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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #25 on: March 21, 2015, 09:28:10 AM »
Timor Leste and out lying islands.
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2015, 10:04:43 AM »
Heaps of flights in various helicopters and light planes around NSW, Vic (Bright and Ovens) and SA flying fires (NSW RFS) mostly through the Wollomi, Yengo and Blue Mountains National Parks. Have seen the Wollomi Pines and lots of fantastic landscapes. Most memorable was flying near a pair of Wedge Tailed Eagles for 3 days on a fire NE of Scone on the western side of the Barrington Tops. Privately I have flown over Lake Eyre and chartered a helicopter out of Cairns flew over the reef and landed on a remote beach and proposed to my wife was probably the most amazing flight. I did let her know that if she hadn't said yes that it would have been a long swim back  >:D
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #27 on: March 21, 2015, 10:19:59 AM »
A fair bit of green and brown countryside around Canungra / Canberra, Mudgee / Hill End / Kempsey area's hanging out the waist of a Huey and a Kiowa, Ohh and a dopey dig dropping an M-60 machine gun out the door  at 2 thousand feet during a steep turn ..
Trees trees and lots of tree tops filling the windscreen and clipping the skids of a Huey with a Yank pilot flying fast and low in the hills around Canberra ..
Cook Island and the Tweed coast / Gold Coast .. :cup:
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #28 on: March 21, 2015, 10:27:35 AM »
Grand canyon and the Vegas strip.

Lots of km of powerlines
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #29 on: March 21, 2015, 12:25:11 PM »
In one of our last pre-kid hoorah's, the wife and I hired a chopper for a 1 hour scenic flight around Kosciusko. No flight plan, pilot just said you point & I'll fly, that was in a Bell Jetranger & cost a grand, but was absolutely sensational to see some areas that cant be seen any other way. ;D.

The best chopper flight I've ever done was when I was working in Rockhampton. The local radio station used to do an Easter egg drop each year for the kids in Rocky & Yeppoon, & I donated the eggs for it through work. One year they sent me in the chopper to do the drop. That was in a little Robinson R22 with a loony mustering pilot who decided to put on a bit of a show over the beach at Yeppoon...............took about a week to wipe the grin off my face.
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #30 on: March 21, 2015, 12:53:30 PM »
No Joy flights for me as yet.
Have had to do
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Thailand
Vietnam Coast (not the war)
Bass straight
Nth Sea
These were all were horrible flights due to the silly suits we must wear and the only thrill was getting of it.

Best was in PNG, long ago with crazy ex vet aussie Pilots in a Huey. We'd hop in on top of this terminal, say to them 500 foot ceiling (Due to us being Divers) and they'd say... "What? 50 foot? OK, no worries"
They'd lift of from this, and fall off the side. We'd zoom along the rivers following the tight twists and turns.
Only thing missing was someone yelling out the door "Get some Get Some" That I did like.



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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #31 on: March 21, 2015, 08:15:15 PM »
A bloke a work was making a Melb promo video a bit over 15 years ago.  He is scared of flying so I got to fly around all of the major sport venues in Melb. directing the chopper pilot and camera guy for him. Did a few laps around the MCG,  down the Yarra past the Casino below the tops of the buildings , around Albert Park, Royal Park and along the bay past all the yacht clubs. We were pretty low most of the time, with the cameraman hanging out of the open door.   Not a bad day at work that one.

Also got a few goes in the Nation Safety Council's Bell 212s in the mid 80s while I was an Air Training Corp cadet at the Traralgon Airport.

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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #32 on: March 21, 2015, 11:57:45 PM »
Lots of NQLD while looking up at trees from blackhawks, before repelling out. Also gotten to see lots of East Timor, and a few trips in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #33 on: March 22, 2015, 12:16:38 AM »
Flown over the plain of jars in Laos, Auckland Harbour and city, shot over river and remarkables in  queenstown and as a passenger helishooting deer
Pretty keen to do a bi plane flight to the 12 apostles
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #34 on: March 22, 2015, 03:00:20 AM »
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #35 on: March 22, 2015, 06:26:05 AM »
Flew in a chopper over Lake Argyle  & down the Ord river , Ayres rock   f, in fixed wing over Lake Eyre . Also in a balloon over Melbourne at dawn . lm an Ace  Helicopter Passenger .  :cheers:
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #36 on: March 22, 2015, 07:07:14 AM »
RAN Sea Hawk over Mitchell's Gap near RAAF Amberley before a bird strike put us in a paddock.
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #37 on: March 22, 2015, 07:15:45 AM »
In a Huey patroling miles and miles of fencing between East and West Germany, back before they tore it down...
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #38 on: March 22, 2015, 09:17:43 AM »
Quote from: speewa158 on March 22, 2015, 06:26:05 AM
....Also in a balloon over Melbourne at dawn .....
Was it the same as when we did it here in Brisbane for a friends 30th, heaps of dogs going beserk every time the pilot hits the burners to get a touch more lift? I was amazed at how many dogs i could hear barking below us as we drifted over the houses below, being so early in the morning on a weekend there wasn't much other noise with the lack of traffic about

Quote from: dales133 on March 22, 2015, 12:16:38 AM
Pretty keen to do a bi plane flight to the 12 apostles
i want to do a stunt plane flight in one of those old types of planes myself, i went up in a Cessna type stunt plane doing loop the loops and barrel rolls many years ago, but reckon doing it in an open cockpit like those planes have, would be a much better experience.  8) 8)
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #39 on: March 22, 2015, 09:51:26 AM »
Most of East Timor in super Pumas. Bit of west Timor when the Russian pilot lost his bearings
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #40 on: March 22, 2015, 03:04:08 PM »
I havent flown over Australia except in a big plane, but on a trip to the UK in 2013 I was lucky enough that one of my Dads friends owns a microlight, so we went for a fly across Preston down over Southport and over Liverpool. In total it was around a 2.5 hour flight.
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #41 on: March 22, 2015, 03:24:11 PM »
Heaps of flights but never enough  ;D
Passenger in PNG - Bell Jet Ranger - lots of mountains and rivers viewed
Piloted a Jet Ranger Pt Cook to Geelong and back low level beach viewed
Pax in Chinook over Melbourne, Pax in Chinook over West Coast Tassie wilderness.

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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #42 on: March 22, 2015, 03:32:13 PM »
The very top of the "I wish list" for flight would have been a concord.
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2015, 03:51:54 PM »
I consider my self very lucky as next mth I wrap up a 35yrs as a Helicopter pilot 27yrs of this flying in the PNG...
I've seen things the average person would only dream of.Wonderful waterfalls / bush people living miles from anywhere in bush material houses / woman wearing bark beaten clothing / full on tribal fights / mountain tops up to 13000ft / coastal coral tropical waters / virgin white sandy beaches / crystal clear flowing rivers/ large wide long valleys with 8000ft mtns either side  ;D :cheers:

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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #44 on: March 22, 2015, 04:09:11 PM »
Only Mitchell Falls, but was lucky enough to do Vic Falls in a microlight. Amazing to see all the crocs/hippos etc from above. I got a bit excited and kept looking around and got told off cause my head was acting like a rudder. Even got to have a go at the controls.

As it was a freebie (cousin was dating the pilot), we had to do it after the paying punters at midday. The heat off the ground was creating thermals so bad they couldn't land. We did a go round and then stalled it to land. Quite an entertaining few minutes.

Also saw two muster pilots fly into Daly waters, land in the campground, drink all night, sleep it off in the motel room, and fly back to work the next morning.
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #45 on: March 22, 2015, 05:18:16 PM »
 As above Mitchell Falls for about 20 mins. Brilliant :cup:
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #46 on: March 22, 2015, 05:29:23 PM »
Uluru with the wife and kids.
Back in my single days a joy flight out and around Dreamworld
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #47 on: March 22, 2015, 07:47:44 PM »
I fly for a living so I'm lucky to have seen a bunch of this magic country from the air.

Discovering and exploring it by land is what I spend more time thinking about though ;-)
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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #48 on: March 22, 2015, 08:25:47 PM »
Flown over Canberra by Blackhawk.........WOW and in NZ flew the canyons from Shotover to Queenstown in mid winter! Both amazing !


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Re: What have you seen from a helicopter
« Reply #49 on: March 22, 2015, 08:28:26 PM »
My wife saw the bungles by helicopter actually and her photos were amazing.
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