Posted by Bill(Wis) on March 22, 2016 at 13:17:58 from (216.46.173.36):
In Reply to: Re: Strange sighting posted by pat sublett on March 22, 2016 at 08:25:21:
I was a student pilot there in 1960 and went back as an instructor pilot in 1965. I remember going down low enough to read a small town census sign to see where I was. One of our instructors would fly out to a restaurant every morning to have breakfast with whichever student he was flying with. One morning the starter wouldn't budge when he was trying to leave the restaurant. He used the old dollar bill trick on the starter brushes. Worked like a charm. On the post proper, helicopters had right of way over anything. We'd make emergency, engine out autorotations to streets and roads. Full touch down. Road signs saying helicopters had right of way were all over the post. We could launch over 200 helicopters from the main heliport in about 10 minutes. Highly organized but it looked like shear madness to casual passers by. Each instructor was supposed to have no more than three students. I had five in my last class there as an instructor. Two were Vietnamese.
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