Rotorheads Around the World (incl 'Views from the Cockpit')
Top of the World
Yar but did You land & take off at 20,250' anyone can fly around that high....ask an Airbus Captain.![Confused](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/confused.gif)
![Confused](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/confused.gif)
But to pull off a successful landing & take-off above the 'dead zone' (above 20,000')...now that is SOMETHING![Thumb](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/thumbs.gif)
Happy Landings![Cool](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/cool.gif)
VF
![Confused](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/confused.gif)
![Confused](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/confused.gif)
But to pull off a successful landing & take-off above the 'dead zone' (above 20,000')...now that is SOMETHING
![Thumb](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/thumbs.gif)
Happy Landings
![Cool](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/cool.gif)
VF
Errrr....
Maybe we should just stop right now and drop our pants out back to see who has the biggest balls...
This is NOT a competition....surely we are above that..... right...?
Maybe we should just stop right now and drop our pants out back to see who has the biggest balls...
This is NOT a competition....surely we are above that..... right...?
![Wink](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/wink2.gif)
I am kinda curious where the coldest and most remote place on earth is located? (Where was the photo taken?)
Reply deleted - not as funny as I thought.
Reply deleted - not as funny as I thought.
Last edited by albatross; 28th Sep 2012 at 04:27.
You'll notice I was still going up at 200ft a min
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Steve,
Only I know you'd land and take off with your eyes closed in that niiiiiice bird on top of a 20k' mountain. Sadly there were nobody to rescue that day and Nepal was more than a fuel tank away... If I remember correctly, you were more interested in radio range to chat up your mate that day!![Wink](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/wink2.gif)
Myself, I prefer cruising in my sleek rotating iron machine around 9-10k' coupled up, feet up, but also with my eyes closed!![Thumb](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/thumbs.gif)
Cold you say? Man, minimal exposure will kill you... Been a while for me and not really missing it.
Enough about that. This is a photo thread. Photos anyone???
Only I know you'd land and take off with your eyes closed in that niiiiiice bird on top of a 20k' mountain. Sadly there were nobody to rescue that day and Nepal was more than a fuel tank away... If I remember correctly, you were more interested in radio range to chat up your mate that day!
![Wink](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/wink2.gif)
Myself, I prefer cruising in my sleek rotating iron machine around 9-10k' coupled up, feet up, but also with my eyes closed!
![Thumb](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/thumbs.gif)
Cold you say? Man, minimal exposure will kill you... Been a while for me and not really missing it.
Enough about that. This is a photo thread. Photos anyone???
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Concord, New Hampshire
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Sunrise in Concord
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Cache La Poudre River, Colorado. Early September.
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Rocky Mountain High from Enstrom 480B.
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LZ at 12k MSL.
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Another day in the office on natural gas pipeline patrol, Enstrom F28F.
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Boston, MA.
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Quabbin Reservoir, Massachusetts.
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Self Portrait.
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Midfield transition, Buffalo, New York. KBUF.
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Pit stop while my pipeline observer vomits, near Rock Springs, Wyoming.
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River meanders near Little America, Wyoming.
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Reflections in Flaming Gorge Reservoir, WY.
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Tempting pinnacles in Flaming Gorge Res.
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Had to do it...
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Pipeline patrol in Western Colorado. Right of way visible on left side.
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Near Meeker, CO.
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Lovely autumn colors, Meeker, CO.
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Wow. Enstrom shadow dead center.
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Like a dream world up there... unreal!
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More colorful COLORado.
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Scenic pee break en route to Aztec, New Mexico, along the South Platte River, Colorado.
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Wolf Creek Pass.
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Pagosa Springs, CO. KPSO.
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Chimney Rock National Monument, near Durango, CO.
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San Juan River, south Colorado.
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Near Aztec, New Mexico.
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Seldom flowing "wash" in New Mexico.
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Near Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico
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Sunrise in Moriarty, NM.
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Lovely West Texas. Denver City. Nodding donkeys as far as the eye can see.
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Turning dead dinosaurs into our enjoyment, Denver City, TX.
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More fascinating terrain in NM.
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"Home, home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play..."
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