Fareast.
 

You sound a little biased, which is fine.

However to suggest that power and power alone is what will "make my day", is wrong and factually wrong.

What are the “killers” in the Oil and Gas Industry?

Your suggestion that more power, or in other words, some type of Performance Class 1 with Category A is a misconception in Offshore Operations.

Neither will work, in fact would not ever be accepted after the necessary Safety Case has been applied.

So the point your making is now a little less convincing.

Little hassles such as:

• Mid Air Collisions
• CFIT
• Contact with Fixed Obstructions

all cause more accidents and kill more people than some power related excursion.

Particularly if you the pilot, don’t load the aircraft above OEI limits

What a revelation.

C++ in Tullamarine?
 

JP, you quote
"The C++ will arrive in Melbourne Tullamarine on Saturday, then to Tooradin for a few days configuration work. After that, it will be going to YPKA"
Has the aircraft arrived?
The boys are going to be busy with a C of A to get it ready for a trip to YPKA in a "few days", or is it going to operated on the "N" register?

I heard a rumor that it will be on the N register and flown by an American crew for the time being, with the intention of putting it through the process to get it on the VH register and flown by Australian crews.

What I'm unsure about is whether an Australian crew, without FAA licenses, can do training in an N-registered aircraft in Australian airspace. Perhaps they will need FAA student pilot licenses? I'm also not sure whether those coming here to fly it with FAA licenses, need those licenses validated by CASA before carrying passengers for hire, or even just for ferrying it.

Being completely out of touch as I am with the rules in this regard, perhaps someone far more enlightened can elaborate.

Drop Lead

The aircraft is in Melbourne.

Being just a line pilot, I am not included on the discussions on how it will be operated in the short term although I would imagine that it will be on the N Register. There are some Australian and US licensed C++ pilots who may be available but that is management's issue not mine.

From our company point of view, I am happy to see it here.

I'm CASA and FAA ATPL'd with S76A/C/C+ and I'm available, so I suppose I'd better make the call....

Where is it now?
 

Any of you Jayrow folks know where the new airframe is now? Still down south or has it departed for the NW?

It arrived on a cargo jet on the weekend and is now being assembled at the Jayrow base in Melbourne.

Arriel 2
 

Hi All,

Sorry to change the subject a little but I wonder how many on the engineers there are licenced on the Arriel 2 engine?

It's quite different to an Arriel 1 and of course FADEC....

Do CASA still give away ARRIEL SERIES licences which include both 1 & 2 ???

They certainly don't where I'm working now.....

The aircraft is a step up, shed loads of power (in comparison) for the pilots and no more torque splits to try to tune out for the engineers!!!:ok:

Has anyone got any piccies of these 'new' machines in action?

IIDS
 

Stay tuned, latest and greatest IIDS soon to be delivered from the factory! S/N 687 should leave here with the latest software...correcting a few of the bugs around since '05. All interchangeable with the C+ machines too! And then of course the new Thales cockpit to grace the D model.....

OCTANE100, yep, CASA still have the group licences for the ARRIEL series , i've done a Arriel 2 differances and a RR(Allison) 250 C-40/47 differances course but CASA don't require the courses same with the CT7 Series the old -2A in the 214ST and the FADEC -8A in the S-92 all covered in the "Series", will be interesting to see if they seperate the "Makila series "when the EC 225's come in with Makila 2's in them.

S-76C++
 

N512WC owned, operated and crewed by Era Helicopters, LLC. We have several in our fleet.

Thanks Blackhawk,
A little suprising the differences course is not mandatory really....
I have been forced to do three Arriel courses so far to cover the variants here, bloody silly really. It should only be a differences course of a few days at most.
Great to see some newer machinery getting into AUS:ok:

Octane 100,

You might find that the engineers are N registered as well

The C++ leaves for YPKA today.

What's its routing, is it going to swing through Perth?

Why go through Perth? You just turn right at Kalgoorlie.:)

Do Jayrow still operate the C++?

No, they didn't pay the lease and it was confiscated by the owners and leased to a company in Indonesia (Nyaman / Regional Group) for an offshore project for Marathon Oil.

Only Bristow has C++s in Australia now.