Helicopter Landing in the Bob Marshall Wilderness

[azelkhntr]

Well that’s good news eh.

 

[TheTone]

$500, cost of doing business for someone like that and probably much less than they would have paid to get packed in by horseback to fish.

 

[azelkhntr]

$500, cost of doing business for someone like that and probably much less than they would have paid to get packed in by horseback to fish.

I’m very surprised that was the max $ fine.

 

[Scrappy]

So they can fish some of the most remote locations in the lower 48 for only 500 bucks per trip. If I was rich that would be one he!! of a deal.

 

[BuzzH]

So they can fish some of the most remote locations in the lower 48 for only 500 bucks per trip. If I was rich that would be one he!! of a deal.

That's a good deal even if you aren't rich.

 

[MTelkHuntress]

I've never been to the Bob Marshall but I didnt realize the fishing was "helicopter and $500 fine" good.
I'm sure that taught them a lesson what's less than a slap on the wrist?

 

[azelkhntr]

Still he’s got a Federal misdemeanor on his record now. Must have been clean prior or he’d have gotten prison time as well. I’m ok with it in that case. Bet he won’t be doing that again. I wonder what or if the FAA is going to follow up with something?

 

[TOGIE]

a man goes to jail for like 25 days for illegally picking up sheds, but you can land a 5 ton window fan in the middle of pristine wilderness to fish for the cost of a plane ticket?

maybe next time they do it and get caught he'll get a pants down spanking on the side of the runway

 

[Trial153]

500 thats cheap, I have a couple spots that I would like to get into. Anyone have a contact number for them, maybe I can employ their services.

 

[1_pointer]

That's a good deal even if you aren't rich.

That's what I was thinking.

 

[Sytes]

Hunting and fishing - a new world opened. Would it be an aviation misdemeanor if skids never touched the ground? Ridiculous...

Edit: Being facetious... no need for a serious answer.

 

[thusby]

Fishing without a license is $250 for some poor schmuck launching a bobber off the dock.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Hunting and fishing - a new world opened. Would it be an aviation misdemeanor if skids never touched the ground?

We caught ducks from the Huey skids while skimming just above the rice paddies in Vietnam. Trolling off the skids at a slow hover? Hmmm.

 

[Trial153]

Hiking is for the peasants. Let them eat cake.

 

[noharleyyet]

Bozeman man who landed helicopter in wilderness fined $500

A Bozeman man illegally landed a helicopter on a sandbar in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in May have been sentenced to pay a $500 fine, according to a news release

www.bozemandailychronicle.com

They were fined $500.

 

[BigHornRam]

That's a good deal even if you aren't rich.

Good deal until the lawyer bill comes in the mail.

 

[Big Fin]

$500....Dang, I'm going about this all wrong. I just paid $2,380 for a film permit on one Forest and I don't even get to film in any Wilderness areas. Hmmm...Forgiveness or permission?

 

[mtmiller]

I just paid $2,380 for a film permit on one Forest....

Curious conversion.....1,763 AUMs.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Forgiveness or permission?

Forgiveness is always less expensive than doing-it-the-right-way permission. Only it burns bridges you may want to cross again later.

 

[Sytes]

We caught ducks from the Huey skids while skimming just above the rice paddies in Vietnam. Trolling off the skids at a slow hover? Hmmm.

Forget paying an outfitter a couple grand per person to elk drop camp + time packing in/out deep in the Bob, Frank Church, or Bridger-Teton Wilderness...

New advertisement... unload gear, step off the skids onto wilderness ground for a $1,000 Round trip 3 people w/ a if not caught - $500 bonus.

Absurd...