D41 wrote:2.5 hours on a helicopter would get old really fast. I know you're used to it, but it doesn't appeal to me that much.
How many passengers are on one of those things you fly in??
It's normally only an hour and 10 mins, but that is when we fly from Dili in Timor Leste (which we fly to commercially from Darwin) but for obvious reasons atm going through a 3rd world country isn't conjunctive to maintaining our quarantine conditions.
We fly in an Airbus H175 which has capacity for 16 plus 2 crew. But due to the fuel load we have to carry for the long flight we are limited to 10 and all jammed up in the first 3 rows for mass balance requirements.
It seemed like a short trip for me, I started reading my book and feel asleep about 20 mins in and woke up when they announced the descent approach about 15 mins out
Flying over open water for that length of time in a helicopter doesn't appeal to many of the guys tbh, but because of my aircraft trade background I have plenty of faith in our machines and worrying about it only makes the trip worse. If we go into the drink, we have good training to have the best chance of survival. So honestly, I get more anxiety travelling on public transport and trying to work out which stops and change overs I have to do
we were going on a 5 day city break for Easter tomorrow, obviously not now
