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Heli Challenge 2010
HELI CHALLENGE is BACK for 2010
Heli Challenge 2010 is Ireland’s premier helicopter event.
Heli Challenge 2010 invites Helicopter Pilots, both Private and Professional to compete in a series of challenges designed to test the ability of the pilot to fly their aircraft to achieve specific tasks and to test the pilot and co-pilots ability to work as a team.
Running over the weekend of 17th & 18th July 2010 at Enniskillen Airport in the spectacular surroundings of the Fermanagh Lakelands, Heli Challenge promises to be a fantastic aviation weekend for both competitors and spectators alike.
Each day over the weekend sees 30 plus competing teams tackling 6 challenging events.
Heli Challenge 2010 is open to all Helicopter Pilots with or without their own aircraft. The event is open to both competing helicopters and visiting helicopters.
Visit the Heli Challenge Website Today
www.helichallenge2010.com
Heli Challenge 2010 is Ireland’s premier helicopter event.
Heli Challenge 2010 invites Helicopter Pilots, both Private and Professional to compete in a series of challenges designed to test the ability of the pilot to fly their aircraft to achieve specific tasks and to test the pilot and co-pilots ability to work as a team.
Running over the weekend of 17th & 18th July 2010 at Enniskillen Airport in the spectacular surroundings of the Fermanagh Lakelands, Heli Challenge promises to be a fantastic aviation weekend for both competitors and spectators alike.
Each day over the weekend sees 30 plus competing teams tackling 6 challenging events.
Heli Challenge 2010 is open to all Helicopter Pilots with or without their own aircraft. The event is open to both competing helicopters and visiting helicopters.
Visit the Heli Challenge Website Today
www.helichallenge2010.com
I've heard about this event for a long time, but never really looked into the matter, so I was wondering:
Is this a UK thing, as I've not seen it anywhere else, and what sort of pilots participate? From the last videoclip, it seems to be somewhat of a flying-club event, chaos!? (people with and without hiwiz running about, planes and helicopters all over the place/directions)
What is the point? Big bucks? Big trofe for the fireplace and discuss the day's hard work and excellent performance over a cup of tea? or instead of a Big ....?
Not really v-ref longline standards... (but I probably missed the point)
Is this a UK thing, as I've not seen it anywhere else, and what sort of pilots participate? From the last videoclip, it seems to be somewhat of a flying-club event, chaos!? (people with and without hiwiz running about, planes and helicopters all over the place/directions)
What is the point? Big bucks? Big trofe for the fireplace and discuss the day's hard work and excellent performance over a cup of tea? or instead of a Big ....?
Not really v-ref longline standards... (but I probably missed the point)
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Nubian
1) The Event has pilots from the UK & Ireland, but is open to pilots from anywhere who wish to compete.
2) You have not seen this event anywhere else, since it is a unique approach to helicopter competitive events, which is staged in Ireland only.
Other helicopter competitions exist in europe, but adopt different rules and regulations to Heli Challenge.
3) The pilots who take part in the event range from new PPL's with less than 100hrs to ATPL's/CPL's/FI &FE with 5000hrs plus.
4) It is organised by Helicopter Pilots for Helicopter Pilots.
5) From the photographs I am looking at, all personnel working on the event, working airside have Hi Viz Vests On.
6) Fixed wing aircraft do not fly during the active sessions of the competition, only after the competition has ended or where the fixed wing has declared an emergency situation and must land.
Helicopters flying in the event during active sessions fly in a fixed
one way flow pattern, this pattern is set based upon the wind direction on the day.
7) The point is;
Its a gathering of helicopter pilots, both young and old, experienced pilots and fresh PPL's coming together to have a weekend of fun, doing what they enjoy, flying helicopters!!!
It is all about meeting new people, from all over, swapping stories and experiences and making new contacts and friends.
It is a competition that tests the pilot in ways they have not been tested since they did their PPL. Skills that may have been forgotten have to be renewed and refreshed to compete.
8) The prize and the rewards;
The prize is the Heli Challenge Trophy
The reward is having a weekend full of craic!!!
9) Nubian has missed the point
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[For Nubian's benefit]
"CRAIC" is an Irish colloquialism for "having a fun enjoyable time with friends"
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1) The Event has pilots from the UK & Ireland, but is open to pilots from anywhere who wish to compete.
2) You have not seen this event anywhere else, since it is a unique approach to helicopter competitive events, which is staged in Ireland only.
Other helicopter competitions exist in europe, but adopt different rules and regulations to Heli Challenge.
3) The pilots who take part in the event range from new PPL's with less than 100hrs to ATPL's/CPL's/FI &FE with 5000hrs plus.
4) It is organised by Helicopter Pilots for Helicopter Pilots.
5) From the photographs I am looking at, all personnel working on the event, working airside have Hi Viz Vests On.
6) Fixed wing aircraft do not fly during the active sessions of the competition, only after the competition has ended or where the fixed wing has declared an emergency situation and must land.
Helicopters flying in the event during active sessions fly in a fixed
one way flow pattern, this pattern is set based upon the wind direction on the day.
7) The point is;
Its a gathering of helicopter pilots, both young and old, experienced pilots and fresh PPL's coming together to have a weekend of fun, doing what they enjoy, flying helicopters!!!
It is all about meeting new people, from all over, swapping stories and experiences and making new contacts and friends.
It is a competition that tests the pilot in ways they have not been tested since they did their PPL. Skills that may have been forgotten have to be renewed and refreshed to compete.
8) The prize and the rewards;
The prize is the Heli Challenge Trophy
The reward is having a weekend full of craic!!!
9) Nubian has missed the point
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[For Nubian's benefit]
"CRAIC" is an Irish colloquialism for "having a fun enjoyable time with friends"
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Looks like a weekend full of danger to me. Nubian's choice of the word "chaos" seems appropiate especially to that last video, but it must have been good fun to watch - from a distance !
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It is a challenge!!
Looks like HeliPilotNI has challenged Claudia to go to Ireland in the summer and show those men in the pictures how it should be done!!!
Come on Claudia....prove to all the men that a ladies team would eat them for breakfast!!!!
Redwolf.
Come on Claudia....prove to all the men that a ladies team would eat them for breakfast!!!!
Redwolf.
HeliPilotNIre,
Ok, so my assumptions was right then, an Uk/Irish thing where all is about ''taking the piss'' and not a matter of flying performance. (so why not start drinking earlier, and 'handfly' the moves aroud the table and save a bunch in expensive fuel)
Now, why was that last video removed?? The other clips are nothing exciting, only average-to-below rookie longline-precision standard.
As for non production-longline work or practise for such, why would all these pilots like to spend that much time inside the H/V curve without something real to do??
Ok, so my assumptions was right then, an Uk/Irish thing where all is about ''taking the piss'' and not a matter of flying performance. (so why not start drinking earlier, and 'handfly' the moves aroud the table and save a bunch in expensive fuel)
Now, why was that last video removed?? The other clips are nothing exciting, only average-to-below rookie longline-precision standard.
As for non production-longline work or practise for such, why would all these pilots like to spend that much time inside the H/V curve without something real to do??
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Johnhannon, maybe you could tell us why you removed that last video ? It would have been interesting to hear the thoughts of some of the very experienced pilots who post here, very interesting. - had they got a chance to see it.
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bravo73, I think the joke is on JH not me. It was he who posted the video and removed it immediately after Nubian and i posted and before anyone else had the chance to comment.