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Random Griz Aviation Musings

Griz882 said:
Yeah, if I’m going to spend $2 million + for a helicopter I’d rather get a used one with a lot more carrying space. I love the Enstrom, but their turbine slips into an odd space where it’s big enough to be a great trainer but too small to be a great personal machine. Next $2 million I have to spare…I’ll get one of these… https://alltheplanes.com/listing/1997-bell-407-d0d713e3
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Ever thought about an autogyro? Wouldn’t the maintenance be substantially less?
 
wink said:
@Griz882 what is your AOG status? Will you be flying on beautiful spring days?
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Sadly, the Griz-O-Copter is no more. First, the T/R blade issue went unsolved right to the point where a tug accidentally hit it in the hangar this winter. I sold it to a fellow who says he’s going to fix it and put it on the market. I’m currently looking for something new (not a “new” helicopter, just new to me). But trust me, there will be a Griz-O-Copter II.
 
Griz882 said:
Sadly, the Griz-O-Copter is no more. First, the T/R blade issue went unsolved right to the point where a tug accidentally hit it in the hangar this winter. I sold it to a fellow who says he’s going to fix it and put it on the market. I’m currently looking for something new (not a “new” helicopter, just new to me). But trust me, there will be a Griz-O-Copter II.
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Major bummer. Sorry to hear. Watch for DM.
 
Griz882 said:
Maybe I’ll grab this one and get you to school me up!

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The irony is that when these E's were retired, these aircraft were in the best material condition in their service life.

Getting the respective paperwork and authorization even to operate under the experimental and exhibition category would take a lot of work.

In practice to get this thing flying would at most take a quick change of fluids and a fresh battery. I bet the Apu and motors would crank up on the first try.
 
ChuckMK23 said:
The irony is that when these E's were retired, these aircraft were in the best material condition in their service life.

Getting the respective paperwork and authorization even to operate under the experimental and exhibition category would take a lot of work.

In practice to get this thing flying would at most take a quick change of fluids and a fresh battery. I bet the Apu and motors would crank up on the first try.
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I hear pumping the apu up to start was a great workout. 😳
 
ea6bflyr said:
I hear pumping the apu up to start was a great workout. 😳
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While on the way to DM to drop off our well-worn steed we made a fuel stop in Austin. Unbeknownst to us, the APU ESU died on us sometime after shutdown and before start up. I think we manually dumped the accumulator 5 times trying to trouble-shoot it until we gave up and called home. Our crewman, our PC, and my co-pilot would take turns pumping while my MMCO "supervised." Good times...mostly for me, since I just had to repeatedly flip a switch during that whole evolution.
 
Gatordev said:
While on the way to DM to drop off our well-worn steed we made a fuel stop in Austin. Unbeknownst to us, the APU ESU died on us sometime after shutdown and before start up. I think we manually dumped the accumulator 5 times trying to trouble-shoot it until we gave up and called home. Our crewman, our PC, and my co-pilot would take turns pumping while my MMCO "supervised." Good times...mostly for me, since I just had to repeatedly flip a switch during that whole evolution.
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Sounds like the time we watched 2 Master Chiefs and a Senior Chief try and fix a cargo door on a C-9 with a Leatherman, we ended up spending 5 days in Honolulu on Waikiki Beach.
 
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