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Just leaving on a Jetstream 41 with Eastern Airlines, a pleasure to fly with....

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Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:55:18 -0700 Back to Aberdeen via helicopter http://scottbouch.posterous.com/back-to-aberdeen-via-helicopter http://scottbouch.posterous.com/back-to-aberdeen-via-helicopter
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Unfortunately we're not really allowed to be snapping photos in flight, which is a shame as we crossed over Donald Trumps new Golf Complex... a massive, really massive building site of blackened hillside, where plants have been burnt down to make way for the fairways; stacks of diggers re-sculpting the landscape, some very smooth green bits are already in place in amongst the site.

Fr flying across the sea (this flight was about 1 hour 30) we are kitted up with a lot of sea-survival equipment: immersion suit, inflatable life preserver, personal locator beacon, re-breather. It's quite an uncomfortable flight with all the gear on, but utterly essential if the worst was to happen, in 5°C waters....

The photo of the helicopter was taken just after leaving the terminal, through the fence.

The week offshore was good, met some great people, and got a lot of good work done.

Now got my fixed wing flight back to East Midlands.. on a Jetstream 41

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Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:36:20 -0700 North Sea sun-down from an oil rig http://scottbouch.posterous.com/north-sea-sun-down-from-an-oil-rig http://scottbouch.posterous.com/north-sea-sun-down-from-an-oil-rig
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Another image taken as the sun is on it's way down over the water...

The weather has been great over the last couple of days (almost Caribbean yesterday), sadly yesterday's sunset was amazing, not a cloud in the sky, and very, very red, but my camera was playing up.. hey-ho, can't win them all.

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