AMO5 in the middle of nowhere over nothing but 600metres of ice then water!
As it was the winds were picking up and the sun was setting. Starting our return leg home we had a bit of a tail wind and were hooting across the Amery at 156knots (I am not sure of the conversion but it seemed very fast) stopping in at a fuel dump near one of the Russian bases on the way home for fuel. We had stopped at an Australian Apple Samson Island on the way down and would have used in excess of 1000 litres of fuel during the course of our flight. I shudder to think what that fuel costs per litre after it comes down from Australia and is then flown out by helicopter to the dump sites where it stays to enable flights to go further afield.
Hanging onto the blades of the S76 so they don't flap around n the high winds!
The sunset on the way home was just amazing but also hard to explain or take photos of through the tinted windows on the helicopter. We touched down at about 20:00 after a long and cold day.
Another night on the LIDAR!
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