Category Archives: Flying Stories
Initial Attack
The following is the partial definition of the wildland firefighting term that is the title for this blog and governs a lot of the firefighting I have done in the U.S.A. with helicopters of various types. Initial attack is the … Continue reading →
And,now,for my next trick
Those of us who choose to write about our flying misadventures run the risk that their audience no matter how few they are, may decide, that you are in fact ,a moron. By way of a very limited defense, I … Continue reading →
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Urban Interface
Its the term used to describe wildfires that run into densely populated areas.I have fought a lot of these types of fires over the years and the number one rule, just as it is with physicians, is first, do no … Continue reading →
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Dog Sitter
My passenger was not barking anymore. He never liked it when I hovered down wind. Too much exhaust blowing into the cockpit through my open door. Long lining drill support equipment with my little Bell47T meant that I sometimes had … Continue reading →
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Close Call
Part of our management team visited our Heli-base in Albenga Italy awhile back. One of the many positive changes the company has begun includes a near miss report. To pilots, near misses are generally followed by a sharp intake of … Continue reading →
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Preflight
Pilots perform preflights. At least they should. Whether you like to refer to the procedure as an exterior inspection or something else is fine with me. I have heard the semantic argument that pilots can’t do a preflight inspection because … Continue reading →
Watch This
The Hiller 12E had been delivered to the job. Literally. It was sitting on a trailer in the customers business yard all by its lonesome. The truck driver had, after driving all night in the rain, gone to the Motel … Continue reading →
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Back and Forth
Not always blogs, sometimes stories of past adventures. I write about travel,personal observations that expose my sometimes unusual thinking but mostly helicopter flying stories past and current Continue reading →
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Flying Floats
We had an airshow at our little Albenga airport here in Italy over the weekend. To be accurate, the airshow was flown at towns to the east and west of us on the Liguria coast. Albenga is the only airport … Continue reading →
When things go wrong
This was bad. I could see the sickening conclusion in my mind and I knew what had to be done to save the mans life. What I couldn’t do ,was communicate with the diver who was only a minute from … Continue reading →
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Helicopter Pilot, will travel 