Search and rescue winch dialogue

[david parry]

Wafu Aircrewmen, could patter , all day long on a Winchex, Downwind, Running in, Line height and speed is good, 5O yards to run, Strop going out, Easy Easy Steady, and Steady and Steady, Steady at that. Strop in the water, Survivor in the stop, Up ten Feet. Winching in, Survivor at the door, Survivor clear of the strop and safely inboard, Winch housed, and clear cct

[sunshine band]

The Chuckle brothers time on the SAR fleet was short lived.

"Winching"
"To you"
"To me"
"To you"
"To me"
"To you"
"To me"
"To you"
"To me"
"To you"
"To me"
"To you"
"To me"
"Aw, bugger, they've sunk... lets go home for tea"

[Senior Pilot]

Whirlwind 7: midshipman (me) driving, CPO Mooney in charge, Sproule net practice.

Height line and speed is good
Line is good, up 5
Line is good, up 10
Line is good, come up
Will you come up, me fooking feet are getting wet....

[Occasional Aviator]

Winching as experience (bottle check?) for a TA unit, including some females of a certain reputation...

Crewman's Patter once we had arrived at 'Steady' position:

Winching out
Strop at the survivor
Survivor in the strop
Winching in
10 feet of cable to come
5 feet of cable to come
Survivor at the door
Working with the survivor
winching out
Strop at the survivor
Survivor in the strop
Winching in
10 feet of cable to come
5 feet of cable to come
Survivor at the door
Working with the survivor
winching out
Strop at the survivor
Survivor in the strop
Winching in
10 feet of cable to come

(Silence)

They're out! They're out!

Cockpit crew: What? What's happened? did the survivor fallout?

C'man: No, they're out!

Cockpit crew looks back into the cabin to see young lady being helped in the door with a big smile and doing her shirt back up.