We flew a tiny HELICOPTER across SOUTH AFRICA!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- A few months back I met Steph; a commercial helicopter pilot and instructor, and together we went on an incredible flying mission across South Africa! Join us as we pick up a Robinson 22, and ferry it across the country to her new owner. With massive fuel/weight limitations, strong headwinds, and lots of laughs: this really was a trip to never forget!
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- Editing has removed certain context
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All the time she spoke like a great instructor always having a teachable moment to share and giving positive feedbacks!
Absolutely! She really is a fantastic instructor!
she is a true great instructor and has a great way to build a positive confidence for the beginner next to her.
Thank you for taking us along. Enjoyed every minute of it.
So happy you liked it!
@@PilotBambi Thank you for taking the time to chat and answer questions from your subscribers. Countless you tubers won’t even give us the time of day.
I knowI did,in fact,I'm a little jealous of you.My only experience with helicoptersrs,was a ride in a Sikorsky air ambulance to WestPalm Beach,fl.The pilot,was nowhere near as pretty as you.are. I asked the EMT riding with me"Does this guy know what he's doing?I got in reply,Yeah he's pretty good,His last job was flying Apaches for the Us Army in Afghanistan".It was a pleasant thirty minute trip.My only worry was.dying on the trip.The EMT kept staying"You're going to be alright.I'm not, but I'm lucky to be alive. Thank you for the video,beautiful lady.Take care.
I know the R22 only has two seats, but you just let us go along in a wonderful trip with two very accomplished pilots. Thanks!!
Haha I love this! Glad you enjoyed it! 😁
@@PilotBambi is there a way you can do a video on an airplane life vest?
Yes they took all of us
Well done ladies…👌🏻
Yeah there are a lot of us in that R22 with you. Haha😅
Welcome to South Africa, I was training on the 44 and she is far easier to fly than the 22 so hats off off to you, you eased into the 22 like nobody's business :)
When I watch your videos, I always feel like I'm flying with you. Superb content
Happy to hear that! Thankyou!
likewise ... :)
South Africa simply has the best instructors !....... I remember those routes too....thank you for flying with us here in SA.....
Rosita. Remember the night we spent in Halifax ? You were so beautiful naked in moonlight. Thanks for that. I hope your insides are reminded of our joining together and the release we both felt.
When I saw your flight was "across Africa", I figured the it ended in Cairo... 😁😊
Loved watching.
Think I know what I might like to do if I had my life over again... (...I'd better admit that I'm phobic and cannot get into ANYTHING that flies ....although I'm endlessly fascinated by the wonder of flight).
Happy flying girls... 🦒👍🏽
Your jazz background is perfect for flying!! 1st time viewer. Love your channel!! 👌
Awesome!! I've flown with Steph when she was with the SAPS Airwing. she is a phenomenal pilot, she definitely knows her stuff when it comes to being in command. If I remember correctly she was in her early twenties at the time flying for the police service.
Flying in small helicopters is absolutely awesome - right at the top of my list of unforgettable experiences. The second aircraft I ever flew in was a JetRanger helicopter (sitting in the left seat).
I just wish this video had been a lot longer as the sights in SA are also fantastic (SA is still not crossed off my list of places to visit).
She speaks so professionally and gives everyone confidence,
This is fantastic! I really appreciate all the camera angles (even exterior shots) that were captured! Thank you for sharing this experience.
Hi Pilot Bambi, I just absolutely loved this video, it for me simply is one of your best! Excellent editing! Steph is a highly professional and exceptional confidence inspiring instructor and with both your great personalities it was a pleasure to watch 2 professional pilots become one with the R22 strapped to your backs on route to Cape Town! Please fly with Steph again if the opportunity arises. Stay safe and healthy.
Thank you so much for your awesome message Andre! Agreed, Steph is such an inspiring and knowledgeable instructor. I hope I get to fly with her again soon!
Wow what a good, patient and encouraging instructor all the best.
Ladies I’ve flown along with you all the way from Kenya. You are awesome
What a cool video. You’ve inspired me to visit South Africa and fly!
Ladies, great flight, teamwork, and amazing talent for flying just about anything! Congratulations!
Absolutely amazing
Go Girls
Thankyou!! We had a blast flying together
Amazing trip guys! South Africa is beautiful, great way to see it! Very cool flying! You two make a great team!
Amazing video, Rosita! A 40 min video seemed to me like it was only 5. I strongly hope both of you do some other videos together. Steph seems to be so calm and relaxed and also very sharp controlling every thing. BTW: congrats on your almost 100K subs!! Well done Pilot Bambi! I subsribed when you were droping parachutters in Central America. It´s incredible how far you have gone! As always, cheers from NE patagonia, Argentina.
Thai was a great follow along episode B, was so cool to see Beaufort West. My grandad was an ATC there for many years !
What a great CFI, PILOT and all round character. Keep up the great work and the inspiration you share to everyone. Thanks
Hi Rosita, I must say this is the greatest video you have uploaded so far! I am in my ATPL studies right now, but I will be starting my helicopter training as soon as I have graduated. Looking forward to seeing you in the skies. Thank you for the great video!
Thank you so much!! Best of luck with your training, and see you in the sky some day!
Bambi, You are such a quick learner! I'm so impressed with your skills!! It's a fun journey watching you fly so many different types of aircraft!! 🙂👍👍👍
What a stunning video. Well done on taming the R22 and Steph seemed so calm and reassuring.
Damn she’s grown her subscribers pretty fast. I was subbed when she had less then 4,000
It's been a crazy journey here on youtube, and so special I get to share these experiences with everyone 😁
Enjoyed!! I did my PPL at Wonderboom. Many years ago. I am now 72 but still enjoy seeing what you yong people are doing. So much fun.
What a wonderful adventure! 🚁
Steph is such a lovely lady, and the two of you make a great team! 👍
agreed!! It was so awesome doing this trip with her, she's the coolest!
Your spatial awareness while flying is amazing to see/hear. Sounds like you know how to stay very safe in the air. Blue skies!
Only 8 minutes in, and I already love everything about this video!
The setup is very good, everything is being explained, good audio and it is very well filmed again!
Love your videos, but you know this by now I hope.
Thank you so so much!!😁 This message really means alot to me. It took A LOT of work, but I wanted this video to give the exact "feel" that we had during the trip itself. I'm so happy I could share this adventure with you :)
Fantastic flight ladies, thank you so much
Hi Bambi, I like your tiny helicopter flying across Africa and training to this new girl. You are an expert pilot Bambi. My support is for you
Great Instructor no negativity just encouraging words. Great video…..
It’s so nice seeing local TH-camrs il wil always support you guys
One of the best videos on TH-cam... was mesmerised every second. Thanks for sharing. Safe flying.
Absolutely fantastic!
Thanks Bambi & Co!
This seems soo damn cool to be able to do this. Can’t wait to finish my ppl to get started with helicopters and hopefully a atpl someday. The video turned out amazingly well
Thank you so much! It really is such a dream to be able to do these things. Best of luck with your training, good things will come your way 😁
You two are definitely winning. Absolutely fantastic lifestyle! Thank you for the video I really enjoyed it. Cheers from Saskatchewan Canada
Thank you so much!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
Another super enjoyable video by a knowledgeable and inviting pilot. I thought I'd only hang out a few minutes in this video. But instead watch the whole thing through. Instructive and fun.
Thank you so much!! What a great compliment😄 glad you enjoyed the video!!
Enjoyed every single second of the video 😍
super cool.. seeing CT airport brings back a fond memory of taking a Lear out from there to Plettenberg bay a few years back.. nice vid
Watched your wonderful flying from east coast of India.....thanks for sharing.....safe flying
Brilliant video - it's wonderful recognising all the landmarks on your journey. I lived in Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Pretoria, worked close to Swartkops AFB and grew up about 5km's away from the Tempe airfield outside Bloem. Enjoying this immensely, it gives me the "warm fuzzies".
Steph is so cool. You just want her as a friend , she's so neat , knowledgeable , easy going , proficient , and downright beautiful. What a package. Oh , the cross country trip was nice too. Well filmed and edited PB,
I love the helicopter pilot's accent, both of you are so awesome!
Very nice trip.Enjoyed it very much.Thanks👏👏
Coole vlog! Fijn en leuk dat steph en jij veel uitleggen👍😃
Dankje Maren!! Het was heel leuk om met haar deze trip te maken
WOW!! What a blast, cross country in a helicopter!! Love the low flight views!! Your very confident in that tiny machine!! Looks like your stopping, every few miles. Got to be a great feeling, flying off the plateau! Think, as much fun as it was, it also added up to quite a bit of work too!!
It was a ton of fun, especially when Steph taught me how to land on the plateau. But definitely hard work flying that nippy little heli!
Rosita is a straight up ROCK STAR aviator. I hope young kids interested in aviation watch her videos and see what's possible.
Crikee Mate what a Great Video , not into helicopters but in this case why nooot Great Flight Thank You
Thanks!!
You've made me very homesick... I spent 20 years in Joburg, and have driven a similar route down to Cape Town in my little MG, but much more impressive flying it at low level - very envious!
Beautiful flight. Excellent scenery, editing, music and learning experience. Enjoyed first flight and solo flights too. Wish I could do this. Stuck with R/C planes and copters.
very nice flying in the R22 with now more improvements to make it a better machine and nice colour to
Loved this video! have always fancied learning to fly a helicopter looks like such good fun and it beats driving on the roads with all the traffic
Wow, thank you for sharing!
This is great, this is living. It's great to have vicariously experienced this and I can't imagine how great the actual experience must have been.
You rock girls. Pro and nice. A pleasure to follow your trips. ATC was very articulate and slow that’s nice too.
I enjoyed the trip. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing! This was an amazing journey! You girls rock!
Great helicopter ride across South Africa , thank you so much from Fiji island.
What life experiences....
Things like this make me a bit homesick....😊
What a cool video Tks for sharing! Where I live "routing" has a rather different connotation. We use "tracking" in our position reporting, every so often a SAn accent comes up on frequency, routing here, routing there and routing anywhere, brings a wry smile to many pilot's faces. Flysafe, good job ladies.
great flying in both types shows that Robinsons are pretty good with the right amount of light control in put and no need for heavy inputs in the controls
I bambi hope you are well. Nice to see you and my new friend. Brilliant work what a awesome flight. You are brilliant happy flying once again take care and keep safe philip. ❤💜
Thankyou Philip! Glad you enjoyed it. I hope I get to do much more flying together with Steph. 😁
Thanks for getting in touch bambi. Keep safe and well phil.
I really like Steph's accent, it sounds like a mix of aussie with a little bit of dutch or german and some scottish flare to it... come to think this might be the first time I've listened to anyone from south africa
I loved this video from across the world. I hope that you will doing more similar ones!
Greetings from Florida. In the 1960s was based at Swartkops, flew out of Waterkloof to Ysterplaat. Groete.
Steph is a badass pilot and instruction!
The view is very beautiful when viewed from the helicopter.
wow what a trip thanks for taking us along for the ride.
Glad you liked it!!
Well what a wonderful adventure with two charming ladies to fly with,I was impressed with your flying ability and delicate touch on the controls.I am sure that you will be in demand to deliver more helicopter's for new owners in the future,thank you for a super video.
This is quality, nice one bambi! Greetings from the Uk
Thankyou so much!
And Australia! :)
Wish my jump Pilot was as nice as you! (10k skydives lol.............)
You ladies are so Lucky
I enjoyed evry second of the trip....awesome girls hope to see more....my nightshift was 💥💥💥💥
Fantastic adventure! Great short film; you're doing wonders sharing aviation adventures in SA. Happy landings :-)
The editing is GREAT with this one! You're getting better and better with each video. Do you do it all yourself?
Thank you so much!! I edited this one myself, and it took REALLY long... (blood, sweat and tears haha) so your message means alot to me!
@@PilotBambi Yes, I agree, great editing.
I loved the intro with short preview and then a “Video- Cassette- Rewind” back to the start, absolutely brilliant! 😀👍
Oh boy this was so so so cool!!!Well done Bambi 😁 And what a lovely flight!You should definitely do this again,but agreed,in a bigger chopper 🤣
Thankyou!! Haha yep for sure, and I'll definitely want to fly with Steph again.😁
@@PilotBambi Which chopper is next on your bucket list? 😁 Steph should most certainly be involved when moving up from a R44,well im sure R66 would do too.
Great Video you two. Thank you.
23:03 One of my favourite songs started playing.
Excellent thank you, very interesting..great scenery 👍
This video brought back a long lost dream of being a pilot 😪 adding to my bucket list ✅
Great quality & spectacular views along the route.
It was great flying with you, really enjoyed it.
Just found your channel and I love your content its such a joy watching you fly.
Thoroughly enjoyed sharing your trip.Thanks.
Awesome video, honestly. Can see you had a blast 😎
Awesome video. I love SA. Such a beautiful country. The R44 is my choice for sure.
Fun, great job young ladies!
I absolutely enjoyed this video from start to finish! What an amazing adventure and what an allround aviator you are! The 360 cam is just so versatile and is just fantastically suited for use in the cockpit and also on the outside. Are you editing yourself? Anyway, fantastic video and I'm looking forward to the next one 💛
I'm really enjoying your 'journey'. You've come a long way thank you.
I love your videos, I'm also a retired helicopter pilot, congratulations, greetings from Chile
Thankyou so much!! Did you fly helicopters in Chile? That must have been beautiful!
I strongly recommend the Bose headset with LEMO plug 'cause in case one gets to fly in an airplane (or aircraft) equipped with LEMO, plane power will power the ANR circuitry and you never run out of battery...
Love the video, its soo cool to see how you guys flew past my flight school! really love the videos and our in counter at the middleberg airshow that one morning when we were having lunch. I wanted to show you the C177R but time ran out and we had to fly back! love the videos and cannot wait to see you back in south africa when you come back!
A very competant helo pilot! You make it look effortless.
Great vid as always!!!
There's also some great gliding in South Africa apparently.
Can't wait to try it.
Awesome! Looks like you had a great couple of days ferrying the R22. I can't wait for the next video!
It really was! Such a lovely trip. More videos coming soon!
I wish i could join a flying school but, i have no sponsors. thanks beautiful, this video is really so inspiring.
Thank you for your videos. I'm not a pilot but I'm always interested. I love your spirit.
Thankyou!!😄
What a great adventure and lovely to watch. Oh! and greetings from England.
I can tell you how much I have enjoyed your videos on learning to fly a helicopter. As a recently obtained instrument rated pilot SEL I want to transition over to rotowing which was my passion all along. Seeing how well you transitioned gives me hope that mine will go smooth as well. Thank you!