BoB Barbanes repost #2: 3/22/2002

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Marc Whisman worried:

My glider instructor used to say that the though of actually having to
bail
out of a glider just scared the crap (he used another four letter
expletive)
out of him. I agreed. Now I feel the same way about having to do a real
auto.

Have no fear, Marc. Or at least conquer it. Here's what you have to
realize:
The engine is GOING to quit at some point. Accept it.

The majority of my 10,000 hours is in single-engine helicopters, and the
ones I
fly still (post retirement) are singles. Did it turn me into a nervous,
jittery, paranoid, shifty-eyed, brooding anticipator of trouble? Hell no!
Why
not? Because of two simple things that ruled my attitude toward flying:

1) NEVER fly low/slow/downwind or any combination thereof;

2) ALWAYS have a philosophy of keeping a good forced-landing area
underneath
you.


Sounds good to me! :-)

Some snippage for brevety!


BONUS! Even if the engine idoesn't/i ever quit on ya, if you do the
above,
then you'll be in a pretty good position to handle any iother/i
emergency
that might befall you (tail rotor failure, main rotor departure, etc.).


Uhhh, Ok, I've "got" to ask! Can someone please tell me how anyone is going
to handle a "MAIN ROTOR DEPARTURE???" :-o Or am I misinterpreting
something here?


Bob -don't fear the auto- Barbanes


BTW, thanks for posting these. I don't now Mr. Barbanes personally although
we did correspond via email once, a long time ago. He is missed!

Fly Safe,
Steve R.