3 things about helicopters...

PGT

PGT

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1. They're always trying to kill you

2. Hovers are not that hard

3. It's real flying
 
Curious what one could expect to spend to aquire a PVT rating assuming existing fixed-wing ratings?
 
"My definition of a helicopter is 6 million separate pieces flying in an unstable formation. I hate 'em like the plague."

Cool Breeze
-if you can name the show you will be my hero.
 
JordanD said:
That's the only helicopter I've ever actively wanted to fly.
Gotta love that thumpthumpthumpthumpthump. :D
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Blackhawk said:
Blackhawk was more fun to fly.
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Funny thing, working at both CBP as well as an AF Reserve HH-60 unit.

Majority of -60 pilots at CBP are former Army, primarily WOs, with a few RLOs.

When I'm crewing with them, I help with the preflight, etc, as much as I can when they're preflighting the bird; generally one guy takes the roof and the main rotor system, while the other does the walkaround.

Over at my AF unit, I inquired to one of the pilots a question that I'd thought of regards the cannon plug connections for the tailrotor deice system. He looked at me dumbfounded and told me he didn't know, since he'd never been up the tailboom/tailboom steps before. In the AF apparently, the Flight Engineer on the HH-60 preflights, and the best way to piss one of them off as a pilot, is to do a preflight on the bird they're assigned to. Pilots in the AF just do a quick "kick the tires" walkaround.

Interesting differences between pilots of the same aircraft, who are just from different services.
 
Eh, to many moving parts to break. At least in an airplane if it stalls you can recover. From What I hear about a helo, if the blade stalls, your screwed.
 
MikeD said:
Funny thing, working at both CBP as well as an AF Reserve HH-60 unit.

Majority of -60 pilots at CBP are former Army, primarily WOs, with a few RLOs.

When I'm crewing with them, I help with the preflight, etc, as much as I can when they're preflighting the bird; generally one guy takes the roof and the main rotor system, while the other does the walkaround.

Over at my AF unit, I inquired to one of the pilots a question that I'd thought of regards the cannon plug connections for the tailrotor deice system. He looked at me dumbfounded and told me he didn't know, since he'd never been up the tailboom/tailboom steps before. In the AF apparently, the Flight Engineer on the HH-60 preflights, and the best way to piss one of them off as a pilot, is to do a preflight on the bird they're assigned to. Pilots in the AF just do a quick "kick the tires" walkaround.

Interesting differences between pilots of the same aircraft, who are just from different services.
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Yeah, it made us feel important looking in every nook and cranny. Of course over my career I did find some tools left on aircraft, including a screwdriver underneath the tail rotor drive shaft cover. That would have been a mess.
 
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