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Helicopter Training...
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TheGreenGoblin » Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:12 pm
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Avoiding hot starts... ;)))
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What a great post... many thanks for posting such good training material G~Man.
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Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:40 pm
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Schiebel S-100 UAV trials with Bristow for SAR Ops
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CharlieOneSix » Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:56 pm
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Interesting times!
Bristow and Schiebel have now commenced unmanned search and rescue trials. They are labelled as the first of their kind but some...
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How is it controlled?
Is the operator 'desk-bound' or are they mobile with VR goggles?
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Last post by G-CPTN
Fri Apr 03, 2020 3:41 pm
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Pilot claims $10 million from Hevilift aviation
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Alisoncc » Mon Feb 24, 2020 9:04 pm
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A 69-year-old Victorian pilot is claiming $10 million from an international aviation company that failed to warn him of weather conditions on the day...
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Operating any type of aircraft without gyro instruments in that country would IMHO be somewhere between stupid, idiotic and just plain nuts! [-X :-q...
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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:30 am
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Japanese AW139 down
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CharlieOneSix » Tue Feb 04, 2020 3:42 pm
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Japanese Police AW139 crashed whilst transporting a heart for transplant. Looks like something in the drive to the tail rotor let go. Seven on board....
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that's the relatively easy bit. The difficult bit is the return to Mother Earth - zero altitude and hopefully not too much speed :))
Flying is...
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Last post by llondel
Thu Feb 06, 2020 7:49 pm
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Accident waiting to occur
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ricardian » Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:15 am
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Amazing place in which to have a helicopter taking off (or landing!)
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Tea and biccies with the CP for the Pilot concerned no doubt.
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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:03 am
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Impatient chappie
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ricardian » Sun Jan 12, 2020 1:06 pm
Daily Wail report
A wealthy managing director has been fined £1,600 after he subjected a female air traffic controller to a mid-air rant while...
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Sun Jan 12, 2020 7:57 pm
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Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:26 pm
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Wed Jan 08, 2020 4:00 pm
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Helicopter enabled camel cull begins in Australia.
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TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:07 pm
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What was once helicopter camel herding will become camel culling for some as from tomorrow in drought stricken and fire ravaged parts of Australia....
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As for the water drunk by camels one could put forward a modest proposal as per Jonathan Swift and suggest that humans are the biggest consumers of...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Jan 08, 2020 5:26 am
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R44 - Would you fly with this guy...?
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CharlieOneSix » Fri Jan 03, 2020 11:13 am
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Okay, so he can pole the thing but really....! He nearly lost it on the last rotation.
R44 - idiotic pilot
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Ah!
I'll open a local franchise, the next time that the local banana crop is threatened.
Mind you I do believe that the next frost down here will...
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Last post by ian16th
Mon Jan 06, 2020 10:05 pm
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AS-332 Wind limits
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Rwy in Sight » Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:40 pm
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Earlier today an AS-332 was tasked to fly to an island near Ex-A's summer residence from Rhodes Island to help an old lady living there alone....
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FOX3, my first smile of the day about the slot-feeling mad men.
Thanks for the answers gentlemen all very useful and clear.
I checked the...
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Last post by Rwy in Sight
Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:16 am
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Hawaii Helicopter Crash
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FD2 » Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:23 am
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Thought to be another crowded (single engine) AS350 operated by Safari Helicopter Tours:
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Thanks C16.
Admin - could you shut this down as it's already running in Current Aviation?
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Sat Dec 28, 2019 9:46 am
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The Pay Is Not Enough
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CharlieOneSix » Tue Jul 02, 2019 1:56 pm
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Never mind that it was done to attack James Bond in The World Is Not Enough , there's no pay that would entice me to do this. Single engine,...
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Where is your sense of adventure.....It is not dangerous, it has risk associated with it .....that is what I tell her indoors anyways. The saw work...
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Last post by G~Man
Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:20 pm
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A strange week...
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TheGreenGoblin » Sat Dec 21, 2019 8:54 pm
An old army friend, then helicopter pilot and now airline pilot, and I had a drink together this week. The first in 6 years and he admitted he wanted...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Sun Dec 22, 2019 12:00 am
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AS350 Ditches in East River, New York
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FD2 » Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:07 am
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Helicopter reported as being an AS350 Squirrel ditches in New York's East River with five dead. Modern engines are very reliable but the 350 has only...
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=))
Gob
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:24 pm
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Sat Dec 07, 2019 11:26 pm
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Nov 26, 2019 6:17 pm
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Mon Nov 04, 2019 8:23 pm
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Job for a rescue helicopter surely?
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TheGreenGoblin » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:04 pm
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Fire chiefs have made an urgent public appeal for a high-rise cherry picker to help rescue a man stuck upside down more than 80 metres (270ft) up a...
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Courage might have won out though and saved this loon... I worry about the English HSE in these matters sometimes...
There that fixed that.
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Wed Oct 30, 2019 12:22 pm
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Replacing a TV antenna at 915ft AGL
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CharlieOneSix » Sun Oct 20, 2019 3:36 pm
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I thought this might be of interest to non-helicopter folk - the pilot of N906CH may downplay the skill needed to do this but I thought it was...
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If you look at the shot of the new antenna at 0:56 you can see climbing projections. I presume some brave soul without my fear of heights would climb...
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Last post by G~Man
Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:42 am
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77 year old woman falls from Tokyo rescue helicopter
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CharlieOneSix » Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:58 pm
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Maybe some would prefer not to watch this video.
The 77 year-old woman fell about 40 metres from a helicopter during an evacuation procedure in...
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That was really sad to see. I can imagine how appalled the winch man must have been to have lost somebody at the door of the helicopter.
I remember...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:19 pm
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Otto the Firework Helicopter
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CharlieOneSix » Sun Sep 01, 2019 8:22 pm
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This is a bit different ......and Brendan has aged a bit since I last saw him!
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Good to see the big red fire extinguisher within easy reach of the pilot. A most effective use of fireworks to produce a good visual night time...
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Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:54 am
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Sat Aug 17, 2019 12:04 am
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Bristow Aberdeen recruiting First Officers
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CharlieOneSix » Mon Aug 12, 2019 10:43 am
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This was posted on the Bristow website yesterday - does this mean there's an upturn in the offshore helicopter support industry or maybe it's that...
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That's a positive step at last C16.
Making them non-commuting positions is a smart move. The company will be able to respond to short notice client...
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Last post by FD2
Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:15 pm
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All's Well That Ends Well?
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FD2 » Sun Aug 04, 2019 10:56 pm
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After an uneventful hour long flight to fulfil a terminally ill man's dying wish, the passengers are dropped off, but the subsequent take off to...
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Yup - maybe adding the washing line to his tail rotor as he moved back. :-?
I see the Mail has added the Leicester CIty crash in, for added shock...
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Last post by FD2
Mon Aug 05, 2019 11:00 pm
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