Chopper Chat Thread

[gastly369]

[mero]

For a helicopter piloting license; would anyone advise if going through the Air guard and getting the possibility of learning abroad is better than doing it privately internationally?

[hoverauto]

For a helicopter piloting license; would anyone advise if going through the Air guard and getting the possibility of learning abroad is better than doing it privately internationally?

My advice to you would be to stay away from the Air Guard......

[foss]

For a helicopter piloting license; would anyone advise if going through the Air guard and getting the possibility of learning abroad is better than doing it privately internationally?

http://www.heli.com/

http://www.cloud9helicopters.com/

[jm3]

if you don't mind the military life and you fit the requirements for the airguard use them for the training and get out that is what i did with the royal airforce

[Habit7]

Does it have a planespotters thread?

[mero]

My advice to you would be to stay away from the Air Guard......

thanks, but anything a bit more useful would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to pm more or something

http://www.heli.com/

http://www.cloud9helicopters.com/

dude thanks, I've been looking at Britow a while now. Is there anyone inside here who did courses with them who you can point me to?

if you don't mind the military life and you fit the requirements for the airguard use them for the training and get out that is what i did with the royal airforce

this was my main reason. Always wanted military training and also to make use of the possible opportunities. I would be going in as an Officer so i guess it would be easier to get the opportunity to train abroad... i believe

[pablo_tt]

I know it's not rotor related, but a little birdie told me there's something a buzzing by the airport

[mrtrini45]

[Habit7]

I was reading the Newsday today and there was a small article on the Air Guard getting 2 more helicopters!?!

Are these the other AW-139's?

[mrtrini45]

I was reading the Newsday today and there was a small article on the Air Guard getting 2 more helicopters!?!

Are these the other AW-139's?

[hoverauto]

My advice to you would be to stay away from the Air Guard......

thanks, but anything a bit more useful would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to pm more or something

http://www.heli.com/

http://www.cloud9helicopters.com/

dude thanks, I've been looking at Britow a while now. Is there anyone inside here who did courses with them who you can point me to?

if you don't mind the military life and you fit the requirements for the airguard use them for the training and get out that is what i did with the royal airforce

this was my main reason. Always wanted military training and also to make use of the possible opportunities. I would be going in as an Officer so i guess it would be easier to get the opportunity to train abroad... i believe

Go to Cloud 9 in Miami, they are cheap and have a program set up just for Trinis.

Or....if you feeling adventurous go to Panama. Here is the link: http://helipan.com/ PM me for more info on this.

Regarding the airguard, you can join but there is no guarantee that you end up as a pilot. My advice would be to go and visit them. Personally that aint for me, I not up for any 6 months basic training in Tetron nah.....

[Habit7]

Come man better than that!

somebody should lose their job over this.

[NorStar2K]

AATT Airport Disaster Emergency Drill 2012. Operation 'HOTEL'

[pete]

Come man better than that!

somebody should lose their job over this.

Upside down flag?

[wagonrunner]

Upside down flag?

wrong side flag.
The black of the flag should never be painted in that direction.

[jm3]

that was the supplied decal so i would say that came from the peepee

[jm3]

that was the supplied decal so i would say that came from the peepee

[Habit7]

Tanzania




Trinidad & Tobago




I don't know what flag on those helicopters

[wagonrunner]

that was the supplied decal so i would say that came from the peepee

some government contract recipient who couldn't be bothered by national pride, and ok'd straight up the ranks for a couple dollars.

Since social studies and by extension national pride and awareness seem to have been removed.
http://www2.nalis.gov.tt/Research/SubjectGuide/NationalEmblems/tabid/215/ItemId/212/Default.aspx

Description of the National Flag of Trinidad and Tobago: On a Red Field, a Bend Dexter Sable bordered Silver, that is to say, there is on the Red Field a diagonal from left to right in Black bordered with White.

[Monk BANzai]

AND IT ON AL LD CHOPEPR DEM?!!.....steups..........

[pete]

Well..to me it looks like the flag is correct on the left side of the helicopters. Maybe the ones for the right side are made to look like the flag was flying and not a painted on flag. i.e. the front of the chopper is the front of the flag.

[Habit7]

Well..to me it looks like the flag is correct on the left side of the helicopters. Maybe the ones for the right side are made to look like the flag was flying and not a painted on flag. i.e. the front of the chopper is the front of the flag.

?oot txet eht htiw taht od t'ndid yeht yhw oS

[NorStar2K]

Wait, I uploaded all dem pix from the AATT drill and allyuh quarelling about a damn flag?!

Let me clear it up for you, on military aircraft (and some international commercial aircraft), the flag on the starboard side is a mirrored version (opposite direction) of the original flag on the port side (the flag has 2 sides people). This is simply the way the flag would look from the other side if blowing in the wind (giving the effect of the flag flying in the breeze as the aircraft moves forward)

On American soldiers uniforms, the US flag is mirrored as its worn on their right shoulder for the same reason.

See for yourself............

[NorStar2K]

The MEDEVAC bird at San Fernando General Hospital Helipad

[Habit7]

yeah your right

[wagonrunner]

norstar, we know that. It's in the US's regulations for flag display.

When the flag is affixed to the side of a vehicle (land, sea or air), it should be oriented so that the union is towards the front, as if the flag were streaming backwards from its hoist as the vehicle moves forward. Therefore, U.S. flag decals on the right sides of vehicles may appear to be "reversed", with the union to the observer's right instead of left as more commonly seen.

Not ours, but aye look the US doing it, we should do it too.

[NorStar2K]

norstar, we know that. It's in the US's regulations for flag display.

When the flag is affixed to the side of a vehicle (land, sea or air), it should be oriented so that the union is towards the front, as if the flag were streaming backwards from its hoist as the vehicle moves forward. Therefore, U.S. flag decals on the right sides of vehicles may appear to be "reversed", with the union to the observer's right instead of left as more commonly seen.

Not ours, but aye look the US doing it, we should do it too.

Nothing in the Regulations Governing the National Emblems of Trinidad and Tobago  
(1st December 1980) Chapter 19:04 says you can't.

[r3iXmann]

norstar, we know that. It's in the US's regulations for flag display.

When the flag is affixed to the side of a vehicle (land, sea or air), it should be oriented so that the union is towards the front, as if the flag were streaming backwards from its hoist as the vehicle moves forward. Therefore, U.S. flag decals on the right sides of vehicles may appear to be "reversed", with the union to the observer's right instead of left as more commonly seen.

Not ours, but aye look the US doing it, we should do it too.

indeed.

[psykomorf]

How about using the RAF style roundel and keep the flag on the tailboom?