Noted, Joe the editor!

You are fake

Austria does have "Christophorus" helicopters, operated by ÖAMTC Flugrettung, with ÖAMTC being an ADAC affiliate. However, some other Austrian HEMS providers use different callsigns for their rescue helicopters. "Heli Austria" air ambulance has chosen "Martin" for their HEMS choppers with St. Martin being the patron saint of beggars and the poor (people in need), "Schenk Air" operates their rescue helicopters under the callsign "Robin" (derived from Robin Hood, who also gave to the poor), Wucher Helicopter chose "Gallus" as their helicopter callsign (Gallus being the first name of the founder when it originally started out as a mason company before establishing helicopter operations for construction and HEMS in the 1970s), Schider Helicopter Services calling their ambulance helicopters simply "Heli" and ARA Air Rescue using "ARA" or "RK" respectively, depending on the base's medical cooperation partner (RK for "Rotes Kreuz" = red cross).

Glad you like them!

I’m not sure what you mean? Send you a telegram? This feeds into why I’ll never pilot anything more than a car & that’s up to my wife. Lol! Yes, the App, I do understand but after just cleaning up from having an app, phone # and email hacked I’m extremely cautious about adding any more apps. Besides … talking with Capt. Joe ,just the offer is quite an honor, seriously. I think I’ll just try to stop commenting now that I’m retired. Peace, Steve

Not in Germany.

It drives me crazy right now

But the German ones were build from 1972 to 1975 under license in Germany. Anyway, awesome workhorse the CH53

More to come with you guys😉

Hello how are you captain joe

A lot of times we get to do that, all depends on the location of the landing pad, traffic at and around the airport and things like aircraft weight and wind direction (read: downwash blowing over smaller aircraft).

@@chrisr8996 Thank you 🙏

It gives you credit for some things (weather, navigation, etc.) but you still have to learn to actually fly a helicopter.

From a heli flight instructors perspective I can tell you it's usually much, much harder for the FW guys to convert to rotary than the other way around, there's a lot of habits FW pilots have to actively un-learn first in order to fly choppers, from the miniscule cyclic control inputs needed to things like never pushing your stick forward (esp. during an engine failure).

Hey, I really appreciate your comment. A really nice gesture for all the guys out there being brave enough to speak in a foreign language in front of 1.6 million subscribers. Greetings from Germany

A helicopter flight school. You really have to relearn about everything flight wise. After that you could try flying for basic a to b flights.

@@sirBrouwer do you know if there are companies willing to fund flight school for pilots looking for this kind of work, if yes, what type of company would that be?

@@Jomexer besides the military I have no clue.

Only an emergency helicopter need the 800 meters of visibility. They are flying low to the ground, so you need the visibility to detect power lines or wind turbines.

@@-TobsA- that makes 100% sense. I was more referring to when he said they won't even take off with less than 800m of visibility. Seems like an excessive rule when all you have to do is go up. Especially since your emergency landing zone may be an hour away where their may be clear sky's. Of course theirs exceptions. still very interesting facts nonetheless.

@@411Adidas here in Germany we have a really dense net of the emergency helicopters. So in the most cases you landing side is not more than 10 minutes of flight time away. So in the most cases if you don't have 800 meters at your base you also don't have 800 meters at your lading spot.

I worked in Germany for a while and was amazed how many people (especially the younger ones) spoke fluent English. Talking to one of the guys in the office, I asked him about this. He told me that everyone had to become fluent in English before they were allowed to study any other language.

I detected a slight accent and one pronunciation error from the helicopter pilot, but their English is still terrific! I’m always aware of how the whole world makes a point of trying to speak English and how we just expect it. I know English is the official language of aviation and of the internet, the one qualification every pilot needs (I assume this is the case for rotary wing pilots too) but I really wish I could speak any other language as fluently as those two spoke English.