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When I worked at Ialand, Bob Barbanes worked in Flight Ops. in Garden City.
He then flew a 206B (one of Island's) painted up for DHL. I actually had a very brief exchange with him here, and then , as you said "poof". Haven't seen nor heard from him since. Yeah, he even got rid of his AOL account. Interesting. Gerard |
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In Feb 1990 an Island 206L went down after take-off and for some reason the
floats werent even activated. A young boy on board was trapped when the ship flipped over in the water and he expired. An interesting side note to this incident. In the book "Sky Cops" written by ex-NYPD Aviation pilot Richard Rosenthal, Chapter 3 deals with this crash. He writes that after the PD scuba divers freed the boy from the wreckage, one of the Aviation Units 412s was on scene in a very low hover ready to hoist the boy aboard and fly him to the East 34st Heliport where EMS awaited. Suddenly an FD boat came in rapidly not only forcing the copter to break off but almost hitting the divers. They pulled the injured youth on board the boat and began working on him. The PD pilot tried to contact them through a number of frequencies so they could get him aboard the copter. But to no avail. He writes they didnt even head for shore but kept working on him.The pilot Gunny Rupprecht was fuming and he wrote out a scathing report about the FDs incompetence. But nothing happened and the controversy faded away. To this day Rupprecht believes if they had hoisted the youth aboard they could have saved his life. Gerard |
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Bart wrote
I gotta say that the trigger assembly on the collective leaves a lot to be desired. It seems like it'd be way too easy to accidentally deploy the things by bumping that mammoth trigger. Bart You want want to look around at some operators like PHI. They had a modifiction where they moved the collective-mounted float switch to the cyclic with a guarded switch. You might find this mod a little more confortable. Greg |
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That sure would be a nicer place for it, but I think given the expense
of such a thing Im going to have to get used to it where it is. Bart Greg Johnsonq wrote: Bart wrote I gotta say that the trigger assembly on the collective leaves a lot to be desired. It seems like it'd be way too easy to accidentally deploy the things by bumping that mammoth trigger. Bart You want want to look around at some operators like PHI. They had a modifiction where they moved the collective-mounted float switch to the cyclic with a guarded switch. You might find this mod a little more confortable. Greg |
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