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[VicHockeyFan]

Curteis Point is about 4 km away, but it is lined up with a flight path for one of the runways.

 

Helicopters don't use runways.

[Bingo]

Helicopters don't use runways.

I thought helicopters had to have designated approaches and altitude requirements and can not just fly in and out randomly.

[Mike K.]

Helicopters must fly as directed by air traffic control, so they'll often fly away from the airport or arrive along a departure/arrival path for that airport. I saw a Sea King doing just that when I was up there a few days back.

[tedward]

LOL

 

I love it when people living near airports complain about noise from aircraft!

[VicHockeyFan]

No love on social media.

 

[Bingo]

Helicopters must fly as directed by air traffic control, so they'll often fly away from the airport or arrive along a departure/arrival path for that airport. I saw a Sea King doing just that when I was up there a few days back.

 

I sat in the Spitfire Grill a few years ago and watched them do that. It seems they were coming in the same direction as the runway, and once they got to the point where a fixed wing aircraft would turn and taxi they hovered over to a land spot. Or is that all wrong?

[Bingo]

Sounds good to me...maybe he wants to defect.

 

Two Russian frigates shadowed HMCS Fredericton and tracked its course while Prime Minister Stephen Harper was on board today.

The vessels were spotted mid-morning, after Harper and his wife, Laureen, spent the night on board the Canadian frigate in the Baltic Sea.

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...3107649?cmp=rss

 

[LJ]

Helicopters fly their own designated routes, or can fly approaches to runways, or can fly direct, whatever they and ATC determine for that particular flight.

[Bingo]

Traffic waiting to go through the Panama Canal includes the position of Esquimalt based ship HMCS Winnipeg shown at bottom right.

http://shiptrackinga...macanalais.html

 

[jonny]

How dare those damn aircraft make noise at the bloody airport. What is this country coming to?

[Mike K.]

HMCS Chicoutimi arrived at CFB Esquimalt just moments ago and we've got an exclusive video at https://www.facebook...vibrantvictoria

 

 

[LJ]

Most subs I have seen are streamlined and handsome, or predatory and menacing, these look like a pregnant guppy.

[Bingo]

HMCS Winnipeg is moored at the Vasco Naval base in Balboa.

http://www.marinetra...:383590/zoom:10

[Mike K.]

Word is there has been another problem with the vessel.

[AllseeingEye]

Most subs I have seen are streamlined and handsome, or predatory and menacing, these look like a pregnant guppy.

That is because you are thinking of a nuclear powered hunter killer submarine as opposed to this (1980's-era design) diesel electric boat - a very different animal. The nukes utilize a teardrop hull because their reactor can push the vessel at much higher speeds underwater. That all said diesel electric subs like the Victoria-class are 'uber' quiet, reportedly even quieter than the nuclear subs, which makes them ideal for killing other ships.

[phx]

That is because you are thinking of a nuclear powered hunter killer submarine as opposed to this (1980's-era design) diesel electric boat - a very different animal. The nukes utilize a teardrop hull because their reactor can push the vessel at much higher speeds underwater. That all said diesel electric subs like the Victoria-class are 'uber' quiet, reportedly even quieter than the nuclear subs, which makes them ideal for killing other ships.

Chicoutimi is a killer alright.

[LJ]

That is because you are thinking of a nuclear powered hunter killer submarine as opposed to this (1980's-era design) diesel electric boat - a very different animal. The nukes utilize a teardrop hull because their reactor can push the vessel at much higher speeds underwater. That all said diesel electric subs like the Victoria-class are 'uber' quiet, reportedly even quieter than the nuclear subs, which makes them ideal for killing other ships.

Not exactly. The old DE subs were much better looking than this class, heck the Rainbow was much better looking than this.

Only the Brits could take something handsome and make it into an ugly duckling.

Here is another example of UK design beauty;

 

http://www.google.ca...9v2zTMppM&itg=1

[AllseeingEye]

Not exactly. The old DE subs were much better looking than this class, heck the Rainbow was much better looking than this.

Only the Brits could take something handsome and make it into an ugly duckling.

Here is another example of UK design beauty;

 

http://www.google.ca...9v2zTMppM&itg=1

Well that is a subjective opinion I suppose. RAINBOW was an *ancient* US Tench-class submarine dating from just after WWII, and certainly technologically no match for the Upholders/Victoria-class when they were brand new. That said I am not defending their purchase....never a fan of picking up someone else's used, second hand cast offs.....

[Bingo]

Word is there has been another problem with the vessel.

 

Not necessarily. The ship could be working with the US Coast Guard tracking drug smugglers.

The latest position has the Winnipeg having exited the canal in the Caribbean, and on a heading of 40 degrees at 25 knots.

http://www.marinetra...l:HMCS_WINNIPEG

[LJ]

Looked like an American destroyer transiting  past Discovery Island this afternoon.