[R-390] R390A / R390 help

mikea [email protected]
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:14:53 -0600


On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:58:32PM -0600, blw wrote:

> K-14? That sure brings back some memories of doing flight training there in
> 1990 with one of the most beautiful captains ever poured into a wiggling
> flight suit. Just me and her in a little helicopter on a deserted runway on
> a sunny Sunday afternoon. She was a damned good pilot too. Sort of surprised
> me a bit but she always flew it right.
> 
> When I first took her out to get used to hovering she was beat from a long
> day on staff. She kept working hard to learn the aircraft. One day, sitting
> on the runway with her hot mike switch up for the world to hear on tower
> frequency, she said, "I never know what to do with it when I finally get it
> up". She meant getting the aircraft up to a hover but every pilot within a
> zillion miles had something to say to me about that line. I became a bit
> famous for a while. Even the tower guys had some sly comments.

Look, guys, there is a convention used across the whole damn 
Internet for posts like these. You put "C&C" in the subject.
That warns the reader to get the cats out of his/her lap, and
to swallow the Coke or Coffee before reading. 

BLW, you owe me a keyboard and a box of Band-Aids.

                         ;=)

-- 
Mike Andrews
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Tired old sysadmin since 1964