Category Archives: Helicopter Pilot
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 →
Posted in Flying Stories, helicopter firefighting, Helicopter Pilot, Random rantings, World Travel
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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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Tagged Helicopter flying, Helicopter Pilot, will travel
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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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Greener Pastures
I was talking to a pilot friend online today. He was bemoaning the fact that those of us who fly utility type helicopters seldom get to fly new state of the art helicopters. The fact that he is on a … Continue reading →
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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Would they ever have guessed?…conclusion
Landing number…who knows, how many with many more to come. My passengers are delighted by their short rides and although its the same circuit and the same comments “Ad nauseam”, I smile and tell my disembarking passengers that they are … Continue reading →
Would they ever have guessed?
One of the helicopter companies I worked for in the ’70’s was a struggling Ma & Pa outfit that had started with a dream and not enough capitol. I was a low time pilot, with son number one just one … Continue reading →
How hard could it be?…answered.
Gray, murky, drizzly and just above freezing. April weather in Revelstoke B.C. where the drizzle falls as snow somewhere above us in the higher mountains. This is Heli skiing country where the snow stays till late May. Happy skiers on … Continue reading →
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Helicopter Pilot, will travel 