Top of the World: photos from Nepal

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Beer o'clock

Wooaah another Mountain, another Lake descending through 18,000'

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WoW

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Petrol Stop

Dunai 6,920'

Yep TR's clear of hazards

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Dunai

Juffal village VNDP

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Remote Office duties

the (new) 'T' in SWAT (confined area checklist) - Tail-Rotor? what are You gonna do with it............

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VF Dai

In post 2166, I can tell which machine you were flying and which was flown by Nepali pilot by the way the machine is parked. VF = Tail rotor clear of hazards

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Yikes we're HIGH

Work at 17,000'


Hey GCP ~ exactly

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LeOffice

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Yikes we're HIGH for a Jettie

Pangboche upper Helipad -13,585' @ 12ºC ~ 3 x PAX + 40kg Cargo + 12usgal GoJuice

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Rescue work

Pangboche upper Helipad -13,585' @ 12ºC ~ 3 x PAX + 40kg Cargo + 12usgal GoJuice

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Not much flight planning needed with 12 gals I bet.
Are you just descending to a lower pad where you have more fuel?

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bring more strong coffee pleeease

Hey Nuthin

There is actually still a lot of planning & flying lef to do through 2 valley systems to descend to 9,500'
12usgal above 10,000' & below 15,K' at around 75-80knots @ MCP is 30mins till the noise stops from Pangboche is an 8-9minute flight back to VNLK Lukla (11minutes in crap weather) so we land with ~ 8usgals = 20mins, the legal minimum reserve

Happy Happy @ Tyangboche Gompa

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Grande Int. Hospital roof-top Helipad

Banging in at ETL till in ground effect stayin' outa the HVD






skids aligning to sumtin & TR safe

[Peter-RB]

Good day VF,

at post 2171 frame 4,5,6,7 what are all the ropes strung across the valleys , are they some sort of Prayer symbols or some sort of celebration days,

Stay safe up in that rare and fine air,

many regards, love reading your almost daily posts,

Peter R-B
Lancashire UK

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not Beer o'clock yet

Hey Peter

That ed be the Buddhist prayer flags strung everywhere in the Solukhumbu which are great for local winds, except when they are strung across a diving gulley used for escaping heavy

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Yikes we're HIGH for a JetBanger

Tyangboche Monastic Gompa blast past at Vne, descending through 13,300'








@ 10:15am, with this much Sun it's still a strong down-slope wind

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WoW factor from the Office window

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Rescue work

Tyangboche Monastic Gompa 12,598' @ 12ºC ~ 2 x PAX + 30kg Cargo + 11usgal GoJuice

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WoW

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