Alright Bart: You have graciously given me another. "Torque on my sphincter
was in the yellow" I will use it judiciously and appropriately. I used to
use "Pucker Factor" butt I like your torque gage.
"Bart" wrote in message
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Your comment "squeezed the black out of..." made me laugh like hell.
Reminded me of a similar thing. I was over the water between Miami
and Key West at night, all of the sudden I hear this big clank followed
by a thunk that I felt in the seat. I wasn't sure what it was, no guage
probs,
no funny vibrations. I thought maybe I hit a bird. The only issue was that
the
torque on my sphincter was in the yellow.

My ship has an litter kit which allows the copilots seat to be used for
carrying patients. When I landed I found that the co-pilots shoulder
harness
frame had fallen into the back seat. I secure the shoulder harnesses when
not
in use now.

Bart

"Stu & Kathy Fields" wrote in message
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A flight at Arlington Wa. to check out the fix to some interference that
I
had on the radio provided a learning experience. Shortly after lift off
in
my Safari, I heard a tremdous banging sound. The first thing that I
thought
of was Passenger's Seat Belt hanging out of the door. Wrong. Seat belt
secure and banging continued. Looking below for a landing site showed
only
swimming pools and back yards. All gauges checked, and all controls
normal.
Banging continued. I squeezed the black out of the plastic on the
cyclic
and collective conntrols. Upon landing, I found the end of the
passenger's
seat belt had been flapping away at the boom mike on the headset (still
plugged in)that I had secured in the passenger's seat. Thankfully I
didn't
do a quick auto and tear up the ship and land in some swimming pool with
a
ship with nothing wrong with it.
Stu the Safari driver.