Originally posted by OrionStars
reply to post by SlightlyAbovePar
When I was a small child, I had the opportunity to be transported in a military cargo plane. The pilot offered to let me "fly the plane". What
that meant was he kept his hands on the wheel along with mine, and for a second he would remove his if we were level. But I would hardly run around
giving the impression I flew a military cargo plane all by myself. That would be dishonest.
I agree, that's not what happened and your mis characterization of what I said is rejected.
If the PIC had been "on the controls" at the same time I was manipulating them (or mine while he) would make controlling the aircraft that much
harder and that much more unsafe. Did we swap control? Yes, several times. I found coordinating the right amount of pitch (cyclic) and combining it
with the right amount of power (collective) to be very hard while trying to land. That would be one of many examples of when the PIC took the
controls. The idea that I was sitting on anyone's lap and "touching" the controls is crazy.
I used the word hover because that's exactly what I did, exactly as the inference. That is, by myself. If I had merely "held" the controls for a
split second, I would have said so. No, what I meant is I hovered a Blackhawk. As in sat in the right seat, buckled up, pulled in power, and adjusted
the cyclic like I was stirring butter and hovered.
I am not in the truth movement. I mean exactly what I say and when I make a mistake, admit it.
Why must you continuously mis characterize what I say, then make me go through the tedious task of spelling out what is already obvious? There have
been pages and pages of this kind of thing from you in the past.
You don't like me, great. You don't like my opinion, great. You think my facts on 9-11 are wrong, thats wonderful.
I don't appreciate your thinly veiled charge that I am a lier. You don't need to spend the CPU cycles trying to catch me in a lie. I don't. There
is no reason to. I plainly state things as opinion when they are. I claim knowledge only when I do, in fact, have first hand knowledge. When relying
on the works of others, I link to it an clearly state that the idea is not mine, even if I am in agreement with it.
When I say I hovered a Blackhawk, then that's exactly what I meant. That particular flight lasted roughly two hours and I flew the aircraft for the
majority of that time. Just before heading back, we landed in a semi-remote LZ and switched seats for the trip back. So, lets get more specific and
say 1:55 minutes of manipulating the controls.
Your post is insulting and inflammatory.
[edit on 15-1-2008 by SlightlyAbovePar]
