Air 1 Crew practicing for short haul assistance

Recently the Air Supoport Unit engaged in short haul practice with our boats.

The flights went well

The purpose of this Training was to demonstrate the capabilities of the OH58 Helicopter. We needed to see how the boats would fly and at what air speed. This will give "Air 1" a good baseline. 

Some of the uses for this would be to deploy the boats down terrain that we could not safely carry them. This would aid in the response time due to the fact we would not have to "Run the River" as far.

Another use would be to help retrieve the Boats & Equipment at the end of a mission. What has happened in the past is that we ran out of daylight which made extraction of equipment to dangerous, this would require the team to return the next day to retrieve the equipment.

Good Lift

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