driftersabre
I have no idea what this guy is doing. It is not how we heard in the pacific. The Roby is way to high and fast to have effective downwash on bait fish. I wouldnt have this guy near my 500
Bait fish?? who said anything about bait fish?? As I mentioned before, this chap is dropping flares to distract the Dolphins, not the fish. I'm not sure how the fishing is done on your side of the Pacific but boats out of the Americas typically use Helicopters for Dolphin operations and Yellowfin Tuna. There are exceptions where the log fishing boats use Helicopters purely for spotting but not the Dolphin Ops. There are also plenty of H500's doing this type of flying (although fewer every year as the R44 has more than proved its worth and becoming the standard)
heliUD
I believe that Atlantic operations generally do not fish with Dolphin and is more of a spotting role so maybe this is the type of operations you have heard about for low time pilots (still have to land on a moving boat though
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Cheers
TS