Tag Archives: Helicopter flying
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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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 →
A Helicopter Made Worse
Spring time in Northern Saskatchewan. Unless you are a fly-in-fishing sort of person you most likely know very little about this Canadian Province. It is known as one of the prairie provinces based on the 30% that is actually prairie. … Continue reading →
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Landing on boats
I have written previously of some of the stupid student tricks we pulled while self training at Skyrotors, where I some how managed to become a commercial helicopter pilot. Landing on moving trains and transport trucks was pretty dumb, but … Continue reading →
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Holding the Line
Summertime and the living isn’t always easy, here in Greece. My assignment is firefighting with a SkyCrane based in Athens. The flying we do with this impressive aircraft is called I.A. or initial attack. It is a simple program, get … Continue reading →
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Tagged Euro travel, helicopter, helicopter firefighting, Helicopter flying, Helicopter Pilot, World Travel
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Remembering Katrina
In the last days of August 2005 a local firebug was keeping me busy flying initial attack helicopter firefighting in the evenings after my regular work day had ended. Paula and I were sitting down to a late night supper, … Continue reading →
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Tagged helicopter firefighting, Helicopter flying, Helicopter Pilot, Helicopters on Katrina
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Helicopter Pilot, will travel 