” How many ways to say goodbye can one man fit in a nomad life?” – Bruce Cockburn
Okay now here’s a guy you can learn a whole hell of a lot from! Keith Gill. His blog proves it doesn’t have to be a Vietnam helicopter memoir to be interesting. He has a humorous and interesting writing style. Keith started flying helicopters in 1975 and has flown just about everything in the helicopter inventory, and has flown as a civilian pilot throughout his career. He’s had almost every possible helicopter type job to fly; right now he’s helicopter firefighting - flying what they term I.A. (initial attack) using the Erickson Air Crane (helitanker) and in Greece no less. As they say, “It’s a simple program, get to the fire and put it out.”
I just spent the last couple of days reading through Keith’s blog site, and there are still quite a few posts I haven’t read. I know I should be studying for the CFI check ride, but this stuff is interesting. There’s a wealth of knowledge here for aspiring and seasoned helicopter pilots. Keith has tons of stories one can learn from; I wished I would have found Keith's blog site sooner! His blog Helicopter Pilot, will travel is a must read. I would not have known about Keith, or his blog, if he hadn’t commented on one of my last posts - Thanks Keith!
Helicopter Fire Fighting in Greece
Erickson Air Crane
Sea Snorkeling
The video cuts out about 1/2 way through, but still pretty cool to watch - from Michael Miller's page
No doubt, Jeff Abbott has a lot much experience of helicopter piloting, his tasks are enough to prove this.
ReplyDeletebeen traveling around the world but there's nothing that can beat Atlas helicopters.
DeleteThanks!, but I'm not the one with all the experience, someday maybe :). Keith Gill, who this post is about, is the one with all the experience flying helicopters for the past 30 something years. He's somebody you can learn a lot from through his blog site: Helicopter Pilot, will travel; http://heligypsy.wordpress.com/.
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ReplyDeleteI am prakash a retired AF pilot from India and have a rich experience of flying the Russian Medium Lift helicopters. I am too fascinated by the Skycrane. Could please advise me hoe to go about doing the conversion and further job prospects.
Thanks
warm regards
prakash