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Please if you are offering one. Chocolate chip is my first preference.
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Helitak_670 wrote:Please if you are offering one. Chocolate chip is my first preference.
Happy to help :)
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hey guys,

seen this chopper yesterday it was the same as RAC chopper but white with a marron tail! any ideas?
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kyeboi wrote:hey guys,

seen this chopper yesterday it was the same as RAC chopper but white with a marron tail! any ideas?

It is helitack 677. Rego C-FXNI
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What's she used for? rescue?
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kyeboi wrote:What's she used for? rescue?

I might be wrong, but I think that it will be one of the helitacks (fire bomber) that goes down south in a couple of weeks.

It was on the back of a truck at Jandakot yesterday about to be re assembled.
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kwn wrote:
kyeboi wrote:What's she used for? rescue?

I might be wrong, but I think that it will be one of the helitacks (fire bomber) that goes down south in a couple of weeks.

It was on the back of a truck at Jandakot yesterday about to be re assembled.
It's a heltac from Queensland was in white cling wrappy stuff at Kewdale

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Should be Helitak 676
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One of the spotters (VH-KUE / Birddog 648) seems to be taking an interest into an area in Jarrahdale - it has done several orbits of the same spot.

Anybody hear anything about it? (click images for full res versions)

Edit: Bushfire closes section of Bibbulmun

A bushfire advice has been issued for people in the vicinity of Mt Cuthbert, 15km east of Jarrahdale along Albany Highway, in the Shire of Wandering. It is burning towards Albany Highway.

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Helitaks have been flying over Herdsman Lake Osborne Park a few times this morning
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There were a couple (673 and 674 plus maybe others) circling around the Beechboro area from around 9:30am this morning, doing drops somewhere to the East, but couldn't figure out from the radio traffic where they were.
They had it under control & headed back to Jandakot around 10am.
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JinbaIttai wrote:There were a couple (673 and 674 plus maybe others) circling around the Beechboro area from around 9:30am this morning, doing drops somewhere to the East, but couldn't figure out from the radio traffic where they were.
They had it under control & headed back to Jandakot around 10am.
There was a small (150 x 100 metre) fire off Lord Street in Lockridge, cross of Morley Drive. From memory I think I heard Kiara and Malaga turn out to it. When I was listening before I got to work and had to turn the scanner off, they didn't have air support at that point, they were still deciding whether it was necessary or not. Sorry I can't fill any more in, I had to go and earn a dollar or two ;)
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I have heard lately Rescue 65 now being called 'Rescue 651" over the radio.

Can anyone tell me why?
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It would be becuase "RESCUE65" is now in bunbury an "RESCUE651" is metro https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/P ... opper.aspx
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Thanks!
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