Category Archives: Flying Stories
Cold Feet
The alarm sounding on my watch only verified what I already knew. It was time to get up. 04:30, dark, cold and I had been awake for the last half hour trying to convince my bladder that if it let … Continue reading →
Leonards Chores
We followed the blood spatter trail from the clinic entrance to the dirt road that lead down the main street into town. The doctor and I had made the mistake of leaving our patient on his own for a couple … Continue reading →
A tough way to start a career
I was talking to my current boss the other day about our early days flying helicopters. We were comparing notes on our first commercial flying jobs. We are about the same age and started our careers in similar aircraft like … Continue reading →
Winter bag/ Summer bag
We travel most of the year. When asked where I live I usually say California, the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in a high desert valley that is also the deepest valley in North America. Between Death Valley and Yosemite. That … Continue reading →
“A danger foreseen is half avoided”- Proverbs
In light rain with a ceiling of about 1800′ it was obvious we were not going to quite see the top of thousand foot falls .The waterfall sits at about 2100′ above sea level before it plummets about 1500 or … Continue reading →
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Sling Loads never tell you what a great pilot you are
There are freight pilots and there are passenger carrying pilots in fixed wing operations and in helicopter operations there are charter pilots and there are external load pilots. Most helicopter pilots do both types of flying but some helicopter pilots … Continue reading →
C.F.I.T.
Controlled flight into terrain, or crashing into land that you didn’t see, until presumably that last second, or not! I wrote a few days back about a couple of flights in low visibility situations. So why did the pilots continue … Continue reading →
Dew Point
Dew Point. This is a measure of the moisture content of the air and is the temperature to which air must be cooled in order for dew to form. Like clouds, fog is made up of condensed water droplets which … Continue reading →
Flight Training
I soloed early in my training at Skyrotors Ltd. Almost too early, as previously described in Second Solo. Whether that little performance was a good example of how not to explain a maneuver or just a horrible warning to the … Continue reading →
No adult supervision
Give a mouse a cookie? Most of us know this story. Leave a student without supervision? Ditto. You couldn’t say that we were poorly supervised as students at Skyrotors Ltd. There would have had to have been some supervision to … Continue reading →
Helicopter Pilot, will travel 