massive vertical extend
- you jammed your mobile phone in your controls and can't reach it
- oh and of course when your controls go really stiff and you can't move them any more

to be continued ....... ;)


Woolf

Woolf STOP IT!

You're scaring me! :D

I haven't had any real pressure from my girlfriend yet but sometimes she talks about how uncomfortable she feels when I'm out flying with my students.

I have a way to get her mind off of it :cool:

I look at it this way: If you are to live your life you have to be able to accept that there will not always be sunshine every day.

Before I started flying I used to worked as a fisherman and that is a job full of interesting happenings and surprises. Swinging wires, gigantic waves throwing the ship around, men thrown around holding knives e.t.c. The cook thrown and running around the kitchen holding the frying pan in one hand and some other hot or otherwise dangerous equipment in the other.

Best wishes,

Heli-Ice

To me, everything that swings, rotates or just plainly moves is in a way dangerous. You just have to operate these things with precaution and respect.

All I know that one day I will be walking with the gods in Valhalla, I just hope they will have enough "Brennivin and sharkmeat".

I think that if you work in some of the third world countries I've worked in, that driving to work is about as dangerous as the flying.
The only dangerous time when flying really is the bit in between the moment when the aircraft first moves under its own power to the moment after the last landing when the blades finally stop rotating.

Ah guys.... I can think of some really fun things....

Like you do not hear the almighty BANG!

All vibration ceases!

The smoke from your burning Nomex flying togs.....signals a cockpit fire inflight! (Been there...done that!) Nomex gloves are great while they last!

Unusual indications on the attitude indicator with associated funny wind noises and G-loadings.....mast thumping....heck...isn't that a normal night takeoff offshore in an un-SAS'd 212 ?

The sound your girlfriend's husband's teeth make on the pocketknife blade as he opens his knife while holding you by the tender parts!

Mrs KB has just upped my life insurance and is encouraging me to fly in the most atrocious Wx. Something to do with improiving my IF apparently. Funny, but she never took that much of an interest in the terminology before. She also took me to see a man about a "fitting", whatever that might be. Still, she loves me loads, she tells me so every so often.

Ya'all just have to remember:

If it has Tires, Rotors, or Tits, sooner or later it will give you a world of trouble. :D