Fun Stuff With Helicopters

Rocky,
Earlier this year a few friends and me did a helicopter
trip down to this same wild coast. There were 5 helicopters
1 R44,1 Bell 47, 2 CH7 Kompresses and my R22.
All the guy's left from Johannesburg and we joined up at
the town of Frankfort and flew from town to town enjoying the
Drakensberg mountains, the Natal subtropical coast line and then
the Wild coast. The trip lasted a week before we were back home
again. We landed at the most exotic beaches and waterfalls.
We cooked fresh crayfish on remote beaches and had a ball.

We stayed in Port St Johns for a few nights and used the small town
as a base wile flying up and down the coast every day.
The trip was in excess of a 1000 nauticle miles and I logged
more than 20 hours for the week.

Twice we had 30 knot coastal winds to fly in. The first time
it was a tail wind and the second time a head wind. This slowed
the Bell 47 down to only 35 knots ground speed. Imagine what
this do to you planned fuel consumption!

We are already planning next years trip.

Regards


Hennie

(Hennie) wrote in message . com...
Rocky,
Earlier this year a few friends and me did a helicopter
trip down to this same wild coast. There were 5 helicopters
1 R44,1 Bell 47, 2 CH7 Kompresses and my R22.
All the guy's left from Johannesburg and we joined up at
the town of Frankfort and flew from town to town enjoying the
Drakensberg mountains, the Natal subtropical coast line and then
the Wild coast. The trip lasted a week before we were back home
again. We landed at the most exotic beaches and waterfalls.
We cooked fresh crayfish on remote beaches and had a ball.

Hennnie Hennie Hennie
Please stop it.....fresh crayfish (crawdads as we call them here in
the southern USA) on the beach and a helicopter fly in with friends?
Voetsok man!
How do you like your R22 up there on the hiveldt? I recall one trip
while flying a 206 out of Jo'berg down to the coast at Richards Bay
and on south to Stanger and Durban. While flying down the coast at
perhaps 100'awl (above water levelggg)and just off the beach, I
suddenly came around a point and in a pretty little bay saw a couple
coupling on the beach. I was startled and did a quick stop and they
did a quick jump for the covers!! I laughed and continued on down the
coast. Lusikisiki was the place where we got our fuel in that other
story.
Beautiful country that Natal province....... Did I ever tell you the
time when we flew up to the face of Augrabie Falls and hovered? Hmmmm,
perhaps another time........ lots of stories about the Karoo and
adventures.
Rocky

We stayed in Port St Johns for a few nights and used the small town
as a base wile flying up and down the coast every day.
The trip was in excess of a 1000 nauticle miles and I logged
more than 20 hours for the week.

Twice we had 30 knot coastal winds to fly in. The first time
it was a tail wind and the second time a head wind. This slowed
the Bell 47 down to only 35 knots ground speed. Imagine what
this do to you planned fuel consumption!

We are already planning next years trip.

Regards


Hennie

Hi Hennie,

Sounds like a "wonderful" trip. I admit, I'm a little green!

Would you happen to have a place where you can post pictures?

Fly Safe,
Steve R.


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Rocky,
Earlier this year a few friends and me did a helicopter
trip down to this same wild coast. There were 5 helicopters
1 R44,1 Bell 47, 2 CH7 Kompresses and my R22.
All the guy's left from Johannesburg and we joined up at
the town of Frankfort and flew from town to town enjoying the
Drakensberg mountains, the Natal subtropical coast line and then
the Wild coast. The trip lasted a week before we were back home
again. We landed at the most exotic beaches and waterfalls.
We cooked fresh crayfish on remote beaches and had a ball.

We stayed in Port St Johns for a few nights and used the small town
as a base wile flying up and down the coast every day.
The trip was in excess of a 1000 nauticle miles and I logged
more than 20 hours for the week.

Twice we had 30 knot coastal winds to fly in. The first time
it was a tail wind and the second time a head wind. This slowed
the Bell 47 down to only 35 knots ground speed. Imagine what
this do to you planned fuel consumption!

We are already planning next years trip.

Regards


Hennie

Steve R. wrote:

Hi Hennie,

Sounds like a "wonderful" trip. I admit, I'm a little green!

Would you happen to have a place where you can post pictures?

I'd sure like to see photos of your adventure also.

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I will try to get some pictures on a web page and I will let you guy's
know when it will be ready for viewing.

Rocky after flying a mini 500 that I built in the highveld the
R22 feel like a V8 monster. Ok when solo that is. You have to be
carefull with a pax that weigh 200 pounds.

THis R22 I rebuilt myself under the experimental rules so it is
modified some. If you look at glenns web page at

http://www.3cats.com/helicopter/newstuff.htm

and scroll down the page you will see a picture of me beside
my heli after the first beach landing at Umkomaas.

I have a complete set of parts for another heli like this one
but I am going to install a 160 hp turbine in that. I think
with the turbine it will be OK for the Highveld.

Regards

Hennie

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I will try to get some pictures on a web page and I will let you guy's
know when it will be ready for viewing.

Rocky after flying a mini 500 that I built in the highveld the
R22 feel like a V8 monster. Ok when solo that is. You have to be
carefull with a pax that weigh 200 pounds.

THis R22 I rebuilt myself under the experimental rules so it is
modified some. If you look at glenns web page at

http://www.3cats.com/helicopter/newstuff.htm

and scroll down the page you will see a picture of me beside
my heli after the first beach landing at Umkomaas.

I have a complete set of parts for another heli like this one
but I am going to install a 160 hp turbine in that. I think
with the turbine it will be OK for the Highveld.

Regards

Hennie
Hennie
No Joy on the site or pics. With the increased power, how will that
affect the transmission limits?
Are you based in or near Kroonstad? Do you know how many civil
helicopters there are now in SA? What a far cry from 1974!!
Side note....when DCA began writing the air law regarding crop
spraying in '74, they asked me to help them out. I did a rough draft
loosely based on our own FAR 137 for aerial application and left out
the parts I didn't like. Surprised me when they adopted the majority
of my recommendations and made it law!
I was stunned to learn how many cobras there are out in the Karoo
while I was doing the way leaving for ESCOM. Based for a couple weeks
at Pofadder, then DeAar and Preiska. What great fun and adventure.
Reminds me of the time when we were......ah thats for another
time...ggg
Rocky

Rocky,
You should try that site again. Maybe it was off line
at that stage.
I am trying to get the story on my own web page with some pictures.

The turbine power is so smooth ( without the piston engine power pulses)
that the transmission will be able to handle the extra power.

I am based in Kroonstad town. The last figure I had on civil helicopters
was 339 piston, 304 turbine and 53 homebuilt. Quite a change from the
70's.
Interesting about the regulations, i have a few friends doing crop
spraying.

I did a lot of work in the Prieska and de Aar area. Me and my partner
in crime run a communications company. We have a lot of repeaters
on high sites and rent airtime to farmers and companies. All over
the Free State, Northern Cape and into parts of Natal.

Think About the next story over the weekend????


Regards

Hennie