Helicopters are brilliant!

[timwilky]

I can see Eric Cartman santa on the city centre piccy

Lucky thing Pete! that looks great and amazing pics! I've always wanted to go in a helicopter and nearly got the chance when I fell of a horse but it was busy, not that'd I'd have seen a lot from a spinal board

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Are you howlin' mad?

If Sunshine landed after his first ever lesson he makes Capt H.M. Murdock look like a ham fisted beginner.

Here's a Where's Wally style pick of my bike in front of the office, taken during a visit by Mrs Tiger's charity chums.


And here's a view of Glasgow from last week. I like Pete's view better.


They practically fly themselves nowadays, been a long time since anybody had to take manual control of their throttle on a routine basis, and if it's all getting out of hand I just press the big button marked Autopilot and do exactly what the warm and gentle voice from Air Traffic tells me to do.

But your right, they're brilliant!

tiger, landing is the hardest part but i attempted to land 5 times where he kept making me pull up, and as i said rough landing, any harder of a landing would of broke something (they was amazing nothing broke when i landed). i would love more lessons but there expensive, playing with microlights and stuff like that is a fun way to fly, but its not big enough to get you anywhere.

Originally Posted by sunshine

landing is the hardest part but i attempted to land 5 times...playing with microlights and stuff like that is a fun way to fly, but its not big enough to get you anywhere.

You've got to be exceptional just to get a chance to land on your first ever lesson so you must be a natural - find the cash from somewhere!

As for the microlights, you're brave peeps I'll give you that.

I took off and landed my Robinson R22 on my first lesson after a couple of hours practice and getting the feel for torque effect and ground effect. I plan to pass my PPL at some point in the future. He wouldn't however let me try a loop......

Bloody hell, another natural! Must be a V-twin thing...

[Richie]

I read the book Chicken Hawk... Twice...


does that count...?

micro lights are fun to fly, learn to fly them first, just watch the strong winds, and none of my aerobatics otherwise i might loose parts, or so i keep getting told, landing a microlight on a private road was funny, all the people in the 3 houses came out to give me a funny look
and as for flying a helicopter its like driving a car, men have no trouble with it and women crash all them time!!! flying is like driving, its easy and theres cage microlight flying cutting you up

When I went to turkey I was 15 and allowed in the cockpit, so many buttons the press, so little time