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Forum: Rotorheads

2nd Nov 2017, 15:08

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SAR S-92 Missing Ireland

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Posted By Fareastdriver

In the early eighties when there was a bit of a...

In the early eighties when there was a bit of a slump in the oil industry there were a few semisub oil rigs stacked in Aberdeen harbour. I was a single pilot (at that time) S76A pilot at Aberdeen.
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Forum: Rotorheads

22nd May 2017, 20:41

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SAR S-92 Missing Ireland

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Posted By Fareastdriver

Has anybody on this thread got any information as...

Has anybody on this thread got any information as to how the search for the two missing crew is going.

Forum: Rotorheads

27th Apr 2017, 15:00

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SAR S-92 Missing Ireland

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Posted By Fareastdriver

Being brought up navigating with a compass, map...

Being brought up navigating with a compass, map and stopwatch if your destination is a red blob with 43 written on the side then another waypoint with a red blob and 282 written beside it is 282 ft....

Forum: Rotorheads

17th Apr 2017, 16:02

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SAR S-92 Missing Ireland

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Posted By Fareastdriver

On the CVR it has the co-pilot reporting a...

On the CVR it has the co-pilot reporting a contact at 11 o'clock, 6 miles at 32secs or about 0.75 n.m. before impact. Drumacappel wasn't at six miles then; it started at about 5 miles. What was at...

Forum: Rotorheads

17th Apr 2017, 13:58

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SAR S-92 Missing Ireland

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Posted By Fareastdriver

It's a sad fact of life that if a fully...

It's a sad fact of life that if a fully serviceable aeroplane flies into something it's not the aeroplane's fault.

Forum: Rotorheads

17th Apr 2017, 08:41

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SAR S-92 Missing Ireland

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Posted By Fareastdriver

I put forward this theory in post #143 The...

I put forward this theory in post #143

The cockpit transcript was depressingly similar. The captain advised the co-pilot (pf) to turn around. As he was Chinese without Level 4 in English this...

Forum: Rotorheads

14th Apr 2017, 08:44

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SAR S-92 Missing Ireland

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Posted By Fareastdriver

Before this procedure was authorised by the...

Before this procedure was authorised by the company did anybody fly it? in daylight, VMC, to make sure that the procedure worked.

Forum: Rotorheads

28th Mar 2017, 11:42

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SAR S-92 Missing Ireland

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Posted By Fareastdriver

Until your are looking up at the winchman.

Until your are looking up at the winchman.

Forum: Rotorheads

24th Mar 2017, 09:16

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SAR S-92 Missing Ireland

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Posted By Fareastdriver

For what it's worth I posted this a week ago. ...

For what it's worth I posted this a week ago.

Again I am not familiar with the this helicopters radar kit but that happened once. Not on the database they could have thought it was a ship.

Forum: Rotorheads

17th Mar 2017, 10:40

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SAR S-92 Missing Ireland

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Posted By Fareastdriver

I am reminded by a CFIT in China in the late 90s....

I am reminded by a CFIT in China in the late 90s. This was flying towards the coast, VFR, in a low cloudbase and flew into the steeply rising coastline. The radar was on and from the CVR the crew,...

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