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Any one in orgland know what the helicoptor was doing in Thurso yesterday. Oh and why the 'police do not cross tape' was across the road in the port skerra area as well.
What colour helicopter?
Not a black one was it?:eek:
It was the Assynt Mountain rescue helicopter on a training exercise
Looked like it was the Coastguard one flying around saturday afternoon.
Coastguard helicopter flew over Scarfskerry heading East yesterday evening.
Dog-eared
21-Mar-10, 13:26
Mountain Rescue training.
It was the Assynt Mountain rescue helicopter on a training exercise
I didn't know AMRT had a helicopter :eek:
Fisherbigin
21-Mar-10, 14:34
Mountain Rescue training.
No mountains near Thurso:roll:,They were surveying landing sites aroond the toon
No mountains near Thurso:roll:,They were surveying landing sites aroond the toon
Landing sites? What kind of landing sites? :eek:
It was the Coastguard helicopter in for a bit of PR with the coastguards from thurso and Assynt mountain rescue team.
It was red and white yeah?
Flew over my house in Halkirk and landed around Georgemas area, after a while it took off and went back to thurso before coming back then going again.
Strange exercises :lol:
Why are Assynt MRT doing exercises around Thurso, and with HM Coastguard. There's something in their titles that suggests to me that one should be exercising on mountains and the other on beaches and coastline.
Why are Assynt MRT doing exercises around Thurso, and with HM Coastguard. There's something in their titles that suggests to me that one should be exercising on mountains and the other on beaches and coastline.
Cross Training, collaboration, familiarisation, multi agency exercise spring to mind.
Why are Assynt MRT doing exercises around Thurso, and with HM Coastguard. There's something in their titles that suggests to me that one should be exercising on mountains and the other on beaches and coastline.
maybe because one of their members stay in Halkirk
What Phill says makes sense. Multi- agency training etc. Perhaps involving all local voluntary services would be good practice and an opportunity to invite teams such as Caithness and Sutherland Search Team,especially since the training seemed to be taking place on low level searches.
Just an idea. I enquired and it seems they weren't invited.
Dog-eared
21-Mar-10, 18:49
I shouldv'e said " Training with the Mountain rescue team "
You dont need mountains to do a helicopter PR/training day :lol:
By the way, helicopters are sometimes used to ferry rescuers into the mountains from the roadside to save time.
What Phill says makes sense. Multi- agency training etc. Perhaps involving all local voluntary services would be good practice and an opportunity to invite teams such as Caithness and Sutherland Search Team,especially since the training seemed to be taking place on low level searches.
Just an idea. I enquired and it seems they weren't invited.
Don't start the casst debate again, the fire brigade exercises once a week, do you want them invited there as well?
Now, now. Lets be nice! :D
It is worth remembering that various agencies/services/forces operate outside their 'name' or 'branded' area. The fire brigade turn out to car accidents and cut people out of cars for example, there doesn't need to be a fire for that.
Mountain rescue teams also carry out searches on lowlands, moorlands and have been utilised in towns and cities.
I don't have any experience of working with Coastguard ground personnel but I guess they may be a little flexible and operate inland a little.
I do know that the Coastguard Heli's do train and operate inland and carry out hill/mountain flying training.
IIRC I think they have recently been used for an inland SAR job.
Now, now. Lets be nice! :D
It is worth remembering that various agencies/services/forces operate outside their 'name' or 'branded' area. The fire brigade turn out to car accidents and cut people out of cars for example, there doesn't need to be a fire for that.
Mountain rescue teams also carry out searches on lowlands, moorlands and have been utilised in towns and cities.
I don't have any experience of working with Coastguard ground personnel but I guess they may be a little flexible and operate inland a little.
I do know that the Coastguard Heli's do train and operate inland and carry out hill/mountain flying training.
IIRC I think they have recently been used for an inland SAR job.
I don't know if you have been watching Highland Rescue on the Telly. (Can't remember the Channel offhand). But Coastguard, RAF and Navy all cover rescues by Helicopter on Mountain, Sea and anywhere else they are needed.
Great programme well worth catching:cool:
I don't know if you have been watching Highland Rescue on the Telly. (Can't remember the Channel offhand). But Coastguard, RAF and Navy all cover rescues by Helicopter on Mountain, Sea and anywhere else they are needed.
Great programme well worth catching:cool:
Bin' meaning to catch it, saw about 10 mins of one so far.
All airborne assets are on the 'Chessboard' for ARCC and generally will carry out any task asked of them. It isn't unusual to see the Coastguard machines tasked to offshore platforms for medivacs and such like.
There have been good collaborative workings between the likes of the RAF and private operators from the Jigsaw project too.
I am totally confused now.
Why on earth do groups call themselves coastguard, mountain rescue, and whatever else rescue if they just go anywhere and do anything?
I'm not belittling them before someone jumps down my throat, I just wonder why an organisation would call themselves a name and I presume have some sort of specialist skills but not use them.
I also don't understand why the Royal Navy has aircraft and soldiers, RAF has a regiment and boats and the army has boats and helicopters.
Why do Mountain Rescue Teams not just do mountains, HM Coastguard stick to he coast, the Royal Navy just has ships, the RAF has the planes and helicopters and the Army provides all the soldiers.
Am I the only one who struggles to make sense of all this?
Perhaps I should stick to selling ice cream.
Tubthumper
21-Mar-10, 23:58
We'd have to form a 'Bog Rescue Service', a 'Flat Place With Trees Rescue Team', possible even a 'Near The Sea But Not Quite Within 5 metres of the Actual Coastguard'.
Why do we have a British Broadcasting Corporation when it broadcasts to the whole world...?
Now I'm really angry.....
Why DOES the BBC broadcast worldwide to people who don't pay the licence fee?
Tubthumper
22-Mar-10, 00:10
That's a fair point. There are so many anomalies. Why is white wine made from green grapes?
I forgot to ask Phill - who are IIRC?
Maybe in Sherbets they make white wine from green grapes, but in the civilised regions of course white wine comes from white grapes, red wine from red grapes, and green wine from green grapes.
Shoppers at LIDL and Tessaco will know that all wine (irrespective of colour) comes from clear grapes and then dye is added to arrive at the colour of your choice.
Maybe in Sherbets they make white wine from green grapes, but in the civilised regions of course white wine comes from white grapes, red wine from red grapes, and green wine from green grapes.
Shoppers at LIDL and Tessaco will know that all wine (irrespective of colour) comes from clear grapes and then dye is added to arrive at the colour of your choice.
Aye, that all well and good but as long as there are two digits before the % sign its all drinkable.
Tubthumper
22-Mar-10, 00:29
I remember getting balloned on a cocktail called a 'green monster' once, my pee was luminous green for a week afterwards. I thought I might die of mighty green pee.
I am totally confused now.
I also don't understand why the Royal Navy has aircraft and soldiers, RAF has a regiment and boats and the army has boats and helicopters.
The navy had the aeryplanes first.
Why do Mountain Rescue Teams not just do mountains, HM Coastguard stick to he coast, the Royal Navy just has ships, the RAF has the planes and helicopters and the Army provides all the soldiers. Market forces!
Perhaps I should stick to selling ice cream.Ahh, but if you sell a 99 are you not then encroaching on the chocolatiers market ?
Perambulate
23-Mar-10, 18:48
Oh and why the 'police do not cross tape' was across the road in the port skerra area as well.
no one has answered this yet. why was it there?
'police do not cross tape'
Now you have me puzzled! Why are the police not allowed to cross the tape? :confused;):lol:
George Brims
23-Mar-10, 19:42
That's a fair point. There are so many anomalies. Why is white wine made from green grapes?
A lot of it is made from red grapes.
George Brims
23-Mar-10, 19:46
Shoppers at LIDL and Tessaco will know that all wine (irrespective of colour) comes from clear grapes and then dye is added to arrive at the colour of your choice.
When I was about to graduate with a (sort of) chemistry degree, one of the profs read out in class a letter they had just received about a job opening in Sikkim (wee country north of India). Apparently they grow and can a lot of pineapples there. All the offcuts and cores are passed on to a distillery, where they make a white spirit from it. They then add colour and flavour to make vodka, gin, whisky etc from it! The vacancy was for an organic chemist to work on the flavours. I don't think anybody applied.
Now you have me puzzled! Why are the police not allowed to cross the tape?
'cos it's like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters!:eek:
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