I bet this guy had to clean his seat out!

[CPFCMCJROTC]

check the waves those are some choppy freaking seas one minute its right under you the next it drops away if you dont land level or the deck comes slamming into you youll most likelyend up in the water

[svregrcpt]

When Army and Air Force chopper pilots start to think they're hot $h17, they send them for deck landing qualifications--where everything is moving, you have to sort of slam/pin the helicopter to the deck, and missing a landing could easily mean going swimming (if not drowning in a fast sinking and wildly disorienting an inverted fuselage). BTW, good catch on the OPSEC paddle562.

[cherokeenut]

@svregrcpt As a note, we were given permission by the Capt. to video and take pics of anything available to us. The ship was in full fleet formation and it was VERY public, so lets knock off the OPSEC stuff.

[wereiswoolly]

um yeah there trained for that you know nothing that dramatic



[randobad]

looked fine

[deohgesdad]

that was perfect? what the hub bub?

[EmperorOfMars]

That looked like a normal landing to me

[navykid4117]

That wasn't bad at all, I'm a fixed wing plane and helicopter pilot and I can see that the wind was blowing pretty hard and he did the right thing by taking it slow, I think it was a great job.

[twistedrunes]

a very very nice landing

(not sarcasm)

[zlcoolboy]

Wow that was some turbulence.

[210482fmj]

wouldnt it be better if the helicopter could attach it itself to the deck after it landed. it took those people quite a while to attach it to the ground

[GoRockQuads]

Alright, you got it, you got it..bring er down nice and easy, comon', you got it...bring her down niiiiice and slow..okay..GOD DARNIT LAND THE THING ALREADY!!!

[mikeandhev]

A good landing is one you can walk away from!

[Cult1022]

pilot jumps out of the bird, kisses the floor and asks for whisky!

[marinesbustheads]

windy

[bud467]

what went through pilots head:

SH*T SH*T SH*T SH*T SH*T FML SH*T SH*T SH*T *lands* SH*T i thin i sh*t my jumpsuit....

[lunafringe10]

whats this? american navy helicopter flying school?

[HDSporty4Me]

APACHE.... TOUGH LANDINGS.

[foxontherails]

@HDSporty4Me That wasn't an Apache, that was a Black Hawk. Black Hawks are just people transporters - notice how the Black Hawk doesn't have missiles.

[classicallyliberal]

@foxontherails that was a seahawk, blackhawks can fire 2.75" rockets with the stub wings mounted.

[classicallyliberal]

@foxontherails that was a seahawk and they can carry anti-sub torpedoes, blackhawks can also carry 2.75" rockets with the stub wings mounted

[Elthenar]

I thought the guy did fine. Wobbled a bit in the wind but when he set it down he landed nearly perfectly, no bounce or sliding.

[radtech21]

FANTASTIC PILOTING!

[Mrjeepcherokee1]

He could have kept it more steady if his balls weren't so huge... LOL

[superjazman6]

Happens all the time in GTA

[UnitedCorpOfAmerica]

Cleaned his seat out? Bad title, he performed like a trained professional!

[catalyst216]

navy pilots have the biggest balls of any pilots

[onefugowie]

any landing you walk away from is a good landing ...thats a good landing

[buford9mosbey]

What really doesn't show is how the deck moves when a ship this tall rolls. When the deck is 30 to 40 feet off the water a very small roll produces a very large lateral movement of the deck. So even though the roll is only +/- 2-3 degrees the landing spot is traveling left and right far enough and fast enough to make it hard to touch down safely. Add the turbulence acting on the helo and the pilot has a difficult task.

[InfuriatedHawk]

I guess that 12 people didn't understand epicosity of a guy having a hard time controlling a multi-million dollar helicopter in the wind and avoiding crashing it into a multi-billion dollar ship? ^__^

[cherokeenut]

@InfuriatedHawk Bingo!

[santiagobenites]

@InfuriatedHawk Exactly!

[Jmn0716]

@InfuriatedHawk not to mention the ship prolly moving at 20 knots or so and if you look at the waves its bouncing back and forth

[darkvengeance13]

@InfuriatedHawk try doing it with something you cant hover in and needs wires to stop... then you will know why this is JV

[th4Guy77]

@InfuriatedHawk stop saying epic. not only are you using it wrong but that is atleast 3 years old now

[EruditeCanadian]

I know the Canadian Navy invented a device they call "The Beartrap" where the helicopter lowers a cable, which is then attached to a winch. The helicopter maintains a hover while the winch pulls it down to the deck, eliminating much of the risk during landings in rough seas...

Is this system not practical for this application?

[drewoz210]

@EruditeCanadian no not hardly that a search and rescue bird if its gotta go its gotta go and thats not practical for any helo its called wave off if something goes wrong u gotta be able to get outta there without wasting time cutting a cable and i wanna see the dude big enough to hook a winch cable to the deck under the rotor wash of a ch53 or even a phrog can take u off ur feet

[bruchev]

looks like me trying to land a helicopter in virtually any game >.< lol

[feedtime13]

no,

the windblowSs! hahah

[strontklont]

if the wheater is that bad then its a rather impressive landing :)

[gunnyranger2]

Hurry tie tha SOB down to the deck, before he takes off again!!!

[Bromopar]

Hope the ship's store had extra Hanes for this guy!

[n74jw]

Everyone has a bad landing sooner or later. As long as you can walkaway, it is a success.

[n74jw]

First day with the new helicopter?

[cherokeenut]

@n74jw I seriously doubt that.

[r22accipiter]

Nice job. Gusty landing. No big deal ... for a helicopter pilot.

[creccy]

these naval pilots are good no matter where in the world they come from

[ForerunnerB36]

Amazing, but the pilot did well. He landed the helicopter and he is okay, thats al what is important ;)

[NarrowKilla]

in fact its rly hard to land choper on moving carrier...but this guy is tryied good =33

p.s. thats how wer using chopas in battlefield !!! xDD

[deepkeel65]

Search for "Impressive Piloting" to watch the Coast Guard do it in an HH60 Jayhawk during MUCH more severe conditions.

[travers114]

@deepkeel65 Love that clip.

[deepkeel65]

Ship turns into the wind so that the "relative" wind is 30 degrees off the bow. So the wind isn't generally that big of an issue. Try the N. Pacific or Bering Sea in January/Feb. on a 378 ft. CG cutter. Much more "fun" especially under typical search & rescue ops.

[the5k0k3r]

Try landing in a rast on a FFG or CG or DDG in the Winter in the Atlantic with 45 knot cross wind 22 foot swells, talk to me then....

[xXCH1MPXx]

mehh, I could do that with my eyes closed... lol

[xxXSTIGYXxx]

SEAHAWK!

[cafryrmn]

These pilots have skill.

[MUSTANG408W]

They train for those types of landings. Nothing new to them.

[genobahamut1337]

@MUSTANG408W Training for it and doing it for real are two very different things.

[MUSTANG408W]

@genobahamut1337 I agree. I crew chief on the HH-60G for the AF and have watched our guys do some hairy things with these helicopters.

[MF11283]

Im not saying that was an easy landing, nor could I do it, but looked pretty smooth to me, you can see the pilot fighting what Im ASSuming was a cross wind, but also looked like he knew exactly what he was doing

[aligerous]

I was looking at the horizon and it looked rock solid. So what was the pitch and roll? What ship was that?

[cherokeenut]

@aligerous It was the Bonhomme Richard LHD6 and we were rolling pretty good.

[aligerous]

@cherokeenut Roger...crazy sea state, pitch and roll near the limits and lunch being projected over the fantail. Good times.

[lhs04]

@aligerous the horizon shows the ship was rolling, not pitching. the angle is looking out on the port side, not straight ahead. towards the end of the video, the helo is still (for the most part) in the center of the frame but at 0:51 the horizon is behind it is very high -- out of the frame. 8 seconds at 0:59 later, the horizon is very low, just above the rotor, and by the end of the video its gone back up and out of frame again.

[vidcam3]

@aligerous Difficult to tell from the shaky camera, but I had a re-look and saw definite roll.

[cherokeenut]

@vidcam3 Oh yeah she was pitching and rolling pretty good. The pilot later said he thought about aborting.

[barrabash]

wave off´s are mandatory

[motosxx]

there was nothing wrong he just had to wait for the ship to chill out. no reason for a go around when the ship is shitty

[H22A7]

wait, wait, wait - land. nicely done

[EyeOfTheNorth11]

cool

[Grotiusthebest]

Very nice

Helicopter

Landing

And a very good pilot!!!

[1958louief]

AWSOME JOB!!

[lucignolo899]

great pilot

[paddle562]

Guys, don't post names on youtube. Thats bad OPSEC

[fpstina]

lol...

[elmolover848]

i hope that was hsc-23 my dad is amc moudry

[mrmatt0820]

i rember this. I had first got on board. Yeah lse kept waving him off and he was like screw it. The guy waving him in was Abh3 kushiyama.

[cherokeenut]

Yeah we were wondering why he didn't abort and try again.

[barrabash]

wave off´s are mandatory

[barrabash]

@Wendigo127

wave off´s are mandatory

[19Rwanda89]

That was Awsome!!

[themilitarywannabe]

Are you serious, youre landing on an LHD...I don't think the HAC was maing the landing...I can guess that it was some...JG...lol