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pitchlink

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Hey guys,

Another tidbit from TC.

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Pacific
July 26, 2000
CAR 602.01
14 days licence suspension

A commercial helicopter pilot operating a Bell 206 landed close to a general store and gas station. He was fined for having operated the helicopter in a reckless manner.
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Who hasn't landed next to a store for a snack once in a while. If you haven't had pie at Mae's Kitchen you're missing out!! Unless this driver was truly being a bone head than the TC inspector sure as hell was!

Later,
pl
 
Sounds like there might be more to the story. Was this store right downtown Hong-coover?

I landed in Salmon Arm one stormy afternoon in the picnic area adjacent to the Best Western parking lot. Greeted by a carload of RCMP just in having lunch. They didn't mind and said they would drop by throughout the evening to check on the old girl.

Beats waiting hours for the taxi that never goes to the airport.

RH
 
how about in the median of the alaska highway in the middle of ft. st. john? walked over to mcdonalds. rcmp drove up and asked what i was doing.

i said i was going through the "fly-through"!! :up: :up:

good ol' Mae's...yup, i remember them pies...... :up: :up:
 
Used to land beside the Home Restaurant in Merritt while doing power line patrol. Good hearty lunch after which the linesmen were sure to sleep for the first hour of the afternoon patrol!
 
when doing the mosquito spray thing in Edmonton land for breakfast behind the Mr. Johns' on the calgary trail for breaky. nobody cared as nobody even noticed 3-206s parked behind it.
 
This was over 20 years ago in St. Anthony Newfoundland on the seal hunt. It was not uncommon to have 5 helicopters parked in front of your room with extension cords running into the heaters. Three 500's close in and a couple of longrangers a little further out. By the way that is the "late great" Frank Carnie of Universal fame seen on the right. Frank was an outstanding pilot/engineer who died 20 years ago in that very tragic 214 crash near Argentia. Sorry for the photo quality. It’s an old pic and the scanner is not the best.

twitch


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Used to land in front of the Wawa Motor Hotel,Wawa Ont back in the early 70s.Pluged the heaters in to keep her warm.Had a fun pub and very good food.The winter I was there Fiat was cold weather testing the then new Fiat X-19.What a fun crew they were.
Mini......................
 
I remember in the early 80's when Viking used to park a half dozen + machines on the side of the TransCanada Highway at the Travellers Inn just outside of Marathon, ON when the Gold Boom was on in the Hemlo area.

This place was polluted with Helicopters back then.

Man I'm gettin old. :eek:

R
 
First experience with fires was landing along the road beside the motel in High level, wind switched and got so smokey couldn't see 3 light posts away. Just as I went to my room thinking no one's coming in all hell breaks loose and 13 helicopters(gazelles to 212's)arrive. George Dunlop says to go check with forestry and viola, am flying on the first fire have ever seen in my life, steep curve.

But in early nineties paid 200 dollar fine for landing along road beside motel where"everybody else had". So be careful where you land. I think beside a resteurant along the highway is fine but don't think would tempt fate by landing in town by motel anymore. But each town is different, Tumbler Ridge ok, Chetwynde-be careful. The TC guys were pretty impressed that I knew the airreg in which I had broken, although still paid the fine myself.


sc
 
Times are a changin', arn't they?

I have done the Marathon one too, Tim Hortons in downtown Kirkland lake (many times), Parry Sound (just over from the runway on the Highway...Lazy!!!), Cochrane Husky, EngleHart, the list goes on....

You can land just about anywhere, once.
(be sure your are the first....) :rolleyes:
 
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