Trauma One Air Transport Unit ( ATU ) Helicopter lands in a very tight spot

[cristian22metal]

@Ant1fa5 its the effect camera fps and speed of blades!

saludos desde argentina.

[w5cdt]

That was very tight. One little wind gust and they could have been in trouble.

[105Raptor]

that would be a good street cleaner =)

[DrKincade]

An even tighter landing took place not far from me in September 2009.

Look here:

watch?v=oIHViUOcvsk

[C4SEM4N]

what a beast.

[Forkmeister]

NORMAL LANDING, NOTHING SPECIAL. If he landed an airplane in the lot, then THAT would be amazing. But choppers are designed to do just this, land in confined areas. YAWN...

[skolms]

hehehe, you dont know what your talking about.

[Patricktc21]

notice the two light poles, thats very confined for even a helicopter to land in.

[BigPark33]

no this is fantastic, yes helicopter due have the advante of landing in tights spots but it's very dificult to do so. You have to think of everything that is going on, that hospitle, the light post, other cars. Even the slightest wind can make it that much more difficulte to land. My brother flies chinooks in the military and has told me all about helis and landing them. This was indeed a very very good landing.

[Truckosaurus15]

very good pilot

[KingKrabb999]

That took some real guts right there.

[kosmosleha]

that's gonna cost somebody :) ... :(

[sgtkill234]

major props to the pilot!!!

[toddac1]

looks as though he landed with the tail facing the door, advise your "great pilot" when given he option land facing the door. Although you have a fenstrom, most helo's do not, and when some one walks out the door...it gets messy..just my .02

[Pkm188]

The EC-135 has clamshell doors at the rear of the fuselage under the tail boom that allows for easy access in loading and unloading stretchers, next time you feel like being a landing expert and criticize someone doing their job, make sure you know your facts first. Just my .02

[perko001]

plus the fact that the pilot is also landing facing into wind. a necessity when landing in such a tight spot i would of thought.

[TheyTookMyWoody]

Beautiful EC135 right there!

[jonathana7x]

WOW

[SuperM72]

they are not slow its just a visual thing

[Lexy015]

i could do that. no problem

[TotalArmyBrat]

Very Impressive

[iadrian1982]

what is the name of the song?

[archviceduke]

That is amazing! Those pilots must have some skills!

[Jitterbug200714]

That would not have been a good time or place for the pilot to get the"yips", would it?

[Cooterrob]

EC135! :-D

[Vanka472]

:D :)

[calfan3]

WOW...u have got to be kidding me

[ace8224]

loved it!

[ozxenophile]

look up 'wagon wheel effect'

[TheBajae]

awesome song and pilot seems pros.awesome

[FIREMANJAX]

Video is basically just a bunch of still pictures. They are taken at a particular rate. When played back, the rate they are flashed back can make things like the helicopter blades seem to move slowly depending on where the blades were when each individual picture was taken. Does that make sense? It's the best I can do.

[FIREMANJAX]

The video has not been altered. It was taken with an early generation digital camera that had one of the first options to take video with it. It did not have any sound.

[Zoomer1973]

Nice copter - good skills

[advm1993]

whats the song called???

[FIREMANJAX]

My Sacrifice by Creed

[FARAZV]

right, i see

[FARAZV]

what a poor video.

we want excitement.

[FIREMANJAX]

I checked out your videos. Now I know what real excitement is.

[pmgodfrey]

- @ FARAZV -

Dude, that animation video you have on your page blows. Seriously, change it...

This video has;

1) Cool helicopter

2) Cool music (though short)

[mistaknista1907]

3) Cool pilot!!!!!

[STATMedEvacVirtual]

no exitement? It landed between two big light poles....less than the normal Landing zone wich is a minumum of 60x60 feet idiot...

[isabellcarlick]

what does atu mean?

[FIREMANJAX]

Air Transport Unit

[mistaknista1907]

Hmmm you could look in the internet!

[crossbar6]

that'd be a cool job.

[fyrrescu]

I've flown with some of the guys at Trauma 1, & they are some jam up pilots...felt safer with them then sitting on the ground watching them. & for those that questions, my guess is thats a rural hospital sending an interfacility to Shands Jacksonville

[MrRay47]

As a former Vietnam medevac (Dustoff) pilot, thanks for the compliments but we always considered and balanced the risks and rewards involved in each mission. The goal was to get the patient evacuated promptly and safely delivered to the appropriate medical facility.

[MrRay47]

"it was probably a walk in the park for him" considering that this was a demo landing with no patient involved I'd say that if the pilot felt otherwise he shouldn't have landed there.

There's a lot that we don't know so I think it's imprudent to second-guess the pilot. However, based on the video alone and IMHO the landing site was not a particularly tight fit and the landing was not particularly risky although that garbage can that went flying should have been secured.

[Askelairlines747]

Nice parking, pilot-dudes ;-)

[cueballin]

boy you know you are in a small town if the damn helipad for the hospital is next to the handicapped parking spot in the parking lot

[RedOrchestraPro]

wow... maybe it's where the patient is located?

[windyrotorblast]

Not to mention the sand blasting we give to cars parked near the LZ

[BigPimpin4646]

For those of you saying he should have landed in an open field or stadium with an ambulance waiting..

There are far more reasons a heli is used for emergency transport other than transportation time. Many times an ambulance is available and is accessible to the incident site, but transport by road can be a threat to the patient. A heli is a much smoother ride. The pilot and flight nurse didn't get the job for lack of common sense! It's because they can make decisions that may save a life!!

[cod4andhalo3iscool]

i can do that

[strela1]

Nice video, that pilot has very precise skills.

[clintster77]

precision flying at it's best. Perhaps an ex-vietnam pilot. I worked with some of them heli-logging. They are incredible pilots.

[WR1ck1e]

great piloting

way better then all these morons i see that it looks like they want to die.

[Alexvideoclip]

French made :o)

[bluffratz]

It's a shame that a pilot would put himself his crew and possibly a patient at risk!

He should of landed at a stadium, empty field, or the airport!

[Elicotteri]

Can't really find anything tight there, or anything that is even close to it. Maybe you're just a little unprofessional yourself....

[FIREMANJAX]

I appologize for my unprofessionalism oh omnipotent one. My video pales in comparison to yours.

[DFX2K9]

not a bad landing...

[bradgoebel06]

That's Sierra Hotel right there.

[vine139]

good skills

[Mr9000and1]

LIKE A GLOOVEEEE

[carlrgore]

neat landing

[helicaptain101]

Thats a bloody easy spot to get into. look into png and some of those vids, not thats real flying

[keithevoixlover]

it's good for a civil pilot

[Lmike9]

I fly helitack against wildfires up here in alberta, and that is not by any stretch of the imagination a hard spot to land on, ive seen pilots land on things that i wouldnt even stand on in clearings of trees that are like 3 feet away from the main and tail rotors

[autoreboot]

oh Canadians, we're not that crazy, so we generally don't do that stuff, and we have regulations and restrictions that wouldn't permit us to land on that type of stuff especially in a medical helicopter. So this is a pretty tight spot for American pilots. Nothing against you or Canadian pilots, it's just that since 9/11, U.S. flying restrictions have gotten a lot tighter.

[skalouko]

when fighting forrest fires you gotta make your own landing spot alot of the times, well the fire fighters will make it for the pilot. and you don't always have alot of space for the helecopter. so i've seen helecopters land in alot tighter spots than this one.. actually,this wouldn't even be considered tight, where this pilot is landing. sorry if you disagree.but, i've seen a pilot land on a spot that is barely big enough for a helecopter.wasn't doing it to show off, there was a forrest fire.

[SomeUselessGeek]

Skill-O-Matic. Props to those rescue flyers; they put their own asses on the line daily to go rescue others. They're like firefighters that way. Lots of ways to get killed fighting fires; lots of ways to get killed flying rescue.

[strangemarley]

all you have to do is keep the shadows from touchin and you can land anywhere

[spidey692003]

I'll watch you try that one then! I'd rather know roughly the the space with at least 2 metres from rotor tip to any obstical!

But, go knock ya self out chasing shadows! Any thoughts of what might happen when the suns off 30degrees? lo;

[cpkinc2]

WOW!

[jaydabee]

dangeruos leand there mate must have really cared for patient to put everyone at risk like that hope it wasnt because he really needed a shit

[gadget445]

there was no patient, if you read the info, you would have seen that it was for a demonstration.

[JJerome711]

wow...I can't believe he would land there for a demonstration. Sheesh...risk management anyone?

[fsxchamp]

did you see how fast those blads are going?

[HazeGreyAndUnderway]

youre being funny right?

[drewzats]

lol Ytsewolf

[Ytsewolf]

Good thing he wasn't in the handicapped space or they would have towed his ass.

[ranchhand09]

LMAO pretty funny

[LUCKCHAMORRITA]

good pilot

[digitalbroadcaster]

His wife asked him to pop into the shops for a pint of milk on the way home.

[LONGIRAFFE]

Probably flew choppers in Vietnam, awesome stuff!

[njipods]

he was slowly drifting towards that lampost

would it have been taken out or would the heli go down or both?

[gunnyEstrada]

the lampost would have deffently came down but the dammage to the blades would have been significant, keeping it grounded.

[Kopihucky]

This is true.. the helo would of gone down as well

[sdrfgvrfgvsfravgdsvS]

according to agree is that nothing happens to be thought I had been spoiled speakers ... I just missing it! greetings;)

[sdrfgvrfgvsfravgdsvS]

no sound?

[FIREMANJAX]

I made this with an old digital camera. An early model that did not record sound.

[epicdeuce]

I seen tighter/....

[FIREMANJAX]

Ya,,suuurrrrre.

[cumminstacker17]

that is a tight fit. you should see where the heli logging pilots have to land and go. makes this landing look easy

[gothamuzic]

I knew i recognized this heli I see it at crg all the time. Scared the crap out of me when I was taxing back in at crg air center.

[strangemarley]

whatdyou go to ATP or somethin, dont they have like three of these birds at trauma one

[airshow4444]

Wow, the pilot is forced to have a ton of skill to do that, controling the rudders and alerions while advoiding a crash via wind or wash. Amazing flying, amazing pilot. Great video.

[snakeii0]

Id imagine he used the parking spaces as a reference to determine where he needed to put her down, along with a spotter. And considering the hours those guys need it was probably a walk in the park for him. Awesome job regardless.

[blogologist]

Short blades for a reason, good design.

[bigbangAT]

i think because it is bigger and the engine must give more power to rotate the top prop faster because its bigger and heavyer but i could be wrong

[LA33R]

anyway, the top prop is 8.5x slower than the rear one.

[FIREMANJAX]

The video capture rate of the cheap digital camera makes it look slow.

[alecthebeastly1]

i can do better

[helobelow]

Looks like calm wind conditions if you watch the tree tops too. Probably a pretty high hr pilot especially if he's flying HEMS...they usually need 2500-3000 min. Nice vid though thanks.

[helobelow]

Good video and nice set down but nothing real special as far as the confined space is concerned, I think I might have centered between the posts a bit more but he's the PIC and did it safely. Very controlled descent. 20% power or better for vrs and 300fpm +. Thanks for the vid though.

[SmiertSpionem]

tricky!

[OMGRedHat]

this is like what Donald Trump does to every building in Chicago. But still, in a parking lot BETWEEN the posts that could have knocked his blades off, that is skill.

[flyeroftheyear4444]

what a pilot

[power4487]

now thats what I call presicion flying or landing

[digicam2007]

Where was this when you filmed it?

It looks alot like the trauma one heli here where I live.

I as well have a few videos of trauma one,but none landing in a parking lot.

Good catch,thanks for posting.

[FIREMANJAX]

Landing was at

Fraternal Order of Police

5530 Beach Boulevard

Jacksonville, Florida 32207

[digicam2007]

OK. I live in Lake City,and the Trauma One helicopter is stationed @ Lake City Municipal Airport.Thanks again for posting the vid.

[nibbler125]

flying into work

[myself248]

Setting it down doesn't strike me as that bad, because the pilot has already compensated for the crosswind by the time (s)he gets near the obstacles.

Taking off will be tricky, because there's not a lot of room for getting to know the wind.

[2204Alpha]

Yeah but what you dont know (since your not a pilot) is that the thing he needs to worry about most is 'settling' or 'vortex ring state'. Which is a condition of powered flight where the helicopter settles into its own downwash. Meaning it drops like a rock. I love the lay person comments on some of the aviation videos on here, ahaha

[desihonda]

listen why don't you cut down a little bit on the cockiness and do some reasearch...who cares if your a pilot and whos not a pilot. He infact doesn't need to worry about VRS in this case because his descent rate is not even close to the conditions of VRS.

[Andbarnes]

how do you know he's not a pilot?

[saint749]

The conditions for VRS is slower than 30 kts, ROD more than 300 ft and powered flight!

While he's slower than 30 kts airspeed and powered there is NO way her/his ROD is anywhere near 300ft. No chance of VRS here mate.

Seems to me that you're an amateur yourself coz any pilot even PPL knows what I've just said.

It's not rocket science for those in the game.

Loose the arrogance why don't you?

[nachogarciaescudero]

it seems that they "have cut your hair"!

[haha4000hoho]

Wow.

[notar1]

cool video that would be hard to do..ground effect would give some trouble

[TravisH69]

Great video. The helicopter is neat. Were they flying someone out or just demonstrating? Oh BTW, the video has no sound. Is your camera phone broke or did you just do that on purpose?

[FIREMANJAX]

I took this with my old, now broken, camera. It did not have sound.