amazing ? yes.x9200 wrote:http://youtu.be/oidL7Np9KEs
Could this be legit?
From the footage it looks plausible but then, if combined with this simple question: does it make any sense to transport Christmas trees with a helicopter and one by one....
If you fly like this, as in todays' world, the insurance cover would be void ..sundaymorningstaple wrote:That's the way we had to fly when flying loach back in the day as we would stay below the treeline racing up a river course making pedal turns in the same fashion. He's defo an ex military pilot.
my 2 cents say .. it can be done, until he looses focus for a second, and makes an eeny meeny mistake then it will be fun ..x9200 wrote:It could be one more explanation - maybe it was not a regular work but sort of emergency or simply a bet or demonstration. I don't believe this style of loading could be sustained over more than 3h.
The very first thing you are taught after learning all the controls and how to hover (which is an art in itself) is how to auto-rotate to a powerless landing. We are introduced to it in Flight training while leisurely cruising along when the IP chops the throttle without tells you beforehand. The bird literally drops out from under you and the pucker factor is unbelievable the first time and always remains to some degree or another. But learning auto-rotations and practicing them regularly will save your butt numerous times in the course of flying (saving my arse 4x during my 18 month tour - all behind our own lines and save one "messy" one, otherwise unhurt-pride was the only injury on the messy one) Of course, at the level he is flying in the demo, he wouldn't have a ghost chance in a snowstorm of landing it powerlessly. However, unless speared by a tree branch, he would probably survive setting in down in the trees as they are small. Your sayin' is just a ripoff of the diver's saying of "There are old divers and bold divers but damn few old bold divers! (ours even sounds better). LOLecureilx wrote: And while I was not a flier, having worked with chopper lots, things can go from fun to oh-shit in a second, in choppers, and unlike fixed wing, when an engine quits or you loose lift, the choppers only go one way 'Pretty quickly and at an astonishing rate, to the final point of contact with Planet Earth .. "
And there are old pilots and there are brave pilots, but there are very very few Old and brave pilots ...
They are lifting about 20 tree each timesundaymorningstaple wrote: In the clip we don't know how many trees are being picked up at a time but with an average of $200/tree and roughly 50 trees an hour. That's $10,000/hour. if we on use $100/tree (as there is middle man and shipping) that still 5000/hour which easily covers the costs of the chopper and a crews hourly rates I would think.
If they are DTM then the profit is much, much higher.
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