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Heliops Magazine

Issue : 75

* The Spin Doctor - GLEN WHITE discusses how detailed knowledge of the tail rotor system of the AS350 series can be the difference between mere inconvenience and disaster.

* Breaking Russia’s Personnel Deadlock
The shortage of qualified aviation professionals in Russia is approaching a critical state. In recent years, the pool of available pilots has been fully exhausted as more than 400 civil pilots leave aviation each year, while only around 200 graduate from the country’s flight schools. SERGEY VOYNOV reports.

* Heaven & Hell – Herding Tuna
How hard could it be? One year stationed on a tuna boat as helicopter pilot – on board a 260ft “floating town” upon which you operate the local airline and are responsible for the spotting, chasing and herding of tuna by air.

 * Super Size Me
Over 30 years old and with a cargo capacity to match the Lockheed C130 Hercules, the venerable Mil Mi-26 is still in widespread active service around the globe.

* Staying Alive
When we first learned to fly some of our effort was spent in the classroom and study, but without those hours at the controls, most of us would still be reading about it. If we accept that helicopter power-line patrols are probably the most dangerous of the typical electric utility missions, it makes no sense to think we can enter this environment without comprehensive flight training.

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