Recent content by brendan_jackman

Re: Flying over water - Does this bother you? Your spot on Lawrence. Know who maintains your machine and dont skimp, after that you are really cutting down on the likelyhood of an incident! You do realise when you get to Iceland youve already done the hard bit of getting to the US COG flyin!!

Re: Flying over water - Does this bother you? However sometimes it does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rwRuV5jHb4 Earlier this year one of our machines lifted a guy out of the water south of Wexford. Got a mayday call out with no position luckly he was spotted by to gents going around the...

Flying over water - Does this bother you? Hi Lawrence, Theres no problem flying over water but I would stress the need for a bit of what if, just in case. Have you ever flown over towns or fields and considered what you would do if? The same should apply for the ocean. Less to hit but thats...

Re: Flying over water - Does this bother you? Just a quicky, make sure your PLB has 406mhz transmitter pref with GPS. 121.5 is no longer monitored and it will just be pure luck if your heard. Most are now dual 406 and 121.5 to allow for gps positioning followed by SAR helicopter final tracking.