by Jeff Goin | Nov 16, 2020 | Log: Helicopter, Recent
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...
by Jeff Goin | May 5, 2019 | Entertainment, Log: Helicopter
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...
by Jeff Goin | May 16, 2017 | Log: Helicopter, Log: Life
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...
by Jeff Goin | Apr 25, 2014 | Log: Helicopter
Her name is Ellie, Ellie Foo Foo. Ellie just sounded good–“Ellie the heli,” but “Foo Foo” has a story. A good friend of mine, Al, was an expert mechanic on airplanes and engines, but one that didn’t want to work on helicopters (an...
by Jeff Goin | Sep 17, 2009 | 19: Risk & Safety, Log: Enterprise, Log: Helicopter
Unwelcome invader on Paramotor retrieval of Helicopter I had paramotored up to retrieve the helicopter and was now thwapping home. On final approach to our ramp, about 300 feet high, something caught my attention. Just above me and to the left was an enormous venomous...
by Jeff Goin | May 6, 1998 | Log: Helicopter
I had gone for a helicopter “Discovery Flight” to get helicopter flying out of my system then fell in love with the coolness of being able to fly something so precisely in 3D. That flight cost me a Private Helicopter License and led to the purchase of a...
by Jeff Goin | May 2, 1998 | Log: Helicopter
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...
