AV8TOR
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Just a look at how it can all go so very very bad, scroll to the video clips @ the bottom of the page.
http://www.luckypuppy.net/MADDOGJET/mishaps.html
http://www.luckypuppy.net/MADDOGJET/mishaps.html
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Who said flying was safe
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KevKing
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They used to show us this sort of stuff in flying training to put us off - never did though, as long as it was someone else. "There are old pilos, bold pilots but no old, bold pilots" or "you dont get more pay for flying - just get it earlier!". So, AV8TOR, wot did/do you fly then (apart from flying along on your bird?!
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Animal Mother
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Thank for sharing. I did not have a lot of those videos.
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KevKing
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Yeah, but at least you get to do what you want instead of what youre told!! Mind you, dropping stuff from helicopters and rescuing kids off cliffs has its moments - too old for that sort of thing now, but keep in touch - love the smell of PX24 in the morning - smells like victory!! Did gliding as a youth in cadets and in RN but dont have time now. Maybe will take it back up when I move to Florida next year. I am away at the mo but will be back in UK in summer, would be interesting to meet up to swap flying stories - I think you lot are much braver driving those portable lawn mower powered things! My navy mates loved some of the vid and have kept the page - thanks for that M8.
CU I hope
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CU I hope
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mal 97
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just like to say i have the upmost respect for people who fly. during my military career shall we say!! chopper pilots got me and some colleagues out of one or two sticky situations from places we ought not really get caught in.
i also saw my last years out working on a mountain rescue team up in scotland where some of the skills shown by the guys on 22 sar sqn RAF was nothing short of heroic. keep it up is all i can say :beer:
i also saw my last years out working on a mountain rescue team up in scotland where some of the skills shown by the guys on 22 sar sqn RAF was nothing short of heroic. keep it up is all i can say :beer:
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HeavensFire
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mal 97 said:
Mal, MRT are 'Barking!'.............But a lot of respect! I was a 'Winch-weight' for a while, mostly out of N.I.
The guys on 22 sar sqn are good, there's even girls driving these days!!
Was better than riding a 'Bird,.......... 50ft, 140knts, no speed traps!! :beer:
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KevKing
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FLY NAVY, SAIL ARMY, EAT CRAB I say !!! The Fleet Air Arm is the way to go - used to get nose bleeds at 50ft it was so high! Try going 200 miles into nowhere at night in a force ten, pick up some idiot french trawlerman whose brokena toenail and find your way back to the hospital with him before you a) get lost or b) run out of fuel! Ah, we wax lyrical.
"Flexibility is the key to Naval Air Superiority" - the RAF only ever seemed to fly between tuesday and thursday!
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PS Mal, if you are round Yeovilton we should meet up M8, I still have close links with the place and area
"Flexibility is the key to Naval Air Superiority" - the RAF only ever seemed to fly between tuesday and thursday!
man8um
PS Mal, if you are round Yeovilton we should meet up M8, I still have close links with the place and area
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HeavensFire
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"Fly between Tuesday and Thursday"............ was to ensure we could get back on 'Deck' and keep all those lonely Fishhead's, wives and girlfriends warm!Hats off to you Kev.......... We were Flying off HMS Ocean and had trouble working out if you guys had such a thing as Crew Duty Time or Wx limits?! :beer:
Hats off to Navy "chopper" crews, would ALWAYS come and get us no matter the weather, worked with squadrons out of Bardufoss north norway teaching them arctic survival, in return they scared me S*&*less with some of their "mountain flying" :bow: extracted many of us Bootnecks out of unhealthy areas. :beer: ....... RAF "Can you extract us now?" "Sorry chaps but we've spotted a cloud".
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HeavensFire
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TOO TRUE!! :beer: You get an M.L. telling you to take a 'dip' in a hole in a frozen lake,.......... once,..........but every year!?Bardufoss, GREAT place, and who wants to go skiing naked.....................(photo's on request!) Or play rugby against the USMC?
Jono, I spent a while flying with the 'Junglies'............ Good blokes! - :beer:
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KevKing
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You guys are just so nice with the comments! I could never understand why the Booties wanted to jump out of a serviceable helicopter anyhow, trusting that we had got the height right in the dark with no lights! No wonder they all bugger up their knees! Must admit, that although the Crabs had very short flying hours, due to intervening pedicures etc etc, they always got the best hotels! I'm just about to climb Sydney Harbour Bridge and am dreading coming back to UK winter in Feb - is there anything going on then as I want to get my bike out of Mr Taffys workshop for a spin - providing I dont freeze first!
All the best all
Kev
Wx - limits Clear of Cloud in sight of surface was widely abused! For SAR we could take off and land whatever, have followed roads in the fog to return to Culdrose on occasion!
You guys are just so nice with the comments! I could never understand why the Booties wanted to jump out of a serviceable helicopter anyhow, trusting that we had got the height right in the dark with no lights! No wonder they all bugger up their knees! Must admit, that although the Crabs had very short flying hours, due to intervening pedicures etc etc, they always got the best hotels! I'm just about to climb Sydney Harbour Bridge and am dreading coming back to UK winter in Feb - is there anything going on then as I want to get my bike out of Mr Taffys workshop for a spin - providing I dont freeze first!
All the best all
Kev
Wx - limits Clear of Cloud in sight of surface was widely abused! For SAR we could take off and land whatever, have followed roads in the fog to return to Culdrose on occasion!
Knees are fine, the back is a little tetchy sometimes , carrying chacons around went with the territory! The "I'll take it just in case syndrom" :violin: . We were extracted one night, clagged right in, almost nil viz 8l1nd , we thought no chance of a pick up but made the R.V. anyway and sat tight. On queue came the sound of rotors and out of the murk our "cab". he was almost on us before he saw the strobe. Turned out they had hovered forward following a small stream bed up the steep valley to where it forked close to our position and came in very slowly from there. Christ you wouldn't have driven a car in that never mind a chopper! As I said, hats of to them, although we would never say it at the time they were and still are held in high esteem. :beer:
, carrying chacons around went with the territory! The "I'll take it just in case syndrom" :violin: . We were extracted one night, clagged right in, almost nil viz 8l1nd , we thought no chance of a pick up but made the R.V. anyway and sat tight. On queue came the sound of rotors and out of the murk our "cab". he was almost on us before he saw the strobe. Turned out they had hovered forward following a small stream bed up the steep valley to where it forked close to our position and came in very slowly from there. Christ you wouldn't have driven a car in that never mind a chopper! As I said, hats of to them, although we would never say it at the time they were and still are held in high esteem. :beer:
mal 97
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gotta admit chopper pilots are good and saved my neck once or twice but tell me, have you ever done any tactical flying in a charlie 130? if you haven't and get the chance just do it. you would not believe a herc could bee flown so fast and so low land so short and take off so quick. had an awesom flight over the jungle of Belize and will never forget it.
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BlackBirdBaz
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I saw a few awesome sights at Rauls Rose Garden too just outside Ladyville :mmal 97 said:an awesom flight over the jungle of Belize and will never forget it.
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BraXX
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hang gliding
Cheers av8tor, i'm glad to meet a hang glider pilot here :yo:
I have flown since 1980 including Some flights in England on 1993 during a visit to airwave on the isle of Wight.
It seems the glider on the picture is a magic kiss, right ?
I have a wills wing Talon actually but only logged some 20 hours on it since last year. Do you still fly hang gliders ?
Cheers av8tor, i'm glad to meet a hang glider pilot here :yo:
I have flown since 1980 including Some flights in England on 1993 during a visit to airwave on the isle of Wight.
It seems the glider on the picture is a magic kiss, right ?
I have a wills wing Talon actually but only logged some 20 hours on it since last year. Do you still fly hang gliders ?
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BraXX
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loose the word
Confucio said if you speak when you shouldn't then you may loose a friend, but when you don't speak when you should then you loose the word.
Chap you don't seem to be very far from the ground on that hangglider at all.
Confucio said if you speak when you shouldn't then you may loose a friend, but when you don't speak when you should then you loose the word.
Chap you don't seem to be very far from the ground on that hangglider at all.
AV8TOR
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Hi BraXX no more hangliding for me as i have all the usual aches & pains from our sport bad back knees plus my partner never would fly until she had a go in a flexwing thats when I did the switch to powered flight ( sell out )
The picture is taken over in Ireland a few year ago the wing belonged to a late friend of mine, after a flight you remember this is a young fit mans sport & don't kid yourself other wise.
So now we only fly Microlights & anything we can climb into with an engine, not to mention we live only 2 miles from our local airfield so no more hill climbing & waiting for the right weather, now we turn up, fuel up, & get up.
We also have a mate who runs his own Aviation company selling alsorts of gear, he is nut on powered parachuting & paragliding which is nice & sedate fun.
The picture is taken over in Ireland a few year ago the wing belonged to a late friend of mine, after a flight you remember this is a young fit mans sport & don't kid yourself other wise.
So now we only fly Microlights & anything we can climb into with an engine, not to mention we live only 2 miles from our local airfield so no more hill climbing & waiting for the right weather, now we turn up, fuel up, & get up.
We also have a mate who runs his own Aviation company selling alsorts of gear, he is nut on powered parachuting & paragliding which is nice & sedate fun.
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Zoffo
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I've seen the Ramstien crash from a spectators vidiocam. Truely horrific.