“ir WAS about 10: 30 i in the morning — one oft the ugly”
mornings. we've.been having this spring. A friend and | were...
*sheltcring.in her car, sneaking a cigarette and waiting to

__ board the Ielicoptert to Victoria. —

“ Neither of us had ever ri
“helicopter before and our earlie
. bravado.was slowly di integrating

“Barb, if you say we're going to :

. Victoria, we're, going’ to Victor

“Thisis a novice, reporting to other * oa
altitude that they must fly — so t

novices just what it’s like. I could”
have sworn the helicopter was not.
moving and that soincone was >

e gently, shifting the scenery: below 7

The scenery: 1 had no ‘idea how*
many islands there are between
Vancouver and: Victoria and the

": only way to get the true perspective’
__is to-fly over them by helicopter. . :,

». By, boat you come upon. islands:
one at a time. BE 4
- Airlines fly too high and too

int,.in othe beginning of
ppd a big chunk of.”
aifrom: ‘the continent

Fenlied o one of the rilots..- a
“tT wouldn't mind doing some |
-whale watching,”’

|. was curious about this — any
airline I’ve ever flown has'a set

asked, and was told that

“helicopters have much more flex:

ibility and that changing, altitude.

-simply means going through:

- another set of air traffic con-,

trollers, Fs -
Our. flight: to Victoria had been.

"the “high road", at an altitude of
_ approximately.1,600 feet..We flew
~ home at 160 feet and our fellow

_ Passenger glimpsed some whales.

* By the Sime I focused on the right
spot, the whales had disappeared,
but. the opportunity had been”
there. “ue " “i
- The flight, takes the same length’

‘of time, regardless of the altitude. -

lucky to have done it

said the passen-..
ger — obviously a regular with, the
~ airline. ;

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both ways. |. :
As | said,-I'm hooked on

helicopters. The flight home from
* Victoria was the first in my life -

that I didn't have one minute of ©

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