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hoss183 16th Feb 2017 17:00

Lost russian military heli
 
Helicopter pilot lands to ask for directions in Kazakhstan - BBC News
:rolleyes:

Vovick 16th Feb 2017 18:12

Why Russian?

Nubian 16th Feb 2017 18:21


Why Russian?
I'd say if he was russian and landed in Kazakstan to ask for directions..... he was a bit lost..:E

krypton_john 16th Feb 2017 18:25

Russian as in manufacture perhaps rather than operator.

Don't they have google maps over there?

peterperfect 16th Feb 2017 21:01

"The crewmember" surely ?
And, in light of the weather, looks like a good decision to land on a contrasting surface (the road) and wait for the blizzard to move through.
Anyone dispute that ?

No story, move on there nothing to see.

Good Vibs 16th Feb 2017 21:30

So What!
 
Good plan. Big Deal!
How many times did we all read the village names on the road signs back when we were flying CH-34's in the German ADIZ!
Better safe than sorry.

Modtro 16th Feb 2017 21:53

Sorry, just had to say it...

Seems to be a textbook IFR flight as my instructor used to call it... (I Follow Roads)!

Old Photo.Fanatic 16th Feb 2017 22:51

Odiham
 
Reminds me of when I was a pax. in a pair of Wessex flying from Odium to Biggin Hill for the Battle of Britain Air show in 1964.

It was quite foggy and flying over the Hogs Back, the Wessex I was in went down to a roundabout to read the road signs to help in direction to BH.!!!

We made it ok, and for the record it was one of the best Air shows I have attended.

3 airworthy Mosquitos on the ground, from the filming of 633 Sqn.
All 3 V Bombers and the RAF Yellowjacks , to name just a few.

OPF

BOBAKAT 17th Feb 2017 00:09

Last time, the ATC say :i will help you : "follow the highway and give me the first village name road exit sign you read ".

Me : OK : "ausgang" ;)

chuks 17th Feb 2017 10:36

Fixed-wing, but ....
 
I was looking for a bush strip on a very hazy day in the middle of nowhere, Nigeria, pre-GPS, when I finally had to give up and go to Makurdi, the nearest place I knew how to find, hard to miss because it's sited right on the Benue River.

When I got there I found a Nigeria Air Force fighter pilot wearing a spiffy grey leather flight jacket, even though it was 30º in the shade. He told me to follow the road south and to look for a hill that "sticks out like a dog's balls" and then to hang a right to follow the road that led to the Benue Cement airstrip at Gboko.

By God that hill did stick out "like a dog's balls," too!

hoss183 17th Feb 2017 14:05


Originally Posted by chuks (Post 9678999)
By God that hill did stick out "like a dog's balls," too!

Well we think that GPS navigation is the mutt's nuts these days, but you prove it was done by those nuts ;)

Vertical Freedom 18th Feb 2017 06:34

standard operating procedures in the Himalayas :8 especially monsoon :{


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