Namaste
Nepal is a wonderful relaxed place to live; uncomplicated, friendly, safe, clean water, clean air (outside of KTM). Crime is almost zero, cost of living is very low. Life in KTM is great, weather is warm in summer 32oC, freezing in winter 5oC. power cuts due to load shedding is up to 19hours per day. It is an exciting place to live with lots of things to do, see, explore, party, adventure treks, history, she has loads to offer. Traffic is a nightmare. Dust & high pollution due to being surrounded by 8-10,000' mountains forming a bowl that helps lock in all the crap due to an almost year round inversion lid. ATC are helpful, no nonsense for Rotory, But the flying is the most adventurous, most extreme & most serious & most dangerous that I have ever experienced in 22 years of flying in 9 countries. High winds changing direction in every valley, every gully, every ravine & at differing heights the direction can change, turbulance, extreme haze & monsoons requires often very low level flying down in the rivers at 50'agl with slant vis 100m & vertical & horizontal vis below500m. DA is common to be over ISA +35oC with landings up to 23,000' in the B3+ 21,000' in the B2, 16,000' for the B & 206BIII. We do cargo, charter, sling, rescue, film - You name it we do it, usually with HIGE only, HOGE is a luxury we use for rescue sling & film, we even do HCL - a rescue crewman hanging on a fixed line attached to the swing hook to rescue someone where we can't land. Thank God for the B3+ = the most agile, most capable & most powerful Helicopter in the world at high altitude & DA, nothing else comes even close to this babies get up & go
Jai Shiv Shankar
