Steven Bruce Bokan, chief flying instructor for Nepalese helicopter company Manang Air, said the British Chinooks and US Ospreys were "basically useless" in the Himalayas.
"They may work in deserts and other places which have huge areas for landing and take-off, but they are too big to land in the Himalayas," Bokan told AFP.
Sorry
typerated but the QFI of Manang Air disagrees with you and if he says they can't land anywhere in the Himalayas, then he must be right and obviously we are all wrong!
Danny, you and I have both admitted we are both ignorant of helicopter operations, so we should wind our necks in. The fact that we both appear to have a certain amount of common sense, along with others on here, has got nothing to do with it!