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Things you can do when you fly a chopper

 

Better than wandering around aimlessly and running out of fuel

 

Ohhh those ruskies

 

 

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Reminded me of a guy ( passed away quit a few years ago ) way back in the mid eighties...He had a WB Drifter on floats and being a keen fisherman decided to fly to a reef, out from Tully Heads...Going out was ok but by the time he turned around to head back a haze had set in and he couldn`t see the mainland...About half way back, he spotted a prawn trawler, landed close to it and asked for direction to Tully Heads.

 

On another occasion, he`d put the Drifter on wheels, gone flying and was almost back to Tully Heads (had a house there) when he ran out of fuel,nothing but the Tully river and mangroves below him, fortunately, it was low tide so he put it down in the river, in a couple of feet of water, a guy in tinny saw him come down and picked him up...No injury to the pilot or Drifter...Pilot went back with his boat and retrieved the Drifter... Both true stories.

 

Frank

 

 

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They were practising GPS and magnetic field jamming at the time

I'm not sure if in the real scenario if their gps was being jammed the guys they land beside would be so friendly

 

 

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