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That's a good point too. For you helo guys out there, do you ever get tired of having someone looking over your shoulder?
Absolutely not!!! Much of what is done in helos requires the entire crew. For example, dusty landings or externals where one person has reference isn't rare. I wouldn't consider it as 'looking over your shoulder' but rather a system of checks and balances...you start of as more of a balance and become more of a check as you gain experience.
That said, I can still kill a junior guy just as easy as he can me so by doing something stupid. That's why it is important that everybody is engaged. Sure, a salty dude still has to do some crushing occasionally but it is also the salty dudes that are more prone to balling up an aircraft as they typically will fly the more demanding flights either operationally or in training so somebody else with them for a sanity-check is a GOOD thing.
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"but it is also the salty dudes that are more prone to balling up an aircraft"
And the statistics prove that.
nice sig kbaydog
"Do you like to put fish stick in your mouth?"
Dont believe all the single seat hype, some of it is true but your first year or so is following some section lead around who will treat you like everyone else treats their copilots. Their inter-flight sounds like our ICS.
No more so than any other aviator. Not a single seat guy don't claim to be one. However this notion that a single seat pilot is out lone wolf hunting the enemy is in no ways accurate. A new single seat guy will be on one of the old guys wing doing what he is told.
I was flipping through my new PCL for the 57...I wanted to bang my head on the wall. I hate EPs. And it seems that now every EP is really 2! One for altitude and one for a hover!! FML.![]()
I went and set in one of the birds this morning. First time I've ever sat in a helo. Just kinda looked at the gauges, all the switches, really just trying to figure out the general layout of the cockpit. I'm going to go ahead an assume that since the instrument cluster is relatively small and outta the way that I won't be using it too much. True?