Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nash on June 19, 2003, 09:30:47 PM
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"Uh, he was just learning how to fly this helicopter, he doesn't have any time, he just bought it and he just ate the big one. He was told not to try and fly the thing". (http://www.deeprhythms.com/video/chopper.wmv )
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Darwin ar work again :D
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oh sh#t!
did the guy live? thats a nasty tumble he took from what? 80 feet?
um. aren't you supposed to have someone with you the first few flights?
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Just a guess, but I think at the very least he was knocked unconscious... 'cuz the folks were looking into the cockpit but weren't trying to talk to the guy (no "are you ok?" or anything like that).
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What a waste of a perfectly good helo...
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LMAO! I'm guessing he failed that checkride.
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hey, hold my beer , watch this.
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MUAHHAHAHAHHH THIS IS HILLARIOUS!!!!!!
He could have save it more than once ... but no ... all the bad reflexes everytime.... like one of FIT student, runing of the runway ina plane, hiting a sign, GOING FULL THROTTLE mawing the grass, taking off again barely clearing the ILS antena with a 45 degree bank ... only to come back and land again, loose control again ... going full power again while blasting dirt till finally the nose wheel gave up.:rolleyes:
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Probably one of those guys who say:"Hey, I have 3000h on Flight Simulator 2002!"
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Hehe Kuru....kuru...kurupi!
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Redneck Air Support
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Those are people that shouldn't be on the road either. :D
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It hard to tell for sure because of the break in the film, but he seems to walk away himself. You see two guys run to the crash and suddenly they are three by the halo.
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Good grief!
Sounds like the boaters I talk to on the phone....if you want to be a boatsmen and wanna die....here's the check list...
1) No idea how to navigate? Check!
2) Never been on a boat? Check!
3) Only know how to write a check for a boat ? Check!
4) Safety equipment is a waste of money? Check!
5) Charts or over priced, my 9 year old ones are fine! Check!
6) Call Software maker tech support line and ask the techy "how do I navigate in the fog" Check!
7) Run aground with a few hundred gallons of dieel on board, make beautiful coast into a mini Super Fund Site and blame everyone except yourself... Check!
As a CoastGuardsmen...they love resueing the Darwins
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LOL, we had to get towed in by the coast guard when we were out on Yaquina bay in Newport, OR. My friend, who actually did take the time to learn what he needed to, took me and another friend out on his boat for some crabbing/fishing in the bay. Just about the time we were ready to head back in to the dock, his engine dies. It tries to start, but just sputters and dies. After a half hour of fiddling and getting nowhere we finally flag someone down who's got a cell phone and they call the coast guard for us.
Out they come in a Zodiac, a seasoned vet and a rookie. After assessing the situation, vet has the rookie hook the front eye on the boat. It takes the rook about 10 tries and five minutes to do it, all the while the vet is giving him nonstop sh*t in front of us land lubbers. :D Then, the fun part - the tow. I think it must have been close to dinner time or something, because Vet was in a hurry...he towed the boat as fast or faster than the thing can go under its own power. And that would have been fun, except for our fresh sunburns (three white guys and some ineffective sunblock) and the fact that we were getting sweetheartd with salt water that was constantly splashing up over the bow. When we finally got to the dock and he unhooked us, the vet gave us one look (we were drenched) and with a quick smirk said "we weren't going too fast for ya, were we?". After a quick inspection for any possible violations we were on our way. Turned out to be the power cable to the engine was corroded and finally snapped.
The moral of the story? Don't spend time reading my posts...as there's generally no point to them. :D
SOB
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A fool with money is still a fool.
And I'm sure the owners of the airplanes tied down around him weren't too thrilled about it either.
Shrapnel anyone?
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Hey, SOB, you're lucky they didn't call a tow service on ya and charge you for it!
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i wonder if the guy was insured for the total loss of the helo?
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The guy appeared to "walk away" from it. When the camera operator calls out "Hog, are you all right" and later "Hog, just get away from it"... he is talking to the owner/"operator".
I've met guys like that before. The most memorable at Stephensville, Montana. The guy talked about all the corvettes he owned, how he'd built his house out of 2x12" 12" on center knotless fir (and how it was aligned to the pyramids) and how he had a czec mig arriving later that year. Locals say he used to have a helocopter until the town council made him sell it cause he was a safety neusance in it.
MiniD
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The first time I took my boat out Salmon fishing in the Monterey Bay was embarrassing.
Having never been in the bay I launched from Moss Landing and headed out to the herd of 100-200 boats about 8 miles offshore guessing that that was where the Salmon were.
I got to the middle of the pack and shut down the engine but found that the current was running about 6kts so I decided to drop anchor to maintain my spot in the pack...I hadn't noticed that all the boats around me were using their engines to maintain position.
Climbing up on the bow I grabbed my anchor, which had 600ft of chain/line attached and heaved it over. I was feeding line and getting worried because I was getting to the end. Fortunatly I keep the end of the line anchored in the anchor box...I would have lost it.
Cursing to myself for not checking my chart for the depth of the area I began the long process of hauling the anchor up by hand. While doing so I noticed that a lot of the fishermen in the nearby boats were looking, pointing and obviously laughing at me.
After recovering the anchor I went below to look at the chart and was almost too embarrassed to come back topside....seems that I tried to anchor in a realitively shallow part of the Monterey Canyon which reaches deapths of over 2 miles. I had tried to drop anchor in 6,000 feet of water. I keep my charts topside now.
The worst part of the trip though....we got skunked!
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You weren't anchoring, you were fishing for commie submarines!
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True story:
We had a customer buy a hybrid speed boat that was designed for the military as a high speed platform with sophisticated sonar. Apparently the project wasnt needed and the VP of the company that built the boat sold it to a friend.
The friend was an avid fisherman and was using the gizmos to track some really big hits. Then it stopped. Then, something bad happened. A LARGE NUCLEAR Submarine surfaced close by, some friendly marines with neat black guns came aboard, checked out the vessel...removed the offending black boxes that shouldve been removed and gurgled away
I would not have beleived this story had i not heard it from 3 sources. OMG....can you imagine? "Daddy! I bet its a school of tuna!" Los Angeles Class Sub Surfaces....frogmen board... LMAO