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Helicopter Life HELICOPTER LIFE Summer 2010 / £3.99 www.helicopterlife.com Blades of Portugal HELICOPTER LIFE is the HIGH LIFE helicopter Summer 2010 liFe COVER STORY Show & Tell Guide 4 Rotores de Portugal Aviation shows and conferences. 32 Menso van Westrheueu The Editor’s Letter 5 went flying with the Rotores de Portugal Aerial Forum 6 & 10 and experienced what David Philipott on the British AirMed market it is like to be an air show pilot and, even Letters to the Editor 7, 11, 15 more, part of a team involved in the daily Flying Crackers 8, 9 routine of aerobatics Boys’ Toys at EBACE 12 Alternative Fuels 40 Georgina Hunter- Helicopter Life looks at the alternative fuels Jones flew to market around the world. Geneva to visit the 10th show and to Rescue 42 see how business Leslie Symons jets and helicopters writes about the history are recovering from of the mountain rescue volcanic ash, down - services, its volunteers turn and debt and details of rescues in the Cairngorms and New Technology 16 elsewhere Eurocopter’s new OPOC engine was on display at Houston HAI Flying Falcon 48 Andrew Harvey Kyrgyzstan’s Golden Future 18 had one of the most Sophy Ibbotson and unusual flights of his others write about career when he was the Republic of asked to fly a falcon at Kyrgyzstan, a night in the Meydan mountainous region Stadium to celebrate where helicopters the 2010 World Cup are a major source in Dubai of transport for a variety of different Greek Olympics 54 applications John Hill flew with nine other Searching for a mystery helicopter pilot 22 helicopters to Athens Ken Smith continues his search to operate the Westcam during the Greek HAI HeliExpo 24 Olympics Helicopter Life staff visit the annual show at Helicopters Past and Future 62 Houston, Texas to hear the manufacturers’ pre - Book Reviews 63 dictions for the future and to see the latest Accident Reports 64 innovation including the Bluecopter House & Helicopter 66 helicopter LIFE , Summer 2010 3 S how & T ell helicopter G uide 8 June - 13 June 2010 liFe ILA BERLIN AIRSHOW Berlin Schoenfeld Airport Summer 2010 Ms Manuela Jank Phone:+49 (0)30 3038-2167 HON. EDITORIAL BOARD Fax:+49 (0)30 3039 000-2167 Captain Eric Brown, CBE, RN E-mail: [email protected] The Lord Glenarthur, DL Jennifer Murray 15 June 2010 Michael J. H. Smith COAST GUARD HELICOPTERS Wing Cdr. Ken Wallis, MBE, RAF BAe Systems Park Centre, GU14 6XN Ian McKluskie Contact CHC Ltd. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / PILOT Georgina Hunter-Jones [email protected] 19 June - 20 June 2010 CREATIVE DIRECTORS 10TH VERTICAL CHALLENGE HELICOPTER [email protected] AIR SHOW Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos Airport COPY EDITORS Evangeline Hunter-Jones, JP San Carlos, California John Wilson www.hiller.org/vertical-challenge.shtml. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Andrew Harvey, John Hill, Sophie Ibbotson, 17 July - 18 July 2010 Max Lovell-Hoare, Michael Pye, David Philpott, CHOLmONDELEY PAGEANT OF POWER Ken Smith, Leslie Symons, Menso van Westrheueu Cholmondeley Castle Malpas, Cheshire CONTRIBUTED PHOTOGRAPHY Andrew Harvey, John Hill, Geoff James, Telephone: 01829 772432. Malvina Nicca, David Philpott, Ken Smith, website: www.cpop.co.uk Leslie Symons, Menso van Westrheueu. Email: [email protected] Maximum Exposure, Darren Wring, SPECIAL THANKS TO 19 July - 25 July 2010 Dave Smith ATPL(H)IR, Malvina Nicca FARNBOROUGH IINTERNATIONAL AIRSHOW Farnborough Airfield, UK ADVERTISING Telephone: +44-(0)20-7430-2384 Contact Farnborough Airshow Team [email protected] Telephone: +44(0) 1252 532800 Email: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS Go to our website or turn to page 54 [email protected] 5 October - 7 October 2010 WEBSITE HELITECH EUROPE 2010 www.helicopterlife.com Cascais, Portugal Contact: Verity Newton Tel: +44 (0) 20 8910 7910 COVER PHOTOGRAPHS Fax: +44 (0) 20 8334 0588 Rotores de Portugal by Menso van http://www.helitechevents.com Westrheueu 2 November - 4 November 2010 HELICOPTER LIFE is published quarterly by FlyFizzi Ltd. HELISHOW DUBAI 2010 59 Great Ormond Street East Hall, Airport Expo, Dubai UAE London, WC 1N-3 Hz . Copyright © FlyFizzi Ltd. 2010. Contact: Julia Cuthbert ISSN 1743-1042. Mediac Communications and Exhibitions - UK All rights reserved. Opinions expressed herein are not neces - Tel:+44 (0)1293 823 779 Mobile: +44 (0) 7734 563 324 sarily those of the pub lishers, the Editor or any of the editorial Fax: +44 (0) 1293 825 394 staff. Reproduction in whole or in part, in any form whatever, E-mail: [email protected] is strictly prohibited without specific written permission of the Editor. 4 helicopter LIFE , Summer 2010 T he e diTor ’ S l eTTer he International Air Transport sources. On the other hand, once up Association estimates that 1.2 and running maintenance costs are Tmillion passengers were affect - very low and, as our need for alterna - ed by the first ‘shutdown in the skies tive energy sources grows, geo-ther - above’ resulting from the Icelandic mal energy will continue to be Volcano’s ash cloud. The estimated researched. loss of revenue was 1.7 billion US For the UK and its European part - dollars. For six days there were no ners there have been two other impor - airline flights over Britain and tant issues. The British General Northern Europe. Election, which led first to a Hung Helicopters and helicopter compa - Parliament, and then to the first coali - nies, on the other hand, benefited. tion government since the Second their own party-biased views instead. PremiAir Aviation, for example, flew World War, and the Greek debt. (And As in the past there is a growing sorties out to Ireland and those parts other debt areas as they extend to emphasis on alternative fuel, on heli - of Europe that allowed it (the French Spain, Portugal and even to the UK copters with cleaner and more effec - closed their airspace) to pick up itself.) These matters have led to tive engines and on coalitions with stranded passengers. The difference instability in the financial markets, other companies to promote helicop - seems mainly to have lain with the which in itself has increased the pres - ters. We have previously seen how autonomy of the helicopter compa - sure on the debt-laden countries. Hermes offered a full decorative serv - nies (or perhaps you might say the A possible source of revenue, or ice of the Eurocopter EC135 both common sense attitude of helicopter increasing debt as it was in Greece, is external and internal. Now, at EBACE owners). While Turbomeca warned the Olympics. which will be held in (the European Business Association that there might be future difficulties the UK in 2012. Here we have a big Convention and Exhibition ) and damage to their engines, but left question: what, if anything, are heli - Mercedes Benz has offered the same it to the owners to make their own copters going to be doing during the type of make-over for the Eurocopter decisions, the airlines were ruled by Olympics? Will they be used at all? EC145, dressed, as one enthusiast NAATS and the CAA and were not What will be the police and security suggested, in Michael Schumacher’s allowed to make commercial deci - position in helicopters? At the colours! sions for themselves. The compensa - moment this appears to be a great The early part of this year has once tion issues that have now accrued unknown. again been a mixed time for helicop - illuminate to what the airlines are As Michael Hampton, MD of ters. Personally, I have found that the now calling the European govern - Capital Air Services, says: ”In a training schools are doing less work ments’ over-reaction. meeting with the officials dealing and have fewer students, airports and There have been two other results with infrastructure and transport at airfields are less busy and corporate from the volcanic shut-down: one the the Olympics I asked about what pro - events do not have so many arrivals realisation by the public generally gramme they had for helicopters, and by helicopter. However, I have still about how much we rely on aviation was told there was no position for had work as an examiner. People who and our ability to use the sky; the helicopter transport at the moment.” already have licences seem to be other a focus on the possibilities of Capital Air Services provided the retaining them and are continuing to s r harnessing the output of volcanoes as helicopter support at the Greek e fly. So, my feeling is that many peo - t P geo-thermal energy. Olympics in Athens, and we have a o c ple are just waiting to see what will i l e The drawback of geo-thermal ener - story by John Hill, who flew to h be the result of the markets in the next D gy, however, appears to be the length Athens from Oxford with a team of M year or so. These are exciting times , n of time it takes to obtain the neces - ten helicopters and did all the web- o let’s enjoy them as best we can. t n i sary equipment, the potential set-up cam work. Hill feels that, given the g g i costs and (something we are now security issues, it is unlikely there W y a J very aware of as BP struggles to cap will be any VIP helicopter transport h P a the oil-leak in Louisianan) the in London. He also has some pretty r g o unknown problems that may accrue stiff words for politicans who do not t o h from harnessing such volatile listen to experts in the field but give P helicopter LIFE , Summer 2010 5 A eriAl F orum With the Airmed World Congress due to be held in Brighton, england next may, David Philpott asks if the British Air Ambulance Service has finally come of age.
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