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stu2ii2
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Tour de France Helicopters

Post by stu2ii2 »

Hi all
Can anyone help me find the registrations of 2 of the 4 helicopters used in this years Tour?
I've got F-GMBA and F-GMBL but i need the other two?

Thanks guys

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Post by stevie »

hi

I saw in Belgium (Waregem-Compiegne) G-14 of belgium politie
no camera heli's :?

greets

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Post by Bruspotter »

Hello


If you didn't see any camera helikopters but you did see a Police helikopter, than it's possible that the police helikopter did that job too.

The Police filmes everything for own observation/security perposes but it's possible that they sell the images trough.


Best regards: Yannick ;)

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Post by stevie »

can be

but I think the camera Helicopters start filming when they crossed the frontier (between belgium and france) I didn't seen any helicopterviews on TV when the Tour passed Belgium that day (10/07)

ciao

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Post by stu2ii2 »

Apparantly they was used in the stages in England to film the race and to give a live feed for viewers? Not sure if any Police helicopters was used here in England?

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Post by stevie »

stu2ii2 wrote:Apparantly they was used in the stages in England to film the race and to give a live feed for viewers? Not sure if any Police helicopters was used here in England?
Like every race there is 1 Heli flying high and receive the images (beelden)and send them parts too the broadcasting stations , so we can see live
you need other heli's that film the race that can be one or like now 3 is supose

The police heli was just flying in the airspace of Belgium.

(sorry for the spell mistakes)

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Post by Digibeta »

Policehelicopters never film for TV, because it's an other type of camera (not broadcast and they can't transmit those high quality pictures).
There is a white bol below the helicopter Wescam.
I think that for the tour the helicopters from Helicofrance are used.
They only fly when they go on air, so they don't start every day from the start.

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Post by stevie »

welcome to Luchtzak :wink:

and thanks for the information

anyone for the reg's?

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Post by stevie »

hi,

for the reg's : the most logical must be ;F-GMSC , F-GSAU , F-GTRE
becuase they are of the same compagnie : HDF - Hélicoptères de France
and they are the same type of heli;
'Eurocopter (Aerosp.) AS355N Ecureuil 2'
but I 'm not sure that it are those registrations, there are so much heli's registered in france :roll:

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Post by maaspotter »

Last year we had these 9 heli's at Maastricht for the tour the france (one etappe ended in Valkenburg):

F-GIJP AS350
F-GIVL AS350
F-GJRP AS350
F-GKMA AS350
F-GKMB AS350
F-GLFM AS350
F-GMBL AS350
F-GRAC AS350
F-GXPE AS350

so you can bet the 4 heli's you mentioned are between those :wink:

rgds, Rob

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Post by stu2ii2 »

Thanks for that maasotter.
The're the same 9 that was in at Redhill over the weekend. :?

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