Life after the Lottery Ch. 78

"We will!"

The video crew had been waiting. They spent some time setting up. They borrowed Amy's GoPro again. Once they were ready, Dawn and Samantha got in the pilot's seats, and they shot some video as they started it back up. Jeanine got in the back with the video crew.

They flew off and didn't come back for about 45 minutes. Some of the smaller aircraft had started taking off, so they came in from the side and waited, then crossed the runway and sat down in front of us. They shut down and climbed out.

"Either of you could solo if they want to video just one of you upfront," Jeanine told them.

"We're not ready for that," Dawn said.

"Right answer! I wouldn't have let you do it anyway!"

After making sure everything was shut down and buttoned up, we walked back into the building and went to see Randy.

"We are busy taking everything down and making plans to fly some big aircraft back to Germany," he said.

"Do you need any pilots!" Samantha exclaimed.

"I'll let you know if we do! Dawn, they said they would be ready for you about 6:00. The video crew will be ready to go out and set up."

"Okay."

"What is at 6:00?" Samantha asked.

"I am going to fly the EC-225 sitting outside."

"Is that the big ass red one!"

"Yep."

"Ahhhh! How did you arrange that!"

"I had to blow the President."

We helped them take things down for a while then Amy and Samantha left us to see what they could get for free. When they came back around 4:30, they were loaded down with more T-shirts, hats, water bottles, and bags of other things.

"We got a lot of free stuff!" Samantha exclaimed.

"Great. I have one question for you, though?"

"What!"

"Where are you planning on putting all that on the helicopter?"

"Oh...shit. Didn't think of that," Amy said.

"Come with me," Randy told them. "We have some boxes you can pack it all in, and we'll ship it to your house when we ship a lot of our stuff. The vendors hate packing and shipping promotional items! They would rather give them away."

They disappeared with Randy.

"We had fun," Dawn said. "I'm glad we came."

"I am too, or you wouldn't have your helicopter!"

Amy and Samantha came back a few minutes later.

"There is still room in the boxes! We'll be back!" Samantha exclaimed.

"I am glad she is having fun like a teenager should be," Dawn said. "I worry she has grown up too fast."

"She has had a good time this week. I'm happy to see her acting like a teenager too."

When they returned with more stuff, we followed the video crew outside after they packed it. The guy with the camera was getting set up in the back of the big helicopter as another guy pointed. Amy helped set up the GoPro on the windshield inside. After about 15 minutes, they said they were ready. Jeanine got in the back with Samantha, Amy, and me. We couldn't talk Crystal into going with us.

Dawn was flying in the pilot's seat, and one of their pilots in the left seat. The doors were open because it was hot. They videoed as Dawn went over the preflight checklist with them. After a bit, they closed the doors, and she started up the huge helicopter. I could feel all the power in the engines.

"We will never see them at home again," Amy said.

"You're right!"

After a few more minutes, they began rolling to the runway and then taxied quickly down it and lifted off. We stayed low and flew off. They needed to get us out of the way of the planes taking off.

We were probably several miles from the airport, as the co-pilot pointed, and Dawn flew. She put the big helicopter through its paces for a while. The video crew was recording all of it. The co-pilot radioed for clearance to land, and we flew in and landed a few minutes later.

"This thing maneuvers better than I thought it would," Dawn said to the co-pilot.

"With all the power the big engines have, it will surprise you."

"What is the ceiling on it?" Dawn asked.

"A little over 19,000 feet. Has a payload of 11,000 pounds. Four hours of flight time without the auxiliary tanks. It is the only helicopter with rotor deicing for operating in the North Sea. You saw the nose camera display. It is mounted with the spotlight. That is the weather radar there."

"Wow! It looks a lot like the EC-155 but has a lot more instruments."

"Most are for monitoring the engines with loads, and others are used for IFR. It has some special flight assistance features to land on the oil platforms. I'm not a big fan of those."

"Why?"

"They are sort of like an auto-pilot to land. I worry the pilots will forget to watch the gauges and not pay attention. I'm old school."

"Jeanine has told us that she is going to make sure we know how to fly by feeling the helicopter and the engines."

"That is best. If you learn to feel the aircraft, you will stay out of trouble if you get distracted. She's a good pilot."

"Thanks for letting me fly it!"

"Any time!"

We all got out and walked back into the big building.

"Maybe I should see what I can get for free," Dawn said.

"Oh boy. If you are going to do that, then these two are going to help the crew pack things up," I said.

"Crystal, why don't you come with me," Dawn said, and they walked off.

Samantha and I helped the crew take things down for a bit. They rolled one of the helicopters out that had the blades folded back. Samantha got on top with two guys, and they explained how to put the blades back and torque them down.

"If you are not careful, sis will be taking ours part," Amy said as she took photos of her sister.

We helped them finish with that helicopter and loaded some of the boxes on it before we went back inside.

We saw Dawn and Crystal walking back. Dawn had a couple of nice leather pilot's bags, and Crystal was carrying a box.

"I think you two did better than they did."

"What did you get?" Samantha asked.

"Two leather pilot gear bags, a couple of kneeboards, and some other goodies. But best of all," Dawn reached in the box Crystal had, "two flight jackets!"

She pulled out a nice flight jacket.

"How did you get that!" Samantha exclaimed.

She turned it around, and it had a large embroidered logo for this year's airshow.

"They had these made for the show and had two left in small that fit me and will fit you two. They didn't sell them because of the size."

"Did you have to pay for them?" I asked.

"Nope!"

The jackets were really nice. The two leather gear bags she had were very nice. She pulled more goodies out of the box.

"You will have to teach Samanth and Amy how to do this."

"It just takes a smile!" She and Crystal laughed. "Was there room left in those boxes?"

"Some."

"Good. We can carry the leather bags with us."

Dawn and Crystal went with Samantha.

"Where did she get all that?" Randy asked as he walked up.

"She talked some vendors out of it all."

"Oh?"

*****

While we were heading back to the hotel, Crystal asked if she could fly back with us. We had the room, so we said yes.

The traffic and crowds seemed to have thinned out, so we stopped at a nice restaurant at 7:30. We sat and ordered a nice meal and took our time.

"We can get out of here tomorrow if we leave at daybreak. Jeanine told us," Dawn said as we had dessert. "Any later than that, and we will either have to fly back at night or Tuesday."

"Are you all ready to leave?" I asked.

"I guess we are. I'm ready to fly our helicopter."

"We can be ready early," Samantha said.

"Crystal, can you be ready that early?" I asked.

"No problem."

"I don't want you sleeping all the way back. I plan on you earning your mile-high pin," I said. Crystal laughed.

"When we get to the hotel, call Jeanine and see what time we need to leave in the morning. Randy said they would take the two cars back to the rental place for us," I told them.

We finally left the restaurant and headed back to the hotel. I stopped and paid the bill and checked us out when we returned to the hotel so we could get out fast in the morning. Dawn stayed with me while the rest went up to the room.

"You shouldn't have teased Crystal about the mile-high club," Dawn said.

"I wasn't teasing her. I am going to fuck her senseless on the way back!"

"No, you're not!"

"Wanna bet!"

We walked to the elevators and went up to our floor.

"This has been a nice trip. We all had a good time," Dawn said as we walked down the hall.

Jeanine came to our room, and she, Dawn, and Samantha rolled out a map to plan for our flight back. They talked and planned for a bit, then Jeanine left.

We all packed as much as we could and were in bed by 10:30. They all wanted to get some sleep.

*****

I was up at 4:00 AM Sunday. Dawn got up with me. We went and showered before waking the rest up.

Dawn woke up the girls, and I went to the other bedroom and got Crystal up. It was too early for breakfast, so we were in the cars leaving by 5:15. Crystal rode with Jeanine and Stan. The airport was cleared out when we parked near the building at 5:45. They had coffee and donuts for the crew, so we grabbed some.

"Let's get going," Jeanine said.

We went out to the helicopter. Dawn and Jeanine walked around and did the preflight then we were all in and ready to go.

"Let's get out of here," Jeanine told Dawn.

Dawn flipped all the switches and cranked the engines. They checked all the gauges for a few minutes. The sun was already above the horizon.

"Dawn, are you ready to go?" Jeanine asked.

"Hell, yes! Let's see what our helicopter can do!"

"We have our window. Get us out of here," Jeanine said.

Dawn radioed the tower.

"O-S-H Control. Uh...November-Three-Six-Nine-Cherokee-Nation requesting to take off!"

"Good morning November-Three-Six-Nine-Cherokee-Nation. It has been an honor having you here. You are cleared to taxi and take off. Have a nice flight."

"Roger O-S-H. Thank you."

We lifted off the spot we were parked on, and Dawn moved us to the runway slowly and turned and moved down it quickly and got us into the air fast.

"O-S-H...November-Three-Six-Nine-Cherokee-Nation turning to One-Three-Five to Grand Rapids at altitude Zero-Four-Thousand then to Indy Control."

"Roger Three-Six-Nine."

"Thank you for the wonderful airshow, Oshkosh!"

"Have a safe flight."

We climbed slowly as we turned Southeast. After a few minutes, we were at 4,000 feet and cruising. They planned to fly over Lake Michigan to Grand Rapids, then south to Fort Wayne, and over to Indy to refuel, then to the house.

"How do you like it?" Jeanine asked Dawn.

"I love it!"

"You will find out how nice it cruises," Jeanine told her.

"It handles great this high up."

"You'll get to know it intimately before I let you all fly IFR solo. I don't want you to do that unless it just becomes necessary. I want two of you if you must fly IFR."

"What about at night?" Dawn asked.

"You'll find out you will wish you had an extra set of eyes for night flying, but as long as it is only sudden weather IFR...okay."

"We'll fly together until we get used to it," Dawn said as she flew.

"Your cruising speed in the EC-135 is 132 knots or 158 miles per hour."

"That's not bad," Dawn replied. "What is the max speed?"

"Max speed is 155 knots, but you only do that in an emergency. Understand, Sam!" Jeanine exclaimed and looked in the back.

"Jeanine, how long will it take us to get cross-certified?" Samantha asked.

"By the book, about 20 hours of flight time...but since you two can fly the 155, we will spend a lot of that on other things. You just have to convince the instructor you are ready!"

"What about IFR training now that we have ours?" Samantha asked.

"Finish the classroom instruction and pass the test. After that, it is just hours and practice. Let your instructors train all of you for IFR first. Then if I am training you, it will be more hours before I am happy with your skills. Flying IFR is about as dangerous as things get. You must understand your limits and the limits of the aircraft. We can use some of the cross-training hours for IFR training."

"I was just thinking about helping Linda move all the ones she has coming in," Samantha said.

"Well, I have a surprise for you. They will actually be here mid-September..."

"What! She said November!"

"She didn't want to spill the beans about when yours would be ready."

"We'll be ready to help move them!" Samantha exclaimed.

"Don't see why not. How far along will you two be in September?"

"That is our 6th month," Dawn said.

"You two should be okay. James, are you going to help?" Jeanine asked.

"Sure. But Samantha will be in school."

"I can help on the weekends!"

I wasn't going to argue with Samantha.

"The Medi-Vacs don't have full dual pilot controls. You three will need to convince me you are ready for right seat solo VFR. The Medic-Vacs don't fly IFR unless it is a serious emergency."

"We'll be!" Samantha exclaimed.

"Then plan on a lot flying in August!"

"We can fly all day!" Came from Samantha.

Jeanine talked about the plans that were already in the works for moving all of Linda's helicopters starting mid-September. She and Stan would be helping and would fly with us when they could. But many were going to locations in pairs or three at most. A lot at one per location. She said that on some flights, there would be a co-pilot that would be cross-training. It sounded like it was going to be a lot of work, but she said there was no hurry. They would all be coming in at Port Charleston, and we could fly there in the 155 or commercial. She said she or Stan would probably coordinate flying behind everyone and picking us up after the helicopters were dropped off.

"Dawn, do you know who we could talk to at the hospital about letting you three practice landing on their elevated helipad?" Jeanine asked.

"That won't be a problem. I know all the flight coordinators."

"Good. Hospitals won't usually let civilians land on their pads. But it is good to be familiar with landing on elevated pads."

"It could come in handy one day," Dawn said.

"It can. You never know what may come up. I was flying some VIPs around once, and one of them started having an apparent heart attack. It would have been too long to fly back to the base for them to transport him. I radioed the hospital, and they let me land. Luckily, their pad was built for a heavy chopper."

"Did the passenger make it?"

"Yes. I got him to the hospital in about 15 minutes. We had a medic onboard and a reserve O2 tank."

"They told us this helicopter was equipped to fly above 10,000 feet and had O2 tanks in the back if needed."

"That means you have enhanced instruments and JAR3 equipment. The cabin can't be pressurized. I checked, and there are two emergency O2 tanks in the rear payload area you can get out if you plan on doing it, but you aren't."

"I was just thinking about flying over the mountains."

"Unless you are unhealthy, your ceiling is 12,000 feet with no problems. And the Smokey Mountains we have been flying over top out at 7,000 feet. You get around 10,000 feet, and you are up there with the big regional planes moving to altitude," Jeanine told us.

"What do we need to know about flying at 10,000 feet?"

"We'll cover that. Carrying good pulse oximeters that clip on your ear is a good idea, just in case. A lot of pilots have crashed because they didn't know they were suffering hypoxia and blacked out. If flying that high is a possibility, you put the pulse ox on your ear and set the alarm, and watch it."

After Dawn had been flying about an hour, Jeanine had her make some big turns and climb and descend so she could feel how the helicopter handled. It did feel like it was more maneuverable than the Rangers we had been training in. After that, Jeanine taught Dawn about the IFR equipment as she flew.

While they were deep into flying, I started taking off Crystal's clothes as she smiled. Soon, I had her naked. Samantha and Amy watched as I got on the floor and pulled her to the edge of the seat, and worked on her pussy.

After she came, I pulled my clothes off and sat, and she climbed on my lap. Amy had her digital camera out and was taking video.

"I am going to have to explain all this to my husband!" Crystal exclaimed and laughed.

We fucked for about 30 minutes. We both got a bit winded because of the altitude, but we had a lot of fun. We both came hard and rested a minute.

"This is wild!" Crystal said.

"Wild is doing it in first-class on a commercial jet!" Amy exclaimed.

We told Crystal and Jeanine about our adventures on our flights.

*****

A few hours later, we were landing outside of Indianapolis.

While refueling and taking a break so Samantha could fly, we drew a crowd. A lot of pilots were looking over the helicopter and taking pictures with their cell phones. Dawn and Samantha were talking to some of them.

We were finally ready, and Samantha jumped in the pilot's seat. Several of the people that had been looking at the helicopter took some cell phone photos of Samantha in the right seat. They couldn't believe she was a pilot. Jeanine was in the left seat talking to Samantha as she fired up the engines.

"If you are ready. Get us up in the air, Sam!"

Jeanine listened as Samantha got clearance, and we took off and climbed to 4,000 feet.

"Are you sure you are ready?" I teased Samantha.

Amy and I were sitting in the two big seats in the back with Crystal and Dawn.

"My turn!" Dawn said.

She moved from her seat and got on the floor in front of me, and rubbed my crotch. I looked over at Amy, and she was videoing. Soon, Dawn had my pants open and was wrapping her hand around my growing hard-on.

"You better make sure you do a good for your pin," I said.

Dawn squeezed my cock hard, then slid her mouth down it. She sucked for a while, then sat up and started taking her clothes off. Once she was naked, she sat on the edge of her seat.

"Over here! You have to earn yours from the pilot!" Dawn said to me.

I made sure I earned my pin. Dawn screamed through several orgasms before I took my clothes off, and she climbed on my lap. We had some laughs, but she seemed to be horny as she worked her pussy on my cock hard until she got off.

"Emmm...this is so hot," Dawn said.

"So are you." She smiled at me and started going again.

The two of us got serious and had a good fuck. Dawn slid off and returned to her seat.

"I am getting cum, all over my new seats!"

We laughed, then Amy handed her camera to Dawn. She got on the floor and worked on my cock for a while until it was good and hard, and she took her clothes off and got on my lap.

Amy was still working hard as I heard Samantha getting us through Louisville air space. Once we came hard, she sat on my lap for a few minutes.

Amy showed Crystal how to use the camera, and she videoed me giving Amy and Dawn their pins.

"Mine is different...and so is Amy's?"

"Amy's has an emerald. Your's has a blue Lapis and is made of Rhodium."

"Ahh, honey. Thank you for the blue Lapis."

"I am supposed to ask you about the blue Lapis," Amy said.

"It is special to Native Americans. The blue Lapis from America comes from Colorado, and it brings knowledge and wisdom to the wearer. Thank you, honey. Let me put my clothes on, and you can pin it on me."

They got dressed and I put their pins on them to kisses.

"The three of you have different pins. The rest are like Crystal's. Eighteen karat gold and with a real little diamond.

"Oh, that is nice."

We spent the rest of the flight telling Crystal about some of our adventures and trying to talk her into coming to the house with her husband. Soon we heard Samantha getting clearance from BNA tower to fly over town at 500 feet so we could go directly to the house. They cleared us, and we looked out the windows as we flew.