line doggie...
I ran across this old thread doing some research, thought I'd toss a few nuggets out there. I just did a short tour doing this nutty job with AIR2 and we used an extremely, sparsely (dangerously so) equipped 80's model MD 500. NO gyro, a 13 yr old mickey mouse gps, an ancient radio, no AI, and just a wobbly standby compass to navigate with . It was a trip flying this stripped old 500 after just having done a combat tour in HH-60L model Blackhawks! I'm headed back to DurkaDurkastan soon IP'ING Mi-17's , but will prolly. ome back to doing aerial line maintenance work (although with a safer/better outfit) as it pays WAY better than EMS work . MD's are simply the preferred bird for this kind of work, stable and safer in a crash scenario. All the way !