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Stu & Kathy Fields wrote: Hell, I've got another one. While up in Minnesota, I was going to give an gentleman a ride and so I lifted off from a tight pad and took the ship over to a field that had more maneuvering room. The group of people accompanying the passenger came over to the field with their big black Labrador Retreiver, who came running and jumping at the bottom of the helo. Having seen a dog try to bite a tail rotor, told me that this wasn't going to work so I moved to a different field. The winds were a bit gusty so we decided to wait and see if they would calm down. Shortly after, a fast moving Big Ugly Storm Cell(BUSC) was observed heading our way. Wanting to get the helo under cover, I grabbed the truck and trailer and headed for the field. Got the truck stuck in a gate that was too narrow for me to make the needed turn. CB antennas on top of the truck contacted an electric fence wire which was hung suspended on normally high enough poles. The property owner came over to offer advice, leaned on the(electrified truck door and landed on her butt. I backed the truck out told my wife to take the truck to a different field, Remember the BUSC was still coming and looking worse. I jumped in the helo, lobbed it over the fence into the next field, shut down and prepped the ship for winch loading onto the trailer. My wife arrived with the truck and trailer, (the BUSC was closer and meaner looking) and the winch failed. About this time I discovered that I had landed in the field where the heard of Buffalo lived. Complete with BIG BULL. Here they came. (It is breeding season) Winch still doesn't work and the BUSC is getting closer. Now the buffalo are surrounding the chopper, the BULL is shaking his head and pawing the ground, the owner is screaming "LOOK OUT HES' GOING TO CHARGE" The cows are in a spectator circle observing the whole process. I can't have my helo damaged so I charge the BULL with a 2x4 waving around trying to look as big as possible. My wife who is truly fearless(has night dived with sharks, and painted Radio towers) has jumped into the camper on the back of the truck and is looking out thru a crack in the door. I really like the surprise of this sentence. It simply doesn't finish like I'd expected. You got a loud guffaw out of me for that one, Stu. A great story, I thank you for sharing it! ref The BULL continues to paw the ground snorting and acting like he is not even noticing me and my 2x4. The owner is still screaming "LOOK OUT HES' GOING TO CHARGE", I'm waving the 2x4 and the gentleman who was to take the helo ride shows up in the field with a truck with buffalo feed and the entire herd turns their back on me and leaves. Now the winch decides to work. Got the helo under cover and not more than a light sprinkle out of the BUSC. Yeah! Why didn't I lob the helo back into the tight pad I started from where there were no buffalos?? That is the same question I kept asking myself while sucking on a cold beer after the above fiasco. "SelwayKid" wrote in message m... Over the past weekend in San Diego, an 84 year old man decided to unstrap and get out of the aircraft while on short final. It killed him of course. He was in a biplane but it reminded me of some incidents when I had passengers who became the emergency in helicopters too. How to handle them? A pax who was moving around in the front seat and stuck his foot thru the chin bubble and got it stuck..... Or the big guy pax who filled the seat so much that he limited the amount of aft cyclic while trying to flare and land.... Or the guy who was drunk and tried to wrestle the controls away from me so he could show me how it was done...... The pax who unstrapped and began to move around in the cockpit and was actually going to change seats by crawling across me?..... I'm sure you have seen others as weird. How about sharing them and spice up the board? Its getting pretty dull.... Ol Shy & Bashful -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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