smokeybandit Posted May 3, 2023 Report Share Posted May 3, 2023 function12, Cactus527 and MaryS 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted May 3, 2023 Report Share Posted May 3, 2023 20 minutes ago, smokeybandit said: Yikes ! What, exactly, was the hello trying to do there ? Was he trying to land on the ship ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted May 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2023 An even more perilous view. I assume it got stuck in a downdraft from the storm MaryS, asquared17 and Cactus527 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted May 3, 2023 Report Share Posted May 3, 2023 Wow ! That last video….some skills on that helo pilot ! The original Twit posting said that the ship was in distress….but did it really mean that a ships passenger was in distress ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk-ultra Posted May 3, 2023 Report Share Posted May 3, 2023 A helo can get in to all kinds of icky stuff like vortex ring state sucking up it's own rotor wash. WX like that sucks, and as an airline pilot one of the suckiest things I've ever experienced around thunderstorms is a micro down-burst. You can be at 100% power trying to climb out of it and still be shoved downward. Not fun. Only experienced it once going into to Sacramento, and glad that was the only time. I don't know enough about flying rotary wing, but heck ya the pilot did the right thing about noping out of that. Not safe for the patient or the aircraft. Carlos A., USCG Teacher, SemperMom and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asquared17 Posted May 3, 2023 Report Share Posted May 3, 2023 y i k e s. i am glad the helo pilot got out of there - that storm looks insane!! WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobroo Posted May 4, 2023 Report Share Posted May 4, 2023 Thanks for sharing @smokeybandit Fla33023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leroyr55 Posted May 4, 2023 Report Share Posted May 4, 2023 What’s missed here is how lucky we are to have people in the Coast Guard doing their job every day. Also the risks they endure doing their job. FloatyBoaty, Xaa, Carlos A. and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJS2766 Posted May 4, 2023 Report Share Posted May 4, 2023 We dealt with this when our Royal Caribbean cruise has a medical emergency on the way to Juneau last year. Sadly we all missed Juneau as the ship had to turn around halfway there to meet a helicopter. It was a sight to see for sure, but we will have to book Alaska again some time in the future as we never got the full experience especially since we missed the most exciting excursions we had planned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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