Quote Originally Posted by HURRICANEBOB View Post
Want to try something more fun than RIO? Fly with a couple Canadians in a Canadian CH135 Twin Huey down the Sinai Pennisula, skirting the Israeli border, in a sand storm that caps altitude to less than 2000 feet, and in 70-80 mph head winds and down bursts. Then to make things even more fun, let both engines start to die due to sand ingestion and experience the thrill as the pilots auto-rotate into a section of real barren dessert. Once it set down, I was just about to start breathing again, looked at my map to figure out where we were, and recognized we had landed in one of the major routes of advance the Israelites had used in the Yom Kippur War: Read that as major really old mine field. We sat there for about 12 hours till an EOD team could clear a path and the chopper could be winched onto the back of a low boy. When we got back to North Camp, walking out from the airfield, I asked the Canadian Pilots if they had to go to a debrief or be interviewed for an air incident investigation. The crew chief looked at me and smiled, then said "We're breathing and the chopper is back here getting fixed, investigation completed, we're going for a brew". I just went back to the hooch and changed my underwear.
Alright Bob, now we are talking fun! Those Canadians pilots know how to handle stress. Thats why they call us those Crazy Canucks!