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Forum: Rotorheads
25th Sep 2020, 18:56
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Flying out of Teeside in 1978 supporting the...

Flying out of Teeside in 1978 supporting the Eckofist in it's construction phase. UK contractors were supplying a lot of the labour and one day we got a second trip with just a few boxes to be...
Forum: Rotorheads
26th Jul 2019, 18:19
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

That reminds me of the time we were trialling the...

That reminds me of the time we were trialling the IR cover on the Night Sun. 38 Group chose the middle of summer to carry it out when nobody would need it, but however----------------.

Punched off...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Aug 2015, 11:39
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

I beg you're pardon. I started off with real...

I beg you're pardon. I started off with real Provosts; not kiddycars with a vacuum cleaner in the back.

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee224/fareastdriver/Provostcourse.jpg...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Aug 2015, 20:17
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

When Deng Xiaoping (you all know how to pronounce...

When Deng Xiaoping (you all know how to pronounce that) opened up China. Shenzhen, being next door to Hong Kong was a natural choice to be one the first Special Economic Zones and with it came...
Forum: Rotorheads
9th Aug 2015, 20:15
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

It was a shock but not entirely unexpected. The...

It was a shock but not entirely unexpected. The last G reg helicopter had departed some months before and was now wearing an Australian registration. On the pilots side there were the chief and...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Aug 2015, 21:08
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Karratha hadn’t prospered because of the oil; it...

Karratha hadn’t prospered because of the oil; it had prospered because Dampier, a town next door had prospered exporting iron ore. That started forty years before and so the oil industry was a...
Forum: Rotorheads
6th Aug 2015, 15:16
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

I had flown from Wenzhou to Shenzhen before. Down...

I had flown from Wenzhou to Shenzhen before. Down the airway to Xiamin for lunch and onwards via Shantou, where we would leave the airways and proceed directly to our heliport. The Chinese engineers...
Forum: Rotorheads
6th Aug 2015, 15:15
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Whilst we were living it up in Beijing First...

Whilst we were living it up in Beijing First Officer Wang, with a senior pilot from China Ocean Helicopter Corp, our sister company, was in Tanjian airport planning our return. The plot was that we...
Forum: Rotorheads
6th Aug 2015, 15:13
Replies: 2,607
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Posted By Fareastdriver

For those that cannot wade through the GBinWW11...

For those that cannot wade through the GBinWW11 thread I have pulled out the transit from Tanguu to Shenzhen which is the most helicopter orientated.


There was a requirement by an oil company...
Forum: Rotorheads
6th Aug 2015, 08:48
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Captai Fei; the same person. I have flown with...

Captai Fei; the same person. I have flown with him from his first line training to a first class captain.
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Aug 2015, 17:38
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Senior Pilot duplicated them; not me! It's just...

Senior Pilot duplicated them; not me! It's just taken me fifteen minutes to remove twelve duplicates.
Forum: Rotorheads
4th Aug 2015, 15:36
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

The there was nothing for me to do. They didn’t...

The there was nothing for me to do. They didn’t need me in China.

This was the reason that I had gone to the Solomon Islands in there first place so I graciously consented to go out there again...
Forum: Rotorheads
4th Aug 2015, 09:31
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

The Romanised form of Chinese writing is called...

The Romanised form of Chinese writing is called Pinyin. The pronunciation is in general similar to English but some are different; especially 'Q' and 'X'.

A common mistake is with Chongqing, the...
Forum: Rotorheads
3rd Aug 2015, 21:04
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Again I wasn’t rushed off my feet. With the SAR...

Again I wasn’t rushed off my feet. With the SAR standbye it meant that you only flew every third day. For the co-pilots it was not a good appointment. They were all self improvers and, as a first...
Forum: Rotorheads
31st Jul 2015, 20:15
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

I had seen the film ‘South Pacific’. I had also...

I had seen the film ‘South Pacific’. I had also been to Fiji so I had no illusions about lying under palm trees by a golden beach being fanned by nubile dusky maidens in grass skirts. The road to...
Forum: Rotorheads
29th Jul 2015, 21:06
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

I had been with the headhunters in Borneo in...

I had been with the headhunters in Borneo in 1966. The flying to come was similar to flying over the jungle of Borneo.
Forum: Rotorheads
29th Jul 2015, 20:20
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Thing progressed in the normal way. Even as a...

Thing progressed in the normal way. Even as a contract pilot I was rostered on an eight weeks on and four weeks off rota. Come November came another bombshell.

As I had mentioned before, the...
Forum: Rotorheads
25th Jul 2015, 15:09
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

I was not going to have much free time. I was...

I was not going to have much free time. I was taking the IREX, the difficult one first and the second, the ATPL Air Law was the day before my return flight to Hong Kong so I wanted to make sure I...
Forum: Rotorheads
24th Jul 2015, 20:01
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

I was going to Perth because that was where the...

I was going to Perth because that was where the Company’s Australian arm was. I knew some of them from Darwin and also from Aberdeen. During the 80s Aberdeen had been chronically short of pilots so...
Forum: Rotorheads
23rd Jul 2015, 21:34
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Whilst I had been away those four years there had...

Whilst I had been away those four years there had been some changes. Where previously the aircraft had been predominately British registered with a couple of Chinese ones the position was now...
Forum: Rotorheads
22nd Jul 2015, 08:50
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

I arrived at 06.00 hrs for the 07.00 take off. ...

I arrived at 06.00 hrs for the 07.00 take off. My co-pilot did all the planning and then I went to the line office to sign out the aircraft. B-7955 was emblazoned on the tech log. Over the...
Forum: Rotorheads
22nd Jul 2015, 06:23
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Mrs FED stayed at home in the UK. However, I...

Mrs FED stayed at home in the UK. However, I always shipped her out to have a look at the places where I worked at; ie China three or four times. Whilst I was at Darwin in my last episode she was...
Forum: Rotorheads
21st Jul 2015, 21:20
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

To stop this thread coming off the front page. ...

To stop this thread coming off the front page.

The Saga of the Dodgy Registration.

In 1998 came the Far East crash. Stock prices were collapsing and even major international companies were...
Forum: Rotorheads
20th Jul 2015, 09:43
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Only a short distance? For the Marines that was...

Only a short distance? For the Marines that was spot on.

Returning to Shekou in China where I lived.

The Navy decided to do an assault on a miltary range in the New Territories in Hong Kong. ...
Forum: Rotorheads
19th Jul 2015, 11:04
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

After 17,500 hrs of flying, of which 16,500hrs...

After 17,500 hrs of flying, of which 16,500hrs were on helicopters, 12,500hrs were on Pumas and Super Pumas. During that time on the latter types I cannot remember a moment of concern.

You don't...
Forum: Rotorheads
17th Jul 2015, 15:04
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

On my previous stint in China I was there in 1997...

On my previous stint in China I was there in 1997 when Hong Kong was handed back to the Chinese. I was effected by the run-up in both China and Hong Kong and come the final night sat there flicking...
Forum: Rotorheads
16th Jul 2015, 14:02
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

It was then time to go back to the UK for a bit. ...

It was then time to go back to the UK for a bit. Not too long as the taxman would beckon. Luckily I was stepping from one year to the other plus a bit of time on the Costa so It wasn’t until the...
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Jul 2015, 20:08
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

There was only the three of us at Darwin. The...

There was only the three of us at Darwin. The chief pilot, on his two weeks rotation; the chief engineer, who lived permanently on site; and me. We had two vehicles left. The chief pilot preferred...
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Jul 2015, 11:54
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

58 was the magic number because that't when the...

58 was the magic number because that't when the company pension scheme kicked in. The RAF was 55 as was British Airways. In those days the company, as could the RAF, tell you to shove off if they...
Forum: Rotorheads
13th Jul 2015, 16:44
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

There was coming a time when my career in China...

There was coming a time when my career in China was coming to a close because of my age. I was going to retire at the designated point from the company but as they were strapped for pilots with...
Forum: Rotorheads
9th Jun 2015, 19:11
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

I have been fortunate to have travelled over a...

I have been fortunate to have travelled over a large part of China. Many places I have been to have never seen a Westerner before. One gets used to young children hiding behind their mothers skirts...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th Jun 2015, 09:24
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Going downtown was easy, you caught a trishaw. ...

Going downtown was easy, you caught a trishaw. This was a three wheeler bicycle with a settee between the rear wheels. As long as you driver didn’t break wind you were OK. We would catch one just...
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Jun 2015, 17:51
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

The rig was about 140 Nautical miles out. There...

The rig was about 140 Nautical miles out. There was nothing en route so it was a straight line out from one of the airfield’s beacons. The beginning would track you over the small islands that were...
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Jun 2015, 09:05
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

Seeing that things are getting a bit slack on...

Seeing that things are getting a bit slack on this thread I will continue with my experiences in China. I mentioned Wenzhou on my post describing my trip from Tanguu to Shenzhen. I had been there...
Forum: Rotorheads
13th May 2015, 21:10
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,845,004
Posted By Fareastdriver

The Scapa maps took me back a bit. In the early...

The Scapa maps took me back a bit. In the early seventies we took a couple of Pumas up to Ness Battery. This was a barracks used by an Artillery unit guarding the westerly approach to Scapa Flow. ...
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