TIIFE

I did a Buddy Start at Mosul in 2005. Did anyone else ever do one in Iraq? I never heard of any others. We got the approval from a non-130 guy and got chewed pretty good when we got back, but the approval was legit. It was actually a little emabarrassing, on an H-3 at the time with a bad APU and the Co-Pilot was supposed to leave an engine running and grabbed all the condition levers and shut them all down instead. No Bleed Air Cart there. We had to get a power cart to cuff the prop and do the whole thing with only battery power but it worked like a champ. We had to get "a jump" from a Guard crew on an E-model that were shaking their heads the whole time...