PRuffin
Gold Member
About a week or so ago I finally got back to the hanger to unload my gyro from the trip to Bensen Days.
I had everything unloaded and just finished stringing my blades when I hear something coming in pretty close.
I went outside and an R22 was about 200 feet up and about a quarter mile or so away. I thought wouldn't that be cool if he spotted the runway and came in a set down.
As I started back in the hanger to put my blades on I heard a change in the sound of the chopper so I went back out and he had turned and was looking like he was flying a final.
He turned and came in a flew up to the hanger and landed. I thought this is too cool. I didn't know him but that's alright, come on in the house!
He got out , we talked a while and then he spotted my air command in the hanger.
We went over and talked about it a while and I told him about going to Bensen Days.
He ("Hank" I believe he said his name was) told me he had heard of Bensen Days not too long ago.
He is an airline pilot and a week or so ago he was walking through an airport and saw a guy with some kind of Gyro Pilot shirt on.
He then asked me if I knew a guy named Stan Foster.......
Seems this guy only lives about 12 miles north of me.
Small world Huh?
I had everything unloaded and just finished stringing my blades when I hear something coming in pretty close.
I went outside and an R22 was about 200 feet up and about a quarter mile or so away. I thought wouldn't that be cool if he spotted the runway and came in a set down.
As I started back in the hanger to put my blades on I heard a change in the sound of the chopper so I went back out and he had turned and was looking like he was flying a final.
He turned and came in a flew up to the hanger and landed. I thought this is too cool. I didn't know him but that's alright, come on in the house!
He got out , we talked a while and then he spotted my air command in the hanger.
We went over and talked about it a while and I told him about going to Bensen Days.
He ("Hank" I believe he said his name was) told me he had heard of Bensen Days not too long ago.
He is an airline pilot and a week or so ago he was walking through an airport and saw a guy with some kind of Gyro Pilot shirt on.
He then asked me if I knew a guy named Stan Foster.......
Seems this guy only lives about 12 miles north of me.
Small world Huh?