Raton, not positive however have see mustering videos by Birdy and saw very little evidence of crews on the ground.
Helicopters are used to muster the cattle and work
with a ground crew on motorbikes and in trucks. Annual cattle muster is that helicopters are used in the process, due to the huge tracts of land that have to be covered. The helicopters
go down low ,shockingly low and lot of the cattle hide, brahman cows are bloody smart, and very stubborn, you can't push them too hard and If they get hot and upset, they can get really pi***ed off and then they won't change their minds when they hear you coming so you have to find them and draw them out one spends hours up there going back and forth when in the midst of a full muster, making it sometimes very hard to herd the cattle into areas that act as pens, adding more and more cattle as they go along so that you eventually have thousands of head of cattle being driven by helicopter, horse and quad bike through to the station sorting pens and if birdy thinks for a moment
a gyro will do the heli works.. well he is
kidding and being a show pony. As the R22 had some problems due not being designed for cattle mustering ,which may exceed the limits set during the type's certification process, cattle stations owners are resourcing to Gyros with limited success, to do the job proper one needs a few if not 3 choppers on hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38JtJnr3DiQ
Would venture my opinion that the mustering is pretty much Birdy on his own.
Yes , correct, his own version what mustering is all about
You seem to enjoy stirring on the forum, hope you enjoy actual flying as much.
No, by the same taking no one deserves being called an idiot for giving a opinion and in respect of flying dislike the bragging but been doing it since I was 12 and have
some experience.
raton