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Sounds good but it's not even close to the idea of an auto. Tell you what. I can do an auto into a very, very small area. 100' is easy. Can you glide into a small spot like that. I don't think so :D

Reminds me of a time when I traded in a Jeep CJ for another car. The dealer called me and accused me of having removed the front wheel drive train. I told him that the vehicle worked fine in 4WD drive when I handed it over to him... He later sheepishly said that they found nuts and bolts...

Points well taken, Tim. I had confidence issues for a long time in fixed-wing, and I think maybe that kept me from ever getting as proficient as I really wanted to. Oddly, I never had confidence issues in helicopters, even as a student. The flip side is that even though I have hundreds...

Well, there is that, Tom. Tell you what, though. When we owned our R22 (5 way partnership, 3 of us got our initial ratings in that ship), we charged ourselves $70/hr wet at the beginning, and $100/hr as the ship got older and needed more maintenance. That was enough to cover everything...

I like to pull Ken's chain as much as he likes to pull mine. I don't have a stall horn much less an intermittent one -- if the skids fall off, a warning wouldn't help much :D Of course, my landing checklist is so simple that it's not even printed in the POH. It consists of exactly nothing...

Ahhh, Ken. That's why what you refer to the dark side, isn't! Too high, too fast, too low, too slow, no biggie, ya can still land that sucker :D

Yeah. It sounds just like... never mind....

No Chuck, it comes in little bricks, with no can.

Ted, I would add one more thing to that, which is that every pilot I've flown with who makes me comfortable (that he won't kill me!) is loose and relaxed. The flip side is that pilots who are tight on the controls and/or move them excessively make me nervous. I suppose that being a relaxed...

And all this time I thought the proper use was to fly low in the summer looking for naked ladies in swimming pools!

On the second x-c for my PP-RH add-on, one of the legs was Lancaster, PA. I called the tower about 15 miles out, told them I was 15 to the northwest. He told me to expect some pattern that didn't make sense, but I figured we could straighten that out when I got closer. As I got closer...

FAA's got him nailed now! A pressure hull penetration requires an engineering study before making the penetration!

Ho-hum? Just like us :D

Up to you, but we have wills, medical power of attorney documents and living wills (when to pull the plug!). If you don't have these things you might end up with a court making your decisions for you...

Finally. The reinstall of our IO-540 in the R44 was completed over the weekend, and the helicopter has been test flown! I get my shot at it tomorrow morning. Let the withdrawal symptoms cease :yes:

Man, I hate seeing stuff like that. I don't particularly mind if he kills himself, but I do mind if he kills PAX in the process. Sounds like a pretty good job by the student pilot.

For the first time in many years, to the accompaniment of a pizza, we watched the Godfather on DVD last night. I had actually forgotten what a well-made movie that was. And most satisfying of all, the famous baptism L-cut at the end. Ahh. Moe Green putting on his glasses on the massage...

I think my wife's first helicopter flight. She hates airplanes. Doesn't matter if it's a bug smasher or a B777, she hates it. She started getting into this a few months before we took delivery of the R44. Her ears perked up when she heard we were getting air conditioning. They perked up...

Good post, Ron. I've long made it a habit to call flight service just to get the briefing recorded on tape.

Cool 206L, Scott. Well equipped too, with the wire cutters and pop-ups. I wish we had pop-ups on our ship, but Robinson, in their infinite wisdom says that if you have air conditioning you can't have floats :dunno: