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Egli Air Haul is increasing our spare helicopter parts inventory to include spare major components. We have a set of spare main rotor blades, a main rotor mast assembly, and a complete tail rotor hub and blades, all ready for installation. We also have a complete hydraulics system, starter-generator, and a complete engine, also ready at a moment's notice.

We are currently in the process of adding other such major components such as a main rotor hub, main transmission, tail rotor gearbox, and all the drive shafts to our ready spares.

Sam indicates "EAH has had small support parts for our aircraft on hand for years to ensure speedy repairs and a good reliability factor, but the addition of complete components really enhances this when we have long-term customer commitments to fulfill. Then when you consider our in-house air-mobility to position our maintenance personnel with the needed spares using our Cessna 206, our field maintenance sustainability is tremendous."

For reliable air support to your field operations, contact Egli Air Haul.

Egli Air Haul has completed equipping our helicopters for forward-looking infra-red (FLIR) equipment. We have one FLIR camera system, but all helicopters are now provisioned for it.

As our busy flying season winds down, we are demonstrating the use of this specialized piece of equipment.

Sam says, "This is just one more dimension of innovative service we can offer our customers".

With the addition of our new Dart Heli-Utility Cargo Basket, external basket loads are safer to fly than ever. We just prop the basket lid open, evenly distribute up to 170 pounds of external-load cargo inside the steel-mesh-sided basket, and close and latch the lid! No need for straps, bungee cords, ropes, etc., to keep cargo from blowing out of conventional open-topped baskets or transporter deckboards. The positive latch of the lid ensures that "what happens in the basket, stays in the basket!" No more F.O.D. (foreign object damage) blowing loose out of the basket while in flight!

The way everyone conducts themselves around the aircraft is somewhat affected, whenever the basket is installed. Its mounting location on the right hand side of the helicopter does not completely block off access to the rear door, but it is in the way if you want to climb in or out of the cabin from the right hand side. To work around this, we simply load and unload our customers through the left hand door instead. It's easy to step in and out of the left door as usual, and also easy to just slide across the rear seat if necessary. The preflight briefing changes slightly, in mentioning that "Because the basket is installed today, the right rear door will serve only as an Emergency Exit for you on this flight. Your normal rear seat exit is the left rear door, the way you came in."

It is also very easy to just remove the basket when desired. With the quick-pull mounting pins, all you need is a zip-lock bag for the hardware and one more guy to help you pull the basket off. It takes about 2 minutes for 2 guys to remove it. It takes about 2 minutes for 2 guys to install it.

Sam says, "I expected large lateral balance effects to our aircraft due to having only the one single basket on one side. We are finding that typical basket loadings counterbalanced by typical personnel seating assignments manage this almost intuitively, with no such major lateral shifts in C.G.location." The pilot needs to brush up on lateral CG calculation, but that's not so complicated.

Customers like all the room it affords them to load their stuff safely, and still have a roomy cabin to ride in. We like it because it closes and latches tightly and quickly, without having to do a lot of exotic lashing down of the load to secure it from the wind in flight. And it opens just as quickly to unload.

If you need the basket installed for your next job, let us know, so we can be sure and include it for you in configuring our helicopter for your mission.