Description: Professional Helicopter Pilot
pilot (935) helicopter (727) bell (408) robinson (195) flyin' (12) bolkow (4) jet ranger (2) heliman (1) calstar (1) flying brian (1)
My parents could see that I had a love of flying so they transferred me from regular high-school to the Vocational Tech school in Las Vegas. I studied A&P (Airframe and Powerplant). I really enjoyed High School but I was the only one in my class who liked helicopters except for one of my teachers, Clair Cohick.
My first airplane solo was in a Cessna 152 in 1986. In September of that year, I obtained my fixed wing license. I was 18.
Flying out to the oil rigs in all kinds of weather was good training. On Aug 5, 1999 , I experienced a computer-induced engine failure in a Bell 407 with 6 crew on board. I made a succesful autorotation landing in a sugarcane field. The crew all scrambled out and kissed the ground.