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Old 12th Nov 2013, 20:31
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Just as a matter of interest how many hours do you fly in an average week?
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Hey Steve - that is a great pic. Do you get to keep it? :-)
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Hey nomorehelosforme

Depends on the season but 20 to 30 hours

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Hmmm wish, but one of our Engineers claimed him, I was just the livestock transportation driver

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Hey VF

Must be busy hauling the ballot boxes for the recent election? or were the private helicopter companies left out giving the exclusive rights to Nepal Army birds?
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Hey VF!
Just for info, our company has very good experience with the new composite tail rotor blades for the Jetbox. we operate a fleet of 10 BH06 and 3 machines have the new one´s. ( Van Horn Aviation )
All pilots are really impressed from the " power plus" and the coolness of the blades operating in bad wind conditions.
Perhaps an option for your company to pimp up your Bell!
Greetings from germany.
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Any chance you can post some new pictures VF?
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Om Bellrider hehe I wish !!! yar I would love to have them VH blades - simply more Uummff

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Hey gcpilot8 the Army birds didn't get invloved? Only the Civi birds flew.....stacks of hrs!

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Manang Gaon 11,452' @ 14ºC Rescue - 3 x PAX + 30kg Cargo + 40usgal GoJuice
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When you are collecting an emergency Pax for hospital etc how do you cope with the amount of friends and family that might insist travelling with the pax?
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Hey nomorehelosforme

That's easy = 4 seats, or 5 or 6, that's how many go, no questions, no discussion, no arguments, end of story

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VF: I see in a lot of your pictures that you set down your machine awfully close to those edges. Is that just a precaution so no one walks into the tail or because of terrain restrictions behind the perspective of the camera? Or perhaps just random conincidence?

Wish I had those ledges when each village I land in mobilizes a mob of 500 in anticipation of seeing an assumed helicopter crash first hand
Rotorbreaks wear out rather quick around here...
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