by Ron Spiker » Tue Sep 10, 2013 4:27 am
Nice to see you guys doing some flying. We're always flying up here, but most of it is uneventful. I had almost 300 hours over the last year. We had a couple more students pass their checkrides this summer, and 3 more should be taking theirs by the end of the month, or soon afterwards. Then there are at least a dozen others in the process. It's great to see that there is still interest in becoming a helicopter pilot.
A few weeks ago I provided helicopter rides at a car cruise/fly-in. We used the Enstrom so we could do hot loading. I flew non-stop for 7 hours. It was quite tiring, but the event went well, with the helpers I had to take care of the table, load/unload passengers, fueling, etc.