Rule number one. ALWAYS bring your CFI a snack and a drink when you show up. It's a lot like feeding the animals at the zoo, they still might growl at you, but they probably won't eat you for dinner. Jim

It it possible to get into vortex ring state (or settling with power) during an autorotation? A friend at my radio control helicopter field claimed that you shouldn't do a vertical autorotation, because you might enter vortex ring state if you do. This doesn't seem right to me based on my limited...

Although you will have "turbine" time, employers are looking for turbine time inan aircraft that can carry people/long line..etc. That you are getting the experiance of working the helicopter. If you and someone else had the same hours, and turbine time, but he had it in a 206 or a 500, I bet I...

Witnesses reported seeing kite string wrapped around the heli. http://news12.com/LI/topstories/article?id=118790 Could that even cause a heli to crash? I'd think that a kite string would be easily broken... and even if it did wrap around a control area, I'd think that the helicopter would have...

The scene was where we hear the pilot talking to the coppilot. Through the night vision system through the HUD, we see figures in robes. They don't appear to be armed. The one on the right gets blasted, then the one on the left. Does anyone have any info on that footage?

Does anyone here have experience in all three of these type a/c? I would like to know which of the 3 would handle cross winds best and which has a safer overall operational record. So far, I've read that the gyro is better with crosswinds (ref Dr. Taggart) than even some factory fixed wings. I...

Just wondering if anyone has built the Hot Rod Helicopter using the plans from Vortech Online? Any thoughts / comments as to the quality of the plans? Thank you Dan

So are the sounds of rotors keeping you awake this week. Spotlights lighting up your bedroom at 3 AM. Subway traffic disrupted for you and the family. Radio traffic blasting from your scanner's speaker. Are you feeling a deep rooted urge to vote in the next few months.

Ryan Ferguson wrote: So my fixed wing ATP is worth $150k... to START? Hilarious! Well, my neighbor is an ATP and flys private jets for corporate clients. That's what he makes even though he isn't really exercising his full license. The point is not to state the exact...

I've been looking for a gyroplane ready to fly. I've seen a few offered on eBay, went to look at them and they we rarely described correctly. I've seen one on ebay that's in California and it has a good description, good pictures and so on, but that's quite a drive to go see it before bidding. I...

good video of military helo ops at grouchymedia.com look for "Helo Thunder" kicks ass. all the best Sean Trost

If anyone's interested I am selling my Sporty's Deluxe Flex-Light with Red Lens on ebay. Lists in Sporty's Catalog for $24.95. Right now it is going for $5.00. I just never used it much. Kobra http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=2488965286&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

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Hi there! I am looking for a list or a library of Disk Loadings and Power Loadings for some rotating-Wing Aircrafts (especially VTOLs). I have found some peculiar data on V22 Osprey (different DL in a site and in a book??), so I wnted to make sure... I need them for a research (comparisons...

I hope this works, http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&u=/ap/20040827/ap_on_sc/flying_cars_1&printer=1 Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

Here's something I was reading: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996380 So beyond the mere claim of being more efficient, why would it actually be so? The claim of hovering for 4 days is quite a jump, when compared to Global Hawk. Is this even vaguely realistic?

GREAT AVIATION READS Ran across two great aviation books at Amazon.com that may be of interest. One is entitled THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE BLUE GOOSE at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1413706843/qid=1094831904/sr=ka-1/r ef=pd_ka_1/104-0160304-5111104 It`s about B-24 bomber that simply...

Kruger National Park in South Africa, early 70's. Working with game rangers to do health checks on elephants. Using a Bell 206 with doors off, game ranger with a dart gun and heavy duty tranquilizers, a specific herd of elephants... get them moving out in line to avoid the noisy annoying helicopter...

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Hi everybody, This week I have uploaded a video of a helicopter crash on my website (www.dappa.nl/crash.htm). Does anyone have a clue about the failure that caused this crash? It is definately not an engine failure or a tail rotor failure, but it still looks like a spectacular decend. For the...