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Forum: Rotorheads
26th Apr 2024, 14:20
Replies: 10
Views: 2,628
Posted By malabo

Hope the pilot doesn't feel vindicated by the...

Hope the pilot doesn't feel vindicated by the report, somewhere in his training and operational control, where to land on a marked offshore deck seems to have been missed.

Apart from all that, who...
Forum: Rotorheads
20th Mar 2024, 17:26
Replies: 39
Views: 6,175
Posted By malabo

The 139 was developed and marketed as a fully PC1...

The 139 was developed and marketed as a fully PC1 aircraft, including procedures and profiles to deal with that dreaded single engine failure.
On approach, the profile will settle you in a high...
Forum: Rotorheads
6th Mar 2024, 02:12
Replies: 9
Views: 4,090
Posted By malabo

Floats inflated! Thumbs up to their installation,...

Floats inflated! Thumbs up to their installation, SOP, and pilot training.
Forum: Rotorheads
15th Feb 2024, 08:22
Replies: 148
Views: 26,452
Posted By malabo

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/dark-skies...

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/dark-skies-bad-weather-led-fatal-california-helicopter-107246498

I hate when the news media invokes night/weather as the cause of the crash. Operational...
Forum: Rotorheads
13th Feb 2024, 01:31
Replies: 148
Views: 26,452
Posted By malabo

Yep, pprune is a rough sandbox. LA basin has...

Yep, pprune is a rough sandbox.

LA basin has had its share of dead rich guys riding helicopters. Like 212man points out, where's the operational risk assessment and control on these type of...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Feb 2024, 14:10
Replies: 148
Views: 26,452
Posted By malabo

Pilot and "safety pilot", flying a VFR B4 through...

Pilot and "safety pilot", flying a VFR B4 through mountains, at night, in weather, with Nigerian bankers on board. Is this real or a Darcy Hoover novel?

"Flight-tracking data shows the helicopter...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Jan 2024, 16:30
Replies: 9
Views: 2,032
Posted By malabo

A few of us were in Somalia 30 years ago, on 212...

A few of us were in Somalia 30 years ago, on 212 and 412. SASless? If you went down you'd holler for help on the HF and if you were lucky the cavalry (Australian Special Forces) would hop in another...
Forum: Rotorheads
28th Aug 2023, 19:33
Replies: 190
Views: 51,684
Posted By malabo

We get myopic from the systems installed and our...

We get myopic from the systems installed and our subsequent training. Fire is only ever engine, occasionally electrical. We think we have lots of time to sort it out.

Was this a 135, does it have...
Forum: Rotorheads
3rd Apr 2023, 15:53
Replies: 13
Views: 3,326
Posted By malabo

You're flying an armoured Apache, all suited and...

You're flying an armoured Apache, all suited and helmeted, ready to die in service to your nation, and you crap your pants because someone shot an air rifle at you? Better stay away from the civilian...
Forum: Rotorheads
16th Feb 2023, 20:53
Replies: 2,047
Views: 1,308,086
Posted By malabo

Why in this thread? No relation to the fatal...

Why in this thread? No relation to the fatal incident from years ago.
Though perhaps an AAIB investigation would actually find something since it would be independent of the local Irish SAR politics.
Forum: Rotorheads
21st Nov 2020, 04:12
Replies: 39
Views: 17,305
Posted By malabo

20 years ago we were costing the A++ at $1100/hr...

20 years ago we were costing the A++ at $1100/hr when bidding contracts, but they were the old phase 2 and didn't have the expensive bits of the C++ like DECU, EFIS, IIDS, FDC.
Helicopters seem to...
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