Pilot:
Hi Gnil, How did your family like the flight? Was it windy up there? What was the outside air temperature? This was an EC130 helicopter, correct? I thought the way you captured the flight was pretty cool.
Most of the time when I get above 10,000 feet I get kicked around quite a bit. On one winter flight, when I had my daughter in the back, I had to stop climbing because it was getting too rough.
Hi Pilot,
Yes, it was an EC130 and the flight was pretty comfortable , except at a few places where there was some strong wind . ( like near the top of the Matterhorn at 14500 feet, and another place above a glacer ) But it only lasted a few seconds each time . One or two ' drops' , when we came over a mountain to ' fall' behind made my wife have a little scream . We all enjoyed it extremely , but my wife, and a little bit myself, after 30 min of it , needed to put our feet back on solid grounds as our stomach were starting to want to reject what was in it . My kids wanted more of it .
The pilot said the altitude makes people sick sometimes . We had many changes of altitude . Outside temperature must of been around - 5 celsius at the top , not really sure . Inside it was warm . It was a pretty warm day for the mountains , as in the village it was around 24 C at 10 AM . The limit for 0 C must of been at around 11400 feet . At that altitude it was very calm .
The pilot told us that when he goes out sometimes to do rescues, around the parts we flew, the wind makes it very dangerous and even he got scared a few times . But this was a very good day .
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