Well done guys, as far as I’m concerned you will never be paid enough for doing this work and I’m pretty sure that all of you are not doing this for money in the first place. Without you a lot more lives would be lost and you all are true HEROES. Cheers
I really enjoy the dual perspectives. Seeing what the pilots are doing to get into and stay in position, followed by the work on the hoist and the retrieval of the person in distress is super cool. I also appreciate in this video you showed more of the work around the actual retrieval. Pinning the line to the hook, double checking the SAR tech, securing the door and so on. I'd love to see a longer video where we tag along from take off to landing and we get to see the checks and procedures all the way through the flight!
You are in luck. I just shot a night boat mission. It will show the entire transition to the boat with the radar image. It also shows the entire hoist sequence from the view of the flight engineer. Oh, and it's got full audio. I am also working on one that has the entire process for a mission,...no audio though.
@@mattfrom103 thank you so much! Growing up in the PNW with my bedroom balcony at the back of a hospital helipad , mom had a scanner cuz the neighbor and good friend worked as a dispatcher and we would often get the calls between the hospital and various helicopters working in the area. Nothing but respect.
Great team effort all round. This clearly demonstrates your level of training and professionalism to your speciality and DAMM, that pilot handling was silky smooth. Great job 103.
Missions like this have been flown for many, many years. I assure you that in the mid 1980s missions exactly like this were flown, but in the NO Auto-Pilot CH-113 Labrador helicopter from 103 Sqn Gander, NL. Entirely done by manual, hand flying with a weather radar and and a radar altimeter.
Man i cant get enough of your videos, it was a job i wanted to do but never could do it. at least this gives me an eye of some things i could have been doing, have to admit it looks fun
QM2 has a top speed of 31 knots. In this case, the ship would have turned north from its usual route, to intercept with the Canadian Air Force, due to the range of the helicopter. The ship has a very detailed procedure to deal with such medical situations. We witnessed such an evacuation on a trans Atlantic crossing.
Another highly interesting vid, thanks! I see in another comment you mention a night op coming soon. Looking forward to it. Curious about something…you detail your transition away from the ship and comment how serious it is. I would have thought this would have been the easiest part. Just move sideways then up and away. Keep ‘em coming.
Anytime you transition from looking at outside references to looking at inside instruments can cause 'issues'. There is also a change in attitude from about 7-9 degrees nose up to 2-3 degrees nose down. This can all play tricks on the human vestibular or somatosensory systems. These tricks are commonly called 'the leans', 'black hole effect', and others if you want to google them. So it's not overly hard but the seriousness of it also comes from the proximity to the water. Not a lot of room for error.
I wish more informative videos like this about our Armed Forces going about what they do in this style, no bravado, no fake drama, just doing what they do so that folks can see that these men and women don't sit around BS'ing and drinking coffee all day... and playing euchre. I also appreciate the note about the three service people doing exactly what you folks were doing but never coming home, kind of grounds the video story, did for me anyway... BZ and long safe career.
Nice report. Impressive. Note on teak wood pointer. No cruise ship has original teak on the decks . Teak is so expensive and must be minimum of 100 years old to be come good teak. The decks are made of clever glued layers with slivers of teak.
In weather that most people would want to curl up in bed and wait for it to blow over - they are out there like it is just another day at the office. These are exceptional humans...
@peterp696 All large ships broadcast something called AIS. It gives position, course, and speed. The helicopter, however, does not have a way to receive that data. Instead, we rely on the ship to tell us the information via radio and then, when in closer range, we will primarily use our radar. Our radar will tell us how far the ship is and what bearing. We can't get closer than 0.25nm with our visual contact. I've got an upcoming video that will show the radar when conducting this style approach.
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RCAF and Coast Guard 2 of Canada's national treasures, hope you all have a peaceful and merry Christmas and a happy 2025
Well done guys, as far as I’m concerned you will never be paid enough for doing this work and I’m pretty sure that all of you are not doing this for money in the first place. Without you a lot more lives would be lost and you all are true HEROES. Cheers
I really enjoy the dual perspectives. Seeing what the pilots are doing to get into and stay in position, followed by the work on the hoist and the retrieval of the person in distress is super cool. I also appreciate in this video you showed more of the work around the actual retrieval. Pinning the line to the hook, double checking the SAR tech, securing the door and so on. I'd love to see a longer video where we tag along from take off to landing and we get to see the checks and procedures all the way through the flight!
You are in luck. I just shot a night boat mission. It will show the entire transition to the boat with the radar image. It also shows the entire hoist sequence from the view of the flight engineer. Oh, and it's got full audio. I am also working on one that has the entire process for a mission,...no audio though.
@@mattfrom103 awesome! I look forward to it.
Yeah the descriptions you have included are why I subscribed.
@@mattfrom103 thank you so much! Growing up in the PNW with my bedroom balcony at the back of a hospital helipad , mom had a scanner cuz the neighbor and good friend worked as a dispatcher and we would often get the calls between the hospital and various helicopters working in the area. Nothing but respect.
Great team effort all round. This clearly demonstrates your level of training and professionalism to your speciality and DAMM, that pilot handling was silky smooth. Great job 103.
To all who work in search and rescue jobs like this you have nothing but my respect.
Respect to these thoroughly professional life savers.
Thank you guys, that was all kinds of awesome. Not long ago there would have been no chance flying anyone in those conditions. Well done.
Missions like this have been flown for many, many years. I assure you that in the mid 1980s missions exactly like this were flown, but in the NO Auto-Pilot CH-113 Labrador helicopter from 103 Sqn Gander, NL. Entirely done by manual, hand flying with a weather radar and and a radar altimeter.
Man i cant get enough of your videos, it was a job i wanted to do but never could do it. at least this gives me an eye of some things i could have been doing, have to admit it looks fun
It can be a lot of fun. It can also be extremely challenging and hard at times. Overall I am happy with where I ended up.
@@mattfrom103 That's what i was thinking hard challenging but fun to learn at same time. Thanks for posting the videos !
QM2 has a top speed of 31 knots. In this case, the ship would have turned north from its usual route, to intercept with the Canadian Air Force, due to the range of the helicopter. The ship has a very detailed procedure to deal with such medical situations. We witnessed such an evacuation on a trans Atlantic crossing.
Matt, excellent work and excellent camera work. I hope your subs go through the roof as this is terrific content. As ex-RCAF…Bravo Zulu!
Thanks. I'm just doing to share what we do, not for the subs.
The transition from VMC to IMC particularly with Helicopter operations takes great skill and professionalism in the Air / Sea Recue environment
We practice it a lot both in the sim and real aircraft. It is a very scripted procedure.
@@mattfrom103trust the instruments
Another highly interesting vid, thanks! I see in another comment you mention a night op coming soon. Looking forward to it. Curious about something…you detail your transition away from the ship and comment how serious it is. I would have thought this would have been the easiest part. Just move sideways then up and away. Keep ‘em coming.
Anytime you transition from looking at outside references to looking at inside instruments can cause 'issues'. There is also a change in attitude from about 7-9 degrees nose up to 2-3 degrees nose down. This can all play tricks on the human vestibular or somatosensory systems. These tricks are commonly called 'the leans', 'black hole effect', and others if you want to google them.
So it's not overly hard but the seriousness of it also comes from the proximity to the water. Not a lot of room for error.
I wish more informative videos like this about our Armed Forces going about what they do in this style, no bravado, no fake drama, just doing what they do so that folks can see that these men and women don't sit around BS'ing and drinking coffee all day... and playing euchre. I also appreciate the note about the three service people doing exactly what you folks were doing but never coming home, kind of grounds the video story, did for me anyway... BZ and long safe career.
Great job guys. Fly over my house every time you leave gander and go east
Nice report. Impressive.
Note on teak wood pointer. No cruise ship has original teak on the decks .
Teak is so expensive and must be minimum of 100 years old to be come good teak.
The decks are made of clever glued layers with slivers of teak.
Interesting video, thanks. I used to work on cruise ships and have seen a couple of these while onboard.
Stop bragging about yourself mr show off 🙄🙄🙄
@@AwesomeAngryBiker lol I see where you get the angry in your name.
I grew up in the PNW near the mouth of the Columbia , no joke out there. Not a very cozy place. ( unless maybe you are a fish or a gull. )
Any chance we can hear the audio between the pilots, the crew and sar techs ?
In one of my next videos you will. Unfortunately I only figured out how to record audio recently and have about 2 years worth of video without it.
@@mattfrom103 Amazing work you guys do. Look forward to next video👍.
In weather that most people would want to curl up in bed and wait for it to blow over - they are out there like it is just another day at the office. These are exceptional humans...
I assume you changed the brand of SD card you’re using for video storage. 😢
Is the ship found by GPS coordinates or is it transmitting a radio beacon, sort of a temporary NDB, to be located in such fog prior to visual contact?
@peterp696 All large ships broadcast something called AIS. It gives position, course, and speed. The helicopter, however, does not have a way to receive that data.
Instead, we rely on the ship to tell us the information via radio and then, when in closer range, we will primarily use our radar. Our radar will tell us how far the ship is and what bearing. We can't get closer than 0.25nm with our visual contact.
I've got an upcoming video that will show the radar when conducting this style approach.
RCAF and Coast Guard 2 of Canada's national treasures, hope you all have a peaceful and merry Christmas and a happy 2025
Yeah yeah mr show off expert bragger 🙄🙄
If that was July 2023 I was onboard the ship when this happened
It might have been actually.
Enjoying your content, but I'm biased. I fly in the same areas as you in much older machines, and with a lot less technology to support the flights.
Different machines, different jobs I guess. It is nice, though, being able to fly in just about any east coast weather without fearing for your life.
Stop bragging about yourself mr show off 🙄🙄🙄
wow
Can you imagin.... it took the government, what, 20+ yars to buy, not buy, buy some and then buy more? Ministers of Duh-fence~
Do your home work son…Queen Mary 2 148,500 gross tonnes
and 80K tonnes displacement, which is what I wrote.
That’s a big chopper
It is quite large. I'll try to video a walk around of it at some point and put it up.
Respect 🫡 for your service and selfless duty to help those in desperate need.