tomfromthenorth

My car is a rolling advert for club traders :)

Awesome forum spirit :)

Happy birthday Dave :thumbup1: :pint: lovely day for it.

Murderers and mysteries. An interesting day, after 2 hours of station wets involving 8 consecutive recoveries of fast jet pilots from the sea one at a time (annual training requirement) we had a the HF radio burn out then a fuel leak and an emmergency landing. Excitement over we managed 3 hours of emails and admin and no sooner had I put my emmergency pizza in the oven than the bell rang. "Lossie, dry job, rtc, one deceased one vsi trapped in the vehicle scramble" Oven off ran to the cab, to find the phone ringing on the pan. "Stand down the air ambulance will do it." Back inside put my pizza back on, 10 mins later "BRING BRING BRING" **** sake! Oven off (didn't fancy getting retasked to a burning hangar). Same job air ambulance are too far away scramble. We got there (20 miles) from the second call in 15 mins prepped for resuss and ready to go. We landed to this One indeed dead, an audi of some sort in the side, torn open looking like a bean can shot with a 12 gauge. We packaged the casualty in the ambulance and took him to hospital. The 33yom was hammered and had been the driver, the passenger was dead. The driver had breaks and cuts but was ok. As we landed in Elgin the winchman got off to keet a second ambulance and the driver got fighty with me! I had put an ecg and other obs on him and he started tearing it off and trying to get off the spinal board. Against my logical "this man is a murdering *******" mindset, I reverted to type and was calming and sympathetic, he listend to me and started crying and I was probably the last friend he will encounter on his way to jail :( After all this we were back at lossie and I put my pizza in for the third time, 10 mins later the pizza kind of looking edible my nose against the oven door "BRING BRING" **** sake! Oven off "Hi lossie, wet job, dead man on a boat scramble." Off we went prepped for resuss again, heading towards Tain we hit fog, I jumped into RADAR, the altimeter failed but before we had time to fly into the sea and die we punched out the other side of the fog. We got there to see a tri-moran??? Kattermarang thing. We dropped the winchman down and landed nearby. The winchman canoed across :lol: and I went and talked to the police on the beach. The owner was 70 and died peacefully. The winchman canoed across with a next of kin we since learned that the reason the winchman laughed on the radio when the police said "Its a crime scene, do not touch" was because looking round for a towel to cover the mans face, all he could find was a cowboy hat :lol: he removed it for cluedo reasons. After a bit of a chat with various emmergency services, we went home. We had a Utility hydraulics failure on the way, but other than thay nothing to say. Other than pizza tastes shit when you cook it 3 times!

2 devils advocates met in the middle

In the interest of club spirit then, not that I have seen people get shot down too harshly for this, should we let them ask the common question, post a link to an old answer (or copy paste) and keep a mini repair thread alive for a couple of days?

Good luck chris, the car looks awesome, go and do the 300zx scene proud, you dont need a supra or a gtr to have a 90s jap supercar. :thumbup:

Phoenix, yes you do, with a drag radial with the right pressure in it and the right height etc. When launched correctly the alloy turns quicker than the tyre, this rolls it up and lays it against the road making a massive surface area that the car then sort of springs forwards off. If you have a 20 inch painted black, the tyre will be rock hard and will skip and spin and you don't get the launch.

I haven't really used the system much but can see Lee's dedication to it, it is also obvious with things like V bulletin updates and the Garage system he is working hard, often at 2am so as not to disrupt forum operations. Good man Jai Kai :thumbup1:

Oh, it's a drop down list! :clap: we live in the future :lol:

I will try to put more stuff up and not be afraid to comment on tech help questions. And I like Si Mondo's idea, also what do people think about either removing the like buttons, or having a visible indication on the thread for others to see who has liked it. Because as it is only the person 'being liked' can see them as notifications right?

me being more or less OK again :)

The day of 2 jobs and carbon monoxide poisoning :( Couple of weeks ago some time the bell went at about 11 and we were scrambled to reports of an 80 year old male who had fallen off a pier, I don't know where it was but it was along the Moray coast somewhere. More accurately it was here... We came into that photo from the right saw an ambulance near the harbour wall and did a quick left hand descending turn to come to the hover over the thicker arm of the wall. I winched the winchman out, then we orbited for safety, for the winchman's peace and quiet and to take photos. I think I will tell the story of how the 80 YOM ended up in the sea through smilies :scooter: :scared: :oops: :helpsmilie: He was in a bad way and it was decided that a specialist team would come out to RSI (put into a rapid coma) him so we waited on the hill top. Now, as you can see its bloody lovely weather and I sat in the door in the heat which masked the jet eflux, only made worse by the still air meaning I was breathing in loads of exhaust for an hour. More on that in a bit. We got a ready for lift call from the winchman at about the same time as a second job came through on the HF from the ARCC. So we swooped in picked up the casualty and smashed over to Aberdeen. We dropped the winchman at the ARI, jumped over to the airport for fuel then went back for Sprokkit at the hospital and then made our way into the cairngorms for job 2. I was starting to feel a bit sick. Job 2 was a Skier who got up loads of speed and ran out of snow. (somewhere near the bottom of the photo) In a very similar fashion we orbited, spotted the casualty and winched Sprokkit down, this time though it was about 130 feet of cable with rocks and rotor blades I was actually having to pay attention. Once in position with the casualty Sprokkit set up a HI Line (which is 150' of nylon rope attached to the winch hook), this means we can sit out of the overhead a little way so we're not Battering everyone with down wash, or sat 5 foot from the cliff face to the rotor tips. I sent down a stretcher and some gear that Sprokkit hauled towards himself using the HI line and we went away to allow him to package the casualty. We orbited and found a proper Sea King perch where we could land and watch the winchman. Bear with me, in the top picture you can see where we landed and took the other 2 photos, in the top picture we landed by the rocky nipple on the upper right ridge line. After 20 mins (of sitting in the door breathing in fumes) the casualty was packaged and we did a massively fun nose dive off the perch and winched the guys on board. As we went back to the ARI then to the airport for fuel, I went totally man down, white as a sheet sick, evil headache absolutely baggage. I was laid on the floor pale and sweaty. We landed at Lossie after 5hrs 30 flying time and it took me about 4 hours to feel better. I got a bit of banter for it, I am now known to be the SAR canary, like a fuse for noxious substances, "Can anyone smell hydraulic fluid?" "I dunno has Tom passed out!" I think we got another search that night, suicidal bloke found in a pub sort of thing, but by then I had had a little vomit-sleep-snickers and was more or less OK again.

Which Facebook based zed groups are there? I only use this place, I don't want to move elsewhere but just wondering?

Not while I'm on shift :batman: :lol:

Picture of us training as I didn't get any on the above job.

The thin line between tragedy and comedy. No pictures I'm afraid, perhaps an archive one at the end but an interesting story none the less. The bell rang and the call was something like, "Hi lossie, damp job, well a woman on a beach. We have reports of a wheelchair in the sea off lossie beach. Scramble." So we launched and as the engines came up I activated a heaty-up chemical blanket and prepared for a drowner with my bag valve mask and defib. It's 2 miles to the beach so my radio call was "kinloss rescue, rescue 137, airborne, on scene, wait out." We saw 2 coppers with a wheelchair and a crowd stood off, we landed on the beach (much to my displeasure, 5 mins on a beach 5 days of ****ing hoovering!) and we jumped out and ran over. In the sandblast I stood ready to do the usual winchOp shuttle runs to the cab and back to fetch medical gear for the winchman; waiting, I watched the winchman shouting in the ear of one of the cops. As they talked I looked at our casualty. Sat In the chair was what looked like an overweight dinner lady wrapped in towels, only her pissed off head and plaster cast leg were protruding top and bottom. We decided to lift the chair between the 4 of us and carry her to the door. I then jumped in threw Ducan 2 rescue strops and we attached her to the aircraft winch to bring her onboard. Duncan shouts "ligature ligature, Tom J-knife now!" I thought this was the word for a heroin addicts arm tourniquet but quickly learned that in this case she had (beneath the towels) wrapped a bungee round her kneck twice and was doing her best to die. The tempo kicked up we cut the cord and winched her in. I wrapped her in heaty up pouches and tin foil and passed duncan the oxygen stuff as I cleared us off the beach from the door. A rapid plan to land just up the road to transfer her to an ambulance was made and I pattered us to a suitable landing site. I jumped out to ensure no one ran into the disc or tail before positioning the ambulance just outside the disc and running in with a trolley. We offloaded the woman and went home. Then the story came out over the phone from the hospital. The woman who was about 40 had been taken to hospital about a week before after taking an overdose, very hungover and not happy she decided to jump off the hospital roof. She came to with her leg in plaster. Still not very happy she wheeled herself to lossie beach and got stuck in the sand. She then stood up and used the chair like a zimmoframe to walk out to sea... at low tide... 100m out and knackered she thought **** this and sat in the chair, then swallowed a load of sleeping pills. As the tide came in someone saw a woman up to her knees asleep in a wheelchair in the sea. The police came and dragged the cold wet grumpy woman back to shore and wrapped her in towels. Determined to kill herself she wrapped a fairly tight bungee round her kneck and held her breath. A helicopter arrived cut her ligature warmed her up and sent her back to hospital! She was no quitter! I don't know what happened next but I haven't heard anything bad. I hope she gets some help but you can't make these things up.

Controversial! You go captain concourse :thumbup1: :)

My 265s caught :( managed to sort it with a roll and some suspension tweaks, they rarely catch now. Oh and you wont accidentally spin them up in the dry. A little bit of +5mph tractive scrabble in second on kuhmo fairly good saloon tyres.

I'll make an effort to put more daft stuff up, I have some good pics for another SAR Saturday post ill get together :)

Is it a once a year treat from the fairlady, that you are allowed to press the scramble boost button :lol:

Hi mate, good to have another one up here. Just a thought, Coconat has just joined the forum with a drifting zed, perhaps she would swap diffs with you? Worth sending her a message I reckon.

Happy Birthday mate :thumbup: have a good day :pint:

I set fire to brembo pads on track, yellow stuff with black diamonds were better, they melted, got Ksports :hang: To be honest I killed the second set with a seized calliper causing them to warp :( I think they were a good set up.

Has rich just had a full on