How to fly a Helicopter

[Glass]

Posted here to provoke thoughts outside of bug out vehicle box


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEy-HxMah14


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfVTSRVUufA

Anyone here a helicopter jockey?

Me no fly, would like to.

[Shami-Amourae]

I flew a small plane when I was 14, but never a helicopter. I took off, flew from one airport to another, dived into canyons, flew right outside the Queen Mary, and then landed.

My flight instructor died few years later after his propeller fell off and he and a few of his students crashed into the Ocean. No survivors.

[Glass]

My flight instructor died few years later after his propeller fell off and he and a few of his students crashed into the Ocean. No survivors.

great story :o

[Shami-Amourae]

great story :o

Just the short version. I give out enough personal information as it is.

[palani]

If one thing can kill you in a fixed wing there are going to be 100 things that can kill you in a helo. Eventually the probability will turn against you.

[monty]

If one thing can kill you in a fixed wing there are going to be 100 things that can kill you in a helo. Eventually the probability will turn against you.


That at is what my best friend from high school, who is a fixed wing and helicopter owner/pilot, told me.

[Glass]

Australian helicopter pilot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK0Tvz2YqbQ

[palani]

That at is what my best friend from high school, who is a fixed wing and helicopter owner/pilot, told me.

I did my share of helo flying in the Coast Guard ... HH3 and HH52 Sikorskeys. Never a pilot just as cargo although they did drop me twice by basket. A single turbine HH52 just sold on ebay for around 120k ..... which is about what annual maintenance would run if you are lucky.

[monty]

I think my friend's is a Bell 47 like this one:


http://gold-silver.us/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7570&stc=1


I did my share of helo flying in the Coast Guard ... HH3 and HH52 Sikorskeys. Never a pilot just as cargo although they did drop me twice by basket. A single turbine HH52 just sold on ebay for around 120k ..... which is about what annual maintenance would run if you are lucky.

[palani]

I think my friend's is a Bell 47 like this one

I have a friend who has a couple Hiller UH12's that look something like that ... Korean war vintage .. he got them from the sheriff's patrol years ago. He did have three and sold one to a guy who wanted to tow banners around the sky. This guy apparently was not well thought of in the pilot community. He had the blades off (they are wood) doing some repair and came in one morning to find them suspended over a lit 55 gallon burn barrel.

Then too the local national guard pilots developed some pretty bad habits. You would see them hovering a foot or so off the ground for hours on end. Well after dark they would hover near the approach end of the active runway and when a small plane would come in for landing would pull heavy eccentric and create a funnel of dirty air. Now when something like a Cessna 172 hits that column when it is 5 knots above stall some adrenaline starts flowing quickly if he even has a chance to recover. The helo pilot gets some sort of jollies out of this.

[ximmy]

Abominable creations... eek!
http://i.minus.com/i1zKNBCdQ2kJ.gif


http://i.minus.com/iEok8tJ6c8O2K.gif

http://media.giphy.com/media/11VQOpERjsAOQw/giphy.gif

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/3181878/helicopter-crash-o.gif

[Hitch]

I don't like helicopters either. When something goes wrong, they fall like a rock. At least with a plane you have a chance at gliding to the ground.

[osoab]

Abominable creations... eek!





http://media.giphy.com/media/11VQOpERjsAOQw/giphy.gif

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/3181878/helicopter-crash-o.gif

These two are dumbass errors.

[ximmy]

These two are dumbass errors.

You gotta love that cameraman in the lower gif... He sees it coming before the others... and bolts it out of there ;) "Pluck me, pluck me...Ooh, I gotta film the crash!"

[Glass]

I don't like helicopters either. When something goes wrong, they fall like a rock. At least with a plane you have a chance at gliding to the ground.

This is actually not true. The opposite is true. With helicopters you have more ability to glide to the ground, assuming your rotors are intact. The rotor system has a freewheeling capability which means if the power fails, the rotors will continue spinning so long as air is passing by them.

[ximmy]

This is actually not true. The opposite is true. With helicopters you have more ability to glide to the ground, assuming your rotors are intact. The rotor system has a freewheeling capability which means if the power fails, the rotors will continue spinning so long as air is passing by them.

umm.. when has that ever happened...

http://i.imgur.com/OEyOPsE.jpg



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqXGU573eXc

It's easy to fly a helicopter...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEBckxf8RI0

[milehi]

The view from the office window is nice. Too bad it's not my office.