Lost russian military heli
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Why Russian?
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Why Russian? |
Russian as in manufacture perhaps rather than operator.
Don't they have google maps over there? |
"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. |
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. |
Sorry, just had to say it...
Seems to be a textbook IFR flight as my instructor used to call it... (I Follow Roads)! |
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 |
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" ;) |
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! |
Originally Posted by chuks
(Post 9678999)
By God that hill did stick out "like a dog's balls," too!
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standard operating procedures in the Himalayas :8 especially monsoon :{
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