Canadian Helicopters Loses $10.3-million Contract With U.s. Air Force

[Auto Relight 48]

ifr for what??? the got ifr approach on the dew line??? hahahaha

 

You obviously haven't got a clue about it then....

 

AR

[deuce bigalow 23]

AND you can create yor own GPS approach... No biggie, all class G as well.

 

what we use to call BFR back in the day. Beaufort Flight Rules. Or B**LSh1t flight rules depending on who you talk to.

 

[old dog 20]

what we use to call BFR back in the day. Beaufort Flight Rules. Or B**LSh1t flight rules depending on who you talk to.

 

No take-off or landing minima, design your own approachs, no alternate, no fuel to get to your alternate anyway.

 

Ah yes, those were the days!!!

 

And surprisingly, all this worked quite well - except for BHX, that is.

[Outwest 10]

Iqaluit has an ILS.........never missed once.......of course didn't have the fuel to go anywhere else

[Blackmac 108]

You might as well stay OUTWEST, because there is NO Dew Line Site in YFB (Iqaluit).

 

:bye: :blur: :boff: :prop:

[Auto Relight 48]

You might as well stay OUTWEST, because there is NO Dew Line Site in YFB (Iqaluit).

 

:bye: :blur: :boff: :prop:

 

 

Um, you may want to tell the 61 crew based there about that.... The sites aren't IN YFB, but they have to come home each night, no?

 

AR

[Stick Snake 0]

You might as well stay OUTWEST, because there is NO Dew Line Site in YFB (Iqaluit).

 

:bye: :blur: :boff: :prop:

 

Well, we are all experts here!!!

 

FYI-Iqaluit is a LSS (a logistics center), all flights start and terminate at CYFB. Having an ILS is a god send in such a harsh enviorment.

 

Maybe those in the east should only speak of what we know.

 

 

[T-rex 17]

Hold on everyone........

 

I've got the popcorn popping, and getting out my chair and cooler for a front row seat!!!

 

OK, I am ready now, start the fireworks.....

[deuce bigalow 23]

No take-off or landing minima, design your own approachs, no alternate, no fuel to get to your alternate anyway.

 

Ah yes, those were the days!!!

 

And surprisingly, all this worked quite well - except for BHX, that is.

 

You forgot slinging IMC and using the radar to paint the buildings on the airport or the floats in the harbour to land in WOXOF. Wheeeeee.

 

Still thats where I learned to fly IFR and most of the lessons are still with me.

 

The good ones that is.

 

 

 

[Blackmac 108]

Harvey Easton (RIP) flew into Tuk one day in the PCSP 204B (Autair), low on fuel, ice fog at the airport with only the beacon tower sticking up thru, lined up the runway and autorotated thru it and did a perfect landing on floats.

 

For your added info I was in YFB in 1956 on the back of an icebreaker on the way to Hall Beach leading an armada of ships with construction material.

 

I wrote the original contract on behalf of the US DOD/DND with Canadian Helicopters and recommended an S61 for range purposes as the B212 would have to autorotate from 10k ft

to make it on empty tanks, even with aux tanks.

 

So, as somebody else said let the fun begin.

 

Don

 

PS: PCSP was operating from YFB and TUK since the early sixties and Autair Helicopters held the contract most of the time. The Beaufort experts came along much later.