Thread: No lpg bottles on choppers

I have heard a few rumors that helicopters are no longer allowed to carry lpg bottles anymore . can anyone confirm this ?
would be good to know as if that is your only source of cooking you will need to take an alternative. sounds like the small butane and white spirits ones are still ok.

Heard of a group flying into the Boyd Hut with Helisika a couple of weeks ago had to leave theirs behind.
As you said the small butane were ok

Not really surprised if that is the case now.
A long time back we sometimes took the float plane across to our blocks on Stewart Island,they were a tad touchy then about any gas bottles on board the plane.
Can gas bottles rupture at certain heights? anyone know?

Would be a go rumour to get confirmed... Will change the plans for many a hunting party

Originally Posted by ANOTHERHUNTER

I have heard a few rumors that helicopters are no longer allowed to carry lpg bottles anymore . can anyone confirm this ?
would be good to know as if that is your only source of cooking you will need to take an alternative. sounds like the small butane and white spirits ones are still ok.

Ring the outfit your flying with, get it from the "horses mouth"

LPG is a mix of propane and butane, its relatively a low pressure containment gas and the average container should not be an issue unless you get to extreme high altitude (way higher than a chopper) where atmospheric pressure is so low the vessel may rupture.
the main issue is that if a bottle does leak it tends to "sit" in confined spaces unlike natural gas which is lighter and expands to fill the volume.
so if you tied your bottle to the heli's skids you have eliminated that risk

Seems like it..

Cheers striker, that sums it up.... So 4 small cylinders for a group of 4 guys for 4 nights... I know I could use one in 4 nights easy especially when ou think you usually use a helicopter to gain elevation therefore colder.....

Guess it means a seperate trip just for gas and other gear

Never had a pilot check whats in my pack or chillybin...

the heights would be bloody extreme ! as altitude increase external pressure decreases. its like if you filled a helium balloon full and let it go then a few 1000 feet up it will expand till it ruptures. LPG cylinders are way tougher but the internal pressure at ground level is higher but theres 5 mm of steel and an over pressure valve fitted. seems a lot of bollocks to me but guess its up to the heli owner and hope its not more govt intervention

DOC are really against fires.
Went to the Mangatutu Hot Springs at Labour Weekend.
Already to try out my Bakewell Burner.
Signs everywhere "No Fires".
DOCs "Ranger Dan" in residence to police.
The camp site used to have wood burning fireplaces.
Yet if I went up the road 400m no issue.
I had even taken my own wood even though there is heaps standing dead manuka to burn.
Didn't take my weber bbq would have been interesting how that would been looked at.
I think they need to review their policies as devices/equipment like the bakewell burner,themettes and these new Biofuel stoves should be encouraged.

This new policy is going to piss a few groups off who like to take all the luxuries with them & lpg cookers to feast up on, hopefully operators can get an approval to carry them in external pods? Always someone in the ivory towers of Wellington trying to fark it up for us.

Originally Posted by outdoorlad

This new policy is going to piss a few groups off who like to take all the luxuries with them & lpg cookers to feast up on, hopefully operators can get an approval to carry them in external pods? Always someone in the ivory towers of Wellington trying to fark it up for us.

Aye, too true. We know only too well that the greenies dont want us "cunters" anywhere near their precious view of utopia (which is OUR public land). You might sit on a precious mountain daisy ffs.

Put them in a sling?

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Has there every been a recorded incident? Or just in the minds of office dwellers!?