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I ordered my Micro direct from I.C.E., who were very helpful in answering all my silly questions. It took some time to get to the front of the production queue, but it was ready on precisely the day they promised, and six days later it arrived here, dismantled and packed in two big boxes.

It took me most of the afternoon to get from this:

Trice Micro ready for assembly

to this:

Ready for some indoor triking?

A friend turned up at the critical moment to hold bits of of chain together, and between us we soon had the last few bits bolted on, and were able to take it for a gentle spin around the block. Slightly nerve-wracking at first (will it go round this corner..? — yes!), but by the timeone may manipulate the controls of an aircraft for which one holds no airman certificate, so long as the pilot in command holds an appropriate certificate.
It cannot be determined which of the two individuals aboard was actually manipulating the controls at the time the helicopter crashed and which was acting as pilot in command; obviously, only the decedents could answer those questions. Mehlman was a low-time airplane pilot, who had logged only a few hours of flight time in a helicopter. Mehlman's airman *707 certificate was limited to the aircraft category and class of "Airplane Single Engine Land." Thus, he could not exercise the privileges of a pilot in command of a helicopter. 14 C.F.R. § 61.63(a). Simon, on the other hand, was a high-time pilot who held