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Forum: Rotorheads

10th May 2018, 10:22

Replies: 156

EC135 missing in NSW

Views: 60,696

Posted By Thomas coupling

Morning men, starboard 10...... This is a true...

Morning men, starboard 10......
This is a true story:
Naval colleague of mine is a navigator on board one of the Type 45 Destroyers, currently. He was on the bridge when the Captain turned to a...

Forum: Rotorheads

25th Apr 2018, 07:41

Replies: 156

EC135 missing in NSW

Views: 60,696

Posted By Thomas coupling

Heliduck - there you go: That's your first...

Heliduck - there you go:

That's your first hole in the cheese, old boy.
Bad weather and high terrain shouts and screams to normal pilots - what's NOT obvious with this?

He suffered...

Forum: Rotorheads

2nd Dec 2015, 18:07

Replies: 156

EC135 missing in NSW

Views: 60,696

Posted By Thomas coupling

RVDT: I guess you're just the type I was...

RVDT:

I guess you're just the type I was trying to describe, perhaps.

Green: Hello is that airworthiness, Eurocopter?
Eurocopter: Yes.
Green I am license number and approval number ^&89($%....

Forum: Rotorheads

1st Dec 2015, 13:24

Replies: 156

EC135 missing in NSW

Views: 60,696

Posted By Thomas coupling

So let me get this right: A helicopter pilot...

So let me get this right:

A helicopter pilot factory authorised to repair a blade, has a blade strike miles from anywhere (otherwise he would have easily been able to recover it by road)
He then...

Forum: Rotorheads

13th Nov 2015, 13:20

Replies: 156

EC135 missing in NSW

Views: 60,696

Posted By Thomas coupling

This country's helicopter crash record is...

This country's helicopter crash record is littered with rich arrogant people who think that because they were successful at business, automatically makes them brilliant at everything else.
Whether...

Forum: Rotorheads

13th Nov 2015, 12:41

Replies: 156

EC135 missing in NSW

Views: 60,696

Posted By Thomas coupling

Look guys, I know there are some close mates of...

Look guys, I know there are some close mates of Green on here. But can we remove emotion from the equation for a moment and look at hard facts. Pilots are supposed to bias more towards facts and...

Forum: Rotorheads

11th Nov 2015, 22:41

Replies: 156

EC135 missing in NSW

Views: 60,696

Posted By Thomas coupling

SASless ...I thought I was in your "peanut...

SASless ...I thought I was in your "peanut gallery" - no?
Or have you forgotten due to your age?
On the subject of dementia - the yanks recently promoted the two yank mil pilots who flew on with no...

Forum: Rotorheads

11th Nov 2015, 09:31

Replies: 156

EC135 missing in NSW

Views: 60,696

Posted By Thomas coupling

CASA: It seems you had a maverick in your midst...

CASA: It seems you had a maverick in your midst and quite frankly the aviation world is now a safer place, since he departed. Probably vying for the Darwin Award but obviously failed many times...

Forum: Rotorheads

10th Nov 2015, 21:28

Replies: 156

EC135 missing in NSW

Views: 60,696

Posted By Thomas coupling

Surely what the papers report about him repairing...

Surely what the papers report about him repairing a main rotor blade with absolutely no qualifications whatsoever - are simply headline grabbing - no?

IF true however, this man has taken two...

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