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G~Man wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:05 pm

Time to resurect this thread and keep it alive.....I will try to post a pic a day or something...... (Note the word "try"):

Flying the "Emerald Triagle"...yes I do have a backup camera now....lol

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What, only one?

I jest, I jest. Don't put the curse of the gnomes on me.

Q "So wy do they call it the "Emerald Triagle" G~Man?"....

A It is where they grow LOTS and LOTS of pot plants... On average eacch plant yieds 2lbs or 1KG of dried bud:

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Cheech and Chong country. Let's hope it doesn't go up in smoke.

Pic for today---this was last week on the California coast by Trinidad State Beach:

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Here's what you whirly boys should be working towards.................

Missed yesterday:

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Trying to get back to base.....mountain flying is always fun near the coast dealing with morning and evening fog banks:

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^ Lovely sky

Not me, but 2 of my pilots working power lines in the Feather River Canyon, California...

. Sometimes perspective is everything

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All great photos Gordy! Never did any live line work, just inspecting 11, 33, 132, 275 and 400kV lines for 5 years. Never touched one and then a few years later when I was a passenger someone flew me through an 11kV line. As Tommy Steele would say "Flash, Bang, Wallop!"

11kV line patrol, looks near Chew Valley Lake, Somerset, Bell 47J2, circa 1970 (my shoulder!) On Thursday I'm having lunch with a guy who flew through a 33kV line in a Wessex 5 in a Cornish valley many years ago. Very badly injured, once fit again and after the RN he came up to Scotland and flew often with me to the rigs. When Bristow bought the business he left, went fixed wing and flew on Highlands and Islands routes for BA (748?), later converting to the 747 and on retirement at 55 from BA he flew the same type in Singapore on freight operations. Quite a career!

CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 10, 2023 5:46 pm

All great photos Gordy! Never did any live line work, just inspecting 11, 33, 132, 275 and 400kV lines for 5 years.

We do all sorts of line work now....for HEC we no longer do live, all circuits are tuned off prior to working wih helicopters. We do pole sets, insulator change outs, wire pulling, HEC, and of course patrols.

Giving a flight check to a pilot...

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I thought that you weren't allowed to fly without Gnomes on board.

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PHXPhlyer wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:04 pm

I thought that you weren't allowed to fly without Gnomes on board.
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I know right, when I switch aircraft often I sometimes forget to move them.....lol

Here is one from a few years back....you can see Timothy, one of the gnomes on the dash:

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