Too close? Too small?

In your first post you state that you had a blade strike, flew under
wires, landed on an obviously too small pad and parked too close to a
building in a very confined area.
What are you trying to do, catch the attention of your local FSO? Or
just displaying every possible bad move all at once?
Where do you fly and for whom? I still say you are an RC guy...

wrote:
Didn't even bother to ask what that was all about? Geeezzzz....don't
bother to read anymore of my posts then and don't learn something new.
This board seemed to be getting stale so I thought I'd toss out
something for discussion. Ummmm, last time I looked in my logbook it
was pushing pretty hard on 22,000 hours and well over 8000 in
helicopters. How about you? In addition, my licenses read ATP, MEL,
SELS, IFR Rotor, CFI/IRAM. Long ways from a wannabe.........

wrote:

In your first post you state that you had a blade strike, flew under
wires, landed on an obviously too small pad and parked too close to a
building in a very confined area.
What are you trying to do, catch the attention of your local FSO?

He was probably trying to save his butt.

As an experienced helicopter pilot isn't that what you would be doing
if you happened to have a blade strike, close to wires, in poor
terrain, with very limited landing space.

Speaking of experienced helicopter pilots.... You havn't established
your credentials here yet have you sunny.

As for me.... I'm just a lurker, sometime participant, and armchair
pilot so the only logical comment I can make is that it sounds like
good piloting to me.

And you sound like a troll.

Where do you fly and for whom? I still say you are an RC guy...

I would be willing to bet that the majority of regulars will decide all
on their own that you are an idiot.

No experienced rotorcraft pilot would even consider flying UNDER wires,
landing on an obviously too small pad and mention that they had a blade
strike non-chalantly, as if it was a smudge on the windshield.
I am a licensed private pilot flying in southern Virginia. Really.
This moron is just that: a moron who is dreaming about flying and
laughing as you guys lap up his BS.

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No experienced rotorcraft pilot would even consider flying UNDER wires,
landing on an obviously too small pad and mention that they had a blade
strike non-chalantly, as if it was a smudge on the windshield.

Well maybe incidents like that in the real world experience and day to
day operations of a real life helicopter pilot are what sets apart
people like that with experience who encounter those situations and
people like you who cruise into this group out of the blue with
a private pilots license who proceed to tell us that you know more
than everyone else in this group combined.

I am a licensed private pilot flying in southern Virginia. Really.
This moron is just that: a moron who is dreaming about flying and
laughing as you guys lap up his BS.

Since you havn't established your bona fides in this group then
I daresay that the moron with bull**** coming out of their mouths
is you.

I'll be happy to forward our hero's commnets to his local FSO if he'll
tell me where he flys.
I have been here for a long time. I just don't post much.
Sorry if you are mad with me. If you were a pilot you would understand
how bad this guy's posts are. YOU DO NOT DO THE THINGS HE PURPORTS TO
DO IN REAL LIFE.
He claimed he ruined a blade the way I'd mention the time of day.
Do you have any idea the costs there. I do. I have owned 2 helicopters.
He's shooting BS and you are eating it up.

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I'll be happy to forward our hero's commnets to his local FSO if he'll
tell me where he flys.

Don't you sound like a ripe bag of potatoes.

I have owned 2 helicopters.

Please provide verifiable and irrefutable proof
the above statement is true.

He's shooting BS and you are eating it up.

So what..... Even if he is - at least his BS sounds a
lot friendlier than the crap out of your mouth.

Well you have certainly established your lack of experience in
agricultural aviation aka crop dusting? I've got more than 12,000 hours
in the lowest reaches of the airspace system flying all over the world.
A few of the older people here may recall my Ol Shy & Bashful title.
Some may remember Flyinrock? Not too hard to prove my bonafides and
experience.
Look back in older issues of Ag Pilot International magazine and you'll
see quite a few of my articles complete with photos etc. My pilot
certificate number is 1550330 and was issued over 40 years ago.
Still think I'm full of BS? Do you have any idea of what FAR 137 is?
Ol Shy & not so bashful (today anyway!
Now I gotta get back to work. already flew 6 hours since sunup......

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A few of the older people here may recall my Ol Shy & Bashful title.

Indeed we do.

Some may remember Flyinrock?

Indeed we do.

Not too hard to prove my bonafides and experience.

Indeed... As you have done many times in the past.

Now I gotta get back to work. already flew 6 hours since sunup......

Good thing you never mentioned flying out of the bed of a pickup truck
hundreds of times a day..... Why that might get a certain sack of
potatoes all lathered up and threatening to call the local FSO.

What possible good are you doing giving me your airman's #. I have no
way to trace that, sir.
Why not your name and where you fly? Since you are a famous author to
boot, why not let us all know who you are?
Or would that not fit in with your multiple monikers???

Flying under wires is not a big thing when done with care. Anyone who
has done any amount of search and rescue, mountain work, power line
stuff has flown under wires. As a matter of fact, when you are low
level like that, it can be SAFER to fly under the wires.

But maybe you are the kind that advocates flying always at 1,000' and
only landing at an airport.

On 15 Jun 2005 11:56:51 -0700, wrote:

Well you have certainly established your lack of experience in
agricultural aviation aka crop dusting? I've got more than 12,000 hours
in the lowest reaches of the airspace system flying all over the world.
A few of the older people here may recall my Ol Shy & Bashful title.
Some may remember Flyinrock? Not too hard to prove my bonafides and
experience.
Look back in older issues of Ag Pilot International magazine and you'll
see quite a few of my articles complete with photos etc. My pilot
certificate number is 1550330 and was issued over 40 years ago.
Still think I'm full of BS? Do you have any idea of what FAR 137 is?
Ol Shy & not so bashful (today anyway!
Now I gotta get back to work. already flew 6 hours since sunup......