my first & only helicopter flight was being rescued off the Brecon Beacons after crash landing my paraglider, it was a sea king ,came from chive nor,north Devon,could see it coming for 10 -20 minutes before it arrived, the mountain rescue ,who were luckily there patrolling a sponsored walk, let off a flare, of which I still have the remains, stones were whipped up from the ground as he hovered then I got winched up into the m/c-what an experience, took my mind off the pain, he even offered a sling to hoist my dog up swell,but my partner hung onto him.
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It was Marcle Ridge, well spotted.
Are you still paragliding? i wonder if we have met on a hillside somewhere
Are you still paragliding? i wonder if we have met on a hillside somewhere
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It's quite noisy when you have to "hot load" (engine still running) a casualty 
This was on the Isle of Man
And this was Otterburn ranges
This was on the Isle of Man
And this was Otterburn ranges
yes 23 years now, still waiting to beat my pb of 25km,
I met you on fan ghyrich,about 3/4 yr ago, never flown marcle,whats it like, lots of arable upwind I imagine,xc potential?
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Marcle hill? it's like flying a skateboard bowl.
So steep you can barely stand on it, sneeze on take off and into the pea field, but if you get up Malverns are the next target. The locals have made some big XC trips.
An interesting site and 15 minutes from my old workshop. I did fly there after my crash to clear my head.
Worth a visit but best with a bit of local knowledge along
Me? no interest in XC whatsoever. I am getting there with thermalling enjoy the battering and tension fly about the take off site but head off into the yonder? No urge to do it at all.
hearing guys moan about 'only doing X km' what? we are flying it's a miracle.. Chasing performance on the air reminds me of guys doing it on motorbikes.
What a boring old fool I am.
So steep you can barely stand on it, sneeze on take off and into the pea field, but if you get up Malverns are the next target. The locals have made some big XC trips.
An interesting site and 15 minutes from my old workshop. I did fly there after my crash to clear my head.
Worth a visit but best with a bit of local knowledge along
Me? no interest in XC whatsoever. I am getting there with thermalling enjoy the battering and tension fly about the take off site but head off into the yonder? No urge to do it at all.
hearing guys moan about 'only doing X km' what? we are flying it's a miracle.. Chasing performance on the air reminds me of guys doing it on motorbikes.
What a boring old fool I am.
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On a sailing vessel near Falmouth we did a high-line rescue exercise with a Sea King (out of Culdrose I think?)
I was on the line and I'm not sure if I hauled him in too hard, or if he developed a swing, but the poor diver arrived at a rate of knots and landed astride the pushpit and knackered himself ☺
Fair play he didnt bat an eyelid but he went a bit pale..
I was on the line and I'm not sure if I hauled him in too hard, or if he developed a swing, but the poor diver arrived at a rate of knots and landed astride the pushpit and knackered himself ☺
Fair play he didnt bat an eyelid but he went a bit pale..
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It's quite noisy when you have to "hot load" (engine still running) a casualty
This was on the Isle of Man
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And this was Otterburn ranges
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Sea King, that’s a real helicopter! My mate’s brother snowboarded through a wood and knocked himself unconscious. I still remember seeing the great yellow beast fly over our house and hover by the woods, they make one hell of a racket, fantastic machines
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one in Doncaster at air museum is Westland Seaking HAS.6 XV677
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https://www.southyorkshireaircraftmuseum.org.uk/events
trip adviser web page over 200 pictures a worse for wear Sea-King and a few more rescue helis as well
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attra...ationId=101&albumid=101&filter=7&ff=253305746
Home page
https://www.southyorkshireaircraftmuseum.org.uk/events
trip adviser web page over 200 pictures a worse for wear Sea-King and a few more rescue helis as well
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attra...ationId=101&albumid=101&filter=7&ff=253305746
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Isn't someone on here a helicopter mechanic or similar? I'm sure there were pictures of one partially dismantled in a big workshop.
Eww. Sounds nasty. Hope he was ok.
I have been up in one and not as part of a emergency courtesy of our own RAF the flight was for approx 40 mins around Shropshire the trip was part of the landowners day at RAF Shawbury I don't particularly like hights or flying but really enjoyed it
I have flown in several choppers, Sea King, Chinnock, Scout, Lynx and the Wessex.
Nearly fell out the door off the Scout in Ireland, we were up in the air, carrying out a type off patrol, hanging out with our legs out the door, I lent forward to look at something, and the webbing strap to hold us both in, (two people each side) was not attached at my end, I stated to go out, my commander caught me and lucky because I carried the GPMG (machine gun) and the strap was over my head, which stopped that hitting the ground.
The Wessex was used to casevac me from a nasty road accident in N. Ireland where I was nearly crashed by a 3/4 Ton Land Rover, Wessex was called in as it was flying protection cover, picked me up took me to hospital in Southern Ireland, it went away refuelled and then collected me and took me to Mosgrove Park intensive care.
Still like helicopters though something about them.
Nearly fell out the door off the Scout in Ireland, we were up in the air, carrying out a type off patrol, hanging out with our legs out the door, I lent forward to look at something, and the webbing strap to hold us both in, (two people each side) was not attached at my end, I stated to go out, my commander caught me and lucky because I carried the GPMG (machine gun) and the strap was over my head, which stopped that hitting the ground.
The Wessex was used to casevac me from a nasty road accident in N. Ireland where I was nearly crashed by a 3/4 Ton Land Rover, Wessex was called in as it was flying protection cover, picked me up took me to hospital in Southern Ireland, it went away refuelled and then collected me and took me to Mosgrove Park intensive care.
Still like helicopters though something about them.
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Aye, you'd not want to be on the receiving end of them
We have them regularly up here on practise bombing runs - they can appear without warning and will frighten the living daylights out of you if you're in a vehicle and can't hear their approach [I think the pilots do it deliberately.....
]Had a couple of jaunts on helicopters, one out to a North Sea rig in the jump seat, in the days of the S61s, the other in one which looked like this to do some aerial photography for a local[ish] castle owner
I know its not a helicopter but at the weekend at the Rickmansworth Boat Festival on Saturday they had a Lancaster fly over a couple off times I understand very low, we were there on the Sunday and a Dakota part of the memorial flights flew over again three times and I would say very low, did not realise how big they are.
Shame I missed the Lancaster but the Pilot did give the crowd a good show on Sunday.
Shame I missed the Lancaster but the Pilot did give the crowd a good show on Sunday.
An acquaintance of mine from my air-soft days was a paramedic on an air ambulance. He said he always wanted to be called out to a Vietnam war re-enactment event, so he could call out over the radio "X-ray, X-ray, this is medevac flight from Tan Son Nhut, pop smoke to mark LZ, over" and claim he had done a "dust-off and medevac from a hot LZ".
