WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Hi all thought you may like to see this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdH33PzC6z8

Its of the Helitacks in Action done by Matt Carter , QFRS but the same ones as your FESA ones with new badges is all , nicely done , goes from pics to video and back again.

Note the addition of wig wag LED's this time around , also be sure to click HI DEFINITION bottom right hand of video, looks far better.

Hope you enjoy Matt

Thats Brilliant... - Good stuff there...

G

Why do they have sirens on the helitaks? i saw a picture a while ago and it had a Hazard siren control panell in the cockpit, and i thought it would be used to control the lights on the aircraft but i never thought theyd use a siren.

To alert people on the ground that they are inbound.

WPXZBP is correct.

They started using sirens over east sometime between 1999 and 2001. Basically it lets the ground crews who often operate directly under the light and medium helitacks know the difference between an inbound helitack with a load and an outbound helitack or firebird/airintel.

Very handy too because sometimes you don't hear them, till the siren goes on, and often you're not expecting it, especially when they've just come from the airport.