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Msg ID: 2814511 PSA for the new guys +4/-4     
Author:Fly friendly
5/8/2024 2:49:16 AM

It's that windy season again.

 

If it's blowing 25 and gusting 35, and you just came in from offshore where it was even windier, don't try to set her down on the pad right next to the pis-sed off mechanic working on the parked broke one.  Especially if there are plenty of empty pads even closer to the ops building. 

 

Do the smart thing and go land the Fk over there and keep from blowing this dude away.  It may save you from having him jump down your throat when you finally shut down and he recovers his tools, cart, rags, attitude....that you just blew off into oblivion.

 

Also, you guys look so squirrelly and sketch trying keep it steady...drifting almost into the parked bird ......that the avionics guy is probably sitting in .....he'll either almost $#!t's himself or bails out completely when you are waving your tailrotor mere inches from his windbubble. 

Especially Don't scare the Avionics tech like that, they are fragile old endangered and rare creatures that don't move very fast anymore.  And it's getting harder to find replacements.  

If you see him trippin over tie downs trying to get away from you....and your blender of death, it's because you almost put your tailrotor thru his brain muscle and he values that greatly.

The mechanic is used to this moronic behavior from you and has grown accustomed to it and will probably be ok after a day or two. But the avioinics tech will remember who you are, as the one who almost ended him and dwell on it, as it most certainly has scarred him for life, and is likely to post about it on a forum like this.

And every pilot knows, the avionics guy is the one you really need to keep on good standing with. 



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Msg ID: 2814514 I'll drink to that! +2/-2     
Author:Gordo
5/8/2024 8:45:53 AM

Reply to: 2814511

And that is why I drink !



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Msg ID: 2814540 I'll drink to that! +2/-1     
Author:Maybe next time
5/8/2024 8:34:30 PM

Reply to: 2814514

Watched a goofball land a 412 directly in front of another while maintenance guys were trying to hang a main rotor blade. Guy on the stand is hanging on for dear life while guy on the ground is frantically trying to get the idiot to back away and park on any of the five pads well away from the maintenance crew. Pilot lands anyway while blade is slipping off the stand. 
His excuse: he didn't want the company man to have to walk any further than he had to. Maintenance guys should have let go of the blade and ended the idiots job right then and there. 



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Msg ID: 2814576 PSA for the new guys +0/-1     
Author:Just to
5/9/2024 9:33:30 PM

Reply to: 2814511

level the laying field discover the stuff pilots deal with in their space.  



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Msg ID: 2814582 PSA for the new guys +0/-1     
Author:Try again
5/9/2024 11:26:51 PM

Reply to: 2814576

This time lets bring it up to at least a 5th grade english comprehension level please.



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Msg ID: 2814928 PSA for the new guys +0/-0     
Author:Up to yours?
5/17/2024 5:41:35 PM

Reply to: 2814582

Nah.  Suffer.



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