High-altitude helicopter training restricted

Rocky Mountain News ^ | March 5, 2007

[george76]

The Colorado Army National Guard will maintain its annual high-altitude helicopter training on Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands in Eagle and Garfield counties at 3,000 hours.

The Guard also has agreed to additional stipulations in order to protect wilderness areas, wildlife and livestock, the White River National Forest and BLM announced today.

The military believes high-altitude combat training is vital for the protection of pilots and aircrews. In combat, aircrews trained in high-altitude aviation have a higher mission success rate as well as fewer accidents.

As such, the Army had asked for 6,000 hours that could spend training in the High-Altitude Army Aviation Training Site area around Gypsum.

Decrease significantly the number of landings within... the recommended wilderness areas.

[george76]

"Bureaucrats gone wild..."

The Forest Service have been 'vacating' allotments that were active since the 1800's knowing that the ranchers and herders would go broke in a few years.

The Hollywood Ted Turner crowd is pleased.

[colorado tanker]

It would be fun to "embed" Wendy and a few of her pals with some pilots in Afghanistan to see how high altitude flying and rescue works.

[colorado tanker]

You and me both. Actually, some of the campgrounds are close to commercial air routes, so it's pretty common to see and hear commercial jets up there. Every now and then you see one going a lot faster than the rest - those are fun.

[george76]

Her friends apparently do not need a helicopter to get high.

[James W. Fannin]

I wonder if Mike Johanns of the US Department of Agriculture knows about this.

[Enchante]

FIRE Wendy and her agency pals right away, let them go off to commune with fellow enviro-wankers.

Yeah, they support the troops....... must be the Taliban they have in mind......

[BIGLOOK]

'They did what to our air show?'

[george76]

Please tell the USDA.

Ever since Bill Clinton sent in Martha K. as supervisor this forest has ignored the foresters, biologists...

Their political agenda is to ignore science and to ignore the concept of 'Land of Many Uses.' They work overtime to close as many acres as possible. They constantly manage huge areas 'as' if Congress had declared 'wilderness' .

One example of these eco-nut proposed travel rules related to travel management. The propsal was to restrict one person per mile camping; thus a family had to put each kid a mile away from the parents who also had to camp a mile apart. And there were many other stupid proposals.

They do not need a helicopter to get high.

[george76]

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET



Lifesaver Helicopter Pilot extraordinaire:


..BRUCE CRANDALL = Medal of Honor..

http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48215



NEVER FORGET

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[A.A. Cunningham]

Bombs; four MK-82s.

[george76]

Thanks.

I do not understand how some mid level liberal in the forest service can deny the army their needed training hours and also their locations.

[VxH]

[Boulder greenies to go backpacking in.]

I went home over last summer and found large portions of the rock walls I used to frequent in Eldorado Canyon over 20 years ago are now mostly closed to climbing.  They were closed due to "Environmental concerns" related to birds that nest on the rock walls.

 

I don't know what their problem is with Helicopter training at high altitude - especially this time of year.   Spring is still months away above the timber line and everything is still covered with snow. 

 

You're right about the people's republic of Boulder though.  They'll do anything they can do to monkey-wrench the military.

[thulldud]

I went home over last summer and found large portions of the rock walls I used to frequent in Eldorado Canyon over 20 years ago are now mostly closed to climbing. They were closed due to "Environmental concerns" related to birds that nest on the rock walls.

In the greenies' world, animals run free everywhere, while people are corralled.