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The Struggle Biography of a Fighter Pilot Franciszek Kornicki Published in Poland £12.99 Stratus HELICOPTER www.helicopterlife.com Spring 2012 / £3.99 Lnow includinIg gyroplanFes E Win tickets to the Goodwood Festival of Speed HELICOPTER LIFE is the HIGH LIFE HELICOPTER SPRInG 2012 LIFE COVER STORY First Flight Show & Tell Guide 4 Gusta Mangusta 32 Aviation shows and conferences. Dino Marcellino flew with the 5th Riel The Editor’s Letter 5 Mangusta, the pride of Italy and Italian indus - Aerial Forum 6 & 10 try, and saw the Rob Hields talks of many things Mangusta at work Letters to the Editor 7 & 11 & 15 World News 57 & 20 A variety of writers, Flying Crackers 8 & 9 look at the latest heli - copter news and events. New Technology 12 What are companies in HAI Dallas shows: the old world doing to a new fly-by-wire heli - beat the recession and copter in the making how the new world is with a canted tail rotor. benefitting from the Is this the way conven - growth in helicopters. tional helicopters are now moving, or will HeliExpo 2012 40 helicopters die out? Georgina Hunter-Jones HeliExpo Dallas 2012 Somalian Aid 18 gave great hope: Rainer Herzberg visits new helicopters, Somalia and travels improved technology, around with German more R & D, better Help 3, an EMS company sales figures Helicopter that was and more visitors than also used for aid-giving in previous years. in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Check for RATs - Olympic update 48 Don’t Poke the Pilot 22 Gyrocopters 50 General Moore-Bick Roger Savage and Barry looks back on a long Jones work out the prob - career of flight trans - lems and pleasures of port with military gyrocopter flying in a pilots “of all colours” modern era, using the and muses on the plus - heavier and more stable, es and minuses of that but still open-top auto - form of “officer deliv - gyros for training. ery`’! Book Review 58 Turks & Caicos 24 Georgina Hunter-Jones CAA Legislation changes 59 visits a Canadian heli - copter company with a Where to fly 61 daughter company in balmy island of Accident Reports 64 Providenciales in the Turks & Caicos. House & Helicopter 66 HELICOPTER LIFE , Spring 2012 3 S how & T ell G uide HELICOPTER 27 March - 1April 2012 LIFE FIDAE 2012 SPRInG 2012 Santiago di Chile Phone 562- 8739797 www.fidae.cl HON. EDITORIAL BOARD email: [email protected] Captain Eric Brown, CBE, RN The Lord Glenarthur, DL 25 May - 27 May 2012 Jennifer Murray AEROExPO UK Michael J. H. Smith Sywell Aerodrome, Northamptonshire, UK Wing Cdr. Ken Wallis, MBE, RAF http://www.expo.aero/uk EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / PILOT Georgina Hunter-Jones 14 June - 17 June 2012 [email protected] CHOLMONDELY PAGEANT OF POWER CREATIVE DIRECTORS Cholmondely Castle, Cheshire, UK [email protected] http://www.cpop.co.uk/ COPY EDITORS Evangeline Hunter-Jones, JP 22 June - 24 June 2012 Gerald Cheyne AEROExPO EUROPE CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Bitburg, Germany Rainer Herzberg, Barry Jones, Dino Marcellino, http://www.expo.aero/europe John Moore-Bick, Roger Savage, Tony Hancock CONTRIBUTED PHOTOGRAPHY 29 June - 1 July 2012 Rainer Herzberg, Barry Jones, Dino Marcellino, THE FESTIVAL OF SPEED & AVIATION John Moore-Bick, Roger Savage ExHIBITION SPECIAL THANKS TO Goodwood House, near Chichester, Sussex Dave Smith ATPL(H)IR, Paul Herbert CPL(H) Susan Bradley, Dietrich Peters and Ben Gearing www.goodwood.co.uk/festival-of-speed ADVERTISING Telephone: +44-(0)20-7430-2384, 9 July - 15 July 2012 [email protected] FARNBOROUGH INTERNATIONAL AIR SHOW Farnborough Airfield, Farnborough SUBSCRIPTIONS Go to our website or turn to page 54 http://www.farnborough.com/airshow-2012 [email protected] WEBSITE 14 September - 16 September 2012 www.helicopterlife.com GOODWOOD REVIVAL Blog Goodwood House, near Chichester, Sussex http://helicopterlife.blogspot.com http://www.goodwood.co.uk/revival See Helicopter Life on Facebook & Twitter 26 September - 27 September 2012 THE HELICOPTER SHOW Silverstone, UK COVER PHOTOGRAPH http://www.thehelicoptershow.com Mangusta by Dino Marcellino 6 November - 8 November 2012 THE DUBAI HELISHOW HELICoPTER LIFE is published quarterly by FlyFizzi Ltd. Contact: Julia Cuthbert 59 Great ormond Street London, WC 1N-3 Hz . Mediac Communications and Exhibitions - UK Copyright © FlyFizzi Ltd. 2012. E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 1743-1042. http://www.dubaihelicoptershow.com All rights reserved. opinions expressed herein are not neces - sarily those of the pub lishers, the Editor or any of the editorial staff. Reproduction in whole or in part, in any form whatever, is strictly prohibited without specific written permission of the Editor. 4 HELICOPTER LIFE , Spring 2012 his year started looking a little T he e diTor ’ S l eTTer better for aviation in January Tand leapt ahead at the HAI in Dallas in February. The HAI was an ulated helicopters. Have a look at the upbeat show, with new helicopters website. It makes it clear that EASA from Bell and Eurocopter - Bell is regulations take the place of CAA designing and building a completely ones. new helicopter, the 525 Relentless “All non-JAR licences (i.e. (see New Technology page 12 and ‘National Licences’, including JAR HAI article), while Eurocopter has an licences marked as ‘Valid for UK ‘e’ version of the EC130. There were registered aircraft’) can be converted also developments in the Marenco directly into Part-FCL licences; it is Swiss Helicopter, which, the compa - not necessary to convert to a JAR ny hopes, will do its first flight in licence first. For aeroplane and heli - November this year and some move - copter PPLs, CPLs, and ATPLs this ment in the 609 programme, now conversion can be done on similar totally controlled by AgustaWestland. terms to those which currently exist Helicopter company sales figures are to convert national licences to JAR also improving and there was a gen - licences.” EMS and life saving. The vision he eral feel that the downturn is gradual - As an explanation of the length of portrays of Somalia is bleak, but with ly turning upwards. While there are time it is likely to take the CAA have some buried hope in the marvellously still considerable disadvantages in the included in their website this data: resiliant attitudes of the people. current market: lack of military “The CAA has approximately More lightheartedly we have Barry spending; debt ridden western gov - 55,000 licence holders. on average, Jones (an already highly experienced ernments and a reduction in the num - the CAA sends out 70 new or amend - helicopter pilot) article on learning to ber of private fliers, nonetheless there ed licences every working day, or fly with that ‘father of gyrocopters’, was a hovering tide, which, if taken approximately 1500 a month. It is Roger Savage, and an article about at the flood, should lead on to for - difficult to estimate the number of flying helicopters in the Turks & tune, as Shakespeare might have said national (non-JAR) licences that will Caicos Islands in the Caribbean. had he been a devotee of helicopters. need to be converted but it is likely to There are other positive indications For anyone flying in Europe there be in the region of 15,000 to 20,000. in the helicopter world. one is that is now a big change in the way flying If these are spread evenly over the the longstanding helicopter company is controlled as we move over to transition period (which is unlikely) HeliAir, originally started by Mike EASA regulations. As changes will the CAA will need to complete at Smith, has just been awarded an IS- take effect in a few weeks it is neces - least 500 additional licence transac - BAo Rating. Brian Kane, Head of sary for all pilots to be aware of the tions per month from 1st July 2012 Sales and Marketing at HeliAir, says differences and the effect on their onwards. We must also expect a sig - that HeliAir is the first helicopter licences. The website to view for nificant increase in enquires by tele - company in the world to ever receive these changes is: phone and email.” one. An IS-BAo (International In this issue we have an article Standard for Business Aircraft <http://www.caa.co.uk/applica - about the Italian Air Force’s use of operations) is a code of best practice. tion.aspx?catid=14&pagetype=65& Apaches in Afghanistan which gives and was introduced by The appid=7&mode=detail&nid=2096> an interesting scenario of the day-to- International Business Aviation day use of the machine. We also have Council (IBAC) in 2002 to foster Gyrocopters are not affected by the General Moore-Bick’s opinion of standardized, safe and highly profes - changes as they remain on CAA regu - military helicopter pilots, whose serv - sional aircraft operations. e lations nor are ‘amateur built air - ices he has used over a long career in n y on page 48 we have the latest e craft’, but other helicopters will now h the army. Both stories give an inter - C update on flying in the Restricted d be regulated by EASA. estingly broad view of helicopter l a zone during the olympic period. r e For anyone who still has a pilots usage. g h UKPPL(H) issued prior to JAA, you P Rainer Herzberg flies out to a r g will need to convert your PPL to Somalia to see a different side of hel - o t o EASA, before you can fly EASA reg - h icopter use in war-torn countries: P HELICOPTER LIFE , Spring 2012 5 A eriAl F orum Get the Picture! robert ‘noshmore’ Hields on the art of helicopters ello readers. Since my first article appeared in forsooth, nay good fellow, yet again hath Ye Lode CAA Helicopter Life, following my “long-haul” flight denounced my proverbial parchment work? The truth is to London Heliport in G ASAz, my trusty old H of course stranger than fiction in the modern aviation Hiller, I have had some interesting feedback from cus - world isn’t it? “But all my students carry a spare sextant tomers, colleagues, friends, members of the CAA, and on the triangular navigation exercise, Sir Paul”, I other people that absolutely hate me! Well, flattery will exclaimed tugging my forelock, “Just in case the VoR get you everywhere, but you must try to maintain a sense fails, or the magnetic compass works accurately in the of humour, particularly in this business.
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