I need one of those. Oh, and helo lessons, first.
Make that two. Always good to have a spare.
Posted on 03/18/2019 3:29:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Around 9pm local time on Saturday, March 16th, 2019, an air ambulance helicopter was flying roughly 15 miles west of central Last Vegas when something odd caught his aided eye. During an exchange with an air traffic controller, the pilot of Mercy Air 21, an Agusta 119 Koala helicopter, noted spotting an unidentified object some distance from his position and only he was likely able to see it in the darkness as he was wearing night vision goggles (NVGs). The controller responded that he had nothing on radar in the area where he was seeing the object, but when he heard the pilot could only see it through his NVGs, he responded with amazement.
You can hear the pilot alert the controller to spotting something over the "Southern Hills area." This is not a topographic landmark, it is a hospital in the southwest corner of the Las Vegas metropolitan area. He notes that the objects appears to be at around 7,000 feet and that it could be a balloon or "something along those lines" and that it is unlit.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedrive.com ...
I gotta stop flying the TR-3B outta Tonopah outside the test range.
Oh wait, I wasn’t supposed to mention that. Please ignore.
Thank you for including this... “Oh that’s awesome”. lol
Must be a pilot thing. “Oh that’s awesome.”
Think it was from flight control after the pilot alerted him to the object and that he could only see it with the night vision. :)
Swamp gas from a weather balloon.
*nod*, just not getting the funny. ATC being unprofessional maybe.
Guess that is what I found funny. It was kind of unprofessional. The sound track is posted above.
Daughter was a flight nurse. Night vision equipment was well worth the investment in terms of safety and as well as the “wow” factor.
I remember what we called a starlight scope handed to me
by top sarge.He handled it like it was nitroglycerin.Be
careful with this thing as I took it out of its case.
Bet one of these things a med-evac crew of today uses is
like daylight.
Then you know all about the stainless steel swimming pool.....
Woulda been fine if you quit revving the impulse engines.
CC
No.., tell me more. White phosphor NVG's are amazing. Still, I want to know what I'm missing. Short wave IR might help...
I think it’s too much of the dilithium crystals.
I cannae shut it down sometimes.
CC
It all happened after this crazy floating robot-satellite-space-thingy increased engine efficiency by 57%.
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