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[LinvilleGorge]

3 hours ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Did some more volunteering loading helicopters this morning at the Hickory airport. Hardly any helicopters running through this morning and it was pretty slow so we headed back to Raleigh.
 

The helicopter traffic really picked up over the mid-afternoon but overall, it's down big time over the past 2-3 days. The private volunteer pilots and helicopters can only keep up their efforts for so long before they have to attend to their own lives and businesses. The amount of government helicopters involved has been really disappointing IMO.

[Candler Cat]

Until today, we've heard and seen multiple Chinook sorties heading back and forth from the avl airport 

[Paa Langfart]

There is a shitton of maintenance to keep  military helicopters flying safely and it might be a maintenance heavy day.  The crews need time to decompress and rest as well.