HELICOPTER Autumn 2016 / £4.99 HELICOPTER AuTumn 2016 www.helicopterlife.com including gyroplanes LIFE Brexit LIFE COVER STORY Flight Show & Tell Guide 4 Brexit - Helicopters 32 Aviation shows and conferences. Georgina Hunter-Jones Blues? Looks at the potential The Editor’s Letter 5 consequences for heli - copter companies of elico Aerial Forum 6 & 7 the UK vote to leave H Tim Scorer the EU Letters to the Editor 10 Yeovilton Air Show Flying Crackers 8 & 9 Clive Bennett photographs the action
Helicopters Beware! THe UKAB and BGA want to highlight the danger of flying near 40 gliding sites and HeliTech Preview stress the recent near HeliTech team 46 misses by helicopters What excitements are to be had at HeliTech 12 Amsterdam
Vietnam Darkness Ralph Arnesen 16 Recalls another episode of his time in KADEX Can Vietnam during the Arjan Dijksterhuis 50 war visits the Kazakhstan air show and gives us the highlights and intrigue
Where now for Sikorsky? 20 G Cheyne Looks at the future for HeliExpo 2016 56 the large commercial Sywell and military company Georgina Hunter-Jones after its take over by Looks at the GA show Lockheed Martin last and its latest products year 26 Brunei 7 Flight Book Reviews 58 David Oliver visits Brunei to talk to CAA Legislation changes 59 7 Flight and see their work in the jungle Accident Reports 64 HELICOPTER LIFE is the HIGH LIFE House & Helicopter 66 HELICOPTER LIFE , Autumn 2016 3 how ell S & T ow the UK has voted to leave T he e diTor ’ S l eTTer G uide HELICOPTER the European Union what will Nthat mean for aviation in gener - al and helicopters in particular? submitted this Autumn, following a 5 November - 8 November 2016 Immediately after the result was public discussion in September. 5TH ASIAN AUSTRALIAN ROTORCRAFT LIFE announced to the shocked populations The proposed site is at Jelbert Way, FORUm of the UK and Europe there was a state - Penzance close to the former site of the Concord Hotel, Orchard Road, Singapore AuTumn 2016 ment from Airbus: BIH Heliport. The original service ran https://vtol.org/arf “Brexit will prove bad news for the for 48 years before closing. aviation and aerospace industries as I was a H269 and S300 pilot, HON. EDITORIAL BOARD 22 February -26 February 2017 their activity is closely associated to the instructor and examiner for many years, The Lord Glenarthur, DL HELI PILOT SHOW dynamism of Europe....” (see cover so I have been very sad to see their Olympia, London, UK Jennifer Murray story). slow demise after their purchase by www.helipilotshow.com Michael J. H. Smith Malvina Nicca Later the CAA set up a meeting with Sikorsky Aircraft. When I saw that 7 March - 9 March 2017 the DoT about the possible conse - Lockheed Martin had bought Sikorsky quences of this vote and how to miti - Aircraft from UTC I did wonder if their HAI HELIExPO 2017 EASA certification is pending, hence Dallas, Texas, USA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / PILOT gate them as far as possible. fate would be the same as their former Georgina Hunter-Jones Robinson will not accept orders from www.heliexpo.rotor.org [email protected] Representation has been made to the wunderkind. However, it seems this is UK (or any other customers whose CREATIVE DIRECTORS Prime Minister; Lord Glenarthur not to be. Lockheed Martin are more 18 April - 20 April 2017 [email protected] President of the BHA has spoken in than committed to the Sikorsky vision certification is still outstanding) until certification is complete. However, ROTORCRAFT ASIA COPY EDITORS parliament about the need for the gov - and believe that ‘together they are Changi Exhibition Centre, Singapore Gerald Cheyne, Jean Dubourcq ernment to make sure the UK continues stronger’. There will be more on this interestingly it is still acceptable to http://www.rotorcraft-asia.com/ CONTRIBUTING EDITORS its aviation representation and those after HeliTech International show in change your own R44 into a Cadet Clive Bennett, David Oliver, Arjan Diksterhuis, Amsterdam where the Operators Forum and use it for training as Advance 11 May - 13 May 2017 Tim Scorer, HeliTech team, Ralph Arnesen, G helicopter operators who fly across Cheyne Europe and anyone who buys and sells is likely to bring up some interesting Helicopters, based in Shoreham, has ELITE LONDON done. Biggin Hill Airport, London CONTRIBUTED PHOTOGRAPHY into Europe is wondering what the discussions on the way forward for Time Scorer, Gerald Cheyne, Clive Bennett, future will hold. manufacturers, operators and owners. Enstrom has now returned to testing https://www.theeliteevents.com David Oliver, Arjan Diksterhuis, Alan Norris, the TH-180, which had stopped after an Ralph Arnesen, Neil Harrison, HeliTech Almost immediately after the vote Continuing our commitment to the 1 June -3 June 2017 the markets fell and the pound went to gyroplane world we have a short piece accident (due to the testing equipment) HELI UK ExPO SPECIAL THANKS TO in the first prototype. They are now fly - Malvina Nicca ATPL, Gerald Cheyne, Ralph its lowest level against the dollar since from Chris Jones about new things in Wycombe Air Park, UK Arnesen the 1980s. The markets have subse - the gyrocopter world, including a new ing the second prototype and the third is in production. They hope to have certi - http://www.heliukexpo.com/ ADVERTISING quently bounced back but the pound UK CPL(H) which will allow compa - Telephone: +44-(0)23-9263-1713, remains low, worrying those who holi - nies to access cheaper workers and fication by next year. 19 July -23 July 2017 [email protected] day or buy goods abroad, but good work stations. In South Africa, Rhino911 an anti- INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF SUBSCRIPTIONS poaching initiative has selected a Bell HOmEBUILT ROTORCRAFT Go to our website or turn to page 54 news for those involved in the tourist We also have an update on the [email protected] trade within the country. progress of the Cabri G2, which has 407GT to help fight back against poach - Mentone Airport, Mentone, Indiana USA ers of rhino and other endangered ani - http://www.pra.org WEBSITE Even without the Brexit vote, 2016 already produced its 175th helicopter www.helicopterlife.com has been a turbulent year with numer - and has, according to The General mals. Rhino911’s goal is to stop the 23 July -28 July 2017 Blog ous terrorist attacks, a potential coup in Aviation Manufacturers Association, poachers long before they reach their ALEA ExPO 2017 http://www.helicopterlife.blogspot.com targets. They use the specially equipped See Helicopter Life on Facebook & Twitter Turkey, and the rise of new terrorist produced more G2 Cabris in 2015 Reno, Nevada, USA organisations across the Middle East. than the Robinson Helicopter Bell 407GT to find and intercept poach - http://www.alea.org At one time it seemed that every day Company produced R22s. An amaz - ers at a distance, using advanced NV COVER PHOTOGRAPH bought a new disaster. Now we have ing feat considering Robinson has (night vision) and FLIR/WESCAM WORLD HELICOPTER DAY Alan Norris Union Jack Hughes 369 G-SWEL. 2017 on the horizon with French and been market leader in this sphere thermal imaging and other advanced 20 August 2017 Inset Neil Harrison 2008 Helicopter World
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www.worldhelicopterday.com t the Editor. o FAA certification on 6 May 2016. h planning application is expected to be P 4 HELICOPTER LIFE , Autumn 2016 HELICOPTER LIFE , Autumn 2016 5 Air Navigation Order. They pointed out that Section A eriAl F orum 76(1) of the Act says: No action shall lie in respect of trespass or in respect Conclusion of nuisance by reason only of the flight of an aircraft In concluding this nuisance claim, the Judge made an Love Your neighbours over any property at a height above the ground which Order limiting the operations to specified days of the having regard to wind, weather and all circumstances of week, and for a limited duration. Since the neighbours the case is reasonable or the ordinary incidence of such had succeeded in this claim, the airfield was ordered to flight as long as the provisions of any Air Navigation Tim Scorer looks at a case where flying becomes an pay their legal fees and costs. The airfield’s representa - Order...... have been complied with.” (Editor’s under - tives requested permission to appeal against the Judge’s ‘unreasonable nuisance’ lining) decisions in relation to whether the training exercises “These provisions cover the whole take-off and land - constituted “flying” or not. The Court of Appeal have ing process”, remarked the Judge. However, it did not Peires v Bickerton’s Aerodromes Ltd [2016] given permission. The final outcome of this significant assist the airfield because he did “not accept that the issue is awaited. training exercise on the “slope” is “flight” or any part of it. The section (of the Act) is plainly to cover journeys Editor’s note: the decision of the Court of Appeal on with aircraft passing over other property and the associ - this case will be reported as soon as it is available. ated take-off and landing”. In considering the Rules of (This article was first published in the Industry the Air Regulations 2015, especially the “low flying Directory 2016/2017 of the British Business and General rule” (Rule 5) again, the Judge did not accept that the Aviation Association) operations on the slope involved flying. “Helicopters do not need to do the exercise (on the © Tim Scorer slope) to take-off; it was merely that it was convenient June 2016 presumably for the pilots to do the training and then Consultant. Kennedys Law LLP take-off. It follows that the procedures are not part of any [email protected] incident of flying or taking off”.
he close neighbours of a major general aviation Reasonable or unreasonable? (GA) airfield took the airfield to court in March In a nuisance case like this, the test is one of reason - T2016. They alleged that some specific helicopter ableness. Were these operations an unreasonable use of training operations were being carried out very close to the airfield? Did they adversely affect the reasonable use their property (58 metres at the closest point), that of the neighbours’ property? There should be ‘give and repeated lift-offs and touchdowns on some sloping take’ on both sides. The Judge heard that, for over 40 $ ! &