has anybody been in a helicopter?

[tycoon]

Has anybody experienced your ears popping, while flying in a helicopter?

I am quite interested in training to become a pilot in the bell jet rangers.. as a part time thing

[__T]

Yep! & Yep!
Much more fun when there's abit of a dare-devil pilot though :]

[88shelz]

i have been in a stationed helicopter but thats it so i have no idea if my ears would pop.

i say if this is something you want to do then go for it. always do what you want to do or you will end up regretting not doing it.

[HopeRises]

Yeah I've been in a helicopter..I done a trip once and the other time it just went up and then landed again haha.
My ears didn't pop at bad as they do on a plane but if I remember rightly it was sooo noisy. We have a video of the trip flying over this volcano and all you can hear are the blades spinning.

Go for it though cause there is always ear defenders *nods*
And it does sound pretty cool.

[Liar.]

ive been on a.....some kind of airforce helicopter...it had doors. O.o
no ear poping.
Just scared that the seat belt was going to break and i was going to die.
I didn't...just so you know. :)

[Casper_Fading]

i have and it as fun!!!!! cept it was a bubble copter so it was clear all the way round and you feel like you're going to fall through :P lmao my ears did pop but the pop going up and down in an elevator sometimes cause my ear drum burst when i was young.

it's fantastic though!!!!!!!!!!!

[tycoon]

hey people.

thanks for letting me know your experiences of what it was like.. I shell look forward to when i go in one too : D

[Coppelia]

I've not, but my mum has, and she loved it.

[tycoon]

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Originally Posted by Coppelia

I've not, but my mum has, and she loved it.

good to hear :)

[Queen Crabbit]

I've been in 'copters god knows how many times. Best one was when we flew over the grand canyon. Other times include on Navy trips & going to the Scilly Isles.

I loved it, but the last one was like 4 years ago so wouldn't be able to tell you about the ears popping etc as I can't remember.

I've never even been on a plane

Dicky!

[Harley's Dad]

Lots of times whilst in the Services. In Germany I served with a Regiment in which a very good friend (a god-father of Harleys) commanded the Troop of three Bell 47s which were Air Observation Posts for our gunnery. We had lots of fun chasing roe deer across the fields and wildfowl around the lakes ...

Later, in Oman, we used Huey 205s and 214s as workhorses to resupply our bases on the jebel and, when necessary, to shift my artillery about - and also me, when I was visiting remote operational gun positions. Helicopters are brilliant machines when they work, but catastrophic when they don't. Shortly after I left Oman an ex-Royal Marine heli pilot whom I used to scuba-dive with was flying over the jebel at 12,000 feet when his wingman 30 yards to his left disappeared in a ball of flame. He had been hit by a Soviet-made SAM7 missile fired from 4,000 feet from the top of the jebel. Later, in London, I spent time trying to convince people that the vertical range of the SAM7 was not just 7-8,000 feet as they thought but, instead, was dependent on the altitude from which it was fired - all this because the IRA were trying to use them in Northern Ireland.

Enough of war stories. Helis are great so long as you're not paying and so long as that rotor thing on top keeps on turning!

Tony.

[akita]

Happens in airplanes too.