In my pursuit of conquering my fear of heights, I've done some stuff, gone up in tall buildings, planes, helicopters, ferris wheels etc to try and figure out what it is exactly that scares me so much. It's led to my obsession with planes and flying to the point of looking into flying lessons. Specifically looking into learning how to operate a helicopter.

BUT

the ones they teach you in, R22s

have no doors




I think I would be too scared

Uh...HELL no.



I wouldn't get in that thing.

hokie said:

what's the difference?

Helicopter rides are fun!

I sat up front on my first helicopter experience.

No doors?? Not for me!

I fly in planes, but helicopers scare the bujeebees outta me
even though I've never been in one

obsessed said:

That is how my mother in law felt about helicopters. We took her on my first journey up as well. She loved it. She was all smiles and wants to go again.

shanti0608 said:

I actually felt the same way about airplanes at one time
until I just made up my mind that I wasn't going to be afraid anymore...
It worked! My first airplane trip was probably the easiest one
I've ever had

I love copter rides

I have been over the smokies = the rockies and part of Canada ... the ocean - florida and the keys
over ATL and Detroit and LA



LOVE love them

R22's suck. They are like flying a go kart, they feel really cheap but they give you the basics of rotary flight, which is way harder to master than fixed wing.

Get yourself one of these babies AS355 Twin

I'd like one with a set of missile launchers attached to it (kinda like the everyman's version of the S-67 Blackhawk).
So that I may wreak vengeance upon all mine enemies.
And upon a few orgers as well.
Y'know,
just for good measure.

mdiver said:

I guess it's too expensive to give lessons in those

I prefer a squirrel myself

ZombieKitten said:

The AS355 is the squirrel (twin from its 2 engines)
AS350 is the Single Squirrel

ZombieKitten said:

About 1500 AU$ an hour

mdiver said:

mdiver said:

It might be worth it just to have doors

ZombieKitten said:

They are SWEET and with auto pilot .....

This was in a 355

during a field training exercise, I rode on the skid of one of these while strapped to a stretcher....

reneGade20 said:

Aww man UH-1's are effing awesome

I would love one.

We used to have a couple copters for work, and our pilot was a former Vietnam Helicopter guy. We used to strafe boaters on the creek and lake near our office. We'd come up behind some unsuspecting boater or wave runner, get up high and then dive bomb him.

Dudes would be jumping out of boats and off wave runners - it was so freaking funny! And every single one of them would motion for us to do that again.

Except one guy. He reported us to the FAA, and they didn't see things the way we did, so we had to stop.