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Never steamed up due to physical exertion (except in the past during an OPC or two!) however have regularly had to wait for clear screens when all three crew members have been rained on.
We've been hangaring our aircraft during the hours of darkness ever since the West Midlands incident and its a pain in the a**e. The only good thing at this time of year is that it remains frost free. If its lashing down with rain you enter the cockpit with soaked clothes with the potential for codensation, and I know for a fact that the extra time taken to drag the aircraft out of the hangar has lost us a couple of pursuits.
So you accept that;
You steam up in cases where the pressure is on, such as when the bodys temp increases after running to the ac.
Having an ac in the hangar is good if frosty conditiuons are likely.
Wet people, regardless if ac is indoors or out, will cause condensation.
Jobs will
always be lost by a few seconds, are your timings so accurate that you can blame it on the ac being in or out of a hangar?
I used to run out to the ac on dispersal in my early days, and jobs were still lost just a few seconds before we got there. Jobs were still cancelled after dashing out to the ac and No1 was just winding up or we had just become airborne etc.
Do/Will you save vital seconds by ignoring FLM notes such as;
"To ensure the engines are supplied enough fuel, prime pumps must be on for at least 10 sec, before starting engines."
"When the FADEC test has been completed and the corresponding cautions have gone off automatically, wait another 10 seconds before starting engines.
I hate to challenge an individuals way of doing things, yet in light of what you said earlier, I have in the back off my mind, in all the rush of things, to gain that extra second,
If it's a grade 1 deployment I run to the aircraft, as every second does count.
Do you pause... take breath... and go through (perhaps even chall/resp) pre-take offs in a calm manner?
I once started to go off on a Casevac in Canada in a Gazelle. (Fallen tank decking onto legs IIRC)
'My pilot' went through the post take offs, 'Tq, Nc T4 CWP' and was happy to fly away to get there ASAP, until I pointed out that the torquemeter had actually failed ! We took a different aircraft.
It turned out, a tank crewman had sprained an ankle jumping off the tank.
We are talking Police Helicopters here, I simply don't understand how and why, every single second counts?
Even when I spent some time at a combined police/aa unit the ac was hangared!