Good old Bell bounce on start up, my father put me in right seat when I was ten to do an engine run at Davidson AAF, it was a Saturday, and he was the maintenance officer on weekend duty. No way you could get by with that today. Thanks for the video.
The summer fire season up here in Canada is brutal some years. When the machine sits for 20 minutes, the horse flys flood the cabin and just hover around in the skylights 😂
Worked for Mid West Drilling in Manitoba years ago for a short period of time. Some of the jobs used helicopters to move equipment and men and some of those pilots were CRAZY. One was even a Vietnam vet and I swear to God he was reliving some of his exploits when we flew with him. I thought it was fun, others not so much.
It looks like it’s in front of him but it’s in the centre of the aircraft. Like a low rear view mirror. You just need to move your head a bit to see around it.
I used to keep my checklist low & around my leg on one of those little metal "clipboards". He probably had the checklist pulled up on that ipad at the lower part of the console.
THE 100' SAFETY CIRCLE IS A GOOD THEORETICAL IDEA FOR CLASSROOM USE, but when u become operational and it hot and you're at the weight limit and u only have a limited area surrounded by tall trees to get out of, u need to use every inch of space and be into wind direction or you risk over-temping the engine, hitting trees on the way out or worse, over-pitching to avoid hitting trees and settling into the trees. This is a straight 205, right on the limits, non power to spare.
I could tell you a couple of real stories firefighting, some pretty funny. And got to work with some real good men from Gypsumville MB. in some pretty big fires. Hard to find tougher work anywhere, try lugging 80 lb's hose 5km through muskeg on your back, sinking up to your waist, sometimes deeper, until you hit an underground sheet of ice, all while fending off hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes and horseflies in scorching heat, sweaty, dirty everything...every day for 12-16 hrs. But the evenings out in the middle of nowhere, with loons calling, sun setting across the lake is worth the price of commissary lol! And did I mention those fucking mosquito's, horseflies, and spruce bugs taking bites out of you drawing blood, them the big hairy spiders crawling in your mouth and everywhere while you sleep ha ha ha!!! But when the wind is right, the smoke helps keep the mosquito's from driving you totally nuts from the constant buzzzz. How can you not love it..."
Yes, I was in Gypsumville last summer for the mop up, luckily for me above the swamp. When things were raging, I could see the smoke column from Swan River over a hundred miles west. Spider bites can cause havoc. One took a chunk out of my leg last year and I still have blood clots in that leg from the venom it deposited.
Pilot invited a fly to fly with him and the fly will fly with all her family, you can see the fly flying on the left side of the helicopter cockpit and then the rest of the fly's family just flying randomly. Inches moscas volando a lo pendejo.
There is always a checklist but on single pilot aircraft rather than pulling out a plasticized paper most pilots have a flow they follow which covers everything in the cockpit. If you don't know if after 10,000 hours something is wrong.
@@martinsinclair55 those were not horse flies.. they were wasps or bees. one flew by the camera.. they were not sleeping. They looked agitated, i suspect the rotor wash blew them out. But that woukd hurt getting stung several times in flight with no way to escape. Lol
@@av8or971 those are flies I worked in paint lake this past summer and the horseflies would always swarm the cockpit but once the pilots usually start the helicopter up they disappear