JamesStL
05/16/17 8:11 pm
I was obsessed with helicopters as a kid and I got to ride in one at age 10. A Vietnam vet was our pilot and he did a bit of showing off with a fast landing while turning. Nope no thx. Never again.
kube
05/16/17 7:36 pm
Me--no. My husband--only aerovac with a broken neck. He was bummed that it was his first ride and he was staring at the ceiling
SHIPPY1944 Tn.
05/16/17 6:32 pm
As Engineering & operations Supt. I was required by DOT, to fly the energy pipelines in my area, several times a year, usually in a single engine Cessna, but I think flew them one time in a Bell helicopter.
ELATeacher
05/16/17 6:07 pm
Yeah. The parish I was at had fundraiser for our youth sports, you paid for golf balls, which were numbered and dropped from a helicopter onto a golf green, closest to hole one money. One year I got to do the drop. I went up in a helicopter, leaned out the door, directed the pilot left or right and then dumped two large bucket containing several hundred golf balls out of the helicopter. It was a lot of fun.
dmc
05/16/17 5:35 pm
Doing search and rescue in the mountains I got to ride in a Chinook and a Bell Jet Ranger.
Gunfighter06 Iowa, since 1846
05/16/17 4:31 pm
Twice. One ride in a CH-47 and another in a UH-60M, both for air assault missions. As a fixed-wing aviator and a skydiver on the civilian side, I hate helicopters. Damned things belong on the ground.
Zod Above Pugetropolis
05/16/17 11:36 am
I have, and I liked it. A lot. If helicopters and rotary wing training weren't so expensive, I'd have a Schweitzer 300C parked in my back yard as my daily driver.
engltchr
05/16/17 9:51 am
Yep. Had an emergency and had to almost ditch in the open ocean. At night. In the middle of the Indian Ocean. Scary.
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