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ckrin

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:58 pm
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A blonde pilot decided she wanted to learn how to fly a helicopter.
She went to the airport, but the only one available was a
solo-helicopter.
The Instructor figured he could let her go up alone since she was
already a pilot for small planes and he could instruct her via radio.
So up the blonde went. She reached 1,000 feet and everything was
going smoothly. She reached 2,000 feet. The blonde and the Instructor
kept talking via radio. Everything was going smoothly.
At 3,000 feet the helicopter suddenly came down quickly! It skimmed
the top of some trees and crash landed in the woods.
The Instructor jumped into his jeep and rushed out to see if the
blonde was okay.
As he reached the edge of the woods, the blonde was walking out.
"What happened?" the Instructor asked. "All was going so well until
you reached 3,000 feet. What happened then?"
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"Well," began the blonde, "I got cold. So I turned off the ceiling
fan."



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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:58 pm
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charles krin <ckrin RemoveThis @bayou.com> writes:

 >A blonde pilot decided she wanted to learn how to fly a helicopter.
 >She went to the airport, but the only one available was a
 >solo-helicopter. [remainder snipped]

The usual problem when a joke collides with the reader's training:

<flight_instructor_mode>
Good at best for a mild chuckle, suppressed since the predicate of the
story (a student solo in a category of aircraft in which she hasn't
received dual instruction) isn't legal.
</flight_instructor_mode>

A common belief in aviation circles is that the propeller on an airplane
is there to keep the pilot cool.

This is very easy to prove. Establish the airplane in level, coordinated
flight with the controls properly trimmed, then stop the propeller.

Watch the pilot sweat.

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:58 pm
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:58:06 +0000 (UTC), Joe Morris
<jcmorris DeleteThis @mitre.org> wrote:

 >charles krin <ckrin DeleteThis @bayou.com> writes:
 >
  >>A blonde pilot decided she wanted to learn how to fly a helicopter.
  >>She went to the airport, but the only one available was a
  >>solo-helicopter. [remainder snipped]
 >
 >The usual problem when a joke collides with the reader's training:
 >
 ><flight_instructor_mode>
 >Good at best for a mild chuckle, suppressed since the predicate of the
 >story (a student solo in a category of aircraft in which she hasn't
 >received dual instruction) isn't legal.
 ></flight_instructor_mode>

ah...but it does conform to historic usage, in which case there were
*many* situations of taking a pilot with some experience, giving them
a ground school, and maybe some Link Simulator time...and then
throwing them into the cock pit...I agree that it's less likely to
happen going from fixed wing to rotor, as there is *much* more to
coordinate when the craft doesn't want to fly but merely beats the air
into submission.

 >
 >A common belief in aviation circles is that the propeller on an airplane
 >is there to keep the pilot cool.
 >
 >This is very easy to prove. Establish the airplane in level, coordinated
 >flight with the controls properly trimmed, then stop the propeller.
 >
 >Watch the pilot sweat.
 >
 >Joe Morris 1703860CFII

LOL..yeah...have seen that too...like the first time a WO1 had to shot
an autorotation from the right seat with a full load on...we had one
of our high time (15K plus hours in Hueys alone) IPs riding
shotgun...but it was my first autorotation to touch down and I'll tell
you what...a Huey in auto is a spooky quiet bird...

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:36 pm
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Joe Morris scribbled:
 > charles krin <ckrin RemoveThis @bayou.com> writes:
<snip>
 > A common belief in aviation circles is that the propeller on an airplane
 > is there to keep the pilot cool.

 > This is very easy to prove. Establish the airplane in level, coordinated
 > flight with the controls properly trimmed, then stop the propeller.

 > Watch the pilot sweat.

POINT!

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:04 pm
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charles krin <ckrin.RemoveThis@bayou.com> writes:

 >LOL..yeah...have seen that too...like the first time a WO1 had to shot
 >an autorotation from the right seat with a full load on...we had one
 >of our high time (15K plus hours in Hueys alone) IPs riding
 >shotgun...but it was my first autorotation to touch down and I'll tell
 >you what...a Huey in auto is a spooky quiet bird...

*Any* aircraft that's designed to be under power at all times is
a spooky place when the noisemaker is turned off.

Interesting statistic:

* On an accidents-per-registered aircraft, single-engine airplanes
are more likely to have an engine failure related accident than
are multiengine airplanes.

* Of the airplanes that have engine failure related accidents, the
rate of fatal accidents is significantly higher in multi-engine
airplanes than in signle-engine birds.

The best explanation for this is that when you have an engine failure
in a single-engine airplane (and I've been there...) there isn't any
question: you're about to make some type of landing in the near
future. If you're in a twin, you're likely to try to keep going
despite the fact that losing one engine in a twin costs you a huge
part of your performance, in some cases exceeding 100%.

To give an idea of the problem, the twin in which I took my multiengine
checkride (in 1973) on a standard (relatively cool) day and loaded
to gross weight can maintain an altitude of only 3600' MSL if one
engine fails and *everything* is working as it should.

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