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Forum: Rotorheads
13th May 2024, 16:57
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

And we used to have exchange tours from both the...

And we used to have exchange tours from both the RN and RAF with the USCG helping to cross-pollinate ideas and techniques as well as crossing the cultural bridges between us. Something else lost in...
Forum: Rotorheads
13th May 2024, 09:50
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

Only if it was properly resourced and manned...

Only if it was properly resourced and manned which is very unlikely in the modern military environment.

There are probably just enough people with the skills and knowledge to restart the training...
Forum: Rotorheads
13th May 2024, 05:33
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

Back to the days of MilSAR when under resourcing...

Back to the days of MilSAR when under resourcing was the name of the game and pieces (ie people) got moved around the chessboard willy nilly.

The rearcrew were constantly f***ed about as we didn't...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th May 2024, 12:50
Replies: 11
Views: 1,441
Posted By [email protected]

Jim Poole - the master of the irritatingly...

Jim Poole - the master of the irritatingly correct question technique criticism.......

In the mid 90's a graduating QHI course did a fantastic skit with him being cavity searched by a customs...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th May 2024, 12:43
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

Nice trolling........:ugh:

Nice trolling........:ugh:
Forum: Rotorheads
12th May 2024, 08:48
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

Rotor guy - there is profit in the current UKSAR...

Rotor guy - there is profit in the current UKSAR contract and it is keeping the rest of the group afloat as I understand it.

However, what did they bid for the new contract? Enough to keep the...
Forum: Rotorheads
12th May 2024, 08:43
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

Yes, I went for brevity over clarity.

Yes, I went for brevity over clarity.
Forum: Rotorheads
11th May 2024, 17:30
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

Sasless - as I understand it, the action has...

Sasless - as I understand it, the action has about a 90% support from the workforce so that covers pretty much all bases. I may be wrong but I think the only union involved is BALPA.

Unlikely to...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th May 2024, 17:28
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

Could we stick to the Bristow SAR theme chaps? ...

Could we stick to the Bristow SAR theme chaps?

I like to reminisce as much as the next guy but this is a major player in the 21st century trying to screw the aircrew having not learned any lessons...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th May 2024, 12:56
Replies: 16
Views: 2,002
Posted By [email protected]

sh8te is what's missing - a very North of England...

sh8te is what's missing - a very North of England term:ok: replace the 8 with an i

a gob****e is someone who 'runs off at the mouth' in American parlance.
Forum: Rotorheads
11th May 2024, 12:53
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

sasless - I think you'll find this has less to do...

sasless - I think you'll find this has less to do with the growth in numbers of management and more to do with Houston screwing the nut on cost-cutting to keep profit levels adequate.

Rotor guy...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th May 2024, 06:34
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

I think 28 years of American ownership qualifies...

I think 28 years of American ownership qualifies for the criticisms made by Impress to Inflate - can't blame Alan Bristow for these failings.

Olster, you seem to have taken umbrage at my post - I...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th May 2024, 05:27
Replies: 1,651
Views: 452,018
Posted By [email protected]

It's not a brand new helicopter because it still...

It's not a brand new helicopter because it still doesn't exist.
Forum: Rotorheads
10th May 2024, 05:26
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

If I had the flying bug at an early age and could...

If I had the flying bug at an early age and could work to do it then yes, I would have paid it. I know plenty that have.

It's not easy but nor is joining the military - which olster seemed to...
Forum: Rotorheads
9th May 2024, 21:33
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

£150K is very cheap compared to what it cost to...

£150K is very cheap compared to what it cost to train me and many others like me.

The experience, challenges, rewards (not financial) and the camaraderie are what keeps people in when they could...
Forum: Rotorheads
9th May 2024, 15:29
Replies: 1,651
Views: 452,018
Posted By [email protected]

CCGame - he is building another helicopter -...

CCGame - he is building another helicopter - that's not ground breaking or innovative, the only new thing is that he is getting other people to pay for it.

Wrench 1 - can you name one? HX50 isn't...
Forum: Rotorheads
9th May 2024, 15:21
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

I suggest you actually talk to people who went...

I suggest you actually talk to people who went through military training and service before making ignorant statements like that.

How many were chopped from your intake for training? No jeopardy...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th May 2024, 14:34
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

Olster - I left in 2014, the year before the...

Olster - I left in 2014, the year before the Bristow contract started, as the Sqn training officer on £72K (think Trg Capt, TRE/TRI).

The people transferring from Mil to Bristow went to circa £95K...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th May 2024, 12:05
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

What, you mean what I and others did for £50K -...

What, you mean what I and others did for £50K - £70K until privatisation?
Forum: Rotorheads
8th May 2024, 12:03
Replies: 1,651
Views: 452,018
Posted By [email protected]

If he had put half as much time and money into...

If he had put half as much time and money into developing a hydrogen fuelled electric helicopter, instead of reinventing the dinosaur burning one, he might be described as ground-breaking or cutting...
Forum: Rotorheads
8th May 2024, 07:21
Replies: 105
Views: 18,800
Posted By [email protected]

Only just heard about it looking at this thread....

Only just heard about it looking at this thread. Do I agree with it? I'd have to know more about why they have chosen this course of action.

I presume the beef is with the US management rather...
Forum: Rotorheads
6th May 2024, 09:15
Replies: 1,651
Views: 452,018
Posted By [email protected]

Depends on how much he has paid out in R and D...

Depends on how much he has paid out in R and D plus all his other costs.
Forum: Rotorheads
2nd May 2024, 10:13
Replies: 11
Views: 1,307
Posted By [email protected]

To my knowledge, you can get ground resonance...

To my knowledge, you can get ground resonance from two scenarios - one being an out of balance rotor system (seized or faulty drag damper or similar) and the other being when the blade passing...
Forum: Rotorheads
1st May 2024, 08:14
Replies: 6
Views: 1,467
Posted By [email protected]

Impressive video, I've seen much smaller birds...

Impressive video, I've seen much smaller birds than that go straight through a Gazelle perspex screen.
Forum: Rotorheads
29th Apr 2024, 08:43
Replies: 23
Views: 2,796
Posted By [email protected]

Punkalouver - unless you know the beach well,...

Punkalouver - unless you know the beach well, your assessment of shallow water depth is likely to be wrong - when helicopters enter the water they usually, as mechpowi says, roll over. Imagine a...
Forum: Rotorheads
27th Apr 2024, 06:19
Replies: 10
Views: 2,704
Posted By [email protected]

It looks like he put himself in the middle of the...

It looks like he put himself in the middle of the circle rather than the middle of the helicopter in the middle of the circle.

Presumably for cost reasons they don't have rearcrew?
Forum: Rotorheads
27th Apr 2024, 06:13
Replies: 20
Views: 4,640
Posted By [email protected]

Not sure what your point was with those videos? ...

Not sure what your point was with those videos?

They only show that rescuing people isn't as easy as some think, even when you have had some training, so doing it with none is inviting disaster.
...
Forum: Rotorheads
26th Apr 2024, 08:49
Replies: 63
Views: 11,019
Posted By [email protected]

libelling surely?

libelling surely?
Forum: Rotorheads
26th Apr 2024, 08:43
Replies: 20
Views: 4,640
Posted By [email protected]

First rule of first aid - don't become a casualty...

First rule of first aid - don't become a casualty yourself. Trying to lift someone out of the water with the skids of a Robbie is just well intentioned stupidity. Better to throw them your...
Forum: Rotorheads
25th Apr 2024, 11:07
Replies: 20
Views: 4,640
Posted By [email protected]

If it was someone trying to do something they...

If it was someone trying to do something they hadn't trained for in a helicopter not designed or intended for that purpose then I can imagine what the video looks like.
Forum: Rotorheads
25th Apr 2024, 11:05
Replies: 7
Views: 2,367
Posted By [email protected]

The problem is that their rules might not permit...

The problem is that their rules might not permit NVG helo ops from a non-NVG lit ship. I know it can be done as I did it training pilots a few years ago in the Falklands - the ship was not NVG...
Forum: Rotorheads
25th Apr 2024, 10:59
Replies: 1,651
Views: 452,018
Posted By [email protected]

It's only the twitchiness of the tail causing you...

It's only the twitchiness of the tail causing you to make constant corrections that saps any power downwind - the main rotor is unaffected except for a possible slight ingestion of TR vortices.

I...
Forum: Rotorheads
25th Apr 2024, 09:22
Replies: 1,651
Views: 452,018
Posted By [email protected]

The rotor disc doesn't care which way the wind is...

The rotor disc doesn't care which way the wind is blowing - 'hovering' with 35 kts of wind is the same as flying at 35 kts which will be much lower on the power required curve - pointless claim...
Forum: Rotorheads
22nd Apr 2024, 15:54
Replies: 9
Views: 1,495
Posted By [email protected]

VR (virtual reality not vertical reference) is...

VR (virtual reality not vertical reference) is used in training simulators only, not in the real aircraft, but I believe the Brit Mil are using simulators for USL training as well as winching.

A...
Forum: Rotorheads
20th Apr 2024, 11:17
Replies: 95
Views: 17,922
Posted By [email protected]

I think I said that in post #54

I think I said that in post #54
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