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Take a Helicopter Tour. It Will Be Fun They Said
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What’s the story?
I spent a week camped out a Kalalau. The one thing that shattered the tropical tranquility were the frequent helicopters. It was like you couldn’t quite sink into the feeling of being off the grid, cut off from the modern world, because every half hour it would sound like LA police chasing a criminal.
Cue Al Soldano…
I spent a week camped out a Kalalau. The one thing that shattered the tropical tranquility were the frequent helicopters. It was like you couldn’t quite sink into the feeling of being off the grid, cut off from the modern world, because every half hour it would sound like LA police chasing a criminal.
Cue Al Soldano…
I read a bunch of pilots commenting on it. Apparently the pilot autorotated and put it down on a really small sliver of beach like a boss. Everyone lived. Prob equal parts skill and equal parts luck. Notice nobody screaming or panicking
Gnarly for sho. 
I do believe they practice that a bunch. Throw it in neutral to simulate loss of power.
Big ups to the pilot.
Can we take a boat out of here please? Rather than the same exact helicopter.
I do believe they practice that a bunch. Throw it in neutral to simulate loss of power.
Big ups to the pilot.
Can we take a boat out of here please? Rather than the same exact helicopter.
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Wow, pilot was calm, cool and collected. Even if I knew WTF I was doing there would have been a whole lotta fucks, shits, sonofabitches and cocksuckers being said loudly
Been on a few chopper tours but after seeing Kobe Bryant die plus some of these other crashes . .. yeah . . . no. I'm good 
This. Damn things fired up like an angry swarm of XXL mosquitos each day.
Gnarly footage!
A passenger suffered a back injury in the crash was airlifted to Princeville Airport before being transported to a hospital.
"Don't worry sir. We've got a chopper to take you to a hospital."
"Don't worry sir. We've got a chopper to take you to a hospital."
You saw Kobe’s chopper go down?!?!Been on a few chopper tours but after seeing Kobe Bryant die plus some of these other crashes . .. yeah . . . no. I'm good
I was actually mountain biking very close to there when it happened. Saw and heard nothing. But yeah it was foggy.
If the pilot walked away, it was a landing rather than a crash. Any landing you walk away from is a good landing. The pilot did a great job with zero glide ratio.
On reddit a poster mentioned the word casualty doesn't only refer to a death. A non-fatal injury can also be considered a casualty. Google confirmed. I didn't know that. Always thought a casualty meant a death.
that graphic should be updated for shared knowledge from Magnum Dong.On reddit a poster mentioned the word casualty doesn't only refer to a death. A non-fatal injury can also be considered a casualty. Google confirmed. I didn't know that. Always thought a casualty meant a death.
As a fixed wing pilot that never got into rotary wing flying, you're always looking for a place to land should that spinny thing stop spinning. The pilot of this MD500 did a great job of putting it on a very small beach. Looks like he may have flared a little early which is why the helicopter was destroyed. But that helicopter is known for being one of the most crash-worthy helicopters because everyone sits in the primary structure, unlike other ones where you're sitting in a plastic bubble, aka tupperware.
When getting your rotary certificate, how many unpowered landings like that do you even practice? I agree he did a great job.
Do you practice crash landings with fixed wing aircraft? I can imagine on a simulator but in a real plane?
I worked for an artist who was also a pilot. He told me one time he took off in a small plane and almost immediately realized he didn't check/have sufficient fuel. He quickly spotted an empty parking lot and put it down. A crowd arrived as did the police and he quickly called a pilot friend who arrived impersonating an FAA official, shooed away the police, gave him enough fuel to get back to the airport.