From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean: The Weather. Learning to adjust. And just learning. On moving to Valencia last year to try my hand at flying a Search and Rescue helicopter in Spain, the predominantly anti-cyclonic picture of Spain’s Mediterranean-facing east coast presented an entirely new meteorological situation to me. “SAR in the sunshine, what’sContinueContinue reading “Flying SAR in the sunshine: What’s not to like?!”
Category Archives: Helicopters
Sting in the tail: keeping the back end at the front of your mind.
Following the accident at Leicester City Football Club at the end of last month, all of which was caught on camera, and replayed very publicly, tail rotor failures are back in focus, and for those of us who fly the machines, are very much at the forefront of our minds. It was following a similarContinueContinue reading “Sting in the tail: keeping the back end at the front of your mind.”
“PF & CM:” Pilot Flying & Crewman Monitoring
Training Monitoring for Helicopter Technical Crew (Part 2) The response to my last post underlined how little technical or non-technical material out there is written with the niche skill-set of the helicopter technical crew community in mind. There is certainly an interest and appetite for its consumption among those who play a part in thisContinueContinue reading ““PF & CM:” Pilot Flying & Crewman Monitoring”
TEXTING AND FLYING?
Texting & Flying: Pilot distraction & the myth of multi-tasking. On August 26, 2011, at about 6:41 pm CDT, a Eurocopter AS350 B2 helicopter operated by Air Methods on an EMS mission crashed following a loss of engine power as a result of fuel exhaustion a mile from an airport in Mosby, Missouri. The pilot,ContinueContinue reading “TEXTING AND FLYING?”
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