I always marvel at these wonderful photos and then reflect on how totally unforgiving this environment is if the weather goes bad or the mechanicals have an off day.
Does one always have a plan B and a Plan C?

Air-Truck or Air-Bus
 

G'day Etudiant....thank You Sir. Unforgiving, that it is; any & all flying is, with a sprinkling of extra added masala when up in the mountains ;) As for an plan B/C/D, sometimes yes, but some extreme missions.....afraid not :ooh:

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Thank you for sharing your so impressively beautiful pictures Vertical Freedom, I'm sure I'm not the only one that you make feel jealous!

Again, did you ever think to compile them and publish a book?

LePeelot
 

G'day Cpt....thanks for Your kind words. & yes, just need a bitta help with that :)

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Moontane Weather
 

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:yuk:

Great to have you back on site VF!
The weather looks challenging - have you ever over nighted away from home because of it?

FWIW: on publishing a photo book there are several options you could pursue that are rather easy. Some options offer marketing links to sell them through Amazon or other book venues. I've done several books through my Flickr Pro account that ended with great results. Google "create photo book" for a list of providers from small to large like Shutterfly, Snapfish, Mixbook, Blurb, etc. With your volume of pics I would say a series of books would be excellent path to take....

Keep them shoes clean Kid
 

Morning Decredenz...... certainly is! Night halted out due weather; more often than I can count he fingers on my 5 arms & toes on my 3 legs :bored:

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Clouds, clouds begone will ya
 

G'day Wrench1.....thanks kindly for that! Will explore into those suggestions, Cheers :ok:

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Crikey Mate
 

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Who's Your Mate....
 

Pick me, pick me ........I'm Your Bestest Buddy ;)

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Sniffing some clean air Man -O2 :eek:
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Just before the Hillary step, on the South Col, Sagarmatha (AKA Everest) :}

Get it Right.....or You'll die tryin'
 

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Ow SheetMan.......still that much to GO!
 

I can't feel me toes.....my head hurts.......lungs are burning & I paid a ton of money to be here :{
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Looking at the Hilary steps................ :mad:

Hi.
Are you Climbing the monster?Greetings from Colombia

Nepal
 

Hi VF, I hope you are well, are you undertaking any covid 19 flights in your area, or are you you sufficiently insulated from the general populace?

Like many others I am missing your input and lovely photos.

Keep safe
T18

Whatever happened to Vertical Freedom? Is he still flying?

Last post was in 2020, truly miss his scenic tour of Nepal and Mount Everest

Another who misses his scenic tour of places I'll never get to see, it's great we get to appreciate his world. Hope all is OK and he is still flying.

I certainly hope he is OK. His great pictures just stopped suggesting something dramatic happened?

Over eighteen months since we heard last from him.

He ran afoul of the mods/admins over some of the content he was posting, and he decided to walk away rather than battle them. Thats how it went down. Not too dramatic.

I found his posts and photos fantastic and looked forward to them.
All the best to Vertical Freedom wherever you are.

Last I heard, he was back in Oz but that was some time ago.

I think he posts as Rotors99 on the ozzy rotary forum website

I previously had him on FB, but now it seems has has gone offline on all platforms.

Last I heard he was working for Robinson as a sales rep…

A pilot who can land a chopper above 20,000' in such conditions would be unlikely to slow down as he passed the Robinson saleyard. But with a name of EMS R22, I suspect he is having a larf.

Great shame, I guess we all looked forward to his photos. Spectacular.

NEO

:D:E:E

Covid a major impact on tourism especially in places like Nepal. I spend a lot of time in SE Asia and am only now returning to spend six months there.My research has tracked him down to Darwin but it may be out of date. His pictures were spectacular to say the least and certainly worthy of a book to illustrate that environment day to day. He is certainly missed on Pprune. In terms of his falling foul of the mods I find that hard to believe as these sites need content to survive.

You may find it hard to believe, but it is true. Everyone who was there at the time knows. I think the mods felt that he was pushing an agenda with posts that had nothing to do with helicopters or aviation. They gave him a hard time about it, and he said, "who needs this?" and walked.

I have seen popular discussion sites fold in the past through over moderation. To quote English author Evelyn Beatrice Hall from 1906 but often attributed to Voltaire.“I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Whatever you may think of Vertical Freedom he brought some great pictures to this otherwise mundane corner of Pprune.

“Mundane corner”?

Oi, we resemble that comment. 🤣

It was a tongue in cheek remark👍

I think it was the covid propaganda that did it!

Each to their own!!

I’m another that miss his posts. Always enjoyed his story.

Yep, can confirm no longer on WhatsApp - even after he moved back to OZ.

He and his missus took great care of us and our three young kids when we went to Nepal trekking for 10 weeks.

For that I’m always grateful. Great pics on here too!

Damn, I miss VF, especially when I come across an Everest documentary. Hope he & his family are well.

Thank you so much for your amazing pictures! I flew in Nepal Airlines from Mid 2018 to end 2020... every flight was wonderful and every day magical... yes there were a lot of issues with administration and salaries... still pending after a year ... but I look back at the experience and thank the stars I could finish my flying career in Nepal... love the pilots especially the first officers and cabin crew I flew with and am still in touch with them.. I might add a few of my own pictures later... still sorting out my life post retirement.

You can find him at @FreedomVertical on twitter. Big into flat earth conspiracy these days apart from other interests.
Loved his photos but sometimes mods know what they are doing.

That's a shame, but I can't say that I'm too surprised.