Now That's How You Land A Helicopter!
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- South Island of New Zealand: Heli pilot makes a fast and smooth approach to a landing sight in an open meadow. Really cool trip and awesome video! Don't forget to check back for more videos soon and subscribe!
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That guy came in like he was going to kick somebody's ass. Nice!
He's knows the area, He's alone up there in the fog, it's run He's made many times I'm sure and all nav and landing lights would do is reflect off the mist and make it tougher to see. Awesome pilot sweet sweet ship !!!
Morgen sax one of the best pilots i ever worked with RIP mate
What happen to him? Did he crash? Was it his flying that took him out?
@@andypeterson8013 Mast bump in an R22. And his name is Morgan Saxton.
@@andypeterson8013 It was a fatal mast bump in an R22 while sending text messages to a barge captain he had just buzzed on the lake below! There were no witnesses so we can only speculate what caused it but since he often flew @ the limits of the aircraft it was probably a low G pushover as he was showing off for the boat! The R22 has a semi-rigid rotor and definitely has limitations on stunts which is why the wicked RedBull stunt chopper uses a rigid rotor system! Sending text messages probably didn't help his ability to react to the mast bump!
@S Even if YOU don't like his comment, I agree with him....And yes, I am a commercial helicopter pilot.
Finesse! This is how these machines were meant to fly!! Love it! 👏
Great to see a seasoned professional at work. Thank you
A legend doing what he had done since he was a boy. Taught by another legend....his dad.
RIP Morgan, coming on 13 years since he died, a very switched on pilot.
Hi Guy, How Rip Morgan dead?
Thank you
Did he die in a helicopter accident???
@@1983dmd Morgan David Saxton 28, died 2008 R22 mast bump crash/death.
@@chippyjohn1 Not surprised at all....He exits the helicopter with rotor blades still turning...That's a no-no, even with engine off....This shows a lot about the over confidence this pilot had...
@@1983dmd He does look rushed, considering he had not removed his headset until he got out. There is a video on youtube where a man proposes to his woman as the exit an R44, he proposes to her under the rotors just after it landed on a hill, that made me anxious. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a true thing.
I was an Aeroscout for 5 years in the OH-6a and yeah it could and did get that much fun. Hell we brought back tree limbs in the skids and plucked leaves from the tops. Nam vets were the best and they taught some serious survival skills.
I’ll fly with this dude because you have to know the area and the territory but in these weather condition well he’s a bold helicopter pilot that doesn’t fear nothing but the ground he sees
He Crashed and died a few years ago.
@@jbm8444 really? source?
The saying goes that there are old helicopter pilots and there are bold helicopter pilots, but there are rarely any old, bold helicopter pilots. Sadly this bold pilot died in a helicopter crash... allegedly sending texts after a stunt flyby of a boat, so it is told.
One word.. awesome!
this is fucking sick, that exactly how i would want to land every time.
This is my first time seeing this and I love the OH-6 and I don't know how he found the right spot in the heavy fog and what I just got was a dawn great Helicopter pilot and I want to see more of this
another cowboy yankin' and bankin' 👍 great stuff
We used to fly the OH-6 just like that, back in my younger days. A lot if fun indeed.
This is one Dude that knows his Helicopter and my most favorite the MD-500 and I’ve been around pilots who flies them all around and they’re fast and they have a unique sound
Should have at least had his nav lights on flying in weather like that!
🤣😂😅
Ok karen 😂
This is not helping much 😃☺️😎😂 at all boddy 👁️🙂
That's some damn fine flying
I hope the pilot has the confidence/competence mix right - time will tell. Great visuals - love that Heli !
This pilot unfortunately died in a helicopter crash in NZ in 2009 with speed and texting as contributing factors.
Excellent film footage and sound.
Awesome weather!
That was beautiful !
Had there been no fog, it was still a kick-ass landing.
Knowing the area you often get a ground fog that sits in little banks until the sun gets up. Looking at the flight coming in he was using something he could see and to me looks like the tops of the trees on his right so just needed to keep his height till through the fog then could get down where he wanted.
Should have hired this pilot to fly Kobe Bryant
This pilot is dead too.
Morgan Saxton a true legend.
unfortunately he crashed and died.
That's me in Battlefield 4
I always do landings like this in arma3 (a milsim video game) but never knew they could be done in real life
He's still got the edge smooth flying i say choice
1 LOVELY HELICOPTER BUT ONE GLOOMY DAY
That was a clean landing
he knows his job
Thats an MD500 not a 400. No such thing. Not a big deal landing. Flying in that weather was more surprising than the landing!
It actually is DANGEROUS to fly through that fog...
@@deimos2k6 With his forward rate its likely the cloud was ground fog maybe only 20m deep and he would be able to see the ground
Bloody awesome
Amazing pilot 🚁
Is that included in the helicopter training course?
What a beautiful maneuver. A true pilot. Im not sure of the context going on in the comments, but that was true skill.
When you gotta go ya gotta go! 😄
Uber helo in a rush. Amazing flying
great pilot !
How mad is that?! Brilliant. Pity it is such a brief clip.
Hey, we used to send the Loaches out ahead of the Hueys to cut the fog for us.....little birds...cute though
Flown in lots of places, fixed and rotary. NZ Heli pilots have to be the most skilled and excellent I've flown with. All that deer recovery work in really challenging terrain, the preference for the MD 500 series aircraft and private ownership and operations away from traffic, built a skill set and "stick and rudder" feel that is unique to NZ. Doubts? Go book yourself a heliski holiday in the the land of the long white cloud. Unforgettable for the skiing, pristine environment, and the flying. Highest per capita private ownership of helicopters anywhere in the world. This is because a farmer there needs a 4WD drive... and a chopper just to get to chunks of a "ranch". Check out "The last great adventure", an old doco on deer recovery industry at its zenith. What they did with MD 500c and D models will blow your mind... Crazy? yes but brilliant...
The Dr..
Mmmm Nothing I like better than flying high speed nap o-the-earth in the fog... Thats an MD 500...
HELL YEAH!!!
Niw thats COOL 👍👍👍
That was beautiful fast and hard I love it
That's what she said👍
I just cannot cope in that the passenger did not secure the door. Great flying, great video, thanks. It’s MD500 not 400
Mmmm, I do love how the rotor looks with analog video.
Sharp landing! I didn't see any strobes, navigation lights or anything.
There are Old pilots & there are Bold pilots
But there are no Old Bold pilots
This is pretty much half of the entire NZ air force vehicles in one video lol
It may look 'ahhhhsum' but his style lacked caution. Old pilots, bold pilots - the saying goes there are no old bold pilots and all that
I know you probably have alot of experience but that looks like a properly done break turn its a legit maneuver taught to the military since before the vietnam days. Being that he is flying that exact helicopter imma guess hes done that training
This dude flying like he’s in the Movie of Deadly Encounters in the MD-500
Holy shit that was a magnificent landing.
The sports car of helicopters....!
Holy shit that was a awesome landing .
For those interested, his name was Morgan David Saxton. He died in 2008 (28 years old) in an R22 crash due to a mast bump incident. He was reportedly using his phone texting just prior to the crash. He had also been sentenced to two years prison just prior to the crash for theft of Greenstones. He became a statistic as to why Robinsons are banned in New Zealand.
You are correct except Robinsons aren't banned in NZ , DOC has banned them but no general ban.
Great landing. Not difficutl to do. Being there, done that while flying the OH6 , precursor of this MD500, many years ago. 60 - 70 knots, 50-100 feet, dump the power, bleed the speed before and on the roll/pedal turn, back on the power, and settle it down. As someone said before me long ago, " a helicopter's manuverability is only limited by the pilot's imagination and skill." Still, impressive to watch from the outside.
Whoa easy there, hotshot!
I thought I told you this was a one-way trip!
Looks like he has done that 2 or 3 times before. Spot on.
He crashed and died about 7 years before you wrote your comment.
Good control
he must have run outta sick-sacks!
Nice...
Best landing
How could he have his nav lights on he's been out farming it. Great clip
There are old pilots and bold pilots...but no old bold pilots.
If I ever flew with a pilot that did this in low visibility, I'd never fly with them again.
He's in boss mode plain and simple, all others fail from here on!
I want to show up to a party like that
I don't set my watch down that gently.
That’s how we do it in NZ 😀
Is this same guy who killed himself flying and texting? Figured he wouldn't survive to retirement.
Morgan Saxton and your absolutely correct.
Bring more video footage of more MD-500 flying power
Maybe a MD-500D? JB
Good land but with fog great possibility for one strike with cable to EletricTower, think ahead
Super duper!!!!
His balls also landed when he did. 😂
get to da choppaaaaaaaa!
Supreme control
Awsome! Just like arma 3
is that a md 500{military} or Hughes 500 {private}?
sr7bbird Hughes and MD are interchangeable on the earlier models in most respects. So it's not a matter of military or not. The Hughes 369 (also the MD500) was used in Vietnam by the us as a scout helicopter (Google the loach) also the us military used and still uses the MD500 and variants of it currently. Both were sold to civilian markets as well.
That's what my flight instructor from 12 years ago would have called a "hollywood landing". Is it possible? Yep! Is it cool? Yep! Is it fun to do? Yep! Is it safe for entering an auto? NOPE!
I could not agree more. Oh, and flight instructors 37 years ago were saying the same thing.
Hollywood is for an audience, nobody around there for miles, time is money, they arnt millionaire yanks he's picking up, probably his second load of the morning
I mean come on, flying in those conditions already is irresponsible. Plus no lights, ... This is how experienced pilots crash, over confidence. It goes all well many times, until it doesn't.
@@BlueSideUp are the lights so a bus doesn't drive into him? If a bear shits in the woods and there's no one around to see it then did the bear really shit in the woods??
@@regregan5755 No light shows a lot about the pilot, like it or not....
Remind me of the day i stole a md500 and took it for a joyride....
No Nav Lights, No Beacon, No Landing Light....Amatuer move! Inclement weather also, It's the whole "See and be seen" principle!
Now that’s a bad muthFukka 😂👏🏼🚁
Just for the record it’s a Hughes 500D not an MD 400. When MD bought Hughes they changed the canopy to the pointed shape. They should’ve left it alone the original looks better!..
The pointed canopy indicates an E model
Hahaha... Morgy!
perfekt
Actually an MD500D.
The pilot may be proficient at flying the aircraft, but a bad decision maker.
And?
What if the weather had closed in suddenly as it can, what if that was a emergency landing?
ok Noob..loll u pobblay wannbe pilot loll
Sweet landing. Looks like he knows what he's doing!
Absolutely...... !
That's not a 400, but a MD500D model.
It's a beautiful thing that guy gets to do. While the landing was cool and impressive, the far more impressive thing to me is flying a heli in those conditions. I've wondered how the Kobe Bryant thing happened and did a heli sim flight in similar conditions, as well as flying at night in the mountains with almost no visual reference. Despite fully understanding the instruments, the thing is helis are an incredibly unstable vehicle and keeping the instruments stable without visual cues devolves into a shit storm. At least for me, in the sim. So this guy flying confidently through heavy fog is pretty impressive to me. I pull those landings all the time in the sim. Flying in fog for me is a far less confident experience.
I "knew" a air ambulance crew who flew in fog like that along a very familiar interstate transporting a heart patient to another hospital. Found them hanging upside down after hitting a 90ft pine. To bad they were at 80.
Air Ambulance Service in the USA has a horrendous safety record. Over 50% of the fleet has crashed in 25 years. Patients are better off on the ground than attempting to fly to bigger hospitals.
No, that's how I land my helicopter when I can't hold my shit anymore! Gettin old is no fun!
Nicky Santoro coming in hot to meet Sam Rothsteen in the desert.
Lesson learned in GTA
What fog? It’s totally VFR! lol
Arma 3 landing
you said it!