When our crew briefing is complete, I gather my equipment and standby for a flight request. Our goal is to launch within 8 minutes during the day and 10 minutes at night.
An Aerial Saw pilot is a year-round position in that there is no busy or slow season. The 500D models we fly are like migratory birds chasing fine weather up and down the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways.
During the summer of 2018, I was fortunate enough to fly from a 50-meter (164-foot) private yacht …departing Seattle, WA on May 1st to cruise the Inside Passage and Gulf of Alaska…
We complete a recon and lower our Rescue Tech (RT) to the Ship to assess the patient and get them ready to be hoisted to the aircraft. Once the RT indicates that everything is ready we move back in to pick them both up…
…severe skull fractures.. .extensive brain damage…twenty four hours earlier Liam and his parents had been enjoying life, bushwalking in Mt Kosciusko State Forest, hundreds of miles from Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital…
A joint services exercise involving artillery, naval vessel guns, fixed-wing rockets and machine guns starts to get complex quick….a job like this is mostly about, what we call, mission management… It doesn’t hurt that its’ fun!
…a look into what motivation and passion look like and why your age should never be a factor if you want to follow your dreams.
There are three large windfarms located to the north and our job was to fly the technicians there when sea conditions didn’t allow boat operations.
…the dramatic landscape seemingly pours downward directly from the sky, splashing into the ocean several thousand vertical feet later…
…take the mighty H120 down to Shannon Airport to meet a group of four golfers right off their jet from the United States and bring them to the world famous Old Head golf club…
…I reluctantly hop out of bed and head for the gym. If I don’t take care of myself, how can I take care of my students?
Deep into the flooded plains of the Delta… amazed at the landscape in front of me…flying under 500 feet and sharing the airspace with fixed-wing planes
