/r/Helicopters
A subreddit for helicopter industry professionals and enthusiasts
Love helicopters? Welcome! This subreddit is for all things Helicopters and helicopter related.
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/r/Helicopters
I’ve had this flying over my house quite a bit and in some instances hovering for long periods of time.. I couldn’t find any registration or information on flight radar as it appears anonymous. I don’t know much about helicopters and have had no luck with research. I’m not sure why this one has peaked my interest but if anyone knows what it may be that would be awesome!
Apologies for the average photo.. it’s the best I could get
Sorry about the bad photo. Houston tx oct28. Never seen a Chinook with this paint scheme
Hi everyone, I am currently at 700 rotary hours doing CFI/CFII. As I’m on a visa in USA I currently have only 15 months left to work here. I would love to get any turbine hours before I leave back home. If you have any input and advice to get some turbine gig I would highly appreciate that. I will to willing to move out anywhere in states.
Blue skies ahead and everything in green. Thank you :)
Going through 61.129 and trying to figure out how much night time is required. There's a 2 hour X-C in nighttime conditions listed under section 3 and 5 hours of Night VFR with 10 takeoffs and landings listed in section 4. Can those be combined or is it really 7 hours total night for the commercial cert? Trying to budget my time as best I can.
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I'm trying to sort out a button box replica of the Kiowa Multifunction Keypad. Does anyone happen to have any blueprints or known dimensions of the Kiowa Cockpit, or the keypad itself?
I have the schematic drawings from the Manual but there's no scale or clear reference frame.
Brothers first solo in our rebuilt Hiller
Could someone please once and for all explain to me why I can pull less pressure at altitude and more when it gets warmer? Shouldn't it be the same, air being less dense in both scenarios? Or am I missing something? I suspect it has to do with air pressure? Please explain like I'm 5, I really want to understand it.
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got a nice fly-by from Trident Adventures!
So I'm a dispatcher for a regional center in New England and we just had one headache of a 20 minutes.
The calls start rolling in for a helicopter that's smoking and flying low to the ground. We immediately dispatch police units and the whole fire department to the area. More calls are rolling in nonstop from concerned citizens.
I open up flight tracker and get and exact location for responders and update where it is. We are all getting ready to call the FAA, State police, and the cheifs to let them know a helicopter has crashed.
Then another call "the helicopter is leaking some fluid" oh great they are coming down.
Another minute passes of the helicopter circling and then I see it start to fly back to the airport it took off from. So we start calling the towns that are in it's path and alerting everyone of a smoking helicopter. Tying up vital emergency lines as we do this.
Well it makes it to the airport, that it came from so we think disaster averted due to a good pilot, but we need to secure what ever area it was that the fluids leaked from. Well the fire department is on scene in the area looking for it, and someone comes up to them "Oh it was a gender reveal party" . . . .
A gender reveal party, with a helicopter, in a densely populated area
Needless to say one of the dispatchers was on the line with the FAA when we got the news and goes "They broke a lot of regulations"
So to the pilot of that helicopter, you may be getting a call for the headache you caused the local emergency services.
Not sure what it is
What school is the best for her? Anywhere in the USA. I'll move where it takes to help her build her future. Been thinking about rejoining the Air Force (I'm ex Air Force), as well, to help us build our lives together. Ready to marry her, if that helps.
She is also ready to rejoin the military (if that helps.) Just hoping to get on the buddy system in the same branch if we do that. Major thing blocking these moves is 1) We don't want to be apart. 2) I'm 39, just under the age limit to rejoin the Air Force/Space Force. She is 34, she's just under the age limit for the Army.