

A Day In The Life…Vertical Reference In Africa!
…I had to re-teach myself how to hover with my neck extended outside the door and all my usual steady reference points gone…
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…I had to re-teach myself how to hover with my neck extended outside the door and all my usual steady reference points gone…
I still didn’t know how bad the situation was… all I knew for sure, was that if I decided not to land, no one would ever come to their rescue
…hopefully I can make a difference to the survival of wild areas… dropping off the ranger teams to keep this vast area protected from poachers…
…I one hundred percent practice the ‘dress to egress’ principle, students who have not paid heed to this, will now suffer…facing the harsh realities of a post-crash jungle survival scenario…
…good advice comes when you’re least expecting it…sometimes, the best way to get back home to your family, is to land the damn helicopter and walk…
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!