By CyclicAuthority on
8/15/2010 4:41 PM
Well, I have been working my tail off and it looks like it might start paying off. My school, Whirlybird Helicopters, is opening up a new location in Spanish Fork, Utah, and they want me to run it...
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By CyclicAuthority on
7/19/2010 9:51 AM
I can't decide whether to be discouraged or empowered by what I read on the JH Forums. I started flying helicopters because I love flying, and I didn't want to spend the rest of my life tied to a desk. Then I read the forums, and there are so many unhappy people in this industry. Not just unhappy, but down right hateful of this industry from what I can tell...
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By CyclicAuthority on
7/5/2010 3:02 PM
Well, I had my first close call the other day. I suppose it wasn't that close, but it was definitely enough to make my heart skip a beat...
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By CyclicAuthority on
6/15/2010 8:10 AM
I sent my first student up for their checkride, and they passed with flying colors. I think I found this more stressful than their solo, probably because the solo took 30 minutes, and this took 4 hours...
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By ronwhitney on
5/26/2010 10:22 AM
RPMN's Managing Editor Ron Whitney's monthly Editor's Letter. This month...Looking Forward
With an economy in the early stages of what seems to be a slow recovery it is encouraging to learn that rotorcraft programs are bouncing back. The Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) is back in the news. The Presidential helicopter program is in the news. And quietly leading the way are several “optionally piloted” aircraft programs.
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By CyclicAuthority on
5/22/2010 3:35 PM
When I started my commercial training, one of the first things my instructor taught me was a commercial approach, basically an approach flown at 50-60 knots until you are in ground effect, then a quick stop. I suppose it was fun to fly, but for the life of me, I have yet to find this type of approach documented in a text book or a PTS, or really anywhere...
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By CyclicAuthority on
5/15/2010 7:23 AM
I recently had not one, but two opportunities to do a bit of flying in turbine powered helicopters … and now I am obsessed. The first flight was a joy ride in an MD500E. Being the first time in a turbine, I knew pretty much nothing about the startup, so the owner got it running, but I got to fly it, and it was fantastic...
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By CyclicAuthority on
5/7/2010 11:58 AM
So, I sent my first solo student into the great blue yonder a few weeks ago (well, the pattern at least), and I was no where near as stressed about it as I thought I would be. I have talked to many CFIs who talk about the stress of sending a new student on their first solo flight being as bad as if it were their own first solo, but I felt pretty good about it. Nothing crazy happened, they picked up, flew the pattern for 30 minutes, came back and made an ugly setdown and all was good...
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By ronwhitney on
5/6/2010 12:22 PM
Tragedy in Tennessee
In the early morning hours of March 25, 2010 an air medical helicopter operated by Hospital Wing of Memphis, Tennessee crashed on the return trip to their base after completing a patient flight to Jackson General Hospital. Pilot Doug Phillips and Nurses Misty Brogdan and Cindy Parker died as a result of the crash. Our heart felt condolences go to the friends and family of this crew, as well as to Hospital Wing.
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By jhadmin on
5/6/2010 9:33 AM
The debate over which helicopter is safer, twins or singles, has raged on for years with all kinds of voo-doo used to make the case for each. I have always found the debate to be interesting and I often wondered, from a technical standpoint, which IS safer? So in a few minutes of spare time, I looked for some objective data to see if we could truly point our finger at one or the other and say which one is safer. So here is my spin……
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