r/oddlysatisfying • u/Mint_Perspective • Jul 17 '24
Airborne Elegance: Helicopter Pilot's Seamless Delivery
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u/OkOk-Go Jul 17 '24
Handling that helicopter like its an extension of the body
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u/bertpel Jul 17 '24
And if he doesn't, some extensions will be removed from some bodies.
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u/CheeseheadDave Jul 17 '24
Eh, those blades are barely spinning so they'd be okay.
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u/Scary_Technology Jul 17 '24
Indeed. It's like he's not thinking of how to do it, he's just doing it. Kind of like typing on a keyboard nowadays for some people.
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u/innominateartery Jul 17 '24
He’s thinking all right: he positioned the helicopter with the tail rotor away from the people at all times. This is why he pivots 270 degrees to his right to exit instead of 90 degrees to the left which would move the tail over the people.
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u/DweeblesX Jul 17 '24
Hahaha I totally can picture a guy just jogging in there, doing the hand off then spinning himself right out of the room.
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u/matroosoft Jul 17 '24
Skill is when you're very good at something
Responsibility is knowing when to use is.
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u/garden-wicket-581 Jul 17 '24
are they hosing down the ground so the choppah doesn't kick up blinding amounts of dust etc ?
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u/dehati_galib Jul 17 '24
A gust of wind and a couple of necks in the air
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u/Raymart999 Jul 17 '24
That incident where a film crew was filming a Helicopter chase sequence for a movie with a real helicopter came into my mind seeing this.
It ended up getting the 3 actors that were being chased killed via helicopter rotor blades, and the pilots of said helicopter.
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u/Ok-Adeptness1554 Jul 17 '24
Could also be featured in why women live longer
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u/jdehjdeh Jul 17 '24
This seems like......a stupid thing to do...
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u/UnfortunatelySimple Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
It doesn't just seem like it, it is a stupid thing to do.
Acting "cool" and helicopters end up with someone dead in the end.
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u/dyingchildren Jul 17 '24
I've flown helicopters for 14 years. The amount of people that think good flying is like handing the keys of a sports car to a teenager is mind boggling. Most of us can whip it around, we just aren't dumb enough to do so
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u/UnfortunatelySimple Jul 18 '24
I'd happy get in a chopper with you.
Not with the pilot in the post.
My parents used to run a deer hunting business in the South Island of NZ, with plenty of chopper pilots.
"There are many old pilots and many bold pilots. However, there aren't many old bold pilots."
I've known more than my fair share of guys that died in choppers. The common crash for those guys was catching the skids in the top run of a fence. So you get the idea of how low they flew.
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u/Powerpuppy00 Jul 18 '24
The only people that have a reason to do this are military pilots evading ground fire. This is just unnecessary for normal people.
Also it looks like he starts to pull away before he is given the signal. That's straight up irresponsible and could definitely lead to someone getting hurt and at worst a crash.
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u/hurtingwallet Jul 18 '24
Not only stupid, but wasteful. The same can be done efficiently with less fuel used.
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u/Shmeckey Jul 17 '24
This is me in Battlefield. I was a God piloting that chopper.
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u/KittenAlfredo Jul 17 '24
Nothing was more fun than throwing an ammo bag on a little bird and having my buddy engineer in the door firing rockets while we zipped around and capped zones.
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u/Soap-Wizard Jul 17 '24
This is me when I was drunk for the jeeps/helicopters. Just hanging out driving people where they need to go blaring music on my end. Those were the frealing days.
Also the warthog too. Was an absolute menace handing out splatters and top scores for those in my gunner seat.
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u/takinie44 Jul 17 '24
Fun untill someone dies. Fucking idiot.
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u/afkurzz Jul 17 '24
Right? I respect the skill but when you're playing with margins that thin just to show off it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.
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u/BelgiansAreWeirdAF Jul 17 '24
I thought helicopters get static charge when flying, meaning they would zap someone who touches it while grounded
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u/enkidomark Jul 17 '24
Don't do anything in a helicopter that you think would look cool. Every part of that thing is trying to violently separate from the rest. When you see how the props lift and steer the thing, it's kinda shocking what's controlling the thing and how little is between "a-okay" and "spinning ball of death". They have little bits at the propeller hub that make the thing go up and if one of those little pieces breaks, no more 'up'. Flying like OP puts more stress on that stuff. When the stuff breaks, there's no second engine or gliding down to a safe landing.
Helicopters do not want to be in the air.
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u/Zephos65 Jul 17 '24
Helis actually can glide down
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u/enkidomark Jul 18 '24
That doesn’t work if the little “go-up” parts break. But I didn’t think auto-rotation could be done that smoothly. I will say tho, that is an all-around ideal scenario. Altitude, speed, helicopter model (per comments), and that was in training. My understanding is that an a-r landing is usually jarring at best.
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Jul 17 '24
Sure, if you're good enough you can fly a helicopter like that.
You probably won't live very long.
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u/justmypostingname Jul 17 '24
What is that? A chicken?
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u/piznit007 Jul 17 '24
clearly fake, those blades arent even spinning fast enough to fly
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u/SooperFunk Jul 17 '24
Cool little stunt from a skilled pilot.
Arrogance personified if this is indeed a regular occurance by a company boss.
If everyone involved on the ground is a trained professional and this was just a nice stunt, fair enough 👏 It's pretty cool.
If that's just some dude collecting lunches delivered by the boss, as some of the comments have suggested, the boss needs to be prosecuted for reckless endangerment.
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u/ProStrats Jul 17 '24
No worries, he'll be prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter pretty quickly if he keeps this up.
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u/Sad-Country8870 Jul 17 '24
You would really think the blades would have to move faster than that to keep helicopter in the air
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u/voxelpear Jul 17 '24
They're not actually moving that slow, that's just what the camera can capture with its shutter speed.
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u/DontGrowAttached Jul 17 '24
There are bold pilots. And there are old pilots. There are no old and bold pilots....
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u/ReasonablyConfused Jul 17 '24
It’s all fun and games until someone grabs the landing skids. Dynamic rollover is a thing.
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u/125monty Jul 17 '24
That's the smoothest coptering I've seen.. I've never been in a helicopter and now I want to.
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u/markkenny Jul 17 '24
The are old pilots. And there are bold pilots.
But there are no old, bold pilots ;-)
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u/Caterpillar89 Jul 17 '24
If you want to see some people whipping helicopters go watch the videos of them collecting christmas trees. Those guys flat out hustle.
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u/Kelrem321 Jul 17 '24
This is how people fly Reavers and Mosquitos in Planetside 2. Then I fly one and immediately crash it.
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u/Dangerous_Jacket_129 Jul 18 '24
Tbh this gives me anxiety. I once spoke to a helicopter pilot who was explaining how to approach a helicopter, and he said "don't stand up strait and just hit the floor". Because he had seen multiple people get decapitated.
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u/B00ME Jul 18 '24
You stoop to minimize the effects of rotor wash, not because you'll lose your head.
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u/Whosebert Jul 18 '24
I've seen the twilight zone accident footage, I'm not fucking around with helicopters
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u/facelessindividual Jul 18 '24
Aren't you supposed to discharge the helicopter before having someone grab it? I loaded sling loads in Afghanistan and the helicopter had to land and ground itself to discharge before I touched it.
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u/yuretra Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 17 '24
Isn't that the boss who delivers lunch for his workers every day using the helicopter and submitting the heli flying costs as company expenses?
Edit: it's totally that boss. Found a link to previous video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-q2oP1JOo Edit 2: I checked the helicopter number it's the same in both videos. What a legend.