Perhaps there is a clearinghouse for things like this but if you did it before about 1996, there wasn't much if any internet to help search things out. Pete

Well Pete, in those days (1986), I did not have white hair and need a walking stick! The Helicopter was advertised in "Aircraft Trader", I think it is called, anyway a trade publication that lists all sorts of aircraft and related items.prcscct wrote:How in the world did you make the connections to link up with a Detroit suburban police department? I assume the machine was then disassembled, packaged and shipped to ??? overseas?
Perhaps there is a clearinghouse for things like this but if you did it before about 1996, there wasn't much if any internet to help search things out. Pete
Being from Detroit, and having some umm.... questionable years when I was young, that helicopter could have shown it's spotlight on ummm... meNereus wrote:in those days (1986),
Do you have, erm... a dark comlexion and curly hair, migrant!migrant wrote:Being from Detroit, and having some umm.... questionable years when I was young, that helicopter could have shown it's spotlight on ummm... meNereus wrote:in those days (1986),
Nahh, we were the last of the central European immigrant families (Hungarian) that have long been squeezed outNereus wrote:Do you have, erm... a dark comlexion and curly hair, migrant!migrant wrote:Being from Detroit, and having some umm.... questionable years when I was young, that helicopter could have shown it's spotlight on ummm... meNereus wrote:in those days (1986),
Nerius, this gels with what I have observed also at Soi 6 area. However the pic I posted earlier shows only one person in the helicopter ruling out training flights I guessHowever, the helicopter that the OP was asking about is a lot smaller (only 2 seat), and very rarely flies in the afternoon. Depending at what stage the student is in his training, the flight pattern will vary. Mostly it involves circuits and landings, which means it will travel the same path every 15 minutes or so. (and invariably directly over my house in Soi 6)!
No, not at all. Long before a student can get a licence he has go solo, and accumulate a minimum number of hours solo.Steve M wrote:Nerius, this gels with what I have observed also at Soi 6 area. However the pic I posted earlier shows only one person in the helicopter ruling out training flights I guessHowever, the helicopter that the OP was asking about is a lot smaller (only 2 seat), and very rarely flies in the afternoon. Depending at what stage the student is in his training, the flight pattern will vary. Mostly it involves circuits and landings, which means it will travel the same path every 15 minutes or so. (and invariably directly over my house in Soi 6)!