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A friend of mine is a flight medic on a German Army SAR helicopter. Thursday he texted me, if I can set up a heli landing site "somewhere" so they can do a training mission. YES - I can...

Right behind our house is a (abandoned) gras runway. I called the local fire chief if they want to exercise to set up a Heli landing site by night and not getting cats out of a tree. They agree immediately

So the Pilots of two SAR Hueys got nothing but the UTM coordinates of a place they have to flight and land at night an hour before.

So at 9pm we got radio contact of the approaching Huey:


Me and my buddy and neighbor at the "Airfield", note the fire fighters in back ground, set up the floodlight The "HLS" (heli landing site), picture taken from my drone (night vision style) The landed SAR Huey
My buddy (+ daughter), my and the flight medic

Awesome post thanks for sharing housil

It's always great to have many friends so things like this can happen

Yesterday we have to set up a "HLS" (heli landing site) for the SAR helicopter again...

That's an awesome event to witness, let alone organize. It's sorta weird but neat seeing the Huey still in service in Germany and other places (few still in US service), especially with aging air-frames. But I guess German engineering solves that problem .

I would still love to see SAR use something like this:

FREMONT wrote:. But I guess German engineering solves that problem .

German engineering did, but German, "liberal" politics didn´t...

We got a new, own Helicopter called NH90. That "90" means it´s a project from 1990. Now it´s 26 years later and the "NH90" isn´t in use yet...