A flight at Arlington Wa. to check out the fix to some interference that I
had on the radio provided a learning experience. Shortly after lift off in
my Safari, I heard a tremdous banging sound. The first thing that I thought
of was Passenger's Seat Belt hanging out of the door. Wrong. Seat belt
secure and banging continued. Looking below for a landing site showed only
swimming pools and back yards. All gauges checked, and all controls normal.
Banging continued. I squeezed the black out of the plastic on the cyclic
and collective conntrols. Upon landing, I found the end of the passenger's
seat belt had been flapping away at the boom mike on the headset (still
plugged in)that I had secured in the passenger's seat. Thankfully I didn't
do a quick auto and tear up the ship and land in some swimming pool with a
ship with nothing wrong with it.
Stu the Safari driver.
"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