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Does anyone have any pictures. I was probably one of the only pilots in Ireland not to fly into it. Would be interested to see any pics anyone has. Dissappointed by CVR, no photos. Tut Tut, not like you.
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I think the operation as a whole was a success. I have to admit, I wasn't sure how it would go and I didn't have much faith in the plan, but it seemed to work okay. Not sure on exact numbers of movements yet but think it was less than expected.
Well done to everyone involved
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Yes I heard (rumour) twas a G-reg suffering from a lack of fuel. Thanks for the pic vertical....the ground does not seem to have been prepared...considering all the VIPs, would have thought the grass could have been cut, just referring back to the Irish Indo it said over 3,000 movements, wow they must have been busy, that wipes Galway...helipolarbear were you 'rydering' at the weekend? any comments?
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Photos Coutesy of Helipilot.ie, thanks Colm.
Pictures of the Heli site at the K-Club. Thanks to Colm "the best pilot ever".
The worlds best S76 'Pilot'.
The worlds best S76 'Pilot'.
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Colm, you look very focused flying there, at first i thought it was a pose for the camera man but on closer inspection it looks like you took the photo yourself! co pilots headset hanging up and all!!
What a poser!!
great photos, any more?
W.
vertical, its the worlds best 76pilot talking to the worlds best Black Hawk pilot there.
its helipolarbear telling me i need a haircut,
hence the ear plugs. . .
What a poser!!
great photos, any more?
W.
vertical, its the worlds best 76pilot talking to the worlds best Black Hawk pilot there.
its helipolarbear telling me i need a haircut,
hence the ear plugs. . .
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The best 76 pilot, does he fly the N reg 76 in the background of one of the photos?
Whatsarunaway,
Hi Lou from the guy who left their business card on your windscreen at Galway.
FNW
Whatsarunaway,
Hi Lou from the guy who left their business card on your windscreen at Galway.
FNW
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The brutally hansome guy on the left talking to the ugly long haired female (Best 76 Pilot) with the ear plugs is indeed Lou! Took some practice to align the receeding hairline!
FNW....Howdee! Must say, that despite the chaotic planning, the event went very well with all concerned, and I include Dub ATC. Hope it's a watershed for future heliops around the Dublin/Kildare area.
Great photo's Colm......for a Leprachaun you look and fly mighty!
Whatsarunaway.....Rydering and rogering....................great weekend!
FNW....Howdee! Must say, that despite the chaotic planning, the event went very well with all concerned, and I include Dub ATC. Hope it's a watershed for future heliops around the Dublin/Kildare area.
Great photo's Colm......for a Leprachaun you look and fly mighty!
Whatsarunaway.....Rydering and rogering....................great weekend!
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Don't recall anyone holding. The traffic flow seemed well spaced. Maybe it's down to good controlling and of course good airmanship! Galway versus Ryder..don't think you can compare. Horses on the course slowed everything down and hold time was predictable, where as the golfing continued despite the audible drone and beat of the heli's as heard on SKY SPORTS 1 !!
And, yes, I'm jealous of your long flowing locks! However, they must not allow your ears full protection with the headset! You'll be deaf before your 40!!
And, yes, I'm jealous of your long flowing locks! However, they must not allow your ears full protection with the headset! You'll be deaf before your 40!!
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The Guardian Monday September 25, 2006
Ryder Cup, day three
A squelch of ker-ching amid the céad míle fáiltes
Marina Hyde at the K Club
Monday September 25, 2006
The Guardian
"Actually," the marshal on the 1st tee was gamely insisting to some spectators just visible through yesterday morning's driving rain, "Tiger really doesn't mind it like this." At last, the definitive riposte to those tired old stereotypes about blarney. You had to think if anything could possibly put the icing on Woods's weekend, it was the chance to play through another Irish downpour.
With the Irish Tourist Board keen to live up to its arguably optimistic judgment that the Ryder Cup would bring a £90m boost for the country's economy, it seems reasonable to suspect that somewhere in a secure operations room at the K Club, one of their employees spent much of last week engaged in a reverse rain dance. Certainly, the weather required those keen to put the best possible spin on the event to dig deep in the euphemism drawer, with descriptions of the County Kildare climate ranging from a "distinctly Irish" to "Irish tropical", the latter being the preferred way to characterise the week's alternating downpours and bursts of radiant sunshine.
Article continues
Unfortunately, there are those who believe that each time the cameras captured Woods glowering through the watery stair rods, one potential tourist watching back home in Texas decided it will be La Manga again this year after all.
Even Padraig Harrington, who features in the advertisements for Fáilte Ireland, wandered off message on occasion. Asked what was distinctively Irish about this year's tournament, the board's official ambassador allowed himself a wry pause before declaring: "I would say the weather."
Indeed, though the Europeans pulled another one ahead in the Ryder Cup arms race yesterday, the tournament's curtain-raising shot came courtesy of the space race, in the form of the returning shuttle Atlantis's image of Hurricane Gordon circling the Irish coast. The Irish Tourist Board's reaction to the impression that the course was beset by a weather front genuinely visible from space is, alas, not recorded.
Instead, no opportunity was lost over the past few days to give a run out to "Let's Play", their official catchphrase. "Visit the site of a classic American defeat" was presumably judged to verge on the downbeat.
Perhaps the most worrying threat to this imagined transatlantic goldrush, however, is the distinct impression that has gathered in some Americans during the tournament that Ireland has forgotten the very classless warm welcome which has traditionally caused their countryfolk to romanticise the isle. It comes to something when the Boston Globe - a paper based in an US city not exactly known for its antipathy towards Ireland - has expended column inches muttering darkly of "price gouging" at the expense of the modest fan.
"As proud as the Irish are to have the event," read an editorial, "it has for some come to be something of a withering commentary on modern Ireland, where money trumps tradition, where big is always better, and where the punter, with only the price of a few drinks in his pocket, gets screwed."
The fact that 600 helicopter shuttles to Dublin have operated every day of the tournament has fostered the vague sense of elitism, as has a particularly unhelpful intervention by Arnold Palmer, who designed the K Club course on which this year's event was played. When asked by US television network NBC to single out a golden moment from this year's Ryder Cup, Palmer cited the chopper operation as a triumph of organisation, which in terms of self-awareness must be the golfing equivalent of the cake-based plan to address the Paris food shortage which is often attributed to Marie Antoinette.
Back on the ground, one American couple making their way out of the K Club yesterday afternoon were unwilling to commit to a sharpish return visit. "We love the country," declared Ed Shaunessy, "but we're not so keen on the hotel bills." The Shaunessys will be flying back to Boston tomorrow morning, and if they chance to be doing so with Aer Lingus, they may find an unexpectedly sympathetic ear in the form of a column by the editor of the airline's current in-flight magazine.
"Some may be concerned," writes Lizzie Gore Grimes, "that we Irish, famed for the warmth of our céad míle fáilte [one hundred thousand welcomes] are losing sight of the fáilte and are firmly shifting focus to the céad míle - ka-ching, ka-ching."
Still, even if the recent predictions of those Cassandras at the Anderson Economic Group come true, and the 2006 Ryder Cup brings only a third of the projected £90m, this week has offered a reminder that there are some things money can't buy. Irish rain, for instance, remains dependably free.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/rydercup...880304,00.html
A squelch of ker-ching amid the céad míle fáiltes
Marina Hyde at the K Club
Monday September 25, 2006
The Guardian
"Actually," the marshal on the 1st tee was gamely insisting to some spectators just visible through yesterday morning's driving rain, "Tiger really doesn't mind it like this." At last, the definitive riposte to those tired old stereotypes about blarney. You had to think if anything could possibly put the icing on Woods's weekend, it was the chance to play through another Irish downpour.
With the Irish Tourist Board keen to live up to its arguably optimistic judgment that the Ryder Cup would bring a £90m boost for the country's economy, it seems reasonable to suspect that somewhere in a secure operations room at the K Club, one of their employees spent much of last week engaged in a reverse rain dance. Certainly, the weather required those keen to put the best possible spin on the event to dig deep in the euphemism drawer, with descriptions of the County Kildare climate ranging from a "distinctly Irish" to "Irish tropical", the latter being the preferred way to characterise the week's alternating downpours and bursts of radiant sunshine.
Article continues
Unfortunately, there are those who believe that each time the cameras captured Woods glowering through the watery stair rods, one potential tourist watching back home in Texas decided it will be La Manga again this year after all.
Even Padraig Harrington, who features in the advertisements for Fáilte Ireland, wandered off message on occasion. Asked what was distinctively Irish about this year's tournament, the board's official ambassador allowed himself a wry pause before declaring: "I would say the weather."
Indeed, though the Europeans pulled another one ahead in the Ryder Cup arms race yesterday, the tournament's curtain-raising shot came courtesy of the space race, in the form of the returning shuttle Atlantis's image of Hurricane Gordon circling the Irish coast. The Irish Tourist Board's reaction to the impression that the course was beset by a weather front genuinely visible from space is, alas, not recorded.
Instead, no opportunity was lost over the past few days to give a run out to "Let's Play", their official catchphrase. "Visit the site of a classic American defeat" was presumably judged to verge on the downbeat.
Perhaps the most worrying threat to this imagined transatlantic goldrush, however, is the distinct impression that has gathered in some Americans during the tournament that Ireland has forgotten the very classless warm welcome which has traditionally caused their countryfolk to romanticise the isle. It comes to something when the Boston Globe - a paper based in an US city not exactly known for its antipathy towards Ireland - has expended column inches muttering darkly of "price gouging" at the expense of the modest fan.
"As proud as the Irish are to have the event," read an editorial, "it has for some come to be something of a withering commentary on modern Ireland, where money trumps tradition, where big is always better, and where the punter, with only the price of a few drinks in his pocket, gets screwed."
The fact that 600 helicopter shuttles to Dublin have operated every day of the tournament has fostered the vague sense of elitism, as has a particularly unhelpful intervention by Arnold Palmer, who designed the K Club course on which this year's event was played. When asked by US television network NBC to single out a golden moment from this year's Ryder Cup, Palmer cited the chopper operation as a triumph of organisation, which in terms of self-awareness must be the golfing equivalent of the cake-based plan to address the Paris food shortage which is often attributed to Marie Antoinette.
Back on the ground, one American couple making their way out of the K Club yesterday afternoon were unwilling to commit to a sharpish return visit. "We love the country," declared Ed Shaunessy, "but we're not so keen on the hotel bills." The Shaunessys will be flying back to Boston tomorrow morning, and if they chance to be doing so with Aer Lingus, they may find an unexpectedly sympathetic ear in the form of a column by the editor of the airline's current in-flight magazine.
"Some may be concerned," writes Lizzie Gore Grimes, "that we Irish, famed for the warmth of our céad míle fáilte [one hundred thousand welcomes] are losing sight of the fáilte and are firmly shifting focus to the céad míle - ka-ching, ka-ching."
Still, even if the recent predictions of those Cassandras at the Anderson Economic Group come true, and the 2006 Ryder Cup brings only a third of the projected £90m, this week has offered a reminder that there are some things money can't buy. Irish rain, for instance, remains dependably free.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/rydercup...880304,00.html
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Does anyone know what were the daily movements and total for the week was.
It seemed to go well. Thank God for the IAA controllers on their day off or were they?
It seemed to go well. Thank God for the IAA controllers on their day off or were they?
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Runwayedge,
I only heard the guy you are referring to once on the RT during a quiet period, the other 2 guys are fully qualified controllers. (as was outlined at the brief in Dublin)
Regards,
BC.
I only heard the guy you are referring to once on the RT during a quiet period, the other 2 guys are fully qualified controllers. (as was outlined at the brief in Dublin)
Regards,
BC.