An older pilot saved my life once by telling me that the funeral is 4 days later and it will always be on a sunny day.

It happened to me once flying a Hughes 500. I kept it level on the AH and was getting set to make a 180 when the passenger (also a pilot) yelled "Airspeed!". I had inadvertently pulled back on the stick and was dangerously very slow (it being impossible to hover in IMC of course). I pushed forward and once I had regained level flight, executed a 180 on instruments then landed at a golf course below us. I honestly think that we would not have survived if she hadn't called out. Some months later, an instructor was flying with me in an R44. we entered IMC and he had the same reaction and our speed was trending low. I did exactly what my passenger had done for me. I called out the airspeed, took control and made a 180. I now know that the impetus to slow down is a natural reaction. BTW, I went with that instructor to see the CFI and he got some more training - and afterwards wrote me a nice letter to thank me. However, I learned from this and never flew into worsening conditions again.

@USHSTorg

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, Bob. We're glad you lived to tell the tale!

@DAV632

3 жыл бұрын

There are several situations in flying helios that can deteriorate quickly and are usually fatal. Because most instructors are barely ahead of their students in hours teaching these manoevers is banned in most countries so they try and teach it in ground school but students and young pilots never get to experience the feel let alone know what to do when their machine enters that kind of flight threat. My instructor way back when was X-military so many moves he taught me were predicated with "Don't tell anybody I'm showing you this ..."

@defender714

2 жыл бұрын

"an instructor was flying with me in an R44. we entered IMC" was that offered in the course?

@rigilchrist

2 жыл бұрын

@@defender714 The instructor was giving me a recency check (required by their insurers) before I took the a/c for SFH.

@maddog7999

2 жыл бұрын

impossible to hover in IMC.... why?

I’m just a mechanic and this got my heart going. Lol I hope everybody takes this stuff seriously!

airplane: 178 seconds helicopter: 56 seconds fair enough 🤔

@captainemeritus5927

3 жыл бұрын

Saturday night in s. Chicago with a MAGA hat . 14 secs.

Holy crap! Y'all made me get all nervous right here in my dining room. Well done! Now that you've caused my heart rate to accelerate I need to step away from my computer.

@USHSTorg

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully you didn't step away before sharing! :)

"Hey, want to learn how to fly a helicopter?" "No, thank you."

Did not expect something of this quality, or intensity. Well done.

A remarkable production, particularly because it demonstrates how the complete loss of visual references is just the epitaph of successive abuses of visual flight rules

There is a tragic video of a bride and her brother who wanted to helicopter into their wedding as a surprise, only for the windows to be surrounded by cloud/fog and fatally crash. Not a pilot and don’t know, but think it was this scenario.

@lelekoJumboJet

10 ай бұрын

yes, it happened here in Brazil, very sad.

@wilsonjr5763

5 ай бұрын

​@@lelekoJumboJetpelo jeito aquele acidente do helicóptero que caiu em Ilha Bela ocorreu da mesma forma.

Awesome video; powerful, thought-provoking and moving.

This video has the potential of saving hundreds of lives 👍

Yep, never thought it would happen to me until I did it, luckily I was in an IFR certified 206L3 and was able to contact center and fly an ILS into closest airport!

@USHSTorg

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! We're glad you lived to tell the story!

@nvabill

3 жыл бұрын

@MB yeah I was really lucky, at the time I was also flying a 222 on a regular basis much in IFR. So at the time I was pretty proficient in helo IFR skills.

@ChrisA7X89

2 жыл бұрын

@@nvabill Looks like someone up there gave you a second chance.

@nvabill

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisA7X89 that they did!

Great video, really drives the message home in an uncomfortable yet necessary fashion. Couldn't help but notice that the poor guy overtorqued it before his 56 seconds even started though! 1:43

I'm a fixed wing pilot and this hit home. Very thought provoking.

Great video, and a reminder that as helicopter pilots we're not immune to IIMC. The ability to fly low/slow to avoid terrain and obstacles has its limitations. The beauty of helicopters is that I always have the option of putting down somewhere...even a parking lot if I have to.

Excellent video! Thank you for putting this together for the helicopter community.

Powerful video! This should be widely distributed to all helicopter pilots around the world. Shocking and compelling at the same time. Well done with this. You sometimes have to shock people to hammer the point home! 👏👏👏

Very good video! I have similar kind of an experience with Piper PA-38 in southern Finland. I was feeling forced to flight with my persuasive dad. Weather was ok at ground, but forecast was at limit and unstable. Shortly after takeoff we reach bottom of the cloud cealing, maybe 1000f above ground. Then I saw more clouds below me and instantly decide to get back to airfield... and then all the visibility in front of us disappear in the clouds. I started turn and look left to keep ground in sight. Notify traffic and safely landed. I was feeling so stupid the get air in the beginning. And I remember how lead heavy was all the movements and decisions I made.

Kobe’s pilot should’ve watched this.

Mover brought me here. Even though this particular video is all cinematic and stuff it's pretty heavy to watch for some reason. Really should be an eye-opener to a lot of people. Hopefully anyway...

Great video! This is a deep lesson that everyone of us, helicopter pilots should take care. The safety should be above the mission. But even better, the studies, the training, the ratting and the knowledge about how to manage the risk and the best decision making to apply. We always have to realise that altitude and speed will preserve our lives. Always trust the instruments and avoid to fly in an IMC even if we are IR. Good look everyone and Fly Safe always

@USHSTorg

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and providing feedback!

Wow! That should get your attention!

Happened to me going Oahu to Molokai, yrs ago. A cloud grew around me. was IMC for over 120 secs., trust your instruments over your rating. Most pilots who go IIMC were instrument rated.

Touch wood, It's not happened to me but this video hits home in showing you just how easy it can happen!

This reminded me of the Kobe Bryant accident. U_U

Very well done.

If you have a glass panel even if your helicopter isn't off capable you still can climb and go ifr. The "new faa" is very friendly toward those who declared an emergency. Even for vfr only if you're doing marginal weather doesn't hurt to be "ready for ifr"

RIP Kobe Bryant, families and pilot. VFR into IMC is a killer. Don't risk it.

Powerful video

I guess, every pilot, even non IFR rated, should be able to maintain a reasonable stable flight path if they got in IMC. In case of doubt, wings and horizon levelled and check for airspeed. As an IFR rated pilot from the very beginning, I've always wondered why not all pilots are given this training. It's not so difficult and would save many lifes.

@cmm3338

Жыл бұрын

I think it should be mandatory in certain conditions to be IFR rated. IE, mandated whenever IMC seems like even a possibility.

@adhamhussain2120

7 ай бұрын

Exactly thank u and yes an ifr for professional commercial pilot is a must

You just described every instrument check ride I've ever had.

Brilliant 👍

Land and wait it out no matter what you are flying !! Gary K

Who else is here after Hoover’s review of Kobe crash?:)

Despite high quality videos like this, these incidents will continue to happen to Pilots that keep justifying to themselves that they can do this, that they're in control... Right up till they're not, by which time it's too late for them and anyone else aboard! Decieving themselves and their trusting passengers as they rush headlong into a smoking debris field of their own making! That apart, the helicopter was lovely.

That's intense. Guess I'm done flying! Lol

On fixed wings you ll get 178s and it makes no difference. fly safe. fly always

Seriously? The fact that he did not turn around or land at the 1:08 mark is insane! I've been flying rotorcraft for 20 years and would NEVER fly in the conditions he faced at the 1:08 mark! As HAI repeatedly says - USE YOUR SUPERPOWER!!

@bsabes5750

9 ай бұрын

Hillsboro??

"Part of you is starting to let go" That's really scary.

Super well made, this may actually save lives. Was inspiration taken from air safety institutes 2014 video "178 seconds to live"?

@chrishill976

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and the feedback and yes, 178 seconds to live was the inspiration.

Wow. This really shows up "178 Seconds To Live".

Referred by C.W. Lemoine.

Well done 👍 I’ll be sharing! #SkyBaum

@USHSTorg

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! #56secs2live

Can helicopters with autopilot correct and takeover at the flick of a switch? If so, getting in those hours and finally upgrading to such a machine would be even more an incentive I imagine. (Ex R22 CPLH)

DAMN!!!!

I stopped my aviation education because I could not see out of the airplane. 36 hours and I could not see the runway until we touched down. However, I could fly the instruments like I was born in the cockpit. My situation was what experts call conversion syndrome so I converted into music. I still love aviation and compete in RC aerobatics but I know I'm better with feet on ground. All of that passion dulled by a disoriented brain.

Get their -itis is one of the leading cause of Pilot deaths.

I like the Australian version from CASA better. (“178 seconds to live” from CasaBriefing) Both work as intended.

Another sad example of not turning back to even marginal VFR. If at the first and even slight doubts about the weather one should immediately get out of it and go home to fly another day. But, it becomes somehow seductive as so many fine pilots found out as it became too late. RIP.

Sounds like the Calabasas crash , the Sheriff grounded their airships , what makes someone think they are a better pilot ?

In reality, he hit one of those birds in the opening sequence, and was killed with his visors up, months before this could have happened...

Intense.

-damn, ya'll just talked me out of taking my discovery flight! I'll stick to the sims, lol. That was intense, the funeral hit home...

Sad that so many seasoned pilots can / will get their asses in this situation. The video reminds me of the safety movies some of the State Police produced years ago to show to 1st time driver - featuring some pretty gory stuff as I remember. All MULTIPLE FATAL accidents on their highways. Pretty effective stuff.

@mikeryan6277

3 жыл бұрын

I remember one when I was a kid named “Room to live “ it showed 2 vehicles severely totaled then zoomed in on the intact interior, the narrator then stated that if you could remain part of the interior your chances of survival were much better. In short wear your seatbelt. At the end of the film the narrator said “ I have been a Michigan Highway Patrolman for 22 years and I have never unbuckled a dead man” that was almost 40 years ago and it stuck with me, I hope this vid has the same impact on others.

@DAV632

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeryan6277 Drivers Ed when I was 15 (in quebec) showed about a dozen "Public Safety" films from various state Highway Patrols showing REAL multi-FATAL accidents and an explanation of what happened. The films were graphic and real and were intended to scare beeegeezuz out of new drivers into slowing down and if you had them in your car (rare in those days) WEAR your seat belt. With so many DASH-CAMS running these days the net is full of AS-IT-HAPPENS ... world's WURST (sic) drivers videos!! There are some excellent videos of play by play accident investigations into plane/helio crashes too. Hopefully a few people watch those and avoid similar fukups!!

@darrenholst7948

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@mikeryan6277 I too saw the video about 1980 in high school in an assembly. I also have never forgotten the words I’ve never unbuckle a dead man…

1:10 That’s the moment, he should have cancelled and landed immediately. The point of no return was crossed at that point.

1 year to late for kobe :(

Podrían poner también en subtitulo en español por favor

@USHSTorg

2 жыл бұрын

Acabo de traducir. No es perfecto.

Damnn thatt Korean Wai tu Lo Piloté

He could have driven the 50 miles quicker.

Kobe - still too soon?

Please, please, please do a video for the Louisiana 2021 crash. Emphasis should be placed again on urging pilots NOT to fly in marginal weather 🥲

At the very minimum All professional pilots should be IF rated and practice consistently. And IIMC should be a dismissable action even in the unlikely event you survive.

horrifying.

That won't happen with synthetic vision. SVFR should be for synthetic VFR, where you can spay paint the windows black and keep going. Has there even been a CFIT with SV? I doubt it.

Any Not right stop and hover

this is intensive yet not close to the real one...

This is unreasonable why would he go in all if these mistakes we practised ifr in a robinson and then we flew mire advanced helis which apparently had at least attitude mode or a force trim with a sas in this demonstrated heli there us no reason to go in all if those mistakes for a pro pilot the lesson they want to deliver is good but the demonstration is kinda weird

Doing stupid shit produces stupid results.

“OMG, heading into bad weather, oh if there was only something I could do...some way to turn around, or, or, maybe, land-? But there’s NOTHING... Oh Jeeze, NOW I punched in-in the clouds the helicopter won’t fly!! If only there were *some* way I could, like, control the flight path by-by-looking at the instruments or something! But there’s no way!! No WAY!! It’s all over, over, OVER-YAAAAAAHHHHH...”. This is a stupid video but unfortunately, this is really the way a HELL OF A LOT of helicopter pilots operate and think, or more accurately, *don’t think.* And the accident record and what happens during these accidents bears this out. I hate to say it but most airplane guys are like Einstein compared to the way the Helicopter Bubbas operate. Sad.

@Nekro_bird

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah let’s land even though I can’t see anything. Turning around is a good idea in little to no visibility, hopefully I don’t hit that mountain or local tower... oh at least I can use my instruments that will magically save me, just like how you can drive a car without looking, right? If only I flew fixed wings that somehow make me smarter.