On Monday 18 April 2005 22:01, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Monday 18 April 2005 5:15 am, Colin Carter wrote:
No pilot would knowingly jump out of a perfectly good aircraft. No, I was a military helicopter pilot. The individual in question refused to put his fee inside the aircraft (after I had received orders from my commander). On the subsequent combat assault the crew chief used his baseball bat to push the Lt. out a bit early.
You did mean "feet" ? Or was it fee? Do you still fly? My PPL is in need of a "refresh" - I just need to throw money...
It was feet (I type fast and sometimes leave out a letter). You've probably seen pictures of Hueys carrying 6 troops with 3 on each side with their feet hanging out. It seems that in another unit a soldier fell out at altitude, so that the group commander put out an order that troops must keep their feet inside the aircraft at altitude. On this particular day, the group commander was in our area and our company commander was chewing us all out.
It must have been great fun to fly Hueys, but the object behind flying such machines must have dampened your spirit at times. I write software which reads flight data recorders so I know a little about a/c, but not so much about helicopters. Too difficult to predict! Cheers, Colin
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