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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Helicopter GPS approaches to hospitals

When a company, hospital, etc. wants to create an approach using GPS technology, they hire a contractor (STI comes to mind). The contractor ...

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Can we learn from this?

hgn crash pilot fault NTSB Author: wasthere Date: 1/22/2009 1:07:45 AM SOUTH PADRE ISLAND - Federal aviation investigators have determin...

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

High Wind Heebyjeebies

So there I was - today, flying towards a rural hospital in winds gusting to 30+ on the surface and tossing us around in the BK. Frontal pass...

Friday, December 19, 2008

New to the BK-117?

Don't be low, slow, and in a right turn (to look at an LZ). Cross controlling the cyclic and pedals will lead you to running out of cyc...

Sunday, December 7, 2008

What does an EMS pilot do to kill time?

Some spend time on the "Just Helicopters" forum/message board. After reading thru all the chaff this morning about who has the b...

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About Me

Dan Foulds: I am a retired Army Aviator, retired medevac pilot, and full-time tour-boat captain on Savannah's waterways. Jeanne Foulds and I own Island Shuttle Boat Tours. I blog about Helicopter-EMS, Boats, and Bars, and love all three. I have written extensively for Southern Tides Magazine, and I wrote the the "Focus on Safety" column for Vertical Valor Magazine for five years. To borrow some words from the gent at Etymology Online, " If I did this right, I can say at the end of life I bundled up my worst qualities -- obsessiveness, impudence, narcissism -- and made something vaguely useful with them."

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