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I got excited when I saw something about helicopters. There are hardly ever any articles about helicopters on HN. I have a commercial helicopter license and almost 900 hours of combined helicopter and airplane flight time. If any extra rich people in the bay area or Sacramento want to buy a heli I will be your personal pilot available 24/7. Helis can go almost anywhere. I love to fly but it is hard to fly them unless…
I got excited when I saw something about helicopters. There are hardly ever any articles about helicopters on HN. I have a commercial helicopter license and almost 900 hours of combined helicopter and airplane flight time. If any extra rich people in the bay area or Sacramento want to buy a heli I will be your personal pilot available 24/7. Helis can go almost anywhere. I love to fly but it is hard to fly them unless…
> almost 900 hours of combined helicopter and airplane flight time If I were in the market for a helicopter pilot, I would be very keen to know what the breakdown is!
The worst part is, all of your life decision are taken by the parents and you feel at odds at your own emotions when you grow up to become an adult. Now a days, any words that my parent utter, even if the advice is a good one, I never take them seriously.
Lost trust on both the parents.
See also: https://www.npr.org/2011/04/22/135612560/selfish-reasons-for...
Maybe the earth/environment collapsing around them while nobody does anything to fix it is also depressing.
Nobody? All the solar stats are up and the right, IEA expects fossil fuel consumption will soon plateau, solar panel prices keep going down faster than experts predict, seas are getting flooded with windmill parks etc etc.
I am a victim of this and was depressed until, I took control of my life. The worst part is, all of your life decision are taken by the parents and you feel at odds at your own emotions when you grow up to become an adult. Now a days, any words that my parent utter, even if the advice is a good one, I never take them seriously. Lost trust on both the parents.
I got excited when I saw something about helicopters. There are hardly ever any articles about helicopters on HN. I have a commercial helicopter license and almost 900 hours of combined helicopter and airplane flight time. If any extra rich people in the bay area or Sacramento want to buy a heli I will be your personal pilot available 24/7. Helis can go almost anywhere. I love to fly but it is hard to fly them unless…
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> almost 900 hours of combined helicopter and airplane flight time If I were in the market for a helicopter pilot, I would be very keen to know what the breakdown is!
Is there a specific breakdown above which you’d not consider someone claiming combined heli+aircraft experience a heli pilot?
(And in the case of my claim, it is indeed 0+5)
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> I love to fly but it is hard to fly them unless you have a lot of money. I have a comfortable amount of money, and I have been certified to fly some small airplanes, including one turbojet model, yet helicopters still elude me - it's just so much harder. Much respect to you sir.
I have an uncomfortable amount of money, so uncomfortable it makes flying in a helicopter a pipe dream. Guess I'll have to drive my kid to football practice in a plain ol' car. I know, car's are very 1999.
I do think that the whole "suicide is increasing" trope is seldom put in context. Of course, it's a serious issue. But the number is relatively stubbornly just hanging around 5-15 per 100k for all nations for hundreds of years. So when people say stuff like "suicide among teenagers is skyrocketing," I roll my eyes, because I know they think THEY know the cause of the supposed epidemic of suicide. The absolute risk of suicide has been almost strangely stable across culture and time (as a population rate).
By contrast, it is so good to see that death by drowning and car accidents have plummeted over the last 50 years.
Here is a link to some interesting graphs on cause-of-death: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMsr1804754
On a side now, I love the nerd tangent in this thread about actual helicopters :P