If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Dangerous Stuff
Have been thinking of things to post re;Ag Flying with rotorcraft. I
have to pay more attention to my work though! In many of my fields here, they are irrigated with sprinkler pivots. Generally I'll have to fly over them spraying to get the crops underneath. I haven't measured the tallest points on them, but guess 25'? so I have to kind of "blooper" over them while spraying. that often poses some interesting control inputs and that caught my attention today. It requires quick inputs but absolutely smooth ones to keep things on an even keel. Much too difficult to describe aside from doing a pitch pull to go up, and a cyclic push to keep level followed quickly by aft cyclic to flare on the other side while lowering the collective and then level with cyclic again, and all the while manipulating the throttle to keep rpms right. Another point on the turn-arounds, I stay in translational flight all the way thru so if the engine pukes, I can do a decent auto from anywhere in the turn. Got pretty close to some trees on a downwind pullup yesterday. I got into the shadow, the window was a little dirty, and I lost my depth perception. So, I realized I'd have to use some other visual points for my pull up. Nothing dramatic...no pine needles on the booms or no tip caps smacked ggg and didn't brush my skids in the tree tops.....close enough to make me whistle though... Have had my loader take some photos and one day we'll get them up. Often when the wind is calm, the spray hangs in the air and I fly back thru it which makes my windscreen look like some one sprayed furniture polish on it, or milk. Its a bitch when you are flying into the rising sun and obstacles in front of you. bad enough flying into the rising sun anyway but with a dirty window its worse. Been flying 8-9 hours a day with some great weather. Cheers from Finlander country. Rocky |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
wrote:
Cheers from Finlander country. Another great post Rocky... keep them coming. Findlander country... eh. Well I was reading your post the other day about going to the headwater of the mighty Mississippi and being a tad brain dead I kinda though you were in the deep south... silly me. It wasn't until I read a previous post of yours about potato patches in Minniesota that if dawned on me where the headwaters of the Mississippi were located. Hey... you should try some of those Finnish saunas at the end of a day. I can remember with fond and lusty memories some of the fun I had with some of my girlfriends in my late teens growing up in Finlander country. We used to go down to the Finnish sauna on a Friday or Saturday night have something sweet like cake, grab some cokes, and retire to a private sauna room for a couple of hours. Each private sauna came with a change room with a cot and I can't imagine how many body fluids got swapped on those cots over the years, but I will guess lots. It sure beat going out to the local airport to watch the submarine races on a nippy winter's night. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
How about this one...Yesterday, the local competitor and good guy,
flying his big 600hp Thrush, was threatened by some jerkwater that if he ever flew over his property again, he'd shoot him down! Now, the pilot has been working this area for years and never had any problems. Then the jerkoff even called the customers office and told THEM he'd shoot the airplane if it came over his property. Even ID'd himself and its all on tape. I suspect its gonna get messy. I've had that happen a number of times, been shot at and missed, shot at and hit. I'm here to tell you if some asshole threatens to shoot me, he will find himself handcuffed to a jailbed when he recovers conciousness and I will press every charge I can think of. We got blown out today. Had an interesting few moments when I did a downwind pull-up and was trying to turn over 50' pine trees....couldn't get it to turn and started losing altitude. thought I'd have to dump the load when it began to respond and I kept on going. Sure got my attention though. Thought sure I was going down in the timber. Oooouch I'll guess the wind at my altitude was probably blowing 20+- Wheeeew Rocky |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
wrote:
What an interesting experience! And another interesting story. That's the sort of stuff that makes this newsgroup worth reading. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
New news Soaring is dangerous ? | R Barry | Soaring | 29 | October 3rd 04 03:40 AM |
Ping Jay Honeck... Mighty Grape stuff.. | Dave S | Owning | 6 | September 16th 04 02:09 AM |
FS2004- Where's All the Old Stuff? | RobertS975 | Simulators | 3 | July 19th 04 01:16 AM |
Hmmmmm. FS98 'mystery' | Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo | Simulators | 3 | April 15th 04 06:51 AM |
Sewing Needle Suitable for Hand-Stitching Heavy Stuff Like Canvas and Carpet | Larry Smith | Home Built | 0 | August 4th 03 01:31 PM |