Chopper Chat Thread

mrtrini45 · Postby **mrtrini45** » November 6th, 2011, 7:45 pm

Saw on the news this evening the National Security Minister saying that whole Trinidad Express ARTICLE was Wrong and Misleading .He give a detail account of the helicopters and said up to Thursday it was on training flights

Type Rated · Postby **Type Rated** » November 13th, 2011, 12:40 pm

Few more of the 139 doing training
and the first of the 2nd 76 ++ for repsol
my angles are rather limited so they all may look similar.....need to get a longer lens P&S

foss · Postby **foss** » November 13th, 2011, 1:08 pm

lovely shots all

mrtrini45 · Postby **mrtrini45** » November 13th, 2011, 1:27 pm

Type Rated wrote:and the first of the 2nd 76 ++ for repsol

2nd s76 is here

Postby **NorStar2K** » November 13th, 2011, 1:34 pm

bhisham45 wrote:
Type Rated wrote:and the first of the 2nd 76 ++ for repsol

2nd s76 is here

Yeah even I missed that.

mrtrini45 · Postby **mrtrini45** » November 13th, 2011, 1:41 pm

NorStar2K wrote:
bhisham45 wrote:
Type Rated wrote:and the first of the 2nd 76 ++ for repsol

2nd s76 is here

Yeah even I missed that.

so does that means one from there old fleet goes back

Postby **pete** » November 13th, 2011, 6:47 pm

Bob and Sierra papa?

Type Rated · Postby **Type Rated** » November 13th, 2011, 9:10 pm

That one came in late on Friday,
umm in terms of sending back
BCO is going for a check but is comming back
TSP is supposed to go but atm it ain't goin no wey
2 more 412EP's are on the way hopefully they'll be here
this week or so.

Postby **pete** » November 13th, 2011, 9:50 pm

Is the switch to the s76 to allow more freight or more fuel allowing more range/stops?

I just wanna see if they're gonna hover or just run on the wheels around the airport.

mrtrini45 · Postby **mrtrini45** » November 23rd, 2011, 5:53 pm

Saw the AW139 doing training today at Camden twice lunch time and this evening

supremacy_007 · Postby **supremacy_007** » November 23rd, 2011, 7:12 pm

i briefly heard an advertisement about an airshow on the 7th of december in trinidad. can anyone provide further details?

mrtrini45 · Postby **mrtrini45** » November 23rd, 2011, 8:04 pm

supremacy_007 wrote:i briefly heard an advertisement about an airshow on the 7th of december in trinidad. can anyone provide further details?

Aaron 2NR · Postby **Aaron 2NR** » November 27th, 2011, 7:44 am

mrtrini45 · Postby **mrtrini45** » November 27th, 2011, 8:55 am

Saw these doing training right next door to the car racing, drags at Camden runway on Saturday 26

mrtrini45 · Postby **mrtrini45** » December 8th, 2011, 8:28 am

PapaC · Postby **PapaC** » December 8th, 2011, 8:05 pm

bhisham45 wrote:

At first I was thinking about going to this, now i think I really want to go to this...

rfari · Postby **rfari** » December 9th, 2011, 4:19 pm

At the airport and saw 2 choppers getting on rell bad. I guessing its the aviation expo.

PapaC · Postby **PapaC** » December 9th, 2011, 5:23 pm

I would love to get some information on the events fro this.
And please do not send me a link to a Facebook page with information, because I have no Facebook ID.

pablo_tt · Postby **pablo_tt** » December 9th, 2011, 9:42 pm

Some pics from my album:

Public Album:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 84f375081b

PapaC · Postby **PapaC** » December 10th, 2011, 2:33 pm

Stuck in work for the weekend...
Sigh...

mrtrini45 · Postby **mrtrini45** » December 12th, 2011, 9:18 am

These are some of the Brochures that were given out at I.C.A.D
for who could not have made it there

This one is from Bristow World Issue 3 -2011 Page 5 Feature Bristow Trinidad lower half

All were Scan-ed

These were some from the bus tour true the tinted glass

pablo_tt · Postby **pablo_tt** » December 12th, 2011, 10:35 am

sbmvv · Postby **sbmvv** » December 22nd, 2011, 8:11 am

Beautiful photos and excellent posts.

On a historical note, does anyone have photographs of the Gazelles that we operated ?

Postby **NorStar2K** » December 22nd, 2011, 11:59 am

Those pix are rare. There's one (partial) on Pg.8. "Golf Uniform", formerly of the Air Division of MNS. That pix was taken at the Chaguaramas Heliport.

The Air Division had four (04) Sud-Aviation 341G Gazelle (1973) aircraft:
9Y-TFN
9Y-TFO
9Y-TFU
9Y-TGU

And two (02) Sikorsky S-76A (1982) aircraft:
9Y-TGW
9Y-TGX

sbmvv · Postby **sbmvv** » December 22nd, 2011, 1:07 pm

Thanks a heap!

Four ? I was always under the impression that there were only 3.

I believe 2 were lost - or was it 3 ?

This is a big bit of new information for me.

Thanks again.

mrtrini45 · Postby **mrtrini45** » December 23rd, 2011, 1:29 pm

sbmvv wrote:Beautiful photos and excellent posts.

On a historical note, does anyone have photographs of the Gazelles that we operated ?

Aerospatiale SA.341G Gazelle, 9Y-TFN, Dodson International Aircraft Parts

I think aviation museum

sbmvv · Postby **sbmvv** » December 23rd, 2011, 5:28 pm

Thanks a lot for this. How many were lost in accidents ? Does anyone have any details of the accidents ?

There is a chap from Croatia who is trying to learn about all the Gazelle operators and, surprise, surprise, he came upon Trinidad !

pablo_tt · Postby **pablo_tt** » December 23rd, 2011, 7:00 pm

One was due to running out of fuel and the other I thin was engine failure

Postby **NorStar2K** » December 24th, 2011, 2:00 am

pablo_tt wrote:One was due to running out of fuel and the other I thin was engine failure

Yup. 1978, 9Y-TFO (NS-1, TTDF-2): The then National Security Minister John Donaldson, was being flown to Tobago to view the effects of an oil spill following an oil tanker collision. Officially the aircraft ran out of fuel and was forced to ditch, (but), unofficially, since we all know pilots calculate fuel loads with accuracy and precision, all I have to say is RHIPs. I'm sure you can figure out the rest.......

1994, 9Y-TFN (NS-2, TTDF-3) Another aircraft lost all power on approach to the Chaguaramas heliport, and went down close to the shore line.

I recall 9Y-TFU went down somewhere in the northern range (could be wrong). Status unknown.

1996, 9Y-TGU was sold to a private operator in the US (N7448Y) and and the last known civil registration was SX-HDL (Greece). See photo below: