Boy oh Boy! I have resisted for so long but now I have to jump in with the amount of dribble Crabb is spilling.
Ok, from another thread - AW forced Bristow out of SAR-H [or words to that effect] because of a mandatory 12 base solution - TOSH!
The 101 downwash is horrendous it would have rained trees down on top of people in a gorge at 120'. So, why would you be at 120'! And dont give me that rubbish about you having to be as low as possible! With your eyesight at your age anything over 70ft is a blur anyway! Or can't you hold theohover in a winch weight check these days at 300ft - so you should be more than capable of holding a hover between 50 and 300ft? You just might have to work a bit harder for a livining!
As Limpopo said, you adapt. If you have to. And lets face it, you are never going to have to...... well, you are going to have to adapt but it will be to a big American or Big french aircraft but not to the 101. So, what a pointless load of dribble - oh, back to my first point!
Oh, here comes his next dribble about Wastelands and who cares about Bristish jobs ......
A 3 man crew! Brilliant! Wy didnt we think of that when we were bidding SAR-h!
I wont respond again! Back to just reading. This thread has become a laughing stock!
Rant over.
SARREMF - oh dear, been posting after a glass or two of wine have we - I think the prize for dribbling rant is certainly in your hands now
So why did AW decide to pull out of SARH then? The reason given at the time for the withdrawal was that there was no money to be made on the contract in its present state. Is it just coincidence that the decision was made to retain 12 bases shortly before AW/Bristow who were pushing a reduction in bases to suit the speed/legs of the 101 decided to pull out?Hmmmmm
You of all people should know better than to comment on rescues you weren't involved in - we (and I was LHS for that one not captain) we in the only place we could be to effect the rescue. You know as well as I do that the precision required to keep a winchman within a foot of his casualty (steep, rocky ground with trees all around) is not what you can realistically deliver on a 300' winch run out.
If this thread is now a laughing stock then you should gaze introspectively to consider who might have made it so
Don't dial drunk......don't pprune pi**ed
