The OTHER Kevin in San Diego wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:02:09 -0400, "B4RT"
wrote:


The only time I've ever hot-loaded a passenger was when that person was a
pilot and had been fully briefed in advance, or when I had trained ground
crew to assist the non-pilot passenger. Even then
I have the thtottle at flight idle and have a bear grip on the controls when
theyre moving.

I've hot loaded a couple people, but had two other pilots on the
ground literally holding the passenger by the arm as they were walked
out to the helo. I also throttled down and stiff armed both
collective and cyclic until the Pax was buckled in and I only relaxed
my arms once I'd re-briefed the Pax and I was comfortable they
understood.

Sometimes it seems someone's out to get ya. Several times, especially
flying for Artillery, I'd pick up a passenger out in the boonies.
Cyclic and Collective removed in my OH-58 and the first thing they tried
was to clean the mud off their boots by kicking on the pedals.

The few times I had the controls in and had a quick pick-up I would
brief them about the controls before they got in. Most were very careful
to not touch the controls until I had landed and they started to exit
the aircraft. Every time they would grab the collective to pull
themselves out. At flight idle it didn't do much but you could count on it.

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