Helicopter approach in cockpit

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Uploaded by on Sep 1, 2010

me, approaching an off-airport landing site in a Bell JetRanger wearing my contour hd 1080p on my headset

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  • how do you determine where the wind is coming from on an approach like this?

  • @youdirtyarab before landing on a confined area you do high reconnaissance. That means you will overfly the landing spot. Right at the end of this particular approach you can see a windsock, indicating that the wind is coming from the forn. I checked this windsock when overflying the landing spot short before approach so I could plan the approach. If there is no windsock, you can

    - look for flags (indicating wind direction)

    - look at the surface of a river or lake ...continued below

  • @you.....

    - check nearby trees and look in which direction they bow

    - check surface wind in weather report if you know where you are going to land in advance

    - if you have none of these things, make sure you have the "right picture" on approach, which means: if you are on final and your airspeed indicator shows a much lower airspeed than it should be, the wind is most likely coming from behind

    hope this helped...if not, feel free to ask :-)

  • How much money roughly for a Commercial Heli License?

  • did my training about ten years ago in the U.S., private=> commercial => certified flight instructor (CFI). I flew the minimum required amount of hours and altogether this biggest adventure of my life cost me roughly 43.000 U:S. Dollars.....

    It was worth the fun :-)

    If you want to become a commercial Helicopter Pilot, make sure to have learned another job that will bring you and your family through winter time in case you are laid off!

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  • Who was holding the camera?

  • why this music? brrr

  • It took me awhile to figure out where you were going to land. Its got to be fun to land in someones backyard........Cool!

  • It took me awhile to figure out where you were going to land. Its got to be fun to land in someones backyard........Cool!

  • nice

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