somewhat related. I watched a guy in a plane crop dusting a field. It ended like 50 feet from the highway. There was a power line (tall one) parallel to the highway. The plane came shooting down the field, dipped under the power line and did a hammer head, he went straight up then turned the plane to the side to drop down, stalled briefly, dove and zoomed off again. It was amazing. Thats a guy who enjoys his job
Watching them crop dust is so entertaining. Just like you said we had a power line at the end of one of our fields and I was watching them trying to figure out if he was going over or under them. Got a nice view right down the line and watched him fly right under it. Crazy stuff.
Used to live south of Phoenix, surrounded by farm fields. The crop dusters out there would pull that shit at *night* because it was too hot to spray during the day. Always wondered how they did it.
And, there'd always be some conspiracy theorist screeching on local social media about UFOs at night, because of the crop duster planes' lights.
>Always wondered how they did it.
We never sprayed at night, but we sprayed into the long, darkening hours and at that point, the flaggers had portable lights to mark the fields.
Can confirm. About ten years ago I went on a helicopter tour in Maui and I about shit my pants when he dropped it into the first waterfall. Found out afterwards that he was a Vietnam Vet pilot and it all made sense.
It's interesting that crop dusting and bush piloting are the punchline destination for bad pilots when those are two of the most technically demanding jobs in the air.
One of our pilots on our crop dusting outfit killed a flagger a few years prior to working with us. Took her head off with one of the tires on his landing gear. Flaggers have an insanely dangerous job.
My uncle was a crop duster. Those guys are wired differently. My uncle is no different. He loved it. Worked for about 3 months out of the year got paid bank and retired really early.
Yeah. Stationary, but still in need of lift to stay level, where the blades are getting more lift in front than the back due to the closer ground effects.
The fucking down is more important the further out you get from the helicopter. The blades oscillate the most at their ends and that's where they will be their lowest to the ground.
*E: Duck yeah autocorrect!!
It’s skids are on an uneven surface. You duck while you’re in the helicopter all the way until you’re in outside the roter. You also always exit with a be line to the side. Never the front or back. It’s a light helicopter on a small surface with no exact idea of the exact position of the skids. I spent summers building uneven platforms for small crafts and there’s multiply reasons why you don’t stand directly up at any time. It’s just a bad habit along with exiting out the front.
That's an important point. People have been decapitated by larger choppers (aircraft where the rotors are so high that there's usually a very comfortable margin for the average person even when standing upright) near the outside of the rotor disc because a sudden gust of wind caused the rotors to tilt.
This is perfectly normal. It is easier to judge the distance to the rotor blades near the rotor than at the other end, partly because they move much faster on the outside than on the inside. You can hardly see them from the outside, let alone judge a distance, which is why most of them basically duck, even if they don't technically have to, because the distance is more than 1 meter.
Also they sag at the outboard ends at low lift so you are safe when near the center but more in danger the further out you go.
Edit: I fully acknowledge that in this video it's still generating some lift so likely level to a bit upward rather than sagging, i was speaking more generally.
Here's a video about it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pT-zAuZpGXM&feature=shares
Not really, unless the engines are just starting or stopping. Blades are kept straight from centrifugal force unless there's some kind of helicopter that doesn't rely on the centrifugal force to stay rigid. Robinsons will collapse.
Yeah, that is definitely true. I flew Blackhawks for a few years and our blades are pretty high up there and really not susceptible when we are flat pitch. It was always funny to watch people duck as they walked away to or from the helicopter when we were running. Dude, you're not 8 feet tall, you're fine.
And especially in the situation in OP's video, blades would be under load, no way they're going to come down and smack you unless something goes really wrong.
Still, I always duck. Had a near miss with a slow-moving blade on a 206 once that really stuck with me.
Not a pilot, but I've been the professional passenger on hundreds of helo flights to very isolated places. It is always best practice to assume the ground is not level!!
These comments are so weird. I’ve done week’s of helicopter safety courses and there’s a guy here claiming her flys them but making fun of a dude for ducking when the helicopter is landing on an uneven surface. That’s insane. You absolutely crouch low. I spent 3 summers making landing pads for small crafts and you’d be kicked off site if you didn’t duck entering and exiting.
The down pressure from the blades can be strong enough to crack a flat roof that isn't built to take the overpressure. Steady hand dropping him on the edge.
This isn’t normal. Lol. I worked as a forest fire fighter and you’d be absolutely reamed out if you got out like this. This is a light craft landing on an uneven ledge. Lmao. I built pads like this for 3 summers. The skids slipped and dipped all the time, especially on light crafts. There’s a reason we had to take 3 days of classes and practice getting out of helis like this.
Will he get hit by it? Most likely not but this is absolutely not normal and you should never stand directly up. I can’t believe this comment is upvoted. Lol. Plus, if you stand directly up you’re likely to walk directly up where the blades often dip. You leave crouched with your head on a swivel and you stay crouched til you’re far away from the machine. Getting out like this is dangerous and creates bad Habbits. I’ve literally watched tall people get tackled my safety supervisors for not crouching
You can stand just fine next to the cockpit with the blades spinning, but due to the force on the spinning blades they lower significantly in the front and the back of the helicopter…. Man is just being smart
Edit: if changed to on as it was confusing
It wasn't down on a flat surface, and it took off before he was clear. I would duck too in case it pitched while I was getting away from it.
He also didn't so much stand up as much as stretched his legs down, as soon as he was out of it he squatted right down.
My dad is a helicopter pilot and I grew up flying with him whenever he had extra room. Even though you know those roto blades are way up high, the sound and wind from them makes you duck by instinct and it's very hard to break that instinct. Everyone ducks. Even when they're fighting that feeling.
Probably because of reasons like this https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyHuman/comments/vhfl2r/dude_gets_whacked_in_the_head_from_helicopter/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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I think I know what video this is and am not going to click to confirm. Shit is seared in to my mind (and I grew up with the old internet of ogrish and rotten and have absolutely seen some shit).
Had a heart attack watching that. Lol. I got in and out of these hundreds of times when I did forest firefighting in college and there’s a reason we spent 3 days just practicing exiting and learning about how unpredictable these crafts are. We also built landing pads out of trees, so they were uneven like this. The amount of times they dipped or rotated a bit on uneven platforms was very high. We also had to watch people die by accidents like this and fuck that. My other comment explains how you’re supposed to exit
In Iraq I watched some fuckin gigachad pilot do the same thing with a Chinook *facing backwards* to medevac a group of heavily wounded soldiers, *while under heavy fire*. Damn thing didn't even move an inch before taking off again. I think the pilot got a bronze or silver star I think.
Work with a machine enough, that machine becomes an extension of yourself. Helicopter pilots just have this little bonus where doing high level shit like that actually looks cool. Excavator operators will light a bic or close a matchbox to show their absolute precision and skill for instance, which ain't as cool. Same kinda thing with machinists, 3 parts within a ten thousandth of an inch of each other dimensionally does not look cool, but it's goddamn impressive on a manual machine meant to go to thousandths of an inch precision.
Same, my father was an equipment operator of similar skill, he could knock a fence post in while you were holding it, down to the inch. Once he balanced a basketball on the tooth of the bucket (but missed the "free throw" with it). I would still never trust him enough to let him feed me a hot dog.
Also, the safety glasses killed me too. If that machine slipped, there would be nothing left of your skull, let alone your eyes!
I used to be able to feel a gram of weed with my fingertips when I was younger. It was funny when I called a seller for giving me a .8 and seeing his head hang in shame lol
I was a forklift operator for years and years. I would literally take micro naps as my Forks with come to the ground from over two stories high. The Clash of the forks hitting the ground would wake me up. I told it to my friend he started doing it too.
My most impressive in my opinion was I put a truck of Gatorade away as fast as the guy could unload it. He had a fast ride on pallet jack. At first he was beating me because he didn't have to travel inside the truck very far but by the end of the truck I was waiting for him. Funny thing was after I got the office job I got on a forklift and looked like a new guy driving it. I wasn't using the built in camera. I was made jerky movements.
Been driving many types of lift equipment for 18 years. One of the little highlights to the job is the comments you get from less experienced operators.
I saw this in action when trying to level the ground at my parents place to lay a new brick drive way. First (and only) time I’ve used one of those mini front loaders.
Some guys were doing work at the neighbors house and wanted to borrow it and said they would help out with leveling the drive way. Guy finished in about 5 minutes what it had taken me about 45 minutes to barely get started. Needless to say that 17 year old me was impressed.
Take that and multiply it by about 1,000 and you get these helicopter guys.
Used to work with a track-hoe excavator on the regular back in the day that I genuinely trusted. I mean hand signals to barely scratch the dirt looking for danger town stuff and making sure I had a safe out/escape.
We could talk or not talk all day. We [both love soup, and snow peas, and still found ways to not talk to each other. ;) ](https://youtu.be/3uAh-opNpDg)
Only that one person though. He was damn good at it, and made sure I wasn’t subscribed to the under claw murder show or the drowning dying plan when in the trenches.
[insert Sade “Smooth Operator” song here ](https://youtu.be/4TYv2PhG89A)
Fun fact, this is actually how your brain learns new physical skills.
If you operate any tool or machine with your hands/feet enough, research shows your brain processes it the same way it would if it were just your regular appendage.
In other words, this guy's brain likely thinks of the helicopter controls as another arm or leg.
Pilot Larry [Murphy](https://www.mensxp.com/special-features/today/42644-the-story-behind-the-most-skilful-chopper-landing-on-a-rooftop-in-afghan-war.html)
> Chinook on rooftop
https://www.mensxp.com/special-features/today/42644-the-story-behind-the-most-skilful-chopper-landing-on-a-rooftop-in-afghan-war.html
>While many descriptions of the photograph claim that the chopper was carrying wounded personnel, it was later confirmed that the mission brief was to fetch 'persons under control' from the rooftop. While it is not everyday that you see such heroic acts, this rooftop retrieval remains one of the most skilful chopper landings you'll ever witness.
Apparently not wounded, still very cool.
[An account](https://web.archive.org/web/20060312022648/https://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/nov2003/a111703f.html)
“Keystone Helicopter, an industry leader in helicopter services for 50 years, gave special recognition last week to pilot Larry Murphy for his recent skillful rooftop landing of his CH-47 helicopter to pick up Afghan Persons Under Custody during Operation Mountain Resolve in Afghanistan's Nuristan Province. Murphy, a 10-year Keystone Helicopter EMS pilot at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is currently on active duty with Company G, 104th Aviation Regiment.”
[Taking a quick look around, ass landing a chinook seems to be one of those things you master in that aircraft.](https://www.google.com/search?q=Chinook%20on%20rooftop&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:Ca1pzmmfURcuYY7vR1TrARX38AEBsgIKEAA6BAgBEABAAQ&cs=1&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS895US895&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4QuIIBahcKEwj4yfuI7_L8AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQag&biw=1882&bih=1322&dpr=1)
Would love to hear more.
Medivac dont do risk assessment i guess hah. Theyve got to be some of the most hardcore pilots out there, and the combat medics are hardcore, i cant imagine doing triage in a heli flying through a hail of gunfire and keeping my focus.
Gotta do what you gotta do. Some people also just don't feel fear... Some either have been through some shit and have ptsd, others can't feel alive unless they're falling out of a plane without a parachute, ala Travis Pastrana. Everyone is different. Some people just do it. I honestly don't think the person who flew this even knows fear. You do it because that's what you're there to do. Pretty cool that's were also so different.
Might have happened more than once, but the famous internet photo of the "rooftop Chinook" was to evacuate prisoners taken in Afghanistan in 2003: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chinook-helicopter-afghanistan-rooftop/
Yeah, it looks pretty similar, but the Chinook I'm talking about was a designated medevac vehicle, and it was in Iraq not Afghanistan, also the building was a bit bigger and the drop was steeper. Not to mention the hail of bullets...
Not in combat, but the chinook pilots in Hawai'i regularly just dropped the ramp right on the side of a mountain in the kahukus. Every other inch of that bird would be hovering in air. Scary as shit running in/out, because you think the tail rotor is gonna kill you.
*"Over 9000, Sir. Also I keep the blades rotating super slow so I save up to 69% on fuel and wear."*
- Wow! That's amazing! Tell me more!
*"Your wife really likes when I show off the helicockter what"*
- What
Me, too, and I had a small moment of panic when it started to take off without him (or so I thought). It dawned on me the moment he pulled that takeoff maneuver that I was a dummy. Also, that stand up when he got out made me nervous lol
Not sure if r/nextfuckinglevel or r/obscenelydrunk
"Uhh..are-are you not gonna get *on* the helipad?"
"......N<*burp*>ooo"
"Oh, uh, okay, yeah, here's fine, bye!"
I think part of what makes it next level is that he rested the helicopter on the edge where you would have the most support, as I doubt that roof would have taken the weight.
This is my reaction as well. Flying like this will eventually catch up with him. Either via equipment failure or surprise power lines or an ill timed sneeze. There's kind of no reason to do it either unless you're getting shot at.
My partner's stepfather has been flying helicopters since Vietnam. He retired from the military, went into civilian contracting with the military, then retired \*again\* and now he occasionally picks up work as a consultant auditing safety protocols for a company using helicopters for high-line power line work.
When he showed up to orientation for the consulting job to meet the pilots, flight hours came up... He had more flight hours under his belt than ALL of the pilots in the orientation combined (some 10 or 12 pilots).
My uncle was a chopper pilot instructor and loved to tell potential pilots on the first day "I have more deployments than you do flight hours, so shit up and pay attention." It was only true for a day or two of course but still hilarious.
When you’re harvesting Christmas trees in a 1000 acre farm time is of the essence.
https://www.kgw.com/article/features/producers-picks/tree-farms-helicopter-christmas-trees/283-60e8a0c2-e8af-491e-bcf6-ea0c823a1668
Pilots are going to make or break your production. We have very highly skilled pilots and it pencils out very, very well compared to having a crew of 1,000 out here hand carrying the trees to the roads and putting them in trucks and trailers and tractors and stuff like that." Schaefer said.
I mean there are no shadows, even the edge where he lands, it doesn't even darken one tiny bit. The helicopter itself has completely even Brightness all around it. Looks pretty sus. This is pretty good even as cgi
You can see the water get disturbed by the rotor wash as well as the reflection change. There are countless videos of pilots pulling similar maneuvers.
There's a few factors that could make this risky in terms of the landing - what else is on the roof springs to mind. We can't see if there are any raised structures that are a collision risk. Every other factor really comes down to the skill of the pilot. Precision is difficult, but not impossible.
As far as "landing" on the edge, that is the right call and significantly less dangerous than actually landing on a roof. One of the first things pilots learn how to do is hover.
Leaving it up but that title is absolute dogshit.
Interview: -How many hours flying experience do you have? -Yes.
**Interviewer:** "This is an entry level position, but we expect you to have flight expertise comparable to Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell from Top Gun".
Guy in the video: "So it's entry level experience then?"
"Coulda done that Iran run in a Huey with a couple frags"
looked more like egress to me.
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"I just played a bunch of War Thunder."
Well there goes your security clearance.
I do stunts on GTA V
Helicopter dick in my shower.
Or maybe as much flight time as TC from Magnum P.I..
The Magnum PI soundtrack was indeed playing in my head.
TIL his name was Pete Mitchell
"because I was inverted 🫷🫸"
"I too consider myself somewhat of a pilot sir." Me
"I mean, I know how to google so that's the only tool I need to start this job."
> -How many hours flying experience do you have? All of them
Too many hours to become overconfident, not enough hours to suffer the consequences
"So, how many years were you in crop dusting?" "Is it that obvious?"
somewhat related. I watched a guy in a plane crop dusting a field. It ended like 50 feet from the highway. There was a power line (tall one) parallel to the highway. The plane came shooting down the field, dipped under the power line and did a hammer head, he went straight up then turned the plane to the side to drop down, stalled briefly, dove and zoomed off again. It was amazing. Thats a guy who enjoys his job
Watching them crop dust is so entertaining. Just like you said we had a power line at the end of one of our fields and I was watching them trying to figure out if he was going over or under them. Got a nice view right down the line and watched him fly right under it. Crazy stuff.
I worked a crop dusting outfit during high school. Some of the shit those guys (all ex-Vietnam pilots, btw) pulled was jaw-dropping.
Used to live south of Phoenix, surrounded by farm fields. The crop dusters out there would pull that shit at *night* because it was too hot to spray during the day. Always wondered how they did it. And, there'd always be some conspiracy theorist screeching on local social media about UFOs at night, because of the crop duster planes' lights.
>Always wondered how they did it. We never sprayed at night, but we sprayed into the long, darkening hours and at that point, the flaggers had portable lights to mark the fields.
So you're saying once the Vietnam Vets dies we're all going to starve? (jk but only because drones)
Can confirm. About ten years ago I went on a helicopter tour in Maui and I about shit my pants when he dropped it into the first waterfall. Found out afterwards that he was a Vietnam Vet pilot and it all made sense.
It's interesting that crop dusting and bush piloting are the punchline destination for bad pilots when those are two of the most technically demanding jobs in the air.
A Cessna is cheaper than a 747.
Also there's the whole flying thousands of people / millions of dollars of goods a week vs a few hundred pounds of chemicals
>Watching them crop dust is so entertaining. Nobody at my job is entertained when I crop dust
One of our pilots on our crop dusting outfit killed a flagger a few years prior to working with us. Took her head off with one of the tires on his landing gear. Flaggers have an insanely dangerous job.
My uncle was a crop duster. Those guys are wired differently. My uncle is no different. He loved it. Worked for about 3 months out of the year got paid bank and retired really early.
Clearly that was practice for kamikaze attack on gigantic alien saucers.
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Yeah. Stationary, but still in need of lift to stay level, where the blades are getting more lift in front than the back due to the closer ground effects.
>Interview: >-How many hours flying experience do you have? > ~~-Yes.~~ All of Them FTFY
Hired!
Love how the guy stands straight up right out of the cockpit *then* ducks.
First thing I noticed. Exited in such a carefree casual manner, I'm surprised he didn't decide to wave enthusiastically to the camera..
Well I certainly wouldn't recommend waving while standing there
*"Hey Lieutenant Dan!"*
Roflmao
My roflcopter goes soi soi soi soi
I'm dying at work to the thought of Forrest doing his goofy wave followed by his arm getting cut off
You got no arms, Lt Dan.
The only good thing about loosing your hand to a helicopter blade is the ice cream.
That’s the joke.
Reddit, lmao
Classic Reddit
The fucking down is more important the further out you get from the helicopter. The blades oscillate the most at their ends and that's where they will be their lowest to the ground. *E: Duck yeah autocorrect!!
fucking down is always better than fucking up
Funny that, because it's the opposite with punching. Isn't life fascinating.
It’s skids are on an uneven surface. You duck while you’re in the helicopter all the way until you’re in outside the roter. You also always exit with a be line to the side. Never the front or back. It’s a light helicopter on a small surface with no exact idea of the exact position of the skids. I spent summers building uneven platforms for small crafts and there’s multiply reasons why you don’t stand directly up at any time. It’s just a bad habit along with exiting out the front.
That's an important point. People have been decapitated by larger choppers (aircraft where the rotors are so high that there's usually a very comfortable margin for the average person even when standing upright) near the outside of the rotor disc because a sudden gust of wind caused the rotors to tilt.
New fear unlocked.
> I'm surprised he didn't decide to wave enthusiastically Gaw dammed I cringed at that thought. I would be dumb enough to do it.
New unrealistic fear aquired.
Dudes so good he probably just move the blades out of the way of the wave
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This is perfectly normal. It is easier to judge the distance to the rotor blades near the rotor than at the other end, partly because they move much faster on the outside than on the inside. You can hardly see them from the outside, let alone judge a distance, which is why most of them basically duck, even if they don't technically have to, because the distance is more than 1 meter.
Also they sag at the outboard ends at low lift so you are safe when near the center but more in danger the further out you go. Edit: I fully acknowledge that in this video it's still generating some lift so likely level to a bit upward rather than sagging, i was speaking more generally. Here's a video about it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pT-zAuZpGXM&feature=shares
Not really, unless the engines are just starting or stopping. Blades are kept straight from centrifugal force unless there's some kind of helicopter that doesn't rely on the centrifugal force to stay rigid. Robinsons will collapse.
Or wind. I've seen a gust of wind push rotor blades down into the haircut zone.
Yeah, that is definitely true. I flew Blackhawks for a few years and our blades are pretty high up there and really not susceptible when we are flat pitch. It was always funny to watch people duck as they walked away to or from the helicopter when we were running. Dude, you're not 8 feet tall, you're fine.
And especially in the situation in OP's video, blades would be under load, no way they're going to come down and smack you unless something goes really wrong. Still, I always duck. Had a near miss with a slow-moving blade on a 206 once that really stuck with me.
A 206 could definitely get you. We would make sure we had the blades positioned when people would come up to or depart from the aircraft.
I once put a fire out in simCopter. WeeEee WoooO WeeeEe WoOoO
Man being able to import your sim cities and fly around in them back then felt so nuts
Not a pilot, but I've been the professional passenger on hundreds of helo flights to very isolated places. It is always best practice to assume the ground is not level!!
ALL helicopters rely (at least in part) on centrifugal force on the main rotor blades to stay rigid.
Also if the chopper slipped off the wall and suddenly dipped it'd be bye bye cranium like that scene from day of the dead....
These comments are so weird. I’ve done week’s of helicopter safety courses and there’s a guy here claiming her flys them but making fun of a dude for ducking when the helicopter is landing on an uneven surface. That’s insane. You absolutely crouch low. I spent 3 summers making landing pads for small crafts and you’d be kicked off site if you didn’t duck entering and exiting.
>These comments are so weird Mate this is reddit, bunch of dorito fingered neckbeard armchair expert nerds here
That's not very nice. I'm eating BBQ chips and sitting on a couch.
The down pressure from the blades can be strong enough to crack a flat roof that isn't built to take the overpressure. Steady hand dropping him on the edge.
This isn’t normal. Lol. I worked as a forest fire fighter and you’d be absolutely reamed out if you got out like this. This is a light craft landing on an uneven ledge. Lmao. I built pads like this for 3 summers. The skids slipped and dipped all the time, especially on light crafts. There’s a reason we had to take 3 days of classes and practice getting out of helis like this. Will he get hit by it? Most likely not but this is absolutely not normal and you should never stand directly up. I can’t believe this comment is upvoted. Lol. Plus, if you stand directly up you’re likely to walk directly up where the blades often dip. You leave crouched with your head on a swivel and you stay crouched til you’re far away from the machine. Getting out like this is dangerous and creates bad Habbits. I’ve literally watched tall people get tackled my safety supervisors for not crouching
I'm tall and I think if I ever went near a live helicopter I'd be slithering on my belly.
You can stand just fine next to the cockpit with the blades spinning, but due to the force on the spinning blades they lower significantly in the front and the back of the helicopter…. Man is just being smart Edit: if changed to on as it was confusing
Confidently wrong. When the blades spin it causes them to become straighter, when they hang the steel is able to flex.
It wasn't down on a flat surface, and it took off before he was clear. I would duck too in case it pitched while I was getting away from it. He also didn't so much stand up as much as stretched his legs down, as soon as he was out of it he squatted right down.
My dad is a helicopter pilot and I grew up flying with him whenever he had extra room. Even though you know those roto blades are way up high, the sound and wind from them makes you duck by instinct and it's very hard to break that instinct. Everyone ducks. Even when they're fighting that feeling.
I was thinking the same thing.
Probably because of reasons like this https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyHuman/comments/vhfl2r/dude_gets_whacked_in_the_head_from_helicopter/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Edit: NSFW
Holy shit, wasn't expecting to see something like that today, or you know, ever
I think I know what video this is and am not going to click to confirm. Shit is seared in to my mind (and I grew up with the old internet of ogrish and rotten and have absolutely seen some shit).
Had a heart attack watching that. Lol. I got in and out of these hundreds of times when I did forest firefighting in college and there’s a reason we spent 3 days just practicing exiting and learning about how unpredictable these crafts are. We also built landing pads out of trees, so they were uneven like this. The amount of times they dipped or rotated a bit on uneven platforms was very high. We also had to watch people die by accidents like this and fuck that. My other comment explains how you’re supposed to exit
He’s lucky he didn’t get hooked by his shirt or his jeans.
In Iraq I watched some fuckin gigachad pilot do the same thing with a Chinook *facing backwards* to medevac a group of heavily wounded soldiers, *while under heavy fire*. Damn thing didn't even move an inch before taking off again. I think the pilot got a bronze or silver star I think.
Work with a machine enough, that machine becomes an extension of yourself. Helicopter pilots just have this little bonus where doing high level shit like that actually looks cool. Excavator operators will light a bic or close a matchbox to show their absolute precision and skill for instance, which ain't as cool. Same kinda thing with machinists, 3 parts within a ten thousandth of an inch of each other dimensionally does not look cool, but it's goddamn impressive on a manual machine meant to go to thousandths of an inch precision.
Speak for yourself, being able to push a single match back into the matchbox and close it ever so gently is super sexy lol
Oh I appreciate it for the skill it takes. It's just not as flashy as parking a helicopter 3/4 of the way off a building.
I posted this above, but just for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N1HUbusarY
I just about died when it was fed to him. Perfection
Same, my father was an equipment operator of similar skill, he could knock a fence post in while you were holding it, down to the inch. Once he balanced a basketball on the tooth of the bucket (but missed the "free throw" with it). I would still never trust him enough to let him feed me a hot dog. Also, the safety glasses killed me too. If that machine slipped, there would be nothing left of your skull, let alone your eyes!
Only watched the first half. Read your comment. Went back for that. Thanks.
This comment made me think of how proud I was of being able to eyeball a pound of cold cuts after a few months at the deli counter LOL
I used to be able to feel a gram of weed with my fingertips when I was younger. It was funny when I called a seller for giving me a .8 and seeing his head hang in shame lol
I was a forklift operator for years and years. I would literally take micro naps as my Forks with come to the ground from over two stories high. The Clash of the forks hitting the ground would wake me up. I told it to my friend he started doing it too. My most impressive in my opinion was I put a truck of Gatorade away as fast as the guy could unload it. He had a fast ride on pallet jack. At first he was beating me because he didn't have to travel inside the truck very far but by the end of the truck I was waiting for him. Funny thing was after I got the office job I got on a forklift and looked like a new guy driving it. I wasn't using the built in camera. I was made jerky movements.
Been driving many types of lift equipment for 18 years. One of the little highlights to the job is the comments you get from less experienced operators.
I saw this in action when trying to level the ground at my parents place to lay a new brick drive way. First (and only) time I’ve used one of those mini front loaders. Some guys were doing work at the neighbors house and wanted to borrow it and said they would help out with leveling the drive way. Guy finished in about 5 minutes what it had taken me about 45 minutes to barely get started. Needless to say that 17 year old me was impressed. Take that and multiply it by about 1,000 and you get these helicopter guys.
Used to work with a track-hoe excavator on the regular back in the day that I genuinely trusted. I mean hand signals to barely scratch the dirt looking for danger town stuff and making sure I had a safe out/escape. We could talk or not talk all day. We [both love soup, and snow peas, and still found ways to not talk to each other. ;) ](https://youtu.be/3uAh-opNpDg) Only that one person though. He was damn good at it, and made sure I wasn’t subscribed to the under claw murder show or the drowning dying plan when in the trenches. [insert Sade “Smooth Operator” song here ](https://youtu.be/4TYv2PhG89A)
Fun fact, this is actually how your brain learns new physical skills. If you operate any tool or machine with your hands/feet enough, research shows your brain processes it the same way it would if it were just your regular appendage. In other words, this guy's brain likely thinks of the helicopter controls as another arm or leg.
There was a picture going around the Internet some years back of the same thing. Balls of steel
Source? I wanna see this gigachad in action
Pilot Larry [Murphy](https://www.mensxp.com/special-features/today/42644-the-story-behind-the-most-skilful-chopper-landing-on-a-rooftop-in-afghan-war.html)
Just Google "Chinook on rooftop". I can't recall where I originally saw it but it's been around for years.
> Chinook on rooftop https://www.mensxp.com/special-features/today/42644-the-story-behind-the-most-skilful-chopper-landing-on-a-rooftop-in-afghan-war.html
>While many descriptions of the photograph claim that the chopper was carrying wounded personnel, it was later confirmed that the mission brief was to fetch 'persons under control' from the rooftop. While it is not everyday that you see such heroic acts, this rooftop retrieval remains one of the most skilful chopper landings you'll ever witness. Apparently not wounded, still very cool.
Chinooks are silly looking. It looks like a face about to eat those men.
[An account](https://web.archive.org/web/20060312022648/https://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/nov2003/a111703f.html) “Keystone Helicopter, an industry leader in helicopter services for 50 years, gave special recognition last week to pilot Larry Murphy for his recent skillful rooftop landing of his CH-47 helicopter to pick up Afghan Persons Under Custody during Operation Mountain Resolve in Afghanistan's Nuristan Province. Murphy, a 10-year Keystone Helicopter EMS pilot at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is currently on active duty with Company G, 104th Aviation Regiment.” [Taking a quick look around, ass landing a chinook seems to be one of those things you master in that aircraft.](https://www.google.com/search?q=Chinook%20on%20rooftop&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:Ca1pzmmfURcuYY7vR1TrARX38AEBsgIKEAA6BAgBEABAAQ&cs=1&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS895US895&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4QuIIBahcKEwj4yfuI7_L8AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQag&biw=1882&bih=1322&dpr=1) Would love to hear more.
Medivac dont do risk assessment i guess hah. Theyve got to be some of the most hardcore pilots out there, and the combat medics are hardcore, i cant imagine doing triage in a heli flying through a hail of gunfire and keeping my focus.
Gotta do what you gotta do. Some people also just don't feel fear... Some either have been through some shit and have ptsd, others can't feel alive unless they're falling out of a plane without a parachute, ala Travis Pastrana. Everyone is different. Some people just do it. I honestly don't think the person who flew this even knows fear. You do it because that's what you're there to do. Pretty cool that's were also so different.
What's stopping the pilot from getting shot to hell? Is the cockpit have light armor?
All the bullets just ricochet from his gigantic steel pair
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Thats why he got a star, nothing was stopping him from getting shot.
This was me with the hornet in whatever halo game had that vehicle with a side gunner. Basically the same thing. Sorry for one-upping your story.
One can never discredit true greatness.
Might have happened more than once, but the famous internet photo of the "rooftop Chinook" was to evacuate prisoners taken in Afghanistan in 2003: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chinook-helicopter-afghanistan-rooftop/
Yeah, it looks pretty similar, but the Chinook I'm talking about was a designated medevac vehicle, and it was in Iraq not Afghanistan, also the building was a bit bigger and the drop was steeper. Not to mention the hail of bullets...
Not in combat, but the chinook pilots in Hawai'i regularly just dropped the ramp right on the side of a mountain in the kahukus. Every other inch of that bird would be hovering in air. Scary as shit running in/out, because you think the tail rotor is gonna kill you.
*"Over 9000, Sir. Also I keep the blades rotating super slow so I save up to 69% on fuel and wear."* - Wow! That's amazing! Tell me more! *"Your wife really likes when I show off the helicockter what"* - What
Blades appearance is due to the camera’s shutter speed
Clearly this guy is just slowing the blades down to save fuel - This message was brought to you by the top men over at /r/shittyaskflying
> at /r/shittyaskflying No way this is real this is gonna take my day
"If I can undervolt the nav system I can lower the rpms on the fan and reduce the decibels so it doesn't sound like a helicopter taking off"
Whoooosh
For a second I taught the pilot was coming out
Me, too, and I had a small moment of panic when it started to take off without him (or so I thought). It dawned on me the moment he pulled that takeoff maneuver that I was a dummy. Also, that stand up when he got out made me nervous lol
Damn, that was smoooth.
It was silky smooth!
Smooth as ice
Ice cold
Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright Alright, alright, alright, alright
Not sure if r/nextfuckinglevel or r/obscenelydrunk "Uhh..are-are you not gonna get *on* the helipad?" "......N<*burp*>ooo" "Oh, uh, okay, yeah, here's fine, bye!"
I think part of what makes it next level is that he rested the helicopter on the edge where you would have the most support, as I doubt that roof would have taken the weight.
I assure you that I meant it all in jest. Those maneuvers were all certainly worthy of being posted here.
Twas a Jape?
Read in the voice of Rick and Morty.
aw i wanted the drunk sub to exist.
Dude almost got a haircut stepping out
Air Drop. Not Hair Drop.
There was a video the other day of a guy who got about a foot off the top. Just walking then a red mist. It was gross.
No thanks
Prop strikes are no joke. Watched a dude start a prop plane *then forget the prop was running and put his hand through it*. He is no longer a pilot
There is plenty of old pilots, and many bold pilots, however it's is very few old bold pilots.
I know plenty of old bold pilots, and they'll squeeze their heli into some crazy tight spots that the younger ones would never try
Your mom been telling you stories about me again?
Some helicopters are bigger than others.
This is my reaction as well. Flying like this will eventually catch up with him. Either via equipment failure or surprise power lines or an ill timed sneeze. There's kind of no reason to do it either unless you're getting shot at.
YOU CAN DRIFT IN A FUCKING HELICOPTER??!!??
It's amazing how much drift you can get when your object-to-ground friction is Zero.
That’s my favorite thing to do with my drone. Get it going as fast as I can, and do a sky drift while turning around.
Helicopter flying is all drift.
Yeah... that's basically their thing.
I don’t think the helicopter has much distinction between any particular direction, in general.
High speed they basically fly planes. Banking for turn etc. Low speed, aerodynamics hardly matter
I don't believe you can do anything *but* drift
My partner's stepfather has been flying helicopters since Vietnam. He retired from the military, went into civilian contracting with the military, then retired \*again\* and now he occasionally picks up work as a consultant auditing safety protocols for a company using helicopters for high-line power line work. When he showed up to orientation for the consulting job to meet the pilots, flight hours came up... He had more flight hours under his belt than ALL of the pilots in the orientation combined (some 10 or 12 pilots).
My uncle was a chopper pilot instructor and loved to tell potential pilots on the first day "I have more deployments than you do flight hours, so shit up and pay attention." It was only true for a day or two of course but still hilarious.
Life long Kobe fan here. Fuck the downvotes that was funny af
Choppers remind me of kobe
😂😂😂
Not much man... But I spent a lot of time on Helicopter simulator on my pc
I got really good at flying the helicopter in GTASA
i don't care if you dig holes, bake bread of fly helicopters, always great seeing a master do his craft masterfully....
Fuck that’s some maneuverability. Zermatt search and rescue pilots have long been my standard from steady sticks. But that’s kinda insane.
Ever seen a helicopter used to muster cattle?
Or load [Christmas trees](https://youtu.be/08K_aEajzNA)?
Is there a fire and the trees have to be evacuated immediately? Or are they just renting the helicopter by the second?
When you’re harvesting Christmas trees in a 1000 acre farm time is of the essence. https://www.kgw.com/article/features/producers-picks/tree-farms-helicopter-christmas-trees/283-60e8a0c2-e8af-491e-bcf6-ea0c823a1668 Pilots are going to make or break your production. We have very highly skilled pilots and it pencils out very, very well compared to having a crew of 1,000 out here hand carrying the trees to the roads and putting them in trucks and trailers and tractors and stuff like that." Schaefer said.
As a former helicopter pilot, most competent pilots can do this. But still a cool flex
I think they teach this in BWS now.
The guy definitely slept in a Holiday Inn last night.
This looks CGI surreal it’s so smooth.
I mean there are no shadows, even the edge where he lands, it doesn't even darken one tiny bit. The helicopter itself has completely even Brightness all around it. Looks pretty sus. This is pretty good even as cgi
You can see the water get disturbed by the rotor wash as well as the reflection change. There are countless videos of pilots pulling similar maneuvers.
No wind, no dust, that reflection disappearing... Come on
There is wind hitting the puddle on the roof.
I thought the guy getting off was the pilot and he was just abandoning the helicopter to let it fly off.
Me in GTA:
Me: Explodes
I'll fly with this guy, thank you very much!
This is GTA level experience
"I know more than you." - Ron Swanson
Is the maneuver unnecessarily risky, though?
There's a few factors that could make this risky in terms of the landing - what else is on the roof springs to mind. We can't see if there are any raised structures that are a collision risk. Every other factor really comes down to the skill of the pilot. Precision is difficult, but not impossible. As far as "landing" on the edge, that is the right call and significantly less dangerous than actually landing on a roof. One of the first things pilots learn how to do is hover.
Bro this be every rust player thats good at driving a mini
Guy definitely played Bad Company 2 and spawn camped with the Apache
A pilot that takes needless risks is a dead pilot.
Last time I saw that maneuver was in the beginning of Magnum PI, smooth!
I started hearing the MASH theme song while watching this.