I hate helicopters

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It doesn't say what the cause was.

Eradicating pigs from a helicopter would be so cool, I'd take the chance. :)
 
What wheel bearings and ball joints does your vehicle use hurtling along the hwy at 70mph++?


Anyway very marginally hunting related IBTL
 
Actually, I don't know if it's possible to "eradicate" hogs by any method. They do kill a number, I guess, and I understand you can hire choppers now (googled a bunch of outfits) to take you up, pay by the hour, shoot pigs till you puke, or run out of money. :D I don't think helicopters are cheap to operate. :D I just don't know that I'd get in one, and i'm a guy that raced motorcycles for 20 years. LOL Probably an irrational fear, I must admit.

BTW, what's not hunting related about hunting from choppers? Well, I guess it's more "shooting" from choppers than hunting, but hell, it's legal now and is the most effective way to control the critters that they've come up with to date short of poison, I guess.
 
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Helicopter = A very large collection of small critical parts, flying in close formation, until they can find the best place to break formation.

The two times in my life I thought I was DRT was in U.S. Army Helicopters. :eek:

Once the pilot flew a Huey into power-lines, and the other time a hydraulic hose broke in a Chinook at 4,000 feet and hosed all of us down with hot oil.

Oh! And then there was the Army Bell 47 that blew an engine just as we were taking off and got 5 feet of the ground!

Oh! And there was the other Bell 47 my wife and I both flew in at a Lake of the Ozarks scenic tour.

It crashed and killed both the pilot and passenger the day after we rode in it.
Shelled out the gear box.

I guess that makes four times!! :what:

They don't give you parachutes either!
Cause you can't jump out of a flying lawn mower.

What wheel bearings and ball joints does your vehicle use hurtling along the hwy at 70mph++?
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That won't leave you falling out of the sky at terminal velocity with a pile of soon to be scrap metal & burning jet fuel!


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I'm not arguing with y'all on your assessment of flying contraptions.

I can walk, I can swim, but I can't fly. So I avoid such modes of transportation.

But I assure you digging a lower control arm into the asphalt then dirt at high speed will kill you just as dead. Falling out of the sky of spluttering yourself into a bridge abutment = the same thing
 
But I assure you digging a lower control arm into the asphalt then dirt at high speed will kill you just as dead.
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I agree.

But a helocopter tail rotor has got more bearings and joints in it to fail then two cars.

And that isn't even counting the rotor head, gearbox, engine, or electronics.

rc
 
Flying low, chasing a moving target, with obstacles in the area in a low rotor energy helicopter like an R-22 is begging for an accident. When I watch the flying these guys do when chasing hogs or deer for capture I can't believe that the don't have more fatal accidents.

Helicopters are awesome machines but combine the environment they operate in with their inherent mechanical issues and they are not without risk. I've witnessed a couple of bad helicopter crashes over the years. The other thing about a helicopter is that when they hit the ground they REALLY come apart in a spectacular fashion.
 
My uncle has 17,000 hours in commercial airliners. He won't get in a helicopter. They're amazing machines operating on the brink at all times. Loose power and you're going down hard. Loose power in a plane and you may still have a shot.
 
But RC how many fixed wings could you have hit power lines in that would not have killed you? And your Chinook has a #1 and #2 system you only need one to fly and but your right the oil comes out pretty tosty!
 
My mom's cousin was a fighter pilot in WW2, came home from the war to start a crop dusting business. Mom worked for him as a secretary for a time. He hooked an electric wire with his biplane once and nosed it into the ground. He survived that, danged lucky, was in the hospital for a while.

If there's any pilot more crazy than a helicopter pilot, it's gotta be a crop duster. :rolleyes:
 
And your Chinook has a #1 and #2 system you only need one to fly
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But the thing is, they didn't tell us that while we were getting the hot oil treatment on the way down to an emergency landing on the steep side of a mountain.

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have almost soiled my tidy whiteys if I had known we were perfectly safe because there was a backup system they "might" keep us in the air long enough to get to the ground before the Chinook got there ahead of us!!

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My mom's cousin was a fighter pilot in WW2, came home from the war to start a crop dusting business. Mom worked for him as a secretary for a time. He hooked an electric wire with his biplane once and nosed it into the ground. He survived that, danged lucky, was in the hospital for a while.

If there's any pilot more crazy than a helicopter pilot, it's gotta be a crop duster. :rolleyes:
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I've personally seen these guys fly UNDER power lines. And we're not talking high tension cables on towers either
 
My uncle has 17,000 hours in commercial airliners. He won't get in a helicopter.
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I know a guy just like that. ;)

Loose power and you're going down hard. Loose power in a plane and you may still have a shot.
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I've made several dead stick landings in fixed wing airplanes. It's not a big deal at all unless you are over bad terrain then it can become deadly. However even in bad terrain if you keep cool maintain your airspeed and directional control you can survive landing even in really bad country.

A helicopter can auto rotate almost anywhere to a survivable outcome after an engine failure. The thing with a helicopter is you are pretty much going to be landing in the immediate area IE almost straight below you they have a very limited glide ratio. Most fixed wing airplanes have a decent glide ratio so you've got more choices.



But RC how many fixed wings could you have hit power lines in that would not have killed you?
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It happens hundreds of times year in fixed wing airplanes. Fixed wing crop dusters do it all the time and not only do that not always crash usually they fly away from it. I know a guy who's hit two in one day it didn't even damage the airplane.

That's why they wear wire cutters on the canopy, tail and landing gear.

I know a guy who was down low chasing coyotes in a Husky one day, much like a Super Cub, and he hit a power line with his right wing. He trailed several hundred feet of copper wire home but he survived it just fine.
 
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