On Mar 6, 10:50*pm, Tim wrote:
On Mar 6, 9:33*pm, HK wrote:





Tim wrote:
On Mar 6, 9:03 pm, HK wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Mar 6, 8:27 pm, BAR wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:40:12 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Started off this morning with an hour and a half of instruction time
in the R22, then the CFI climbs out, says "Take it down to the end of
the runway, hover for a minute and bring it back - don't go over ten
feet."
WHOO HOO!!! *Not bad for ten hours total of instruction time.
Based on my limited knowledge, if you can do that, you've got it 95% licked.
Reminds me of standing on top of a 5' diameter beach ball and trying to walk
it down a narrow sidewalk without crashing it into anything or falling off.
I've been lucky to inherit good hand/eye coordination. *I still have a
long way to go before a solo run at altitude at any distance, but it
was a great confidence booster.
I just have an affinity for it - I really enjoy the whole concept.
Fixed wing aircraft always give me a feeling of claustrophobia - for
some reason it's just not a lot of fun for me.
Helicopters have a whole different feeling.
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Well, on various occasions, some people like me were hanging out of
them with an M-60, M2 BMG, or a GE M-134
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LOL! , er... not hardly.

however I could have been one of the guys hanging on the skid at the
USO show in Apokolypse Now...

Well, we do have something in common: we recognize what is important and
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HA! Yeah, and what those guys were wanting to hang onto they couldnt'
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In a few minutes, Harry will be compelled to lie once again. probably
telling us about all of the helicopters he's owned, how his father
single handed one around the world, how he's got a landing pad on his
lobster boat for the Bush's etc.