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Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual

(excerpt from www.chopperstories.com or www.tunaboathelicopters.org)

(Note: maybe a little technical in places for the lay reader; where there is an “icon ” it’s probably readable even for the armchair pilots)

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Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual – Introduction
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual -Alternative Introduction – “An Ancient Chinese Poet “
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Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual – Feedback
An Interesting Letter ref MTM – #001 – Jon Wagner
An interesting letter ref MTM – #002 – Richard Grills
An Interesting Letter ref MTM- # 003 -Jon Wagner
An Interesting Letter ref MTM – #004 Richard Grills
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.1-A “What’s it all about? – Finding Fish! ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.1-B “Skipjack, Yellowfin, Bigeye, Albacore, Bluefin ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.1-C “Foamers and Breezers ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.1-D “Radio buoys, Bird Radar, Dirty tricks and Sculduggery ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.1-E “Herding, and the tow-line ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2-A “Your job offer: legitimate questions ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2-B “Your job offer: Pay? How Much and When?
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2B-1 Potential Employers
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2-C “Your Cabin and your room mate(s) ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2-D “Other duties? Humping fish? ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2-E “Food, food, glorious food! ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-A “Different techniques for landing ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-A Landing Video discussions
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-B “Wind, waves, and wild decks ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-C “Take-Off “

A good take-off adds style – (sometimes)

Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-C Take-Off Video Discussions
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-D “Tie-downs and Blade Socks ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-E “Runaway Blades ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch. 3-F “Herding (2) ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-G “Descending to a Log “
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-H “Attaching a Radio Buoy ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-H-1 “Drawings “
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-I “Reducing speed quickly-Scrubbing “
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual “A Word to the Wise “
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.4-1 “The Long, Dark Tunnel “
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.4-2 “Almost outta gas! “
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.4-3 “Digital Select Calling “
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.4-4 “Limitations and Failures “
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.4-5 “Hey! It sure is getting dark! “
Heads Up! “The 15 Most likely Scenarios for a Tuna Chopper Crash “ keep scrolling down, there’s more…


Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.5-1 “Observer Happiness Basics “
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.5-2 “A bit of Theater ”
Moggy’s Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.5-3 “Keeping your Captain Happy ”
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(to be continued – blog in progress)

Errr… nope, I haven’t called John yet…

Last edited by Francis Meyrick on October 29, 2015, 8:21 pm