would you like fries with that ?.

[widgeon]

# Fly-away kit
# FRIES and rappel mission provisions

From the S70I baseline configuration on the sikorsky site.

Anyone enlighten me to what the acronym means.




S-70i (http://www.sikorsky.com/Products/Product+Details/Model+Family+Details/Model+Details?provcmid=bfa955f4a9d98110VgnVCM1000001382000aR CRD&mofvcmid=57aaebb600e98110VgnVCM1000001382000aRCRD&mofid=47aaebb600e98110VgnVCM1000001382000a____&movcmid=41c669a3a73a8110VgnVCM1000001382000aRCRD&moid=31c669a3a73a8110VgnVCM1000001382000a____)

[Thud_and_Blunder]

It used to mean Fast Rope Insertion/Extraction System - probably still does.

Never had to do it (the extraction, that is - insertion is pretty much bread-and-butter) in anger, or even in a fit of pique, but the unusually adventurous people we used to support rated it alongside parachuting as a skill they had to have but didn't care to practise more than was necessary.