[Travel] Helicopter Experience - Wingly, Shoreham Airport

[AmexRuislip]

If you look carefully at the top right image, you can just make out [MENTION=11350]LamieRobertson[/MENTION] pushing his lawn mower over the bridge

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I'd recommend this guy - https://www.helifly.co.uk/ - worked for him for a number of years. Really nice guy. If you want to contact him just say and I'll PM you my name so you can say I recommended him.

 

[LamieRobertson]

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If you look carefully at the top right image, you can just make out [MENTION=11350]LamieRobertson[/MENTION] pushing his lawn mower over the bridge

Self drive ...all three

 

[METALMICKY]

Have done both the Vegas tourist flights over the Strip and then the little one in the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Loved both flights and not nervous at all. If anything the small 6 seater plane from McCarran down to the canyon was more nervy. Great view of the Hoover Dam but the ride was pretty bumpy and the constantly changing engine tone made you think it was about to cut out any minute.

Also done the helicopter flight over Manhattan.

 

[Jam The Man]

I went up in the old police helicopter (H900) in 1999 as an observer. Loved it!
Picking up the dead body at Cuckmere Haven and sitting next to it in the back was a first too.

 

[zefarelly]

Had 3 years working on helicopters in Hong Kong in the RAF.....used to use them like taxis call the ops room and a wessex arrived at HMS Tamar

Perfectly safe machines...

I don't disagree, but When mechanical failure occurs, and it does, on any mechanised transportation device, in a helicopter it's almost guaranteed to be terminal.

That's before you factor in the ability, or arrogance, of the pilot.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

On a cricket tour in Capetown back in 2007, some company got one of the ex-MASH Huey choppers refurbished and did trips round table mountain.
Me and dad strapped to one of the seat / ledges that once housed the side-gunner, with nothing but a lap-belt - noisy and down-drafty, but EPIC !

 

[Hugo Rune]

I don't disagree, but When mechanical failure occurs, and it does, on any mechanised transportation device, in a helicopter it's almost guaranteed to be terminal.

That's before you factor in the ability, or arrogance, of the pilot.

I won a helicopter flying lesson from Shoreham about 20 years ago and loved every minute of it. I seem to recall that Heli engines have limiters on them so they only rev to around 40% of their capacity. They have very few accidents.

The greatest thing a chopper pilot does is hover. You need to balance four controls together to keep the thing still takes about 12hrs practice. I almost ditched the thing trying!

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

I was once on a pretty bumpy flight back from Cyprus and was looking suitably terrified, the guy next to me turned out to be a Cyprus Air Force helicopter pilot who proceeded to regale me with stories of hairy helicopter flights and how this was nothing!. Once he mentioned rotary wings flapping around like spaghetti above his head in really windy weather I decided that maybe I was over reacting being scared on a bumpy flight!

I think you’ll find he was talking bollocks as is the want of aircrew.




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[Deportivo Seagull]

Spent two years on junglie squadron and have flown in the back of sea king for many hours. Longest flight was from yeovilton to Bergen in Norway. Stopped off for a bacon sarnie at raf leuchars before heading across North Sea. This was New Year’s Day 1985.
Uncomfortable as ****. Troop seats no heating and a hangover.
2nd day was Bergen to Bodo, 3rd day was to Bardefoss in the arctic circle. Arguably the best month of my life ... apart from getting trouped... that wasn’t so great!

Helicopters are very reliable (only seen one crash). The issue is just how well they are maintained. Poor maintenance invariably means a bad ending.


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