Simviation Forum - Swiss/Italian choppers I

Apr 10^th, 2010 at 5:11am

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Hey,

today I'd like to show you some helos we use to go by during easter-holidays in Zermatt/Suisse. We abuse them for a thing called "heliskiing": get up early, grab your pair of freeriders, helmet, LVS and a bottle of champaign, meet at the deck with your guide of trust (good friend of mine) and have a lift up to one out of a dozen spots to freeride in powder or firn. Standart price: ~250€, if you've got your own approved guide it's about 150€ per flight...
The local company Air Zermatt provides rescue, supply, heli-skiing and sightseeing flights around a very impressive mountainline - 28 x 4'000m peaks surrounding the village including the peak most photographed: ds'Hore (better known as Matterhorn, Monte Cervino or Mont Cervin)...

Starting off with the Eurocopter AS350 Ecureuils - the "Squirells":

Some years ago - a yellow Air Zermatt chopper lifts us up to Monte Rosa (guide to the left my dad coming towards the cam):

Not only Air Zermatt provides those addictive flights - on the italian side of the Matterhorn you can rent a chopper to pic you up from Breuil-Cervigna or Val Tournenche - those are the ETI 2000

Back to the heliport Zermatt - a rare bird I haven't been flying on. I guess it was chartered...

Off to "the" alrounder for tourist and freeriding: the Air Zermatt AS350 in house colors

And another italian one my dad flew with last year:

Off to the new pride - the EC135...

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Reply #1 - Apr 11^th, 2010 at 2:43am

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I was drooling over the liveries of the 2nd & 3rd; then I scrolled down and saw #4. Shocked

Gorgeous!!!

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #2 - Apr 11^th, 2010 at 5:11am

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#4 is available: I got it myself - I guess that's the one: SimV - on top of the page.

And the other ones here at hovercontrol and here... Wink

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Reply #3 - Apr 12^th, 2010 at 9:20am

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Thanks, but right now, I'm not sure I will ever fly FS9 again. Maybe somebody will make it for FSX.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #4 - Apr 12^th, 2010 at 9:57am

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I'm using them in FSX - not perfect but flyable... Wink

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