Surf Rescue
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Surf Rescue
Follow this link for a well, I will let the masses decide on this rescue....
http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1148814904/Boat_VS_Wave
http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1148814904/Boat_VS_Wave
That exemplifies why Helicopter Pilots are "different". Occasionally, one has the chance to make a difference in someone else's life.
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Flungdung, I wish you were right! The Gold Coast still has an elderly AS 350 without floats that spends most of its time below 200 ft over the sea & has gone 30 miles out to sea. Being "aerial work", CASA doesn't require floats. But at least it has a winch, static line & crewmen.
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hey Nigel
some one up there should have a chat to mr beattie, that or a choice letter stating the required machine upgrades that his southern brothers and sisters enjoy. Being a NSWelshman and now a Victorian (dont hold it against me for the latter) i cant remember the last time i saw a squirrel being used for rescue. and to top it off one without pop out floats.
feel sorry for the crews.
some one up there should have a chat to mr beattie, that or a choice letter stating the required machine upgrades that his southern brothers and sisters enjoy. Being a NSWelshman and now a Victorian (dont hold it against me for the latter) i cant remember the last time i saw a squirrel being used for rescue. and to top it off one without pop out floats.
feel sorry for the crews.
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Flungdung
You've been out of Oz too long to remember the distances! You are right about those machines but they don't do surf patrols at a max height of 200 ft behind the surf well out of beach auto range & on one occasion 30 miles out to sea because the Lismore machine declined to go. The SLSQ machine is still a non float equipped 350 & will remain so despite the other machines you mention.
You've been out of Oz too long to remember the distances! You are right about those machines but they don't do surf patrols at a max height of 200 ft behind the surf well out of beach auto range & on one occasion 30 miles out to sea because the Lismore machine declined to go. The SLSQ machine is still a non float equipped 350 & will remain so despite the other machines you mention.
