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Helicopter dream

  • 01-10-2009 11:28pm
    #1
    thedragon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭


    I have always had a dream that one day someone out there would take me for a rip in a helicopter. I dont know anyone that has one and never could afford to go on a chartered trip. Perhaps someone might see this post and might be able to fullfill that dream of mine.


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  • #2
    Cessna_Pilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 703 ✭✭✭Cessna_Pilot


    You can book a trial lesson in one for 20/30/60 minutes out at weston.


  • #3
    Delta Kilo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Delta Kilo


    The trial flights/lessons are still pretty expensive. I presume you are in Galway from the location on your profile. At the clifden airshow, executive helicopters do trips. I did it last year, it was €50 for a ten minute trip over the bay. It sounds very expensive, and it is, but it was the best €50 I ever spent. Great experience and great to be able to say you went for a whirl in a helicopter because it is a unique experience. So try the clifden airshow next year, its a good day out anyway, and you may be able to realise your dream!


  • #4
    diverdriver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 987 ✭✭✭diverdriver


    All the helicopter owners in Galway are broke and their helicopters are for sale. So I wouldn't get your hopes up. Save up your pennies and buy an hour or two. It's the only way.


  • #5
    Whippo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭Whippo


    thedragon wrote: »
    I have always had a dream that one day someone out there would take me for a rip in a helicopter. I dont know anyone that has one and never could afford to go on a chartered trip. Perhaps someone might see this post and might be able to fullfill that dream of mine.

    thedragon, you're about two years too late looking for a free 'rip' in a heli. Have you noticed how quiet the skies are for the past year? If yer really interested, get down to oranmore, pay the couple of quid, there are still a few rav2s knocking around there.

    Just on a little rant and slightly off topic.. I know of a guy who bought a brand new Agusta 109 Grand in 2006 for €7.2m. Its up for sale at the moment with 600 hours on it for €3.8m....!! Will still cost about €2500 per hour to run though....


  • #6
    Reg'stoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,593 ✭✭✭Reg'stoy


    You could set out for the states in a small dingy you bought in Lidl, wait for the inevitable leak and hope that someone calls out the coastguard :D.


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  • #7
    thedragon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭thedragon


    Ill have a bet with anyone here that someone will see this that owns his own heli and PM me. The bet dosent go beyond a tenner however. Wait and see,it will happen.


  • #8
    Cessna_Pilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 703 ✭✭✭Cessna_Pilot


    thedragon wrote: »
    Ill have a bet with anyone here that someone will see this that owns his own heli and PM me. The bet dosent go beyond a tenner however. Wait and see,it will happen.

    Make it a score and we'll add some flying pigs to the mix.


  • #9
    thedragon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭thedragon


    Cessna_Pilot wrote: »
    Make it a score and we'll add some flying pigs to the mix.

    Your on. Ill pm you for your postal address so I can send you a cheque if it dosent happen inside the next 2 months.


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