Helicopter pilot

[hyperD]

Unknown to the pilots, the aircraft had developed a fuel leak in its right engine.

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[oraclesmith]

Have the banks burst yet ?

[Vito]

Have the banks burst yet ?

Not yet...but just opened a can so things are about to get interesting!

[Lucifer Box]

Learning to fly a helicopter?

Can't you just get an Oyster card and catch the bus or something?

[OwlHoot]

Second rule of flying : Don't hit anything big.
First rule of flying : The earth counts as big.

or

Second rule of flying: Takeoff is optional
First rule of flying: Landing is compulsory

[thunderlizard]

Vito,
Your other post today was asking how long you'd be able to stay in bed before you wet yourself. Are you sure you're ready to take the controls of a complicated flying machine?

[scooterscot]

They do say that there's a "Jesus Bolt" on an aeroplane and that a helicopter is constructed from "Jesus Bolts".

As someone who works in reliability helicopters have too many moving parts for my liking -

[sli_gryn]

i know a commercial pilot (airline captain in oz) who decided after 15 years of flying the big things that he'd try his hand at whirly birds. he was training in an R22 (little conventional engined thing) and was told that if the engine stopped, he had about 2 seconds MAX to put the thing into the correct attitude for an auto-rotate or else he was in a body bag.

funnily enough, he never completed his training. anything with that slim a margin for error to even begin the recovery process was too risky for him.

[barely_pointless]

heard a mayday on the radio a few weeks ago, R22 calls Brisbane Radar with "mayday mayday charlie -???? Victor...R22...engine failure - Borrowrula...." , we kept quiet and listened in on area and brissie radar had a cathay 747 try and call up the r22 to see if he was alright.

bout 10 mins later brissie radar calls cathay and tells him he's got the pilot on the phone (landline) and all's ok.

chilling stuff , you really don't have much time or margin in those 22's

best place to look for info on learning and what's what is

www.pprune.org and go to the wannabee's section

[Churchill]

heard a mayday on the radio a few weeks ago, R22 calls Brisbane Radar with "mayday mayday charlie -???? Victor...R22...engine failure - Borrowrula...." , we kept quiet and listened in on area and brissie radar had a cathay 747 try and call up the r22 to see if he was alright.

bout 10 mins later brissie radar calls cathay and tells him he's got the pilot on the phone (landline) and all's ok.

chilling stuff , you really don't have much time or margin in those 22's

best place to look for info on learning and what's what is

www.pprune.org and go to the wannabee's section

If you can fly an R22 with all its twitchiness you can fly anything. It's still the safest Helicopter available considering flight times and number sold.

Its big brother the R44 is lovely. Even better now it's got fuel injection and you don't have to keep pulling carb heat all the bloody time!