Writers Harbor

Category: Auto-biographical

  • An Extraordinary Power Trip

    An Extraordinary Power Trip (when you think you have God in your corner) How many times have we seen it? Jimmy or Susan, Muhammad or Abdullah, discover ‘religion’. Oh, boy. Fasten your seatbelts. Hide the whiskey bottle. Here comes the red hot poker. You can burn the Kaffir Infidel with it, sure, but… you can…

  • Diary – Christmas Day 2015

    Diary – Christmas day 2015 To me, this is a sad Christmas Day 2015. I study the world, and I shake my head in silent disbelief. The human family, of which this small soul is a member, is becoming inured to horrors. Like mindless machines, we trudge along our paths, believing, like the unfortunate Jews…

  • Learning to Fly Helicopters (7B) “The Dark Side of the Sun “

    Note: “Alternative version” – I just could NOT get it down right. I went round and round the houses, struggling to say something. I just could NOT get it down the way I wanted on paper. So… in the end, here are BOTH versions of Chapter 7. Maybe the kind reader, between the two versions…

  • Learning to Fly Helicopters (7) “Joy, Caution, and Tragedy “

    “I am a small Man, limited and struggling, but the Universe is my Father “ Learning to Fly Helicopters Ch.7 “Joy, Caution, and Tragedy” I have been scribbling stuff all my life. But some chapters, some stories, have waited many decades to be written. Many are still… waiting. I don’t quite know why. Reluctance, for…

  • Learning to Fly Helicopters (6) ‘General Flight Test, and dreams’

    It is our dreams that sustain us, and carry us forwards Learning to Fly Helicopters Ch.6 General Flight Test and Beyond The Great Day had dawned. The written exams were all passed. The required flight hours and training had been accomplished. There remained only the GFT. The General Flight Test. That I would be flying…

  • Learning to Fly Helicopters (5) “Oh, oh, Oops! Sorry! “

    Learning to fly helicopters Ch. 5 “oh, oh, oops…! Sorry…!” And so it came to pass that I turned up at an airfield that I had not previously been to. Innocently, full of the best intentions, I proceeded on down to land. High time fixed wing pilot, fixed wing CFII, low time helicopter student pilot.…

  • Learning to fly Helicopters (4) ‘Auto-tribulations’

    Learning to fly Helicopters Ch. 4 “Auto-tribulations ” (For Sam Mohring, because he said he’d like a sequel…) It was several more months before I could get back to California. This time I turned up with a very different attitude. Gone were the doubts. In their place was a lot more confidence. Confidence in the…

  • A Blip on the Radar (43) “Vertical Flight without a Helicopter “

    A Blip on the Radar Part 43: “Vertical Flight, without a Helicopter” In my dreams, in common with many people, I have achieved amazing feats of levitation, and flying under my own power. Sailing through the sky, accepting that my spontaneous flying abilities were perfectly normal. Invariably, these experiences were pleasing and relaxing. They seemed…

  • Cops and Robbers (11) “The Unexpected “

    Cops and Robbers Part 11: The Unexpected In the fluid, endlessly fascinating world of helicopter flying, the Unexpected can come calling at the oddest times. Months, even years of relative routine may slip harmlessly by. But you never know when to expect that soft, unassuming knock on your door. It may be soft. But the…

  • Moggy’s Tuna Boat Helicopter Manual

    NOW AVAILABLE IN E-BOOK FORMAT CLICK HERE Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual (excerpt from www.chopperstories.com or www.tunaboathelicopters.org) (Note: maybe a little technical in places for the lay reader; where there is an “icon ” it’s probably readable even for the armchair pilots) Click on any link Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual – Introduction Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual…