I spent 2200 flight hours as a crew chief on UH-60 Black hawks and trust me most of this stuff is trained routinely. (Not the back flips though they can only be done for demonstration and I've never seen one in real life) but everything else definitely difficult but not uncommon. From my experience older pilots especially where great at making the aircraft doing some truly incredible stuff. The precision and nuanced stuff seem much harder to do for the average pilot. The deck landing made me sweat that looked fun.

I Miss The Old KZfaq,....No Ads, No Commercials !!!!!!, Ah Yes, The Good Ol' Days...

Watched a North Sea helicopter pilot in foul weather try to land on our ship. Hovered for 20 minutes to match the movement of the vessel then BINGO! She did it! Best pilot I've ever seen, and she got us all safely to the pub before closing!

I remember watching pilots bring supplies to the ship I was on, the pilots had their own “personality” how they handled those helicopters. They were having FUN! No doubt about that. Of course, the skill they possess is unquestionable!

The first clip with the German Helli and pilot looks like drone footage - absolutely amazing!!!

I'm am thoroughly convinced that all chopper pilots are nuts, God bless em!

That swedish pilot's got some real skill. They'd never allow that demo these days so close to a crowd.

Salute to all the pilots in this clip, looks easy but is incredibly complex!

In 1978 as a civilian member of Seattle Mountain Rescue our team had to exit a helicopter out the back ramp on the north side of Mt Adams. While the pilot held the ship hovering with the ramp resting on the ice we exited and went down well off to the side before he left us. Unfortunately I had no camera. Those military pilots really deserve our respect.

Gotta say I've flown helos for years. That pilot in the Chinook was UNBELIEVABLE. Sir wish I could fly that well.

The whole crew for these helicopters are phenomenal. From pilot, copilot, soldiers and maintenance crews. Without all of them, these ops wouldn’t be to easy. Don’t get me wrong tho.. the pilots are badass

When your job is threading the needle and you master that, you've mastered everything

Amazing! Helicopters are difficult to fly. You're fighting physics. These incredible pilots are absolute beasts.

I wish y'all would do some research before narrating these things. Video #3 is a classic landing CH-47 helicopter crews train for. It's called a pinnacle or ledge landing. That is where only the aft wheels are on the ground. And the landing shown is not a resupply mission it is a patrol extraction mission. To make this kind of landing takes coordination of all 6 crew members. The GIB's (guys in back) all coordinate over the intercom to guide the GIF's (guys in front), aka pilots, to get the aft landing gear positioned correctly for the landing without a blade strike to the ground in the rear. The pilots cannot do this by themselves. It is impossible for them to see the aft blades some 75 feet behind them. And video #2 is not a CH-47 Chinook, it is a CH-46 Sea Knight. The Sea Knight is the little brother of the Chinook, both made by what was then Boeing Vertol, now Boeing Vertical Systems. If you pay attention you'll see the Sea Knight has a single nose gear (3 gear total, the Chinook has 2 forward landing gear (4 total). Also, the 46 has sponsons poking out of the fuselage in the rear housing the aft landing gear. The Chinook's aft landing gear are built into the main fuselage. Lastly the Sea Knight's engines are faired into the fuselage inside the aft pylon while the Chinooks engines are mounted on struts alongside the aft pylon. Just to finish, NONE of the maneuvers show are emergency procedures, they are done simply to demonstrate the capabilities of the aircraft. And, yes, I know what I'm talking about. I have over 2000 combat hours as a flight engineer on CH-47's. My best friend was a USMC pilot on Phrog's (the Marine nickname for the CH-46 Sea Knight.

In 69 I was a gunner on a CH 46 where we had to do an emergency insert/extract of a Marine patrol that was ambushed and trapped on top of a mountain that was heavily engulfed in clouds. We were on this mission for 20 hours total as we had to wait for the cloud cover to clear enough to find them. An Army birddog pilot was the only person to have seen exactly where they were during the day and later flying all day he crashed while landing to refuel at An Hoa. We finally got the chance to find them about 1 AM and the only way to drop off our reaction team was for the pilot to drop the ramp level and back to the edge of a cliff with the whole chopper hanging off into the black void of night! I had no clue at he time at 19 yrs old the skill required of the 24 yr old pilot. We offloaded our team, loaded the wounded and flew them to Da Nang . We then had to return to recover our response team who'd also been ambushed after we left them. Same thing, hang off into the void while they ran aboard and we then unloaded with our 50 cal.'s and M 60 stinger off the ramp and got the hell out of there. That night in Aug 69 earned us a few single mission air medals and a DFC for our pilot and co-pilot, Silver Star for the crew chief! Just a day in the life of Vietnam vets.

i'm an aeronautic mechanic, and i've to admit that even for me this is impresive !

That guy flying low in the forest that's some skill

Wow the Swedish GH helicopter maneuvers was amazing.

ALL of these pilots displayed some AWESOME skills!! I especially liked the #2 Chinook!! WOW!! 👍👍👍

That chinook pilot could probably dock a spacecraft. Those are some serious motor skills.

Pilots of any sort are just impressive!

That Swede is one badass pilot!

incredible, amazing,put me on goosebumps.

that hovering phenomenon where you can get caught in a down draft and shoot straight down at the ground is enough to ward me off helicopters i feel like you got pilots then you got helicopter pilots and helicopter pilots are freaking cool men and women

The so called Swedish "Chinook" is a CH-46 Sea Knight (HKP4)

That reverse flip is a very impressive feat.

0:13 BO-105 is a light utility helicopter, not an "anti-tank helicopter". 2:59 isn't a resupply but an exfiltration. 4:53 isn't a Chinook. It's a CH-46 Sea Knight. Swedish designation was HKP-4. 08:20 "There's a type of maneuvre that pilot's can use" implies that it is possible with any helicopter, which isn't true,as most helicopters wouldn't be able to survive the strain. The Westland Lynx was one of the first and few helicopters that can pull it off. Cool video tho...

These Pilots are so amazing they are insane !!

First clip, insanely skilled pilot required Drone racers: hold my controller.

1:18 : my dogs pov when i drop some food

Really good pilots! Their training is incredibly expensive and takes a lot of time. But once they're trained, they can do all those maneuvers! Respect!

I have never seen as much skill in my life as that Swedish pilot displayed piloting his helicopter around backwards at a ridiculous angle.

You know there's something wrong in the world when sports players get millions of dollars and these pilots get a small fraction of that and they save lives and putting their own life on the line every time.

5:22 in sir David Attenboroughs voice "Sea Knight, whent threatend, will try to trick it`s opponent by looking larger and more aggresive"

Proud to be skilled and expert pilots like this.. Human do anything practice practice....

I love the music you use for flight videos

I'm pretty sure I've done all of these before while playing battlefield.

0:44 East Germany would like their hands on that pilots skills.

I didn't know helicopters could do some of these things. I didn't realize they are so maneuverable. Great video.

Hedge hopping video 1 was incredible Edited ,, in fact the whole video was amazing

Best chopper landing skills...

I loved seeing this helicopter save some people on top of a building, on top of a mountain. Most impressive picture I've ever seen

I enjoyed the flights. Not so much the errors in the narration. Thanks for the compilation video.

WOW!! Theyre all amazing but the Swedish -47 pilot was extra special

In '87 I was stationed at a US Army airfield in the middle of West Germany. One of the pilots, a CW4 Vietnam Special Forces pilot, took me out for a day flight in a Jet Ranger, OH-58. We took the doors off, because it was July, and he started up the bird. He looked at me and said, "This aircraft does not have wheels, so I must fly the aircraft to the flight line. I like to use the time to get comfortable with the controls. What I am going to do is fly straight to the end of the runway, at 12 to 18 inches off the ground, while rotating the aircraft in a clockwise rotation. Every time the front of the aircraft comes back to the end of the flight line it should be pointed at the same spot. I call this "Waltzing with a helicopter." He did exactly as he said he would. I looked back at the hangars and they were all stacked full of soldiers looking at us spin our way to the flight line. We took off and flew over Frankenstein's castle and then a tank gunnery range while they were conducting exercises, and got chased by a couple French Mirages who were being chased by a couple A-10s. It was a great flying day!

Alarm all over in the cockpit is what can i hear when watching this.

Thanks for the reminder!

Super top five!!!

0:11 And don´t forget: The BO-105 pictures are from the 70´s !

Good skills. What about the ones of the helicopter pilot in “The Spy Who Loved Me”?

Nice! I was a bit surprised to not have seen any of the RedBull boys doing their thing. I saw them at the air races and they are/were, super impressive.

Indeed skilled pilots but I am not counting the first one

Number 2 was flying like he was playing with a drone! Tactical rifleman was talking about a heli pilot landed on a ridge with one wheel touching while they disembarked!

The Westland Lynx was very much underrated

Absolutely incredible!!!!

Wow ! Great helicopters 🚁! I always loved choppers

Somebody is shooting at the helicopter - Helicopter: Let's dance!

I fly helicopters a lot in a game called arma 3 and I think it's interesting that without previously knowing that it was a thing (or even that it was possible irl) I started doing that turning around manouver shown in the last clip. I really thought that there was no way a real helicopter could do that. In my experience though, it is VERY effective.

I still feel flying Machines are very futuristic till today. I love flying.

Stunning...

Another Top Five destined to pass like a " steaming log " when the handle is flushed . Keep the fan on . I give this one 1.5 out of 5 .

The first one is like flying in Arma

HOTSHOT Copter Pilots! Much Respect!

That was amazing!

That was some crazy stuff. Holy Moly!

And to think, in many military air forces, cadets that "wash out" of top tier fighter training end up as helicopter pilots. Flying a chopper to the limits demands a pilot of the highest caliber. There is nothing "second best" in pushing these ungainly machines to their limits.

Everyone of these pilots are badasses .. a lot skill need for all of these

You are definitely correct about unbelievable skills. #1 and #2 those pilots were either the same people or brother's. Insane skills

Landing on a ship in rough sea condition is just nerve wrecking as ...

Driving the boat in there, was pretty badass.

The pilot is incredible 🔥

That first one is Insane!!! The level of comitment is speachless...

Man , just to be in that Swede chopper . I would have hollering my guts out , and loving it at the same time . Wow !

I think the first is practiced a lot. It’s like Hamilton driving gp laps over and over

this is one of the most incredible flying videos I've ever seen.

Awesome love it!

Where's Murdock when there's a Helicopter

Performing maneuvers such as in the 4th clip in front of an audience is extremely dangerous, not so much for the crew of the helicopter but for the people watching. Any mistake or aircraft failure would certainly cause fatalities. That is definitely scary watching that.

Wonderfull pilot.... salout to bravery...... hates off... good video...

Really amazing!

3:03 it wasn't a supply drop it was an extraction I've seen the full video

"Demonstrating maneuvers only allowed in emergencies, when under fire, or when wanting to show off in front of a far too trusting and close crowd that could all die at any second!"

The boat pickup was by far the coolest

That bo105 pilot impressed me.

That is how people got the idea for half-flipping in rocket league. 8:57

The number 2 it's a CH-46 not a CH-47. Good maneuvers!!!

Amazing pilots

Amazing skills !!!!

Those pilots sure wouldn’t have crashed Kobe’s heli

9:30 Backflip with a helicopter? Easy, peasy. I just flipped my car last week. No problem.

Cool vids. Swedish demo is a CH-46 though, not a Chinook. Similar, but smaller. 👍🏻🤙🏻

Impresionant operators

Like the the Swiss AF Hornets, I've never seen vid of US manoeuver CH-46s like that!

The first one is very satisfying...really hope that i can be in the heli during the demo...

Amazing skill... Kemampuan yg luar biasa....

Beautiful work

did anyone notice when he was talking about the swedish helicopter he said chinook. it wasnt a chinook it was a Hkp 4, the swedish designated version of the Boeing-Vertol CH46 Sea Knight

I have a friend who is a metallurgist who often works for the US military. His main job is to examine structural failures mostly in helicopters. He said to me if anyone asked if you want a ride in a helicopter, so no thanks!! He said they are inherently dangerous machines and can fly apart at any moment. A 1$ bolt sheares and kills 11 people even though the bolts have been replaced under service guidelines. He says that helicopters are just bad designs.

Wow! total and absolute mastery of the machine!

My favorite choppers are Sikorsky, Black Hawk and Sea Hawk.