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silver state helicopters
On Feb 21, 10:59*pm, "Steve R." wrote:
"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net wrote in messagenews:01krr398np1d2nddstfk76f13oejtj212b@4ax .com... On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:17:37 -0800, "Stuart & Kathryn Fields" wrote: Kevin: *If it makes you feel any better I had one of the High time geniuses try to tell me that If I had a 1/rev shake it was tracking and if I had a 2/rev it was out of balance. *This guy had more autos flying backwards than I have total but he didn't know Schit about rotor dynamics. Some of those guys are just "Arrive and Drive" *give them the keys and away they go. *Can fly the Schit out of the helicopter but don't have a clue what keeps them in the air. Exactly why I don't spend much time on those forums. *I get better info lurking in the hangar up at the airport.. Glad to know I'm not the only one that's gotten that impression from time to time. *I had an interesting conversation a number of years ago, with one of the higher time, more respected, pilots that used to frequent this forum. We were talking about some specific issue with the dynamics of the aircraft and I had stated an opinion that I felt very certain of. *He disagreed. *I was feeling a bit intimidated because of his reputation on the forum and the fact that I'm not a rated rotorcraft pilot with very little actual flight time in helicopters but still, I felt I was correct in what I was saying and tried sincerely to communicate my point of view but was totally unsuccessful with him. *I communicated my frustration with this to him, stating that I thought that maybe I wasn't going a good job of expressing myself and he stated that, no, I was very articulate, just "wrong" and that was the last he was going to have to do with the conversation. I was later vindicated by a couple of other posters, one who had bothered to actually look up the information for himself, and another relatively high time and respected poster to this forum who was totally confused as to why the first guy I was talking to had forgotten such a basic concept. *The first guy never responded one way or the other. *He either didn't see the other responses, or didn't care. *All I know is "I" felt better! *;-) I've met many high time pilots in my time. *I'm talking guys that are pushing or are over the 10k hours mark. *Many of them are some of the most brilliant pilots I've ever met. *Some of the others, I wouldn't be caught dead in an aircraft that they were flying. *I've got no respect for the "Hey, I'm a high time pilot, I don't have to worry about weather and preflight's! *I can handle it!" *Yeah, right! *:-/ FWIW! Fly Safe, Steve R.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I sure hope I haven't been dropped into that basket. Been flying rotor since the 60's and now have more than 9200 hours in them and even more in the other kinds aka phyxed wing. A LOT of my rotor flying is in crop dusting and with the attendant demands. I watched this board or NG start going downhill about 10 years ago. Not sure why that is. PPrune has a lot of activity but mostly from European pilots from what I've seen. Recent activity has been from the SSH fiasco and nothing to do with the mechanics of flying. I'm of the school that if you can't fly the helicopter with some degree of accuracy, you are simply the passenger in confusion rather than the PIC or pilot in command. Why is there no activity on this board? I'm not easy to get along with, only when you don't perform to standards. If you are USMC the standards are tighter. Ol S&B |
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