Recent content by Warlock

Post of the year and makes me smile and celebrate it happened with you…best of luck making it happen, to add some more!

Yep the rotating beacon will produce the noise…turn it off and see if it stops…

I was in San Francisco this week and one broke down in front of the house…lit itself up with flashers and it’s ok pedestrian disco ball on the roof…blocked traffic for an hour and a half until a technician showed up.

Job well done!

Pilots bitching about the company management…seems like nothing new…then again normally not shared on a forum.

Trying to figure out how to get sprag, translating, retreating, hanger, settling, droop stops into the conversation…but more so hope they figure out what happened…to absent companions…

When I went to flight school early 80s probably 50% of landings were one autorotation or another…including low level low airspeed 100ft/40knots for the Scout track, day and NVG. Annual A part check rides also often included an Auto to the ground if the unit IP was checked out and approved.Of...

Keys only came about when a UH-1 was stolen and landed on the White House Lawn…

Sadly it works that way in in Tort 101 but not so much in the real worlds of trial lawyers…in my case an unknown maintenance company, an FBO who happened to be on my home field and never as much touched my Arrow, and Garmin all sued and not a single Garmin product in the aircraft. All had to...

Yeah you would never see the wires at night only the power poles until as suggested you hit them…

Thanks a fitting salute to a friend, his music and life.

Lots of VFR only helicopter operators with just enough in the panel to get you home if you enter IMC by accident…flying IFR for most operators is not common even if equipped in my experience.

RIP Marines…I wild hold my tongue on why this should not happen…but glad I support T2T.Org and Folds of Honor…hopefully others do also.

When to a couple of concerts…always a great show…Should of been a Cowboy is and always will be one of my favorite songs.

Post Vietnam, even at the height of High School to flight school with the Army Warrant Officer program you might have one or two per class…The pool was always from active duty enlisted in my experience…spent five years as a Warrant so have a little background, then the Army learned my parents...