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maintenance already know how to fly.

Flight sim-  aced a hospital take off and rig landing on first try

fixed wing private pilots cert

paramotor pilot

freeflight top lander

there's nothing you can show me I don't already know.

Make twice as much as a specialist than if I were to go pilot route.

torque wrench and safety wire when I was 16, big whoop.

Your turn...

Increasing oscillations on ap 3-cue coupled ILS approach so bad it wants to sling your main rotor tips into the dirt at 50ft agl.

Any clue?

Nah didn't think so.

Or how about a Yaw kick in a BK-117 back in the day that was so bad the med crew refused to fly in it they were so scared to die.  The pilot was so gun shy that even after it was fixed that he was still grounding it for a dimmer than usual Yaw SAS sugar cube light and we had to explain to him that was normal depending on which bus was energized first....24 volts (battery)on the bulb is not gonna be as bright at 28.5vdc on same light (gen voltage)Einstein.

Care to guess what fixed that kick?

Nah didn't think so.

How about you flying along at Cruise in your sleek 76 and boom all of a sudden your flotation pops, instant air brakes and a now a permanent brown stain in your seat cushion.....

Care to guess why?

Yeah, what ever.

Twice your pay bozo.

Stick to the wiggling.

You can't hang.

S76 Floats popped @ Cruise W/gear up & locked?? Care to give details as I am curious on that issue.

Gear up and tucked has no bearing on what a blown float will do to a door.  Remember there are squibs and explosive links in a 76 float inflation system and it don't give a s--- what positon your gear handle is in if it decides to go.

This case happened to have a sagging wiring bundle in the over head that should have been securly fastened to the ceiling with tyewraps but those had long since dry rotted in a area not easily visible during inspections.  That heavy wiring bundle ended up sagging down enough it rested on a rivet line that then began to eat and chafe into the outer most strands of wire in the bundle.  Those outer most strands just happened to be the power wires that went to the rh main landing gear float bottle squib.  Normally those power wires would be in the armed state and just waiting for the pilot to lift the safety cap over his inflate plunger on the cyclic grip and smash down.  Well.....there happened to be another wire adjacent to that squib wire....and it had power already on it.  Older Kapton wire is well known to get super crappy and develop cracks in the insulation as it ages and this wire didn't need much persuasion to allow an arc across from power to ground or power to the now exposed squib wire.  You get the idea.  Boom.  Insta air brakes at cruise.  But Mr. wizard, you say, that would have only inflated 1 float, and to that I say you would be correct in that understanding, but this is a redundant system with relays and dual bus backups, Primary and Essential.....and power can backfeed, and it did. Boom, all floats deploy. 

That's all you get for today.  Story time is over.

Go away now.

called it Crapton wiring because that's what it was!!!

1 s76? bad damper or no fluid in the resevoir

2 missed out on bk117

3 failed relay? or shorted wire

"S76 Bad Damper or No HYD Fluid in resevoir" cause floats to inlfate! 

not the damn fluid caused the floats to inflate. read.

Read & the S76 issue was a FLOAT Issue NOT a M/R SO I geuss yyou did NOT Read  @$$ WIPE!!!!

You pull the stick up, house gets small, you push the stick down, house gets big.