Reply to: Mid-life crisis : What comes first?

[Churchill]

Try sitting in the backseat, instructor plus PIC with no instrument rating and his outside view of the world blanked.

'what attitude is the aircraft in?'

Straight and level flight'

Actually we're dropping out the sky at a rate of knots with a 50 degree bank angle. Then there's autorotation trials when the drive to the rotors is disengaged.

The pooch knows about this stuff.

I was happiest sitting in the backseat of a Buccanneer doing the Great Glen run low enough over Loch Ness to leave a wake induced by the pressure wave.

Happy landings!

Keep us informed on the conversion training. Btw, what're you going for?

[d000hg]

Is it not the case that there are old pilots & there are bold pilots?

And balding mid-life crisis pilots.

[Wilmslow]

Surely the younger lady bit on the side, while wanting to be first, would only be attracted by the porshe and lure of the sugar daddy high life?

[Cliphead]

Oooh. The Gazelle was the first rotary I ever set foot inside. Army Air-Corps friend of the family. I was a wide-eyed 14yr old utterly fascinated by helicopters. Beautiful bit of kit. I've seen one being swung gracefully round a hangar at almost 60deg at Catterick, no more than 30' up. Nutters.

Try sitting in the backseat, instructor plus PIC with no instrument rating and his outside view of the world blanked.

'what attitude is the aircraft in?'

Straight and level flight'

Actually we're dropping out the sky at a rate of knots with a 50 degree bank angle. Then there's autorotation trials when the drive to the rotors is disengaged.

The pooch knows about this stuff.

I was happiest sitting in the backseat of a Buccanneer doing the Great Glen run low enough over Loch Ness to leave a wake induced by the pressure wave.

[realityhack]

Also, I was walked through the controls and procedure in an AH.7:

[realityhack]

Oooh. The Gazelle was the first rotary I ever set foot inside. Army Air-Corps friend of the family. I was a wide-eyed 14yr old utterly fascinated by helicopters. Beautiful bit of kit. I've seen one being swung gracefully round a hangar at almost 60deg at Catterick, no more than 30' up. Nutters.

[Cliphead]

I have a funny feeling you're being serious! I'm a great fan of flight - always loved aircraft and it's an ambition to take the controls one day. Going on a half-hour tour over the capital in this baby in May and really looking forward to it (image load failure, see blue EC120 in the main header here: http://www.cabairhelicopters.com/index.htm)

I hope they'll let you have some stick time on that baby. Never got into rotary much although got some time logged. I won't mention (again), the time I wrote off a Gazelle...

[realityhack]

Hmmm, something more challenging perhaps...

I have a funny feeling you're being serious! I'm a great fan of flight - always loved aircraft and it's an ambition to take the controls one day. Going on a half-hour tour over the capital in this baby in May and really looking forward to it (image load failure, see blue EC120 in the main header here: http://www.cabairhelicopters.com/index.htm)

[Cliphead]

Let's see if you can barrel roll and fly through upside-down.

Hmmm, something more challenging perhaps...

[realityhack]

Come fly with me...

Once I'm done training, ever flown under power lines?

Aye why not... Let's see if you can barrel roll and fly through upside-down.

if you're going to go anyway, it may as well be in a spectacular fireball.

[Cliphead]

Come fly with me...

Once I'm done training, ever flown under power lines?

[NickFitz]

Is it that followed by the Ferrari, the 18 year old nymphet, the motorbike, the yacht, the island in the Caribbean?

I'm still working on that phase

[realityhack]

No regrets

[norrahe]

Yep, I did hear you say that... you're full of surprises. That's a tad more impressive than a Porsche!

Anything is more impressive than a souped up beetle

[Cliphead]

Yep, I did hear you say that... you're full of surprises. That's a tad more impressive than a Porsche!

A misspent youth. Dosh that could have gone on booze, drugs, cars, babes went to aviation instead. No regrets, still get the babes.