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01-14-2012, 06:14 PM | #1 |
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My 2nd Flight
I'm absolutely loving it. Anyone else here fly helicopters? I hate to talk blasphemy, but if I had to choose cigars or this...
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01-14-2012, 06:24 PM | #2 |
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Very cool, looks like you flew over the town I worked in
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01-14-2012, 06:24 PM | #3 |
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Looks like fun Chris!
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01-14-2012, 06:30 PM | #4 |
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01-14-2012, 07:19 PM | #7 |
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01-14-2012, 07:35 PM | #8 |
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Yup, I recognized the golf holes on that one property
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01-14-2012, 07:39 PM | #9 |
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I used to play Jane's Longbow all the time, so the concept of collective and cyclic plus rudder pedals is
without a doubt in my head and secure. But strapping in to the real thing and not crashing on takeoff is a lot different I am sure. |
01-14-2012, 07:57 PM | #11 |
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What's your cruising speed in one of those? I have a single engine pilot's license, although I haven't flown in around 15 years now. I think the Cessna's and Cherokees I flew were around 100 knots. Then when I'd go for a ride in an Arrow, it's amazing how much faster that thing was.
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01-14-2012, 09:28 PM | #13 | |
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Having a familiarization with the controls definitely helps, but making them do what you want is the hard part lol |
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01-14-2012, 09:30 PM | #14 | |
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Sounds about right for the Cessnas as I think that's where we were when I flew with my buddy. |
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01-15-2012, 09:45 AM | #15 | |
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with a multi-shot camera when you are fully zoomed in. The camera shoots until your mempry card is full, so that's no problem. But you are fully zoomed in, AND there is enough lag in your viewfinder that everytime you try to move the camera to keep the bird centered, you end up WAY over-correcting and then there is no bird in the field of view, so you try to correct for that and it just keeps getting worse. The only way to get it back is to stop shooting and re-frame. Of course in a chopper, you can't just 'stop shooting' because you are piloting a completely unstable aircraft. You can't just glide your way out of it. |
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01-15-2012, 01:50 PM | #16 | |
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01-15-2012, 04:44 PM | #17 |
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I Love Helicopters, but I cannot fly, I just admire them, they look like big insects and I love how they sound. Looks like an awesome/amazing time
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01-15-2012, 05:40 PM | #18 |
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Wow, I have been wishing to do that too.. I feel so jealous!
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01-15-2012, 07:08 PM | #19 | |
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$13k and you can have your private pilot license Or join the military and get it free! |
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