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I soloed today! (Off topic)


RobertGary1

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Cfi jumped out of the r-22 and let me go around the pattern a few times. Pictures forthcoming. That puts me at 4 aircraft categories. If it flies I’ll fly it. :)
 

I’ve flown everything from taildraggers to jets but nothing challenges me as much as that little Robbie. It really has no natural inclination to want to fly. :)

-Robert

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Congrats Robert!

There is a Robinson Helicopter School on the back side of my hangar….

They have their own small fuel rig right outside…

 

Every time I walk that way…. A defensive voice alarm goes off in my head…. “Avert your eyes! Avert your eyes! Avert your eyes!”   :)
 

Hard to make helicopter friends if you are busy staring at the ground…
 

-a-

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9 hours ago, carusoam said:

Congrats Robert!

There is a Robinson Helicopter School on the back side of my hangar….

They have their own small fuel rig right outside…

 

Every time I walk that way…. A defensive voice alarm goes off in my head…. “Avert your eyes! Avert your eyes! Avert your eyes!”   :)
 

Hard to make helicopter friends if you are busy staring at the ground…
 

-a-

just do it and those dreams of skimming just above the ground will go away with the reality that you can do that without an engine and propeller blocking your view

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16 hours ago, RobertGary1 said:

I figured out why an r-22 rents for 3 times what a c-150 does. The required airframe overhauls cost 6 figures. Those airframes get stripped down to little bits and rebuilt on schedule. 

Most parts on helicopters are time limited and have to be tracked individually.   It's a crazy thing.  ;)

 

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18 hours ago, Eight8Victor said:

Woohoo! How many other MSers can claim that? I know one @1964-M20E

I have 200+ hours in helis, and owned an R-44 for awhile. Also fly gliders and SES. I want to get a balloon add-on, but they are especially difficult logistically because of weather and ground crew requirements

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4 hours ago, rbp said:

I have 200+ hours in helis, and owned an R-44 for awhile. Also fly gliders and SES. I want to get a balloon add-on, but they are especially difficult logistically because of weather and ground crew requirements

Don’t forget ppc as well. I bought one of those. The best low and slow flying you’ll ever experience. 

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A poem to honor the occasion.....

LOW FLIGHT

Oh! I have slipped the bonds of common sense

And thrashed the skies with blades that ain’t quite wings;

Bug-like I’ve climbed, to clear the airport fence

By a good two feet,—and done a hundred things

You would not care to—wobbled and shook and swung

Down in the dusty deafening din. Stuck there,

I’ve chased the nearest car along, and lost

The race with barely any wind 

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

Some jet jock tops the wind-swept heights with easy grace

Me, I’m down here where never lark nor even eagle poo—

And, while with silent wishing mind I’ve trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and almost lost control.

 

With sincere apologies to Pilot Officer John Gillespie MaGee. RCAF

And congratulations!

 

 

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