So this is how the Navy is spending the tax payers money.

[Stingo]

From the latest BBC report on Ellens progress...

"It's good to have some company," she said. "She is sailing along next to me and they are running helicopter fly-pasts with the crew so they can all have a close look."

 

[tcm]

Re: ah but

if you have a helicopter, the pilots have to train and (by law) to at least stay "in recency" in others words they have to fly the things once a week, or once a fortnight can't remember. Same on massive private yacht Kingdom, the pilot has to fly around for no reason other than to keep his hand in.

Only cheap option helicopter-wise is not to have one, and very wisely most forumites have chosen to follow this policy...

 

[jimi]

Re: ah but

So does that mean that if there was a helicopter pilots convention that every pilot attended and they all cught measles at the same time time and could'nt fly for a fortnight that that would be the end of helicopter flying as we know it?

 

[andyb]

Come on, it's Friday, lets not be negative.
As TCM said the pilots must get the hours in, god forbid we might need their talents one day.

 

[Romeo]

Re: ah but

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Only cheap option helicopter-wise is not to have one, and very wisely most forumites have chosen to follow this policy...

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LOL. just considering what modifications I would need to make to make my boat helicopter compatable. I might need to extend the foredeck a little.

 

[Evadne]

Wasn't it back in the eighties that HMS Hindrance met someone, Chay Blyth possibly, off Cape Horn, fired their gun in salute and only realised they'd left the bung in the end when it went through his mainsail?

 

[Alastairdent]

Funnily enough, was thinking about this last night, as my neighbour flew in with his chopper (he has a lifetime drink-driving ban, so commutes with a little 2-seater chopper instead).

If I dropped the light mast and the flue, his chopper could just land on my cabin roof.

Just what I need for getting off the mooring when the land floods.

 

[PaulJ]

Re: ah but

Here here! They have the choppers, they have the pilots all it costs is the fuel and I am very happy for a miniscule amount of my money to be used in cheering her on! I just hope they didn't keep her awake when she was trying to grab a few minutes kip..... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[tcm]

HMS Hindrance?!

is there realy a ship with this name? Is there also an HMS Slightly Awkward and suchlike?

 

[Sybarite]

Re: ah but

Spot on....

 

[Sybarite]

Re: ah but

I made an even bigger saving because I decided to defer buying the jet as well..

 

[boomerangben]

Re: ah but

Even better get a job flying someone elses helicopter - you even get paid for it.

 

[TheBoatman]

Re: ah but

Not the foredeck but the port quarter?

 

[Koeketiene]

Re: HMS Hindrance?!

No - it was HMS Endurance

 

[Bergman]

Not entirely sure that I would fancy being in the same county as someone with a lifetime D&D ban flying a helicopter.

I certainly would not like the idea of him landing on my roof.

 

[Greenwichman]

The yacht involved was the navy's own - Adventure - a Nich 55. The headsail took 18 hours to repair at sea. I was one of the crew on the boat's next leg, we kept clear of warships and won.