What's a helicopter good for?
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Hi John
Yes the snow has final gone.. .People are lying out on the beach with portable TV's <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0"> , waiting for the Super Bowl to start.
I lived in Melbourne for a couple of years. Whereabouts is Essendon?
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Yes the snow has final gone.. .People are lying out on the beach with portable TV's <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0"> , waiting for the Super Bowl to start.
I lived in Melbourne for a couple of years. Whereabouts is Essendon?
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"Yes the snow has final gone.. .People are lying out on the beach with portable TV's, waiting for the Super Bowl to start."
Sure they are <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0"> Son & heir returned last week from 7 weeks snowboarding in your town, had a ball
Essendon is the GA airport that is 5 miles from Tullamarine, you'd drive past it on the Freeway to get to Tulla. It used to be the "International" airport for Melbourne, before they built Tulla, and is now an essential GA overflow for the area. Air Ambulance, private business jets, GA and training, mostly.
Just switched on SBS for the Bowl, now no-one will get work done in this office <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
Sure they are <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0"> Son & heir returned last week from 7 weeks snowboarding in your town, had a ball
Essendon is the GA airport that is 5 miles from Tullamarine, you'd drive past it on the Freeway to get to Tulla. It used to be the "International" airport for Melbourne, before they built Tulla, and is now an essential GA overflow for the area. Air Ambulance, private business jets, GA and training, mostly.
Just switched on SBS for the Bowl, now no-one will get work done in this office <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
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Gator (and Girl) Hunting <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">
(Have to be careful not to blow the Girls 20 Feet or 6 inches when approaching, but give them 6 inches and 0 feet of room.... )
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Haven't done this myself, but heard of the helicopter acting as a survey target. Laser beam is set up vertically, box about 3 feet square mounted on nose. Box has cross hairs and display to pilot to show where laser beam is. Pilot (only 1 in 10 or so can do it) climbs vertically to ludicrous height over laser beam. Surveyors many miles away sight on box and get good position information.
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Similar to the laser concept, a helicopter slings cell equipment and hoists it 100 ft above a possible cell twr site and hovers for bout an hour while the guys on the grnd collect data.
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Shawn:
Most of the survey work for the James Bay Hydro-electric project was done that way. We used Allouette IIs with a fresnel lens. It was a blast.
Much like riding a bicycle, hovering a helicopter, vertical reference; once you get it figured out it is easy but until then it seems impossible. Not for a stick stirrer though.
We also had a type of "DME" on board which meant that you not only had to balance on the top of a pin but you had to the heading steady and wings reasonably level or you could be there a looonng time. Hey; we were paid by the hour. <img src="wink.gif" border="0"> Great job.
Most of the survey work for the James Bay Hydro-electric project was done that way. We used Allouette IIs with a fresnel lens. It was a blast.
Much like riding a bicycle, hovering a helicopter, vertical reference; once you get it figured out it is easy but until then it seems impossible. Not for a stick stirrer though.
We also had a type of "DME" on board which meant that you not only had to balance on the top of a pin but you had to the heading steady and wings reasonably level or you could be there a looonng time. Hey; we were paid by the hour. <img src="wink.gif" border="0"> Great job.
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Going into ground resonance in the immediate vicinity of a large group of mechanics drinking coffee outside of the hangar. Spraying lead balance shot at the retreating mechanics and hitting several of them with birdshot.
Several years later I had the assignment to fly in an HTL-1 from Miami to Brooklyn, NY. The pilot was the same one that had the incident described above. We landed at the facility to change an engine basket. As we taxied in, it was coffee break time and many of the lounging mechanics had been involved in the birdshot incident and when they saw who was in control of the Bell they all immediately dispersed. I asked several of them why they ran and they told me of their past experience with this pilot.
This same pilot landed a PBY a few feet low as he passed over the sea wall at the St. Petersburg, Florida airport and took off the main landing gear.
Several years later I had the assignment to fly in an HTL-1 from Miami to Brooklyn, NY. The pilot was the same one that had the incident described above. We landed at the facility to change an engine basket. As we taxied in, it was coffee break time and many of the lounging mechanics had been involved in the birdshot incident and when they saw who was in control of the Bell they all immediately dispersed. I asked several of them why they ran and they told me of their past experience with this pilot.
This same pilot landed a PBY a few feet low as he passed over the sea wall at the St. Petersburg, Florida airport and took off the main landing gear.
