3 down - 2 dead - In 3 days

Hot hot hot up here in Alberta.

Lots of fires, lots of planes in the air.

As the subject says.... 3 bell 206 helicopters have crashed within the
past few days, and 2 pilots have been killed.

Speculation has been made that high temps on the ground have made take
off and flying difficult..... and perhaps been a factor in at least one
of the accidents.

I've never drank so much ice tea and ice water as I have these past few
record breaking days... about 33 Celsius, which for us is hot weather.

Taday it broke with overcast skies, so hopefully it will rain a bit and
give the boots on the ground and pilots in the air a bit of a break.

Anybody here ever flown with a bambi bucket.

We are all eyes - so tell us a story.

Shiver wrote:
Hot hot hot up here in Alberta.

Lots of fires, lots of planes in the air.

As the subject says.... 3 bell 206 helicopters have crashed within the
past few days, and 2 pilots have been killed.


That's bad news for 206's. Do you know why it was just them crashing?
Were they all flying the same missions?




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boB
Wing 70

U.S. Army Aviation (retired)
Central Texas - 5NM West of Gray Army Airfield (KGRK)

boB wrote:

That's bad news for 206's. Do you know why it was just them crashing?
Were they all flying the same missions?

Well..... One of the local media pointed that out as if there had to be
a connection, but the government inspector pointed out that considering
the 206 is so popular with so many flying that it is nothing more than
a coincedence.

I've had my 206 at max gross in temps over 100F quite a few times. You gotta
keep your eyes on the N1 and TOT gauges, but the machine performs just fine.
I even had it at 11,000MSL with an OAT over 80F in the mountains out west
once. Nothing weird at all except the control was a little squishy.

Bart

"Shiver" wrote in message
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boB wrote:

That's bad news for 206's. Do you know why it was just them crashing?
Were they all flying the same missions?

Well..... One of the local media pointed that out as if there had to be
a connection, but the government inspector pointed out that considering
the 206 is so popular with so many flying that it is nothing more than
a coincedence.

B4RT wrote:

Nothing weird at all except the control was a little squishy.

Well Bart when I heard it on the Telly I thought... Hmmmmmmm.

It's not like those machines are doing anything they havn't done a
thousand times before under the same conditions.

Either hauling firefighters, equipment, or water.

But you know what the media is like.

A bit of a frenzy I presume with three machines down in three days.