DEFROSTING MY ICE COVERED HELICOPTER WITH A FLAMETHROWER!!! 

Don't the make electric sleeves or blankets to protect and melt ice on aircraft ?

Random question. Do they not make blades with a hydrophobic coating? If not million dollar idea maybe?

@@DannoTull is the

Love your videos brother even if I don't watch them most of the time I do but some ate hard to watch like when you give away vehicles. Mostly cause I'm disabled and need a vehicle to pull my travel which is going to crumble away into nothing cause I can't pull it anywhere

Umm brah. Unless you have like a foot of solid ice on those blades, they may droop but they won't break. BTW, it's technically impossible to get a foot of ice on blades unless you have the helicopter that you very stupidly store to the lee side of a building so the snow and ice all pile up in gigantic 15-foot piles. In most situations, only a certain amount of ice and snow can build up before the freezing rain just flows off the blade or the not very snow will fall off the blades because they move a lot. BTW, you obviously are trying to make content I guess? EDIT> HA..called it on the ice. *rolls eyes* You make it sounds reeeellly expensive like each blade is 100k each? The set of 4 might be 100k, brand new if they're super fancy ones which I somewhat doubt your old helicopter uses. I don't guess, I know you didn't buy that copter brand new because it's probably older than you are. Your "GOTTA GET MEH HELICOPTER OR IT'S GONNA DIIIEEEEEE" RU-vid spambait thumbnails and whole videos you're making about the blades breaking is just not true. Kind of becoming a thing with your channel, isn't it?

You do know / realize he said "I'm worried about delaminating the blade's." Just wondering if you missed that part.

@@stanwooddave9758 one option that could have been used is that blade socks could have placed before leaving on Christmas day (or what ever it was when they fled the cabin). I agree, the use of the propane torch seems at cross purposes to the keeping the blades happy. Kudos to him though, he made it home with no issues.

@@LifeWideOpen780 too

Exactly! I was thinking the whole time why don’t they use some de-icing liquid in a pump sprayer. It would have taken less time and been way less risky.

@@LifeWideOpen780 Or he just showed you how to deice a Helicopter with only using heat in the right places and not using toxic deicer. That is a big brain move.

I remember those from the Wyoming life flight days.

I was literally googling things like that while watching this video. I was sure that there must be a solution to prevent blades icing in inclement weather!

But it would not make for a good thumbnail... its all about that here...

Why not type 2? Type one is phased out at this point as well as its not available in the USA.

Consider he needed to get the helicopter moved ASAP before more snow came. Maybe some standard car deicer would work?

@@martinschmidt1652 It's also extremely heavy fluid that he needs to move up the side of a snowy mountain without a road...

yeah the blow torch was scaring me too.. I have seen a chopper with plastic 1/2 tubular sleeves that were fitted if it was parked in the snow for any length of time..personally I have a much better management plan..Don't go anywhere theres snow..

pretty sure hes a badass mechanic with some good piloting skills, not the other way around

@@andrewhulliberger1750 tomatoes toe-matoes same thing 😂🤣😂

Fool of a Took!

isnt heavy d the tool for everything himself tho. not the douche tool but an actual productive tool

@@nomercyinc6783 He is. He is very well equipped both physically and mentally to handle just about everything. And he surrounds himself with good people so if he ever needs information or some tooling, he can get it. He is a really good dude.

I bought one to install in a mini500 kit still has the genset

Why you dont have a defroster?

I was thinking the emblem was German in origin. Hello fellow Veteran!

Precisely!

True dat, even warm tarmac can stick a skid.

Is this a scammer like the ones he always talks about??

@@supernova255Jv probably, I had a guy message me with a what’s ap number from Florida using Dave’s pic. Pretty sure “Robert from Florida” isn’t legit..

@@kenbrown102 probably?? It is tf shits so obvious.

@@XxX_65 frrr I just got got the same message man wish these scammers could go away

And It's partially us watching this kind of videos that is funding his way of life. Thats well spend money in my book. :)

Dave's credit scores probably better than mine actually I'm sure it is lol

He probably needs to shake it. It sounds stupid, but when they get halfway spooled up like that and start to fail, we rock them back and forth as hard as we can and they fire right up EVERY SINGLE time. Ours are on tires though so they have some give. There's too much fuel getting to it to be hot starting. There's no reason to suspect the turbine is toast I don't think. An AGE dude could probably tell you what's wrong with it no problem.

@@TKettle Clogged up fuel tank baffle screens.

I'll never forget my first pinnacle in a 206 .. beautiful clear day, gentle breeze... Wow

Same seems like he is the only one that constantly uploads recently.

@@brandonhill5095 so true mate!

GTC as we used to call it

Yeah, we had blade covers for the 500C & D helicopters we used in SE Alaska. Always assumed they were supplied by Hughes, maybe y'all made them. Seems like the best deal if you don't have a hangar or other cover.

Ya, i was confused too. I seen it in the last video and wondered if he had it wrapped or painted because i thought it was red. Hell, i was even thinking he had a few different ones i didnt know about.

@Mary Humphrey i am.

@@MysteryClown dont do it its a scam homie

@@corykountz9760 Just noticed that she gives out different numbers to different guys. It's one of the worst/most obvious scams I have seen here. 🤣🤣

its not 50k its 10k for a standard pilots license and can have an addition few thousand added if you get ifr certified(its like an endorsment on your cdl)

@@TylerDuysen All due respect, but a Rotorwing License is FAR more expensive than a Fixed Wing License. Current prices in my area just for a Fixed Wing Private Pilot License is $12k and a Rotorwing License is $22k. Now that you have a Private Pilot License, you need to go fly and build hours. 150 hours are the Minimum requirement to get a Commercial License, this is when you can start to make money or get paid to fly people around. THEN depending on which Part of the FAR regulations you are flying under Instrument requirements change and therefor Costs change, Figure at least another $20k for an Instrument Rating. Currency requirements - you must fly a minimum number of Takeoffs and Landings in a 90 day period of time, 3 Full stop TO and L. Now I ask you, if a person Only does the Minimum to be Current, would you fly with them? Not Sure I Would. Good Luck, Have Fun, Be Safe.

@@jeffselchow5719 guess i shouldve stated 10k is for where im at and utah its 10k for fixed or rotorwing im aware of flight hours and all that im not new to the regulations i was merely telling them what it would cost for them so your comment is valid but doesnt apply here

join the military idk

Some guy from Utah just crashed an R-44 here in Sevier County Tennessee, killed his business partner and was forbidden to fly by a federal judge because he was being charged with conning people that he was a flight instructor and was not! I can't remember his name. This happened the day before new years eve, last Thursday! He was running a place in Utah called lift ! Guys name is Matthew Jones! Claimed to be be a CFL but was not!

*Tommy for the win, 3,000 lbs of hook load with new deep chord blades and rotor.*

Aloha brah, unfortunately they don't read their viewers comments. But I thought I'd let you know I appreciated it. Safe flying.

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I flew helicopters back in world War 2 and your wrong those blades can withstand a tornado

let me leave my helo outside in the snow so i can generate you tube content..anything for clicks and clickbait from these guys..and using a torch on a blade is for youtube content and he has no deice on the rotors?

@@lutomson3496 Yep. These guys are knuckleheads

@@lutomson3496 I don't think he did it for a video. I think some weather blew in and he couldn't fly it out. Incase you don't know, weather in them mountains comes and goes without warning and helicopters don't do well in high winds cold and snow in mountainous terrain. None of his videos are clickbait either. Everything he posts for titles are exactly what the video is about. I don't know if you know what clickbait is but it's when someone shows a thumbnail and/or a title that has nothing to do with the video...

@@mikeznel6048 I know im a pilot..

@Mary Humphrey nope married

This heavy d guy has an amazing lifestyle 👍🏼

I will say military equipment is never working right but it being very old military equipment is even more prone to break lol the agpus we have now are just a much better version of this.. props on getting it done ✅