Victoria Police Helicopter

Victoria Police (Australia) Eurocopter Aerospatiale Dauphin AS-365N-3 helicopter, start up, take off and a fly by. Taken at a emergency services open day.

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Science & Technology

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• police
• helicopter
• aerospatiale
• Eurocopter
• AS-365
• dauphin
• chopper
• n3
• vicpol
• air490
• air495
• polair
• vh-pvh
• spoolup
• rescue
• airwing
• heli

[ice8292]

yes but does the rotor disk tilt or is is at a fixed position where the pilot has to hold the brakes/decrease collective to hold the machine in one spot

[sakata71]

@ice8292 The whole disk tilts forwards/backwards/sideways as required. 

[ice8292]

those duck nearly crapped themselves. beautiful machine, beautiful pain job. only thing i don't understand is how wheeled helicopters taxi on the ground. do they get power from motors in the wheels or what?

[sakata71]

@ice8292 It taxis the same way it moves forward in flight. i.e. The rotors tilt forward which pushes the air down and backwards.

[kevnca]

2min to get up to speed, impressive!

[sakata71]

They actually sat on the ground for about 6mins. The observer got out at one stage to check something.

[cyanideisabitterpill]

If it ever malfunctions and is going down in flames - be kind enough to not hit a residential area - explode and burn in a vacant paddock or such.

Otherwise Innocents might be hurt..

Ta

[CefiroGuy3]

2ND PLACE IN MY HEART, AFTER THE UH-1 HUEY

[smiling4ever123]

ma little bro loves helicopters!!! He loves watchin this!!

[kenunderhull]

@1BustedMyth the police run the helicopter and provide the crewy/ observer, but there is still always an intensive care flight paramedic on board (not the chopper in the video the medivac one) plus there are now an additional four dedicated air ambulance helicopters run by Air Ambulance Victoria. Glad to here you came through alright Alex, they saved my brother also.

[Kopihucky]

this bird sounds so sexy.. and I love the paint job

[nicklking]

thats a helluva chopper for being a police bird