Those tense moments were all in a day’s work for Garner, one of a handful of hearty scientists, pilots and technicians taking part in a $700, 000 annual U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service study of polar bear populations. In an effort to follow the fate of more than 600 bears since th...
Mauna Loa started as a flight school, so all the pilots are very well trained and they provide interesting guided information as you ride as well. With that said, the photography flight is definitely one of the most expensive doors-off helicopter tours starting at $399 per person, but there...
altitude and attitude. The opening also eliminates the closed-in feeling that the full face mask gave pilots. New models, called AVS-6s and priced at about $18,000 each, as well as some of the older goggles, which cost about
Drama aside, the risk was real. Civilian helicopters were crashing at a rate 30 times higher than today’s pilots face. Several times the campaign came close to raising that rate: a near-collision with a school building in New London, close encounters with wires at a ballpark between Sherman...
For all pilots contenders out there: With e-Atpl you make it easy! Good luck to you, T. Onur (Germany) I have passed all exams at the first attempt. E-ATPL is a good help for the price but there is lots of room for improvement!! Attachments must be in better quality, the base ...
He also argued that the vast majority of Robinson accidents are the fault of pilots — not the machine — and that many are students or hobbyists with little time at the controls. “When people say that ours have more accidents than the others, well, ours are not being flown by ...
But with the flight of police team has grown, police shortage of pilots, especially the shortage of police helicopter pilots have become increasingly prominent, serious constraints on the development of police aviation. Beginning in 2005, the Ministry of public security has invested human and materi...