Covid Cruising via Helicopter

We carefully ventured out into Covid Country with Ellie, cruising over to, then down the coast of Clearwater and others. Amazingly enough, we’ve never actually done that in anything but a paramotor. This was a good way to do it, too. Airspeed was a blindingly...

Helicopter Humor

Submitted by fellow helo pilot John Phillips In 1998 I set out to satisfy my long suppressed desire fly a helicopter. That “discovery flight” went so well that I wound signing up for and then earning my private helicopter license. Bad move. Within 6 months...

Tesla Model S Car & the Helicopter

An Amazing Vehicle Autopilot. I had no interest in a Tesla until reading about autopilot. One day in 2015 they released a software update that gave the cars level 2 self driving capability. That’s where a driver must be immediately ready to take over but the car...

Helicopter Chronicles

Beating the air into submission by pummeling it with $100 bills Flying a helicopter is really quite amazing. It’s not natural, of course, and can seem nearly impossible to the uninitiated. People ask me all the time “is it hard?” The best way to...