cilosyb

I’m working towards a flight instructor ticket at the moment. Started pulling pitch when I was 17. Helicopters are neat.

Learning to fly them isn’t easy, it takes some time before you get the hang of it, especially hovering. Kind of like riding a bike except there are about 100 times as many things going on.

Contrary to popular belief helicopters aren’t THAT dangerous. They are, but they can be operated safely. In the event of engine faliure, you enter autorotation, which basically uses the weight of the helcopter falling through the air to ‘windmill’ the rotor system to its normal RPM. As ground is approached, you flare to stop your descent and airspeed, and with a bit of skill you should have enough rotor RPM at this point that you can cushion your landing to the point of being non-eventful to either you or the machine. I’d take my chances in a engine failed heli over a plane anyday.

When you train you will very likley be flying the R22. Maybe a Schweizer 300 or R44, but almost everyone is using the R22 these days. It is one of the most difficult helicopters to fly apparantly, which is a pretty subjective statment in my opinion, but everyone will tell you that. They run about $200+ US/hour. It definatly comes at a price. Despite their pathetic insect look, it is a very capable and sturdy machine. You won’t believe what some of them can go through. Turbine helis are damn expensive to operate ($600-900/hr for Bell Jetranger, $10,000!/hr for Skycrane) so you won’t be flying them until you get a job doing it…unless you like to waste cash.

Fly safe! Not everyone does so watch your own ass. In my short time I’ve had a couple close calls. I know of two people that have wrecked since I started learning, fortunatly they’re ok. Flying is NOT for everyone and I hope to God flying cars never become the norm. I will live in a deep cave come that day.

“If God meant for us to fly, he’da given us more money”.

In the words of Terrence McKenna, DMT is the most powerful and interesting thing on this planet. Nothing can prepare you for the DMT world. It is unlike anything you have ever seen, can imagine, or that your mind can even grasp once you have been there (in other words, very hard to remember details of the experience).

It has completley changed my life. Intense spiritual healing. Words simply worthless when it comes to describing DMT, as everyone who has worked with it will tell you.

Smoking it is the wrong way to go however. It is much better snorted or taken as Ayahuasca. Smoking it can be hellishly intense and you can become very disoriented and confused. It is too short lived to learn the lessons it wants to teach.