Heli's in Las Vegas/Grand Canyon (Capt & Mrs Hollywood's honeymoon!)

[Capt Hollywood]

Well here it is, the inevitable photo of Capt Hollywood (and the new Mrs Hollywood as of last Sauturday!) in Hollywood.

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n197/danodwyer/General%20photos/HollywoodinHollywood.jpg

Well yes, I know the real Hollywood is just behind that big picture of the Hollywood sign that was at Universal Studios but you get the idea!

I'm now in Vegas and am thinking of taking one of Mavericks EC130 flights, possibly to the Canyon or at least over the strip at night. (FYI we can't do single engine charter ops at night in Oz!) Anyone from Mavericks on the forum care to drop me a pm and let me know what they think is the best option............. and of course what the best fellow ppruner mates rates are, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more!! :ok:

Cheers,

Capt & Mrs Hollywood! :cool:

[pohm1]

Good on ya Capt H, great Bucks do, bruises are slowly fading, nice setting for a wedding too. Biggest PHS reunion ever I suspect. Enjoy your honeymoon.

P1

[belly tank]

Hollywood!..congrats buddy!!:ok:

sounds like your doing the same itinerary that me and Ms Belly tank did in Feb This year!

We did the Dream catcher tour with mavericks...depart around 1500 and return about 1900 go into and land at the canyon for horses douvers and champagne and fly back at Night "yes night"!! over the strip was great tour!
we managed to ride up front for the first half of the tour, just chat to one of the pilots!......dont forget to tip the driver too!!.well at least i did:ok:


Make sure you go to the buffet at the WYNN was mind blowing, do the casino thing its heaps of fun! have fun...we are deffinately going to go back there soon!!

BT

[Heliport]

Congratulations and best wishes to you and Mrs Hollywood. :ok:


You might want to contact B Sousa - like yourself, one of the regulars of this forum.

Bert flies tours - not sure which company.
And, unless he's already departed to the Caribbean for the winter, you might be able to fly with a fellow Rotorhead.

Even if he has, he could advise you.


Heliport

[belly tank]

i think Sousa's with Pappillon there!

[Heliport]

I think you're right.

Just found this post - written in classic Bert style.



All the tour companies are money factories. Load them in do the job. Consider the average Pilot there does easily four 1.5 hour flights daily and pushes the 14 hour workday.
BUT as one who flys there once in a while give Papillon a shot. www.papillon.com (http://www.papillon.com/) you can book over the internet.

[topendtorque]

Yes Good job

My mind flashes back to the '88 blue print

duals up front - YES :=

all those spare seats in back - :* ?, :yuk: ? :E ? :8 ? :bored: ? :p ?

cheers tet

p.s. any msgs for those love lorn 'darker' ones back at the rock :rolleyes: ?

[Brilliant Stuff]

Congratulations to you both!!!!:ok: :ok: :ok:

Have a superb honeymoon!

[Gordy]

Anyone from Mavericks on the forum care to drop me a pm and let me know what they think is the best option............. and of course what the best fellow ppruner mates rates are, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more!! :ok:
Cheers,
Capt & Mrs Hollywood! :cool:
Call Maverick--ask for Duain---If anyone can do it, He'll hook you up.

[helopat]

i think Sousa's with Pappillon there!

Just so you know, Papillion is out of the south rim of the Grand Canyon, not Vegas.

Congrats and best wishes Cap.

Helopat

[Rocker]

Just so you know, Papillion is out of the south rim of the Grand Canyon, not Vegas.
Congrats and best wishes Cap.
Helopat

Helopat - Papillon does have an operation out of Vegas as well as the South Rim. Also, when I worked for them I don't remember Bert (although from his posts I wish I had met him). From some of his posts, I am guessing he works for HeliUSA, which is located next to the "Rainbow Warriors." ;)

Capt Hollywood - Don't skip the day canyon trip. You'll regret it. You need to do it once in your lifetime. It's only a 45 minute chopper ride from Vegas. As for the best trip from Maverick, it's probably the one that lands in the bottom of the canyon so you can get a walk around. If you're looking at other companies, make sure they actually "land" at the bottom of the canyon. I spent a year and a half working out of the South Rim and Vegas. Flying over the canyon is majestic, but landing at the bottom and looking up is breathtaking.

Cheers!

Rock

[B Sousa]

I am at Papillon www.papillon.com (http://www.papillon.com) and will be in the EC today (Sunday) after I find my uniform, some coffee and a shower, not necessarily in that order.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/Rotorheads/Gallery/Papillon.jpg
EC-130 B4 Grand Canyon



Link fixed.
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[Capt Hollywood]

Thanks to everyone for the kind wishes. We're back in Oz now and it's back to reality tomorrow. Ended up doing a night flight around the Vegas strip at night with Mavericks, didn't have the budget for anything longer unfortunately, maybe next time. We did drive down to the Grand Canyon and stay the night but it snowed the next morning so the heli's weren't flying, bugger! Don't really have any pics of heli's but I did buy a video camera and got a couple of nice bits of footage, see links below.

Cheers,

CH :cool:

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