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I've never been EXACTLY there but close. The "pucker factor" gets REALLY high :)
 
GaryBeu said:
I've never been EXACTLY there but close. The "pucker factor" gets REALLY high :)
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I was in a Bell 212 over the rugged terrain of Baffin Island on my first ever ride in a Helicopter when we had an engine failure and had to auto-rotate and landed very hard! After a couple hours of maintenance, we all had to climb back into the same copter and fly off over some of teh most rugged terrain on God's green Earth (actually it's not green up there).
 
There are some situations that separate the men from the boys; the ocean separates the aviators from the pilots.
 
waltesefalcon said:
There are some situations that separate the men from the boys; the ocean separates the aviators from the pilots.
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And presumably the pilots from the sailors as well. :)
 
As a holder of a commercial helicopter license, the pilot did one heck of a job landing on that deck! I've landed on a mountain side once or twice, but it wasn't moving all over the place. Great job Navy! PJ

PS, Why is this on Wimp??
 
I'd say at least 8 on a scale of 1-10 :) Landing a helicopter on slopes is usually where my pucker factor climbs rapidly...
 
GaryBeu said:
I'd say at least 8 on a scale of 1-10 :) Landing a helicopter on slopes is usually where my pucker factor climbs rapidly...
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On one (of about 30) mountain tops I had to help survey on Baffin Island, there wasn't enough room for the pilot to land, so he hovered about 3-4 ft off the ground and we all had to jump out. Then he landed on a flat area about a mile down slope and when we were done with the survey we walked down to the helecopter for the ride back to base camp. That was "interesting".
 
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