Helicopter and crane.

[Wolfie1969]

Unfortunately you are a troll who is simply cutting and pasting/googling things because you are anti helicopters/pilots/aviation.

If anyone cares to pm me I will happily provide the link to the database that will confirm I am actually a commercial helicopter pilot and not a troll or wannabe. I am thinking that you will not/cannot do the same.

This is the real world not MS Flightsim.

I now live and fly in the USA ..... here in LA
W.

A picture the mrs took from the back seat, that's me up front piloting away.

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• chapeau
• 19 Jan 2013
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11000 ft up over Colorado Rockies, out for a spin in me Piper Super Cub (Helicopters - boring boring boring).

Only thing going through my mind is

How Much Fuel do I have
What's the Weather like
Where do I go if the engine fails
How Much Fuel do I have
What's the Weather like
Where do I go if the engine fails
How Much Fuel do I have
What's the Weather like
Where do I go if the engine fails
...
...
...

As you can see, the weather up there can be quite nasty, even in the summer (density altitude to be considered too) but as long as you have good judgement, have an out, and are totally in touch with Weather, Fuel, Where do I go if the Engine fails - perfectly safe.

I wouldn't have departed on that crash morning in London with the weather forecast as it was. And I've flown close to really filthy weather, certainly far worse than what you get in the UK. I'd have stayed at home, and not hit a crane.

Flying in the LA basin like you do Wolfie, what a breeze, cake walk, boring, nothing to do, you even get VFR flight following, what a breeze. (Though I still check the weather when out there).

So I suspect that our mate wolfie might like to pull up a chair and if he's nice to me I'll teach him how to fly in and around nasty weather....

(And no Joe, it's not what I do for a living)

Well given that I used to fly out of Redhill for several years I actually have a good knowledge of London and flying helicopters there - but again lets not let facts get in the way of your story.

Helicopters boring? Hmmm... I think not - no need for runways, can land at useful places - even where you want to be sometimes instead of having to get from an airfield. It takes skill and coordination to fly a helicopter (being dynamically unstable) any idiot can fly a plane straight and level.

11000 feet ASL or AGL - makes big difference in an area like that...

Given that The LA basin is some of the busiest airspace in the world and unlike the UK pilots here are allowed to use most of it (subject to certain requirements of course). And again if that really is you in that spam can you'll know America is a big place so my flying experience isn't limited to LA weather (which again you would know if often IMC conditions).

Flight following is optional as it seems is a good look out and traffic avoidance given the behaviour of some fixed wing types that want to sight see. There was even one flying about 100 ft above the Hollywood sign below a police helicopter the other week...

If that quotation is all that was/is going through your mind when flying I hope we never share the same airspace.

London Class A to the surface? Bit of a generalisation (inaccuracy) there too.

Anyway as our (alleged) fixed wing pilot still won't reveal his licence/rating/experience I'm out of the discussion as I can't win against an idiot - I am far less experienced in that than the opposition.

W.

 

[chapeau]

EDIT.. do people generally take piccies of the back of your head cheapo? I have no doubt its you, just a very odd pic.

I'm a secretive kinda chap My fave aircraft is the supercub, after the Pitts, but the Pitts gets kinda expensive quick.....

Sounds like you went the commercial route in the US too. Great place to learn and yes a lot cheaper. One of the great things about the FAA system is that it's far more competance based than Europe. Airspace is wonderful too.

Hey Wolfie, have you heard the joke:

How do you know a man drinking in a bar is a pilot?
Because he will tell you.

And that man is you !!!!

You keep flying straight and level following the I405 with your dry IR.

Worratosser.

 

[noseall]

Chapeau is a consultant medical doctor - so he tells us. He earns £18K per year - so he tells us. He's got more degrees than he's got fingers - so he tells us.

It's the Internet folks - be who you want to be.

This week he's a helicopter pilot.

 

[noseall]

I used to hang out with the medevac (helicopter ambulance) crew when I lived in the States. The pilots were all crusty ex Vietnam vets, they had experience in spades and judgement that was completely solid. They wouldn't risk the lives of their crew by hovering 1ft over a car in a flooded river. And the crew wouldn't have got in the back if they thought that was going to happen !

I spent 15 years as a paramedic (again I am able to provide the link to the HPC register to show my continued registration) and all fast response vehicles whether they are cars or motorbikes achieve is to get a paramedic or technician to the patient sometimes quicker than an ambulance. The seriously ill patients still need transport to hospital by land or air ambulance.

I now live and fly in the USA and I assure you that all the police, fire and medivac pilots will give 110% to save a patient if it can be safely done. One crew even winched a stranded dog from a flooded river last year here in LA - perfectly safe operation.

Wolfie 1 - 0 Chapoo.

Game over Chapoo you have been done like a kipper!

Why do you like digging holes Chapoo?

 

[chapeau]

Heh heh noseall. The only thing you know about aviation is that when you walk through the aircraft door you have to turn right.

I also had your dumb buddies tweedledum and tweedledee on the planning permission forum calling me a lawyer. Maybe I am, maybe I'm not.

Though that is really me in the pic. So maybe I' work as a pilot for a living, or maybe I don't?

No doubt what you do though...... And that's because you are only able to talk with authority about one thing. Some of us can do more..

(And if you want me to tell you about what paramedics do then I will, and without using google. In fact I reckon could fool you into thinking I was one. Maybe I am???)

 

[noseall]

No doubt what you do though...... And that's because you are only able to talk with authority about one thing. Some of us can do more..

Look up the word narcissistic, it sums you up perfectly.

 

[chapeau]

No it doesn't actually, that's not the meaning of the word.

Take a look back at your buddie wolfie's posts. He is very quick to claim experience/qualifications but in his actual posts he doesn't talk as though he has them.

Whereas I claim no qualifications but reference data to back up my statements eg weather forecasts. And all I get back is abuse

 

[masona]

Heh heh noseall. The only thing you know about aviation is that when you walk through the aircraft door you have to turn right.

I also had your dumb buddies tweedledum and tweedledee on the planning permission forum calling me a lawyer. Maybe I am, maybe I'm not.

Though that is really me in the pic. So maybe I' work as a pilot for a living, or maybe I don't?

No doubt what you do though...... And that's because you are only able to talk with authority about one thing. Some of us can do more..

(And if you want me to tell you about what paramedics do then I will, and without using google. In fact I reckon could fool you into thinking I was one. Maybe I am???)

You're coming across very childish, this is boring kids stuff

 

[chapeau]

I probably agree with you there masona. But what about the other posters?

Still it goes on, General Disucssion, eh?

 

[misterdubya]

EDIT.. do people generally take piccies of the back of your head cheapo? I have no doubt its you, just a very odd pic.

Sounds like you went the commercial route in the US too.

No, I made it all up, but you and PP keep going - it makes for interesting reading.

 

[Wolfie1969]

No it doesn't actually, that's not the meaning of the word.

Take a look back at your buddie wolfie's posts. He is very quick to claim experience/qualifications but in his actual posts he doesn't talk as though he has them.

Whereas I claim no qualifications but reference data to back up my statements eg weather forecasts. And all I get back is abuse

I wasn't going to waste any more time on you but a I have a while to unwind before bed, with a nice smooth rum.

If you actually READ my posts I have offered to show proof of my qualifications, provided by the regulatory bodies of both.

All you have shown is that you avoid direct questioning regarding your experience. qualifications, ignore the challenge that your statements are misleading or are just simply wrong and that you are able cut and paste items from news reports, prrune and Google.

So I'm thinking maybe you are a lawyer or maybe politician?

I'll think of the SNOCLO UK tomorrow when I am sitting on the beach on a mild 75F sunny day with no wind, maybe popping up to the mountains in the EC120 for my rest days for some powder skiing at Big Bear.

W.

 

[chapeau]

EDIT.. do people generally take piccies of the back of your head cheapo? I have no doubt its you, just a very odd pic.

Sounds like you went the commercial route in the US too.

No, I made it all up, but you and PP keep going - it makes for interesting reading.

Yeah, but I was responding to when you said

$60000 to get my license in USA. I thought that was cheap.

So not sure what your point is..

What we've demonstrated is

1) I'm a trusting individual as I took what you said to be true
2) You betrayed my trust as you admitted you were lying

And I have always accepted wolfie was a Commercial Helicopter Pilot.

But we know this because he (repeatedly) told us this. There would be no way of knowing from anything else he posted. But hey ho, the hardest part of getting a commercial pilots licence is making the money to pay for your lessons. The certificate itself is just a piece of paper which entitles you to learn. Some do, some don't.

Mark my words, that crash pilot was scud running and simply ran out of luck.

 

[peterperfection]

My credentials are now available to view on my profile.

 

[misterdubya]

My genitals are now available to view on my profile.

Would that not be more apt.... with your regular 'boasting'?

 

[sooey]

Wow peter, sooey showed his telegan, can you show your license?

My credentials are now available to view on my profile.

We'll take that as a no shall we?

Wot a surprise.