Bell 412 - Gold Coast, Australia

http://www.careflight.com.au/photos/gallery/c.jpg

This topic is great!
 

I took all these pictures while on a recent trip in which I flew for MTV's shows Road Rules, The Real World and The Inferno, one of the jobs was to drop some fake money from low altitude all over a Golf Course and have the contestants collect some of it, over all it was al lot of fun, the location was the Grand Bay hotel in Barra de Navidad in the Pacific.

This is a small colonial city on the way there.
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/guanajuato.jpg

This small volcano is called Paricutin and is still active
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/paricutin.jpg

After the eruption of the volcano in the previous picture the only thing left of the town was this stone church, and now its all surrounded by hardened lava.
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/uruapan.jpg

Lots of warm beaches
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/barra.jpg

Cruise Ship in Manzanillo
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/carnival.jpg

The hotel where all was taking place
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/grandbay.jpg

This is a picture of the contest, you can see the contestants running for the money and the camera men chasing all over in the blazing heat
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/mtv.jpg

This is right before we took off
http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PPRuNe/scwdrops.jpg

A few pics from a fire in north west Victoria, Australia last week. In the last pic note the ground speed on the GPS of 83.3kts and the indicated airspeed of 40kts!

http://www.danodwyer.bigpondhosting....ae24ebacd7.jpg

http://www.danodwyer.bigpondhosting....22c9336f41.jpg

http://www.danodwyer.bigpondhosting....bf6826510f.jpg

http://www.danodwyer.bigpondhosting....2990bd112e.jpg

And a few from further north.......

Took these shots from 10,000' of Ayers Rock (or Uluru depending on your cultural sensitivity.) Took these whilst flying a photographer who was shooting some still photos to superimpose UNDER a Qantas 747 for a new ad.

http://www.danodwyer.bigpondhosting....119e37ace9.jpg

http://www.danodwyer.bigpondhosting....7514aaa148.jpg

Cheers,

Hollywood :cool:

Sorry for late reply!!

[email protected] you made my day with those nice pictures of my favourite beast!! My dad used to sit in the little room with the two tv's! And I used to dream about sitting up front!

Cheers again!
Winnie

Mere words cannot express how good it is to view these pictures.

Quite fantastic!!

PeterRB:ok:

Crossing Heathrow....gotta be quick...I mean really quick !!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...9qrDbwq_fs.jpg

Hey Hollywood,

You mean Qantas get the ads at the Rock again? Maybe you should try for the group shot of your aircraft with it in the background, got a spare "donation" for the community at hand?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...2/DSC05294.jpg


EC135T2 UK Police - Casevac

A couple of shots of Wistari Reef near Heron Island, Queensland, taken from an AS350 BA.


http://www.danodwyer.bigpondhosting....9c08b17ba0.jpg


http://www.danodwyer.bigpondhosting....636abc982d.jpg

POHM1
 

Absolutly stunning mate!!! :ok:

Some from a hot place....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Lafyar/boat.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Lafyar/Runwy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Lafyar/Queue.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...yar/Basra2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Lafyar/Basra.jpg

Bet you can't guess where.....

...and some from a cold place!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Lafyar/Mtn1.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Lafyar/Mtn2.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/Lafyar/Matt.jpg

Guess which was favourite!!

LC

Hi LafyarCocov

Picture One, The new Thames tide deflector

Picture Two the MI after Uncle toni's boys have had their way

Picture Three The M25 just before Autie Toni has had her way

Pic Four Downtown Kabul

Pic Five Even further downtown Kabul

Pic Six and rest Global Warming arrives at the Cheviot Hills


Am I close?

Vfr:ok:

What sort of Heli is that, Puma or Seaking?

VFR - Amazingly accurate on all of them!!! I could almost think you were there yourself!!!

It's from a Puma...


LC

With thanks as always to John Eacott - who for reasons best known to himself was at work on Saturday! - here are some shots from the cockpit of Kuwait Police EC135s.

The first 3 are in the ILS pattern at Kuwait International:

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e/DSC00792.JPG

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e/DSC00793.JPG

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e/DSC00796.JPG

The next 3 show that it does rain in desert countries, sometimes:

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e/DSC00865.JPG

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e/DSC00869.JPG

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e/DSC00879.JPG

One of the local sights (biggest "dhow", or in this case mohalab, in the world):

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e/DSC01039.JPG

and finally for now, back to the dashboard theme:

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/...e/DSC01213.JPG

Pictures were uploaded to John using the new hotmail image attachment thingy which keeps file size down but limits width to 600 pixels - not always a good idea.

T and B; what's happened to the Auto pilot i.e. why the orange cross hatches on the PFD?

Crab,

Looking at your twin tv set up, it seems that you need to take a look at the FLIR installation. Looks to me that it has been put on upside down!!:E :E

212Man,

We've not had serviceable autopilots since last August; the 50 deg C OAT limit sadly doesn't seem to apply to the autopilot system, which usually kicks off after about 10 mins with the temp above 40-45 deg C. I was going to include a description of the reason why we don't have the appropriate spares, but decided this isn't the appropriate forum to discuss such matters :cool:

You might also have noticed the lack of a "sand filter" indication in the bottom pic. Same reason as above.

T and B, Ah, I see! Do you have problems with the FCDMs as well then, as I assume they sit in the same rack? (AP is straddled by FCDMs in the 155.)

Fantastic pics guys, really an international eye-opener.

Me?

I spend all my money on beer and can't afford a digital camera!!!!!