Firebird what did you fly out there? I crewed on a 60.
Helicopters are sweet, but if I can't read, listen to my Ipod, and watch a DVD in cruise, I get "fatigued" real fast. Just kidding. Sort of.
Helicopters are sweet, but if I can't read, listen to my Ipod, and watch a DVD in cruise, I get "fatigued" real fast. Just kidding. Sort of.
Most of the pilots had a cable that jacked into a pin in the UHF radio plug.
Add Ipod, and you can rock out to Outkast's "Bombs Over Baghdad" while flying IN to Baghdad.
That was a sweet visual.
I was an H-60 crewdog, too.
Didn't know I had a fellow Hawk guy around. What unit?
It does look like fun, but it looks like other than an hour of buzzing landscape here and there, it would start to feel like I didn't get my money's worth as I would quickly run out of things to do.
I've never flown RW, that is correct. But my uncle owned a helicopter during my childhood, which I flew in often, and he sold it and bought a new Cessna to start flying FW instead. He claimed other than soaking in the Minnesota landscape, it wasn't useful for other things such as XCs. Though he did admit he had fun landing it on peoples farms way outside any controlled airspace. Ironically, he had safety concerns about RW flying also, yet the first time he went up with a CFI in his new 172, the wing folded over inflight and they both died.You've never flown RW then. Far more things to do than in most FW platforms!
I've never flown RW, that is correct. But my uncle owned a helicopter during my childhood, which I flew in often, and he sold it and bought a new Cessna to start flying FW instead. He claimed other than soaking in the Minnesota landscape, it wasn't useful for other things such as XCs. Though he did admit he had fun landing it on peoples farms way outside any controlled airspace. Ironically, he had safety concerns about RW flying also, yet the first time he went up with a CFI in his new 172, the wing folded over inflight and they both died.
Ahh.. "pin 5" is what we called it. Except in our case the crew chiefs rigged it... you guys were slacking!
2-25th AVN REGT (Air Assault), 25th ID out of Wheeler/Schofield Hawaii. You?
I was crewed with a maintenance pilot. He did it himself. It's not like I didn't know how.
Besides, under no circumstances is a pilot in the 'O' pay grades ever allowed to call a crew chief a slacker. Period.
I was crewed with a maintenance pilot. He did it himself. It's not like I didn't know how.
Besides, under no circumstances is a pilot in the 'O' pay grades ever allowed to call a crew chief a slacker. Period.
Whatever. Sometimes the cooler wasn't even stocked with fresh ice and the waters and sodas were served to me warm. They usually gave me some half-assed excuse like "we were doing a 14-day inspection and the daily all morning and didn't have the time." Wah. If I had time to drink 3 cups of coffee, read the paper, check my email, and play a game of spades with the WOs - all before takeoff - they had time to fill the cooler with ice. Sigh... hard to find a good crew dog sometimes...