Aviation Forum / General / Rotary-wing / December 2004

    After decades of wanting, several attempts at starting and many
job/life related frustrations, years of not quite having the time,
and the resources, I finally began my training in earnest this year.
    I gotta tell you, it was EXACTLY what I expected it to be. I

My neighbor is training with Silver State helicopters in Sacramento.
They claim there are helos sitting around with no one to fly them and
that pay can be expected in the $100,000 area. Our local DE thinks they
are crooks but I think he just thinks that because they do their

Here's a joke for you that I got from another thread,
The Public Works Minister of a former French colony in Central Africa
is in
France in an official visit.

fyi...Joe Souza, maker of Bandit gyroplanes, is cheating the government
- he funnels money from his business, Precision HiRail Alignment, into
his gyro company which he then claims as REVENUE (illegally) so he can
avoid paying lower taxes..the oldest trick in the book - is the IRS

Well it appears this board needs something to stir some activity. So,
let's talk about touchdown autorotations. Just like spins in the
phyxed wing world, there are those who argue for/against touchdown
autos.

I have a question:
(and the answer may be pretty basic)
We all know that you can't land a gyrocopter in a crab angle because you
might tip over.  Why, then, don't they use castor type wheels, or some other

I,ve heard of many fixed wing flying clubs around the Phoenix/metro
area, but has anyone heard of a helo flying club around Phoenix?

Now I have a hairless butt!

In IFR flights rotorcraft are sequenced together with airplanes on the
approach path, i.e. they use the same procedures as airplanes. Because
they are much slower than aircraft, they hinder the traffic flow. To
alleviate airport congestion they could intercept the glide path ...

After having shown about a dozen "lucky crashes" without casualties it's
becoming hard to avoid a fatal crash. Although no casualties are shown in
this video, it may be good to remember that our beloved hobby is not all
about "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines", but ...

After getting scrubbed by lack of instructor-itis and bad weather last
Monday night, I finally got my solo cross country in on Wednesday.
I spent Tuesday evening poring over my charts and getting Wx outlooks
from DUAT and finally came up with a route to fly.  X-countries are

First of all i want to say hi all of you because i am new here and i
wish that you accept my apologies about my mistakes.
I am currently studying aeronautics and i am very intrested in mechanic
of helicopters and helicopter aerodynamics. But while i was surfing on

From the Okanagan Saturday
PENTICTON -- Two helicopters abandoned on the Penticton Indian reserve
Thursday, less than a quarter of a mile apart, have triggered an
investigation by the RCMP, Canada Customs and Transport Canada. "Yesterday,

Recently I was watching "Monster Garage".  The challenge on this
episode (37) was for the team to build a very fast car out of a jet
boat.  During the build one of the team members spent six dollars and
some change for an expired helicopter piece.  Since the part had been

Ok, so it wasn't the ship on Friday.  Flew <cough> an entirely
different ship today and sucked worse than on Friday - only this time
I had company..
Got my usual 10am block and unlike most days, I had to make a job