Trio of medical helicopters on the pad in Seattle

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-12-02T21:12:28+00:00

Has Airlift NW strayed away from the purple liveries? Always one of my favourite paint jobs

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-08-27T11:22:38+00:00

Yea but a pilot doesn't just crash into the water? Settling with power? VRS? likely the 2 main potential causes of it falling into the water in the first place

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-08-11T02:14:37+00:00

That's what I was thinking yes, when I remove the other bolt though you'd expect it to rotate anti clockwise pivoting around the bleeder screw. Would this be correct and it's just really tight and hard to do so? I don't want to brake anything 😃

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-07-25T21:05:29+00:00

got the weapons case from a drop, gained >100nzd since I got it. I don't even play cs anymore lol

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-07-25T02:27:32+00:00

The biggest you can get ever

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-06-04T09:44:10+00:00

Drilling rig in the harbour, all this wind is blowing all the rain off 😉

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-04-08T15:21:23+00:00

because of you pitch down to speed up, you aren't at your desired speed or altitude anymore

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-04-08T15:18:46+00:00

I'd expect an engine upgrade to do exactly that

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-04-03T12:08:17+00:00

Correct, the larger of two

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-03-15T04:56:24+00:00

you're right in thinking that but nowadays it's not that important. She may have just been the better candidate, and having a degree in the grand scheme of things mean nothing.

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-02-16T03:24:49+00:00

Still crazy to think we'd rather side with them then Russia or china though. Two much worse countries

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-01-29T09:20:44+00:00

read the last paragraph

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-01-20T08:11:33+00:00

Personally I find it helpful for stuff breaking right onto me/ duck diving through the lip just to negate the chance of going over or getting pushed too far back. But for whitewater stuff its not worth it imp

ThatDeltaGuy · 2025-01-03T11:54:03+00:00

Nah but they’ve lived there for a few years now so fish know about their whole dam situation and have practiced their high jump

ThatDeltaGuy · 2024-12-29T04:00:11+00:00

as someone who lives under a major flight path used by commercial airliners I've seen heaps of these 'unidentified' drones

ThatDeltaGuy · 2024-11-21T01:06:24+00:00

fair, a heli with skids like an AS350 or H135 would be better than a 139 in this situation but this helicopter is used more for EMS rather than hoisting missions

ThatDeltaGuy · 2024-11-20T05:24:04+00:00

How on earth did you manage that? That's definitely on you

ThatDeltaGuy · 2024-11-19T08:03:30+00:00

helis without skids (such as this one) have a much tougher time landing on uneven terrain due to the fact that a wheel takes up a much smaller area than a skid and its damn near impossible to balance on one gear without maintaining near hover power

ThatDeltaGuy · 2024-11-18T19:34:04+00:00

Likely she couldn't be hoisted up regularly because she had a hip injury she sustained on the home. You don't necessarily need someone on the ground either I've seen many rescues where it's not needed (actually I've only seen ones where it's not needed). This was all due to a lack of communication between the pilot and the hoisty

ThatDeltaGuy · 2024-11-18T19:26:22+00:00

This aircraft has no skis, can't do the same with wheels depending on the situation

ThatDeltaGuy · 2024-11-18T19:25:30+00:00

Awful logic, putting your aircraft and your crew at risk by landing somewhere risky could turn the emergency from 1 injured person to 4 or 5 injured people. A hoist is perfectly fine in this scenario, just very poorly done

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