From Air Force to Coast Guard to Army to State Police Helicopters - Interview with Dave Delisio
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- Dave Delisio has flown helicopters in the Air Force, Coast Guard, Army, and for the Marlyand State Police. He sat down with Mover and Gonky to discuss his amazing career. Every Monday at 8PM ET, Mover (F-16, F/A-18, T-38, 737, helicopter pilot, author, cop, and wanna be race car driver) and Gonky (F/A-18, T-38, A320, dirt bike racer, author, and awesome dad) discuss everything from aviation to racing to life and anything in between.
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Retired MSP guy here. Great interview with a great helo pilot!
As a Warrant Officer applicant for army aviation these stories are pretty sick. Thanks for having dave on!!!
Great interview with Dave. I'm sure he knows him but I earned my PPl back in 2004 by passing my check ride with fellow MSP pilot, Mike D. - Trooper 1 at KMTN. Mike invited me to fly a shift and have been hooked on helos ever since. 6 years as a volunteer fire fighter and fondly remember MSP medivac Bell Jet Rangers and the awesome Dauphin II with that characteristic sounding fenestron tail rotor. One day I'll get that rating!
Liked just cuz Mover shared the wisest words in aviation: "Don't piss off the flight engineer."
I was introduced to the power of static electricity on my first helo ops in the Coast Guard. When they said watch out for the static electricity I was picturing walking across the carpet wearing socks without shoes on a cold dry day. It aint the same! I was the new guy on the boat learning how to and how not to do things while helo crews practice with the stokes litter. We didn't have the swimmers in those days either which is one of the best additions they could have ever made.
Thank you for a good interview Mover. I am a Maryland guy and enjoyed the stories that Dave had with the MSP. I was attending an A&P school at Frederick airport, where Dave was stationed, the day they were apprehending the DC snipers up the road at the rest stop. So hearing Dave talk about that day brought up some memories. I also remember the civilian Dauphin that flew out of Frederick that Dave mentioned. Our A&P classs got a tour of it when it was down for periodic maintenance. My A-10 guard unit was across the runaway from the main MSP helicopter hanger at Martin State, so I enjoyed watching the Dauphins flying around daily. I do appreciate the early Dauphins before they did the mod on the Fenestron so it wasn't as high pitched in noise. Maryland did transition to AW139s many years ago, but don't seem as cool as the Dauphins were.
Another fantastic episode Mover, oh, and Gonky did pretty good as well!
I was a kid in a Bethesda elementary school in the 90s. One of the coolest things that ever happened was the Maryland State Police flying in one of their Dolphins for an outreach event. Let the kids all look at the Dolphin. Who knows, he coulda been the pilot!
I rode in a USAF Huey at CFB Cold Lake in Alberta on a TDY. They gave several of us incentive rides to the bomb range to watch our Phantoms drop. I remember it was smooth and steady. Some buddies flew out on a Canadian Huey and said the flight crew was flying low and fast along river beds - totally different. Being susceptible to airsickness, the USAF style suited me fine.
Funny I’m finding this tonight. I have an interview with the MSP for a pilot slot later this month. Good episode!
I remember an oil company who had their own helicopters wanted to explore the concept of sling loading a high tech welding machine so their welder could fly out to a platform and do a few alloy welds. I was monitoring the test flight to see how the welding machine would do in the airstream and for the pilot to get some experience. The first test the helicopter just transitioned and about 250’ the welding machine comes tumbling down. Same thing, the pilot says he never touched the electronic release, but he was a type of nervous guy, so no one believed him.
I remember the dc sniper, I lived 10 miles out of dc in northern Va and we couldn’t walk to school or be outside at all.
Helo Training Next does not go to T-6's. They go straight to Helo Training at Ft Rucker AL. No fixed wing.
Very cool interview
Great interview!
Man, I could probably credit Dave with inspiring a career in aviation. I grew up in south Anne Arundel county - lived on a dangerous curve on Muddy Creek Road. MSP Dauphins used to land in a sod field right across from my house to medevac crash victims. I will never forget that fenestron sound signature. Great interview Mover, thanks man.
Helicopter EMS is an incredibly dangerous job. The NTSB report on the 2008 crash of MDSP Trooper 2 is worth reading. Related note: a paper in the Annals of Emergency Medicine concluded that an HEMS pilot flying 20 hours wk has a *37% of being at the controls in a fatal crash* in a 20 year career. Fortunately, this has been realized, and steps have been taken in the US to reduce the danger. For example, ending the practice of over-triaging (transport by air when not absolutely necessary).
I live in md and i live the fact we have the md st police medvac. I saw them a kdmw waiting for fuel one night and its a bad ass looking helicopter
I thought you guys said he has flown everything, but he said he did not fly a MD500. Best machine :)
Great interview guys, BZ!
FWIW, I flew out of FDK in the 2000s... the MSP helicopter pilots flew rather aggressively. I remember watching someone takeoff, climb to perhaps 100 ft and shoot across all 3 active runways (including the 5/23 IFR runway). It was pretty impressive in a bad sort of way.
I didn't know the pilot who died, but reading the accident investigation was scary. He literally said: "if he can do it, I can do it..." I hope there was some attitude adjustment after that.
Pretty sure this was the guy that was flying the helicopter for MSP I flew on as a provider on and we landed at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and when we took off I asked if smelling raw fuel was normal and he said no and something about having trouble and I almost shit my pants……he was messing with me.
Is it a coincidence that the Huey copilot looks like Gonky?Have you guys ever noticed?
P51 pilots were young and full of adrenaline ok!!
He did a bunch of high speed chases because it’s Maryland. Bet you 70-80% of them were in prince Georges county😂