What a Pilot!

Keith1 · Sep 20, 2011

I know most of you guys are fixed wing buffs but the skill shown here is amazing in my opinion. I think the patience the pilot and the batman shows is exemplary, bearing in mind they must do this sort of stuff day in - day out.

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Helicopter.mp4 video by hard11 - Photobucket

Malcolm · Sep 20, 2011

Considering, that looked a very smooth landing! Thats why they are the best!

Jim Craik · Sep 20, 2011

Very skilled piloting!

I seem to remember seeing a US ship using a system where the copter dropped a wire, this wire was attached to a winch arrangement located right in the center of the landing platform.

The copter then climed intill the wire was taught, then by keeping the wire taught, the copter was then winched down with it's vertical motion matching the ships movement.

Gravy · Sep 20, 2011

The pilot has balls of Unobtanium...

Keith1 · Sep 20, 2011

Jim Craik said:
Very skilled piloting!

I seem to remember seeing a US ship using a system where the copter dropped a wire, this wire was attached to a winch arrangement located right in the center of the landing platform.

The copter then climed intill the wire was taught, then by keeping the wire taught, the copter was then winched down with it's vertical motion matching the ships movement.

Yes, American Pilots would definitely need something like that... :blank:

TA152 · Sep 20, 2011

We use much larger ships with even larger landing areas. The guy has 4 rotor blades with brakes that help also. You can always pick out the older pilots. Any of you know the General Westmoreland was a helicopter pilot and would jump at a chance to fly the Huey in Vietnam?

Great controlled landing.

mikegaan · Sep 20, 2011

Looks a lot like an approach I made into Chicago once, in a B727, quartering headwind 30 kts. gusting to 52

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Keith1 · Sep 20, 2011

Mike I do hope your wings weren't rotating quite as much...

mikegaan · Sep 20, 2011

I think they were. Then, getting those little doughnut shaped creases out of the seat was another problem

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Mark Charlton · Sep 20, 2011

The Royal Canadian Navy did an enormous amount of development work in the 50's and 60's for this type of scenario. The result was the development of the "Bear Trap" haul-down system, complemented by an artificial horizon bar (for pilots to focus on, preventing distraction from the yawing deck below). Makes a very difficult task much safer and easier, but I see neither system on that ship, so balls of steel indeed. Hats off to the flag man also, who must have been passing rather large bricks considering the potential (and not remote) impact from sheared-off blades...

Mark

Jim Craik · Sep 20, 2011

Keith1 said:
Yes, American Pilots would definitely need something like that... :blank:

Gee Keith, how about those Canadian pilots?

wolodymyr · Sep 20, 2011

Amazing,
I guess there is no other option for the pilot other than to decide he has nerves of steel.
I remember one Christmas offshore North sea, I was a passenger on my way home in a Sikorsky S61, after picking me and a few others from our platform, we went to a rig to pick up a couple more pax. To give some idea of the conditions, it was snowing heavily with a strong wind, so much so that when we boarded, the pilot had plenty of throttle and reverse pitch to keep her decked, and we had to crawl along the rope netting to the hatch.
When we went to land on the rig, it was rising and falling in the heavy swell, I couldn't guess how much, but it seemed a lot, he hovered and watched the rig rise and fall a few times, positioned closer, then just as it rose to meet us he touched down and immediately reversed pitch to keep it there. Well, I was both scared and impressed at the same time, but I'll tell you what, there was nowhere near as much pitch and roll as on your video Keith.

Dave

Keith1 · Sep 20, 2011

Jim Craik said:
Gee Keith, how about those Canadian pilots?

That's America too right? :huh:

Like Norf of Norf innit.

Gravy · Sep 20, 2011

wolodymyr said:
Amazing,
I guess there is no other option for the pilot other than to decide he has nerves of steel.
I remember one Christmas offshore North sea, I was a passenger on my way home in a Sikorsky S61, after picking me and a few others from our platform, we went to a rig to pick up a couple more pax. To give some idea of the conditions, it was snowing heavily with a strong wind, so much so that when we boarded, the pilot had plenty of throttle and reverse pitch to keep her decked, and we had to crawl along the rope netting to the hatch.
When we went to land on the rig, it was rising and falling in the heavy swell, I couldn't guess how much, but it seemed a lot, he hovered and watched the rig rise and fall a few times, positioned closer, then just as it rose to meet us he touched down and immediately reversed pitch to keep it there. Well, I was both scared and impressed at the same time, but I'll tell you what, there was nowhere near as much pitch and roll as on your video Keith.

Dave

Dave, wow... It's amazing the things you uncover in the paddock... I think you too have balls of steel. A story to tell your kids about! :thumbsup:

Pete · Sep 20, 2011

Keith1 said:
Yes, American Pilots would definitely need something like that... :blank:

You are incorrigible.:shocked::heart:

Cliffbeer2 · Sep 21, 2011

Jim Craik said:
Gee Keith, how about those Canadian pilots?

My brother Ian was a Canadian Airforce helicopter pilot (and also a jet instructor) and I saw him do stuff with his single huey that just defied physics. Once or twice with me in it (me, like any civilian, shouldn't have been in there, but oh well, nobody found out). He wasn't perfect though, I still have a tail skid of his in my garage which is seriously mangled, but which saved the heli and its occupants. Without that tail skid in place there would have been a major accident that day.

Those military heli pilots have some brass ones.

Mark Pickford · Sep 21, 2011

Cliffbeer2 said:
My brother Ian was a Canadian Airforce helicopter pilot (and also a jet instructor).

Don't you just hate that! Darn overly-clever people make me sick!

Malcolm · Sep 21, 2011

Mark Pickford said:
Don't you just hate that! Darn overly-clever people make me sick!

Yeah but he did damage a tail skid! Doubt I could find the on switch....

Mark Pickford · Sep 21, 2011

Just have to hope he's ugly! I bet he isn't!

DRONE · Sep 21, 2011

Notice the harpoon attaching to the grid, if you look closely you will see it deploy just after landing and pull the chopper firmly onto the deck. The grid and harpoon method are what we use when we have land our Firescout unmanned helicopters on board ship.
www.kell-strom.com/tools/dcn/dcnpg03.htm

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Mike

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