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Forum: Rotorheads

8th Aug 2006, 00:04

Replies: 11

A Silly Question....

Views: 1,662

Posted By sikhorsey

Gliderboy, Give me a PM and I'll give you all...

Gliderboy,
Give me a PM and I'll give you all the info you want. We have recently trained a few ex RAAF/Airline guys back onto helos and I can put you in touch with them to get the good gouge as...

Forum: Rotorheads

3rd Jul 2006, 12:20

Replies: 83

Vpaw Contract

Views: 14,841

Posted By sikhorsey

'There is no doubt that as you get older, you...

'There is no doubt that as you get older, you find it harder to assimilate and learn highly detailed stuff such as acft tech, but it is not impossible.

The Army SSO's pass some pretty stringent...

Forum: Military Aviation

3rd Sep 2005, 13:07

Replies: 24

NVG - How do they work?

Views: 6,888

Posted By sikhorsey

For Mighty Gem 'Of course, the important thing...

For Mighty Gem
'Of course, the important thing to remember is that they must have some light to work. They won't work on an overcast night out in the middle of the middle of nowhere without any...

Forum: Rotorheads

24th Jun 2005, 12:36

Replies: 6

ESSO Recruitment

Views: 2,673

Posted By sikhorsey

Did two years at ESSO as a Capt; good job, great...

Did two years at ESSO as a Capt; good job, great aircraft, excellent maintenance engineers and ops support staff at the heliport. As long as you are truly prepared to in live in rural Victoria then...

Forum: Rotorheads

8th Jan 2005, 11:41

Replies: 164

Tsunami Disaster Relief - More photographs

Views: 49,817

Posted By sikhorsey

Steve 76, Pull your head in mate. The only...

Steve 76,

Pull your head in mate. The only fact you need be concerned with is they would be doing the best they could given the situation.

To suggest that the various militaries involved do...

Forum: Rotorheads

26th May 2004, 15:14

Replies: 2

Icing Detectors

Views: 608

Posted By sikhorsey

Ice Detector

Peter,

The S-70 has a ice detector probe that is basically a tuning fork that changes it's frequency of oscillation depending on the accumulation of ice on the probe. This sends a signal to the...

Forum: Rotorheads

3rd Apr 2004, 10:05

Replies: 9

Tail Boom 'Crinkling'

Views: 1,533

Posted By sikhorsey

Seahawk oilcan effect

Having flown both Seahawk(S-70B) and Blackhawk(S-70A-9,A-32,UH-60A,L) the interesting thing is that the oilcan effect is very obvious on the seahawk yet not discernable on any of the variant of...

Forum: Rotorheads

27th Nov 2003, 19:45

Replies: 55

Night HEMS Ops - Twin or Single?

Views: 8,002

Posted By sikhorsey

Pruners, Without commenting on any specific...

Pruners,

Without commenting on any specific incidents, I see this debate from the perspective that my aviation career has given me thus far.

The view point that I hold is that any aviation...

Forum: Rotorheads

16th Aug 2003, 19:19

Replies: 338

"WHO's WHO": What do you fly? Where?

Views: 127,659

Posted By sikhorsey

What type of flying work do you do? Offshore...

What type of flying work do you do?
Offshore Oil Spt

What types(s) do you fly?
S-76:cool:

Where? (As precise as you can be without losing anonymity.)
Down under

Previous jobs

Forum: Rotorheads

9th Aug 2003, 07:55

Replies: 167

What was your scariest moment in a helicopter?

Views: 59,605

Posted By sikhorsey

8 ship Blackhawk form in trail, landing in long...

8 ship Blackhawk form in trail, landing in long thin valley. All aircraft touching down at pretty much same time. Me in #4, with tailwheel on ground knowing #5 about 1 rotor behind, when #3 decides...

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