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[PhrogPhlyer]

Play victim all you want

Again, not sure why you insist on the personal attack.
I have never stated, nor implied being a victim or anything else.

I clearly have stated what life was like for the vast majority of those I personally know during the late '70 through the early '90s.
The remainder of your post is an opinion, that I have read, and can comment on or not.
Apparently, service life has significantly changed in the past few decades.
So I do not disagree with your comments, but recognize that we have had different experiences during different decades.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Some Bell 407 buffoonery. Not dissimilar from the R44 that landed in front of me as I was taxiing out of my parking spot... Kids - don't be this guy!

 

[Griz882]

Some Bell 407 buffoonery. Not dissimilar from the R44 that landed in front of me as I was taxiing out of my parking spot... Kids - don't be this guy!

I’d say he was in a bit of a rush.

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

Some Bell 407 buffoonery.

And we wonder why the crew chief/LSE/ground guide is used so much in the military.
Not too common in the civilian world.

 

[ChuckMK23]

And we wonder why the crew chief/LSE/ground guide is used so much in the military.
Not too common in the civilian world.

Few helicopters are not single piloted as far as the FAA goes. A few types require a second pilot and a few operations do as well (IFR where no single-pilot certification /equipment exists)

Fire fighting and aerial utility is all about "vertical reference" flying as a pilot. Looking straight down over your shoulder.

I'd be curious what would be more efficient, crewman voice guidance from the back or vert reference flying. I don't believe the Super Pumas doing vertrep off MSC ships use a crewman.

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

I'd be curious what would be more efficient, crewman voice guidance from the back or vert reference flying.

I was quite comfortable with voice guidance from the crew chief during SAR hover, especially over water and at night.
Following his calls, I could focus on being extremely precise on RadAlt and Doppler hover, while monitoring system gauges..
Basically was an instrument procedure in a hover.

 

[ChuckMK23]

BTW Kern County Fire Dept in South Cal announced a deal to purchase a dedicated UH-60L Firehawk operated as a public service aircraft by county employees. Funded by a collective of municipalities.The "surplus" H-60 market is going strong.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Sounds like Airbus is full court press to convince Army to retain UH-72 as primary trainer.. "giving them a other chance". Perhaps through a "training mode". But it's clear Big Army is willing to throw things against the wall and see what sticks.

Also fascinating that Army will embed crews with Marine MV-22 FRS. Worlds collide moments?

US Army promises ‘broad’ request for Flight School Next helicopter trainer bids

The US Army expects to issue a request for proposals (RFP) related to its Flight School Next helicopter trainer programme "as soon as this fall", according to the service's aviation chief. Although billed as a quest to return to stick-and-pedal flying with single-engined helicopters in place of...

www.flightglobal.com

 

[Lawman]

Sounds like Airbus is full court press to convince Army to retain UH-72 as primary trainer.. "giving them a other chance". Perhaps through a "training mode". But it's clear Big Army is willing to throw things against the wall and see what sticks.

Also fascinating that Army will embed crews with Marine MV-22 FRS. Worlds collide moments?

US Army promises ‘broad’ request for Flight School Next helicopter trainer bids

The US Army expects to issue a request for proposals (RFP) related to its Flight School Next helicopter trainer programme "as soon as this fall", according to the service's aviation chief. Although billed as a quest to return to stick-and-pedal flying with single-engined helicopters in place of...

www.flightglobal.com

Yeah I’m not convinced we don’t screw up the second part.

HRC does NOT want to set a next 10 year destiny for those guys, so there’s a good chance we put all this investment into a collection of aviators who are destined to start the 75 program, only to have HRC send them to Korea to be a Med pilot or something.

It’ll be even worse with the maintainers we put into that to learn things. God knows some idiot will stick them on recruiter duty or something to make a column on a spreadsheet look better.