Columbia Helicopters Fire Fighting Helicopter – Pilot’s View
The camera is mounted on a pilot’s helmet, and has an audio link to the radio/intercom system on the helicopter. You will hear the pilots talking about lifting 4000 pounds of water from the lake, and hear a fire fighter on the ground compliment the pilot on the accuracy of his drop. The massive bucket is slung 200-feet below the helicopter. This was taken on the Hawkin Fire near Reno, Nevada on July 19, 2007.
RIP to the owner
Unless you learned in the army/navy/airforce/marines. Thats what most logger, rescue type pilots used to be
Helicoptor training is 2-4 times more expensive than small plane training
Yea, first you get your private pilot rating for rotor craft, then your instrument rating, then your commercial rating, then your certified flight instructors rating.
Then get a job at a Flight School as an instructor, build up about 1000 hours, then move from piston to turbine helicopters, then build up about 3 or 4,000 hours of time in a fire fighting helicopter like an A star, or a Huey, oh and you might want to get some sling load time too. Then….. just stroll on down to your nearest fire dept and apply, they should hire you right on!
would be a sweet job.
Nicely done, both the flying and the video.
My mistake the shadow clearly shows a vertol 107…my bad…
It is actually the civil version of the United States Army’s CH-54 Tarhe with the same call sign…I work with Helifor Canada and i can tell u its not a chinook or a vertol wich are the 2 choppers they work with. Columbia Helicopters Oregon US is the supplier of the aircraft.
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good job on this vid
so whats co-pilot requirements now? Does coli only operate Chinooks?
could be Columbia helicopters….thanx
Actually this particular aircraft is a Boeing Vertol 107-II. The “charlie hotel” in the radio traffic is the part of the aircraft call sign, which is the aircraft registration number. Most of Columbia Helicopters’ aircraft have a registration number ending in “CH” for probably obvious reasons.
Yeah its a chinook, At the end of the video someone says good shot charlie hotel, the last two letters in most chinooks.
so is that chinook or skycrane?
when you do please let me know love to hear helicopter chatter
Can anyone tell me how they got the audio from the radio/intercom? I work on a helitack crew and would love to get some cockpit chatter on video!
Great video.
can not believe I haven’t seen this video already,, wow I love it!!! What a dream job.. have any similar video. love cockpit footage….
Sweet Vid
It is a CH46 Chinook, the civilian version at least which is the BV107, for Boeing Vertol.
They said “Charlie Hotel” as in Columbia Helicopters…. Gosh.
Really appears to be a great video, sorry I can’t view it now, my PC doesn’t have the resources,
presently. However, I am involved in a R&D project concerning SAR Helicopter equipment Technologies. Main project ; Pendulum Swing, (uncontrollable swinging of Rescue Line) and
development of stabilization technologies.
I am hoping someone will read this and know where on the internet I might get to see, what I once viwed on a Televised Rescue Documentary, I know there are at least two maybe three of these that show this phenomena, I liked to about all of them but will settle for the flash flood incident, I believe this occurred in the Nevada California, Arizona area. The video depicts a flash flood victim being rescued from a torrent in a flood diversion canal, and upon retrieval the line rescuer and victim went into a swing. It looked really dangerous, since I think there were obstructions nearby.
Will appreciate your feed back, it will assist in R&D and in bringing this to the attention of those
conscientious and honest political bureaucrats.