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[kid purington]

                       ...Rolling in....

[Howard Jacobs ROH]

YIKES!!!!  HOLD ON!!

[Paul Albertine]

What is this actually of...what is that setting on top of the dash....?  Looks like a gps

[Michael La Bella (ROH)]

can't you spot a radar sensor, gotta watchout  for the cops in the loach;s

[kid purington]

A photo taken from a Royal New Zealand Air Force post off F/b Paul...and that was my first thought also as to the item on the dash...sure doesn't look like a plastic Jesus...hah...(Det 6 joke)...Yet, just for me, I can recall views like this with sum Seawolf pilots I had the privilege of fly'n with...

[Paul Albertine]

Thanks, thought it was from Hal-3....Ch53's make nicer rolls than UH-1's....but they have a wee bit more power...  I had my face in a feeder de-linker on roll's into the target, amazing jungle of brass, steel, LSA and gun powder...

[Mike Brinck]

The RNZAF had a different technique for doing full auto rotations.  I was in VXE-6 in 76-79 and we had an exchange program with the RNZAF.  They would send a couple pilots and crew chiefs to McMurdo to fly in our H-1Ns for a couple weeks and we would send the same north to NZ to fly in their H-1Ds.  Their procedure was to do a zero airspeed auto in which upon throttle cut, they held the nose up to get zero airspeed and then start down with a very slight flare at the bottom.  It worked but it was very uncomfortable.