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Hi `Punkah-wallah Sahib`VF,don`t eat too much Nyak cheese with Nyak( Gurkha) rum,unless you want a `lift` on take-off,and an underwear change.....

Hey sycamore

Roger that....WILCO :8 :zzz: :oh:

Land Happy always :ok:

Top of the World - WoW factor

Top of the World - OmOmOm

Top of the World - TR safely clear

These are fantastic pictures. A colleague of mine has done Everest (in fact he completed the Seven Summits last year). I can see why he loves this part of the world so much.

I hope everyone can appreciate the fuel management that goes into working in that environment. I go down to those levels when moving something heavy and fuel is right there but doing it when the fuel is far away is a very different exercise.

Top of the World - WoW factor

Namaste STANDTO

Tis indeedly an awesome place to fly (albeit very seriously challenging) & live :)
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G'day nuthin

Your right Brother, to achieve the lifts here often to fly back to my fuel stash can be 8-10mins away so often landing with 7 or 8usgals which at these ultra high altitudes is your 20 mins :eek: except when doing Rescues above 20,000' then I am landing with 35-40litres on gauge on the AS350B3+ which is about 12-15mins, but You gotta do that or You won't pick up the Patient :ooh: You need that eXtra leverage :=

Happy Landings :ok:

JetBox to the Rescue

departed VNLK 9,400' with 38usgals, weather crap :{ poor vis, low clouds, CB cells, hail the size of golf balls, fly to VNPL 8,077' picked up Patient (4 x PAX) then fly to VNKT 4,360' land with 9usgal (20mins) remaining :8 around 6,000' to 9,000' the JetBanger burns 27usgal per hour :E
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Kathmandu valley

Top of the World - coffee

Yikes a clear morning

Top of the World - details

the Old & the Bold ;) the Bold didn't make it @ VNLK lower Helipad :D

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As they say, "that'll buff out"!

Fantastic photo's VF. They bring back memories of a famine relief operation I flew during 1980 (Operation Khana Cascade)... RAF C130 airdrop of food and medical supplies.

Keep up your good work.

Ciao

TCF

Namaste VF

#1714 the first pic, is that morning haze:8 or afternoon haze due to the brick kilns??:eek:

Are those kilns somewhere in Lalitpur or BHaktapur district?

Any damages to the Jet Box due to hail?

Fly safe ....Om:ok:

Hey rjtjrt

haaar.....yar well they're still buffing :ouch: It is now a cosey place to camp at night for some transiting locals :hmm:
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Good morning TheChitterneFlyer

Thanks Brother...well done :ok: & I will do ;)
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Namaset gcpilot8

I's early morning :) & the kilns are in Bhaktapur area :( Yep some nose skins dimples from the hail & a crack in the sky-light perspex :ugh:no damage to blades :ooh:

Happy Landings :cool: