Originally Posted by
Michael Gee
John Eacott
everything on a helicopter is delicate - taxi for runway 09 was a long taxi when a heli with skilled pilots taking into account all the dangers around are meant to fly - Air Traffic are not familiar with what helicopters can or can not do they are fixed in their minds like many fixed wing pilots.
The mod on No 1 heli looks makeshift - No 2 was without it. Have a look at catch up TV of Trumps arrival at Stansted UK this morning.
Your quote Intake Guards have been around 40 50 years so have I and still at it at 79 years of age
Nice that you're still flogging around after some years, but believe me the SH3/Sea King undercarriage is not 'delicate'. Anything that stood up to many hundreds of my deck landings is quite capable of a little bit of taxiing!
I think your dig at ATC is more than a little unjustified, too.
Still no idea what you're referring to on the intake as they both look the same to me, standard barn doors. Here is Marine One yesterday with POTUS boarding:
This was an airfield taxi worth making, much the same distance as Marine One
