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And me? I wouldn't even try. I'd be the guy on the bridge with his eyes closed!
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Gliderman8
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We gave a collective sigh of relief when it landed.
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actually being on the ship or the chopper, I am pretty sure I would be the guy talking on the porcelain telephone.
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actually being on the ship or the chopper, I am pretty sure I would be the guy talking on the porcelain telephone.
In my day we called that "giving offerings to the porcelain goddess".
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My very first ride in a helicopter was back as a young AF Lieutenant when we were doing site surveys up on Baffin Island. My job was to determine where to best place several radar sites for the North Warning system. Two minutes into my very first time in a helicopter (Bell 212) we had to make a hard emergency landing due to a blown oil seal. Luckily, we were not far from base camp (Cape Dyer, Baffin Is) and made it back to camp for the landing. Had this happened 200 miles away, over extremely rough mountainous terrain, things could have gotten very interesting. About an hour later, the mechanic changed the seal and we all piled into the same Bell again and headed out for very remote parts. I was very glad to get back to base camp that night! We had to fly that same chopper every day for the next couple of months doing surveys all over the coast of Baffin and Labrador. As an aside, our Chopper pilot was a guy named Ed Pruss. If that name sounds familiar it might be because his great uncle was Max Pruss, the Captain of the Hindenburg.
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I've landed quite a few helos over the years, even on hill sides, but never on a moving platform! What that pilot did was extremely dangerous, not only to the flight crew, but the landing officer is in a very precarious position if there was a blade strike. But, then again, that's military for you. 
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0-11 level? That's the crows nest!! :highly_amused:
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AH:
That picture ain't that bad.
Click on the video " Top 10 Storm Comparisons" at the end of this one and you can see a real storm.
In the presented video the roll rate is 20 Degrees or less.
An escort destroyer can roll up to 46 Degrees You ain't gonna stand on that deck or land on it either.
You dump the chopper in the water en wait until a on board life boat can pick you up.:excitement:
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One ship my dad was on in WW II, was in a storm where the ship rolled to a point where they could stand on the bulkhead! He said it was the worst ride aboard ship he ever had. It was in the North Atlantic. Not a good place to be if you are subject to motion sickness! 
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I read Halsey got the wrong weather information and drove the fleet right into a typhoon. I wonder if the supposedly wrong weather info, which is very possible, was a cover up to protect an admirals reputation? A lot of lives lost, over 700 and some ships.
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