I was asked to help get a helo to Sri Lanka for the tsunami – the two things that struck me was how disjointed everything was – and how political everything was.
I truly expected expect a couple of pone calls would do – it was all over the news after all – my first Day of calls proved me wrong but I got some real interesting quotes.
Eventually a kind carrier was found and the helo was on it’s way – I’m told when it got there it could hardly do anything due to “lack of permits”.
That’s as close as I’ve got to helo ops – although have been involved in some fixed wing interesting ones – so will say there is Major room for improvement but don’t know enough to suggest how to implement the improvements.
Swinging Spanner – you don’t seem to have a PM link on your page – PM me about posting pics please.