HELICOPTER www.helicopterlife.com Autumn 2011 / £3.99 Lnow includinIg gyroplanFes E HeliTech Sâo Paulo Premiers new Hovers Ahead Helicopters HELICOPTER LIFE is the HIGH LIFE HELICOPTER AuTumn 2011 LIFE COVER STORY First Flight Show & Tell Guide 4 Sâo Paulo Hovers 32 Aviation shows and conferences. Georgina Hunter-Jones flew to Brazil to see for The Editor’s Letter 5 herself the reputed heli - copter capital of the Aerial Forum 6 & 10 world, with more heli - Rob Hields reviews another aerial eatery copters movements than any other city. Letters to the Editor 7 & 11 World News 57 & 20 Flying Crackers 8 & 9 A variety of writers, look at the latest heli - World Speed Record 12 copter news and events. AgustaWestland What are companies in Twenty-five years the old world doing to after it won the world beat the recession and speed record the how the new world is Westland Lynx has benefitting from the been restored by a growth in helicopters. group of apprentices. Le Bourget and other shows 2011 42 Politics: US Debt Affects the FAA 13 Georgina Hunter-Jones Le Bourget 2011 had a Greek Heros 14 new helicopter the LIsa Heaney joins Air1 HAD1-T, and further and HeliAir Bulgaria to movements on envi - watch and participate ronmental issues in in the lifting by Mil aviation. And Arjan Mi-8 (supported by an Dijksterhuis reports on MD500) of two trans - the Tiger Meet. formers into a very tight space. USS Bataan 50 Carlo Kuit and Paul Rio Helicopter Hub 24 Kievit join one of the David Oliver Libyan support ships, looks at the growth of US Osprey V-22 carrier, oil rigs off Brazil’s the USS Bataan, and see eastern coast and how how the Wasp Class that has affect the amphibious assault ship increased number of works with its fleet. helicopters in Rio de Janeiro Book Review 58 Becoming a Bush Pilot 26 CAA Legislation changes 59 Ralph Arnesen continues with the his - Whirly Girls & other Sponsorships 62 tory of his career in the field of helicopter fly - Accident Reports 64 ing both civilian and military. Here he lives House & Helicopter 66 the life of a bush pilot. HELICOPTER LIFE , Autumn 2011 3 S how & T ell G uide HELICOPTER 20 September 2011 BGAD - BUSINESS AND GENERAL AVIATION DAY LIFE Hangar 1, Cambridge Airport, UK http://www.bgad.aero AuTumn 2011 27 September - 29 September 2011 HON. 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Reproduction in whole or in part, in any form whatever, is strictly prohibited without specific written permission of the Editor. 4 HELICOPTER LIFE , Autumn 2011 T he e diTor ’ S l eTTer âo Paulo, I was told, has more work, but people certainly do take helicopter movements than any their families to the beach by helicop - Sother town in the world. ter, and it was debated that people Moreover: the residents use their heli - might take their children to school copters like motorbikes; there is a that way. helicopter flight every two minutes; Sâo Paulo itself is a wonderful 420 helipads in the city of Sao Paulo; town, very vibrant and lively and full the police have a helicopter constant - of street art. One area, called ly circling the town because there is Liberdade, is the Japanese part of Sâo so much crime; even school children Paulo and the largest congregation of war zone but Libya actually was one are taken to school by helicopter Japanese people outside Japan with and we have an informative article because it is so dangerous and there immigration starting around 1908. from Paul Kievit and Carlo Kuit about is a unique helicopter service run Ironically, I left Sâo Paulo, which I their time spent on one of the support from a suburb called Tambore run had been warned by many was dan - ships the USS Bataan. and operated entirely by women, gerous, unhurt, and flew back in a While the world worries about including the pilots. London (one of the safest cities in the Greek debt, helicopter companies are With so much information, or pos - world) which was on fire and rioting. continuing to work as normal. Lisa sibly disinformation, about the huge I approached my house and saw the Heaney, who works for Air 1 in growth of helicopters in Brazil’s most smoke of a burning bus a couple of Greece, writes about her first experi - expensive town (Sâo Paulo is the streets away and spent the night lis - ence working with a heavy lifting 10th most expensive town in the tening to the circling of two twin team using the Mil Mi-8 and the world) it wetted the appetite and I Squirrels overhead. The Squirrels, H369. decided to go there to find out for incidentally, were not at all invasive, It is an interesting time to be flying myself if any of this was true. either because cameras are now so but a difficult time to be trying to get However, although once in Sâo good that the pilots can be out of ear- a job. While in Europe and America Paulo I could see for myself there shot when in eye-shot or because the this is the result of the recession, in were lots of helicopters and lots of pilots wanted those householders who Brazil there is plenty of work, but helicopter movements, it was not still had a house to get a good nights there are not enough experienced easy to get exact figures. This is not sleep. I estimated the Squirrels were pilots, and in the Middle East aviation because pilots and managers are around 1500 feet and very quiet. is feeling the effect of the Arab unwilling to talk, far from it, but London may have seemed like a Spring. Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP because official statistics are few. commented that when advertising is s Somethings, though, I was able to e n not available in old markets compa - o completely discount: there is no all- J - r nies move to new markets, this, how - e female helicopter company based in t n ever, is harder for pilots to do. Some u h Tambore or anywhere else, nor do the a countries, Brazil for example, will n i police have a constantly circling R22 g r only employ their own nationals, o e in Sâo Paulo City, in fact they didn’t g other countries, India is a good exam - : m have any Robinsons at all and use the o t ple, do employ foreign pilots but not t Schweizer for training and AS350s o B foreign companies, and even where , for most of the EMS and fire fighting s e ex-pat pilots are allowed to work u q r a there is the question of language. m s o China is looking to be a helicopter l l r a growth market, it is possible that C o unemployed pilots should start taking â o J : Chinese lessons. P o t h P a r g o t o h P HELICOPTER LIFE , Autumn 2011 5 A eriAl F orum Armathwaite Hall in Cumbria Robert ‘noshmore’ Hields on the art of flying and eating Jane and Jack Havakin with the Big Red EC130 and Noshmore on the lawn at Armathwaite Halll t is with great pleasure I have the chance to write about one history that inhabits it, and the lake that stretches before it, it of my personal favourite country house hotels. I have is a house of perfect and irresistible atmosphere”.