Hurricane Helene

[jcramsey]

@frankenyoter @Noel there’s a lot of stuff in Glenwood if y’all have specific needs up your way and know where they can be used. Be happy to get a load together for y’all. There’s so much stuff coming in and it needs to get to the right places for sure.

 

[shawn]

people discovering that a Baofeng isn't going to cut it and trying to find real radio gear in the middle of a disaster

Baofeng haters work ten sevens.

 

[1-tonmudder]

News today is they’re turning folks around at the state line on 70 goin up the mountain unless you can show you’re supposed to be there.

 

[gslander]

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The beauty of helicopter ops is you can land them where ever you want as long as you have permission of the land owners. Easy to set up a remote base and just fly to and from it, I mean what's the "FAA" really going to do? If authorities show up at that base to shut you down, well there's some amendments to protect against that. I guess they could setup a TFR over everything, even then.... All hypothetically speaking of course

 

[shawn]

The beauty of helicopter ops is you can land them where ever you want as long as you have permission of the land owners. Easy to set up a remote base and just fly to and from it, I mean what's the "FAA" really going to do? If authorities show up at that base to shut you down, well there's some amendments to protect against that. I guess they could setup a TFR over everything, even then.... All hypothetically speaking of course

Except for refueling

 

[gslander]

Except for refueling

I worked around a crew doing power line inspections with helicopters in highschool and they would fuel the hughes 500 at a remote base/landing site (usually along a farm road) using a pickup with a transfer tank/pump like you would with equipment.

Crazy how they are potentially blocking flights, even though on ADSB exchange the airspace looks pretty packed west of here.