Morning All, 

Every year we give away a few of our HeliOps calendars to those in the industry. Thought this year we would give away some to members here. All you have to do is post on this thread what you enjoy most about this amazing industry or your coolest moment in a helicopter. Then once you do that send us an email to info(@)heliopsmag.com with a postal address to send the calendar to and we will put one in the mail for you. Hope everyone enjoys this edition. 

Cheers 

Ned

Back in the mid 80's, before the tearing down of the wall, flying my AH-1 Cobra along the West German border while being shadowed on the East German border by a Hind-D for an exciting 20 minutes of some very fun flying!

There I was, Saturday afternoon, needing to get a check flight out of the way on the 92 we had just completed.  Routine stuff, no biggie, fly down to KARA hit the compass rose, knock out an auto, and check the ILS on the way back.

Bridj, our test pilot was gonna be PIC and we were waiting for a new hire to show up for a show and eval.  Little did I know this dude was gonna be flying us down to the rose and the test pilot was gonna evaluate him.

We load up, I bring a new guy with me named Chris Bordelon for his first ride in a 92.  New peter pilot rolls up like he going to Cowboys.  $#!t kicker boots on, blue jeans, hat and everything.  I'm like surely he's got some other footwear for flying this pig right?  Nope.  He gonna fly in cowboy boots.  I'm like this aint gonna work bro.

Sure enough, didn't take us long to get down to KARA, not sure of what this guy claimed he flew before but we came in hot and heavy.....The whole time I can hear Bridj over the ICS screaming at this dude to slow it down, we gonna pass it up.  And about the 3 time he told him this idiot yanks the sticks back and stands the big bytch on her tail like it's a lil 206 trying to stop on a dime.  I look out the side popouts and the ground is 90 degrees to the window frame.  I'm thinking....this is how I die.  The EGPWS is screaming TAIL LOW!! TAIL LOW!!   I look over at Chris and he's about to $#!t himself.  Finally Bridj Grabs the controls and says forcefully in the mic ,MY AIRCRAFT!  Thank God!, I thought.  Wow, don't know where this cat came from...but he had no idea the mass of a 92 and what it takes to bleed off all that forward momentum.

How we all didn't die that day I have no clue.

Test flights...geez

A. Guru

everything about that story is absurd bro. no way are you doing any of that on an aircraft that hasn’t been signed off. but give him a stupid calendar as that’s as close as he’s getting to a helicopter 

Say wut bro has never worked in south louisiana.

I imagine say wut bro is a liberal democrat living east coast somewhere flying a robbie around for a tour and on the off time spends it down in momma's basement frantically masturbating to k-pop and kiddie pronn where he lives out his days wishing he worked for a real company with heavy iron.

never happened the goofy guru story never happened the most

I'll swear on my dead Grandmother, Grandfather and everyone else who came before me that that story played out exactly as I wrote it here.

You sir are a bold basement dwelling piece of $#!t who does nothing but call out on things you have no clue about.  You are the embodiment of every bad pilot in all of my horrible pilot stories.

And you can meet me in Galveston at PHI if you think those are all BS.

I'll make you eat an 11,000 lbs torque wrench through your broken teeth.

David Danna 

Galveston Avionics Sch 1  PHI

Come find me.

PHI employee threatening violence. Probably should expect a call bro lol

Go away, Loser!

Fell asleep how boring that story was….

How 90% of all the drama comes from 1 single sector…..