No not military, he is a west coast BC pilot. slinging long lines, in out of tight spots day in/out for forestry work, fire fighting etc. I had complete trust in him, had to do hover enter and exit a few times too...not just toe ins.

Wow. Back in my younger days, I used to hover like that, and in a C model which was slightly underpowered than this D. Great finesse in handling the offset of the crewmen getting in, while holding positions. Of course, the trees block any wind, but still superbly skillful and, in getting out. Well done.

Awesome skill. I flew OH-6's in the military, you could land them anywhere there was enough room for the rotor disk...even in my back yard once!

I was a wildland firefighter and a linecutter and met some awesome pilots. Toe-ins always made me nervous. Man I miss the flights to and from work. Perfect end to a long day. 😁 🤘❤🇨🇦

Wow, now that's a real confined area landing. Hats off to the pilot.

Best helicopter ever made.

Excellent hovering job and keeping it stable in one position while loading passengers on the skids with shifting balances. This pilot was exceptionally smooth hovering in ground effect.

One of the finest aircraft ever made. 👍

i see helicopter = i like video.

Superb machine and piloting. I miss my 500 more than any woman in my life. Repatriated it back to the US form BC Canada.Such fond memories Thanks for the cool video, holding back tears for real.

Looks like a Hughes 500... love those... cool. 😊

Look at this great precision flying. Great pilot. Thanks to share.

wowy. ... wowy... that's amazing skill

Fantastic pilot! Compensating for the weight when people were boarding even though he was had his skids in. You would still get a weight transfer when the guy got into the rear passenger compartment. Great flying & excellent video, Thanks for sharing it.!

AWESOME PILOTING HERE...

One hell of a good pilot!!

Pretty insane skills. I mean many could try but few will leave. I read the little Hughes had pretty amazing stability too

Excellent control shown by this pilot. Bravo!

WOW!!!!.What a risky & so impressive approach!!!!Loved It!!!!.Love this so practical MD-500!!.

Great to hear all the positive comments. For the people who insist on giving their negative, armchair opinions on whether it is safe or not, keep your dumb-ass comments to yourself - obviously you have no idea what you are talking about. Regardless of the country of origin, once you get past the licencing, flight instruction jobs, tour pilot jobs and the like, you get into stuff like this. This is what we do all day long - this is our job and we do it professionally. Great video.

Nice ending. I was hoping not to see any tragedy.. thank God i didn’t. Sometimes I see cool videos then all of a sudden you see a head flying by .Thanks for this cool video. Very talented and skilled pilot. The helicopter barely moved.

Woehaaa that is SICK!!! Super flying....!!

That's some flying

Excellent flying,must be the F version to lift vertically with a load.

These are the guys you want to take chopper lessons from...Clown to Franklin chopper pilot was one that I always admired. He was flyin' all the Hollywood stunt stuff back then.

YEAHHHH

Our unit flys Astars but used to fly 500's. I missed out on flying them but the guys said they were solid in a hover in ground effect. Clearly, they are and that took great skill and concentration. If I tried that in an Astar it would have been much more of a challenge. That was awesome! I would love to try something like that.

Outstanding

to thebullet44739. as I am the one who recorded this video, I have no idea who you are, and I am a friend of the pilot, and you are not him. On another note, thanks to all who have looked at and had positive things to say about the video.

One hell of a pilot. Stable hover even while loading people..

Incredible helicopter pilot.

Kudos to the pilot but the guys climbing on did a kick as job as well. Pays to know what your doing... They all played a part...

how these pilots judge their rotor clearance amazes me

Bad ass pilot

Great pilot

MAJOR piloting skills!!

WowSmooth👍⛾I remember a MD500 pilot saying that the best way to set one down was to plop it down & let the struts absorb the impact. I don't think he would be a good candidate for this type of operation🖖😎☮

Awesome. Such nice tight flying. BC, helicopter paradise.

First floor ladies lingerie and tree tops. 👍 The pilot has skillz! I grew up in NZ at the time of the Deer -Wars- Hunting so was very used to seeing these sorts of skills displayed every day and those guys were nuts but great skills. The only thing I regret about this video is the image resolution and there is nothing you could have done at the time. Nice job having the SA to video it. *Thank You* Jordan.

❤❤💘💘💖💖

It makes me think of "power is nothing without control" (the title of an award winning advertisement with Carl Lewis, dated 1994).

Amazing pilot !!

This is oddly musical. Someone should sample the sounds for some sort of industrial-thrash thing.

Awesome....hats off to the pilot

Lucky the ground moved around so it made it look like the pilot kept a perfect hover.

A Master at his craft. Excellent!

Smooooth!

we had a pilot. called him cowboy Bob. Wore dirty overalls and his cap on backwards. chewed tobacco so ya stuck to everything inside the chopper. wouldn't even bother to land he'd just hover. in the hills of Hinton Alberta. ah. the memories. great to be young and bullet proof. And we were a little insane when break up came. no fat on us though. 3-D seismic. gotta love it

You have to be one the best in business to be flying in holes like that ! That is to dangerous !

haha well actually, the 2 guys only got flipped down to the main road, and had a 20 min truck ride, then an hour long boat ride....we waited for his return, then had a 15 min ride all the way home....

amazing control now that guy is a pilot!

Awesome !! That heli did not move !!

This looks like one of those old Mikes hard lemonade commercials. They are probably on their way to fish for Great White Sharks in a John Boat. COOL!!

nice flying the guys getting on did a excellent job they did not pile on and throw the helicopter of balance, did this many a time myself when sismograph drilling with hughes 500d and c helicopters in forest and moutain areas

Skills!!!

Good grief. At least give the passenger in the back a few seconds to put on his seat belt.

Pilot got skills!

Dude, thats some mad piloting skill!

thats a man with a lot of stick time ,,, load change tight spot , all in all a very skilful pilot.

Very very good pilot. Nice video. Thank You .

One hell of a pilot - almost impercetible movement when they climbed aboard.

That ain't nothing but amazing!

Nice piece of flying ...well done...

That's insane. What a pilot....!

thats yrs of experience flying that lil bird

How could you not trust someones skill and do this work. Everything rides on the pilot so you get to see the special lady and the precious lady at the end of "EACH" workday.

....and the poor camera man, unable to pay the extraction fee, is still down there to this day.

Damn, havent seen flying like that since the New Zealand Deer harvest!

Pure skills!

I love those Hughes.

skids are steady cause he got the fron skids on the rock

Balls of steel. Mah gawd that gave me a stiffy.

Great PILOT !!!!

Great 🚁‼️ & the Pilot got real skills! 👍🏼

Top level pilot. Nice job

Dude your pilot is a bad ass!!!

Wow.. dealing with weight transfer while hovering like that..

Mad skills!!

Kick ass pilot there.

That is just bad ass!!!

Exelent pilot bro! thx for sharing

BRAVO!

thats a good pilot!!!

Good Pilot

Круто!

Brav-f'ing-O!

FUCK YEA!! I fly heli but not like that!

That's one hell of an expensive commute.

We have 7 star hotel. This is a 7 star pilot !

I would make them walk to a clearing....#riskmitigation #watchthis

Wow...nice

Balls to the wall

my is Rickey B. Nail. does anyone have any video of him flying. he was best at what he did but some may say hot headed.last jobs we're Columbia and somebody in Alaska before strokes.

Bad ass pilot mode active!! :D

F that I’ll hike out

uaooooothat was best

good pilot really

Hell of a pilot - excellent control. Ex military????

awesome!!!!

Vry gd !!! :-)))