Leaving helicopter unatended?

[InducedDrag]

Check out this..... It will call up to 3 numbers from a built in cell transmitter. Also have vibration sensor and gps transmitter.

http://www.dewalt.com/us/security/mobilelock/

[500e]

With the landing costs at some hotels, I would have thought that an armed guard was included

I have a rape alarm with the trigger that is operated by a thin string looped around door handles very loud and has deterred a curious geek I heard it 100Yds away at a sort of fly in.
There are all sorts of Phone operated alarms made for vehicles, costly but do have voltage free switching outputs.
If you are interested PM me
Remember Cellphone cover is not universal.

[docstone]

Thanks all - for UK/European use so needs to be GSM, ideally battery powered so no wiring into the ship please

[Gaseous]

If you go GSM pick your network carefully. I have a t-mobile tracker/alarm which is next to useless at most of the places I go - maybe thats just the places I go though. I have an Orange mobile which has much better coverage.

[aeromys]

Don't know what your budget or requirements are, but the Sentor posts may be suitable?

[Flying Bull]

Hi,
if not multilangual - use the translationfunction of the web ;-)
i.e. http://www.yatego.com/spezialhandys/...haus-auto-boot
or
http://www.detektei-schutzdienst-sho...o=p615_xx.html
there are more out there in the www

Greetings Flying Bull

[ShyTorque]

Chaps/chapesses - anyone know or have experience of a device to leave in the ship overnight to detect and warn off nefarious intruders - thinking of a motion sensor, siren and link to a mobile phone via SMS for example, powered by internal battery?

Do you mean you don't sleep in the aircraft like the rest of us do?

[Whirlygig]

A python wrapped round the cyclic and collective should do the trick!

Cheers

Whirls

[ShyTorque]

Some of us have to fly like that....

[Whirlygig]

You mean you fly whilst wrapped around the collective and cyclic???

Cheers

Whirls

[docstone]

Thanks all - glad humour lives in these threads. I suspect there is a need for this sort of a product given no one has shown a product that seems to do the trick for aviators. Small, light, solid, easy to use and doesn't require being fed live mice whilst wrapped around the controls - PIR, siren to scare the living s**t out of anyone who comes looking for avionics, locking cable to wrap around something solid, strobe light, feeding bowl for the python perhaps, pillow on which to rest head......

[500e]

Bowl for python is a little excessive remember they only need to feed at infrequent intervals , and just my luck the we would feed the day before the low life made off with the avionics.
Doc
What was it your ex did with leather ?

[docstone]

Still the present Mrs Doc, we both know which side our bread is buttered

[mickjoebill]

On a South Africa trip recently we used a dual strand portable electric fence to keep the hyenas at bay from chewing our camera cables.

Powered by a small battery, a clever solution.
But it didn't stop monkeys crapping on the canopy, directly above the pilot seat!

I suspect that an electric fence would be a challenge rather than a deterant to the inebriated.


Mickjoebill

[normalbloke]

Was the battery not disconnected in the nose of the 206?

[Flying Bull]

You haven't translated
http://www.yatego.com/spezialhandys/...haus-auto-boot
have you?
checks for movements, external sensor possible, own battery, you can check bat-level and change levels of trigger and can listen in, what is going on.
Greetings flying Bull

For uk a little bit different i.e.
http://www.mobilarm.co.uk/prod.html
or look here
http://www.gsm-alarm.de/cms/index.php?id=5
or use google ;-)

[docstone]

Thanks, yes had found these...but they all look a bit sticky back plastic, last 3 weeks then let you down...or ill suited to sitting in a plane overnight

[Jackboot]

Drunken revellers

I must say that the lovely Nicky and I had a sleepless night at one of our favourite hotels - Eastwell Manor near Faversham, Kent - on a Saturday night a while back.

We were worried about the thing getting caught up in some drunken stupidity as the large wedding party progressed into the wee hours.

Not a bit of it though. Lots of drunken revelry ( how the hell do you spell that word?!) but nowhere near the flying machine.

This thread has provoked a great deal of thought about doing it again though. Might be worth asking a hotel if their security cameras cover the helipad and...ahem.. indicate that there will be a nice tip in the morning in return for extra special attention to the monitors.

Great thread.

Jack