I have ridden in UH-60's before. That is a BIG helicopter trying to land on a 'picnic blanket' on a bucking ship in a stormy ocean. Even attempting this landing is heroic and this guy nailed it. Naval aviators are a different breed.
I've lived through this as a passenger on a Sea Lynx, landing in weather like this on a German frigate some 26 years ago. Watching this brought back the cold sweat of that moment.
Rough seas and “£#@& where do the helipad go, it was around here somewhere?” Then do it without emitting signals (so you aren’t discovered by the baddies).
@@valentinursu1747That’s more true when there’s recovery mechanism that requires those two individuals to run out onto the deck and attach a cable to a messenger cable from the helo, where the messenger cable carries a static charge that requires grounding with a wand on a cable…where if the messenger cable touches either one of them first it could throw them overboard.
Incredible display of skill and precision! The crew handled that bad weather landing like true professionals. It's amazing to see the capability of the MH-60R Seahawk in such challenging conditions. Huge respect to the Danish Defence for their expertise and commitment. 👏🚁
You realise this is the north sea, there is always land within 1 to 2 hours flight on helicopter, they obviously had enough fuel for a few more attempts on landing and to go back on shore if needed?
@@TheGrundigg Sorry mate I thought this was a military exercise where sticking it was absolutely required. Didn’t realise there was an easy go home option in the North Sea. Go hard or go home I suppose! 🇦🇺
@@vr46go87 I mean it still can be a military exercise and sticking it was absolutely preferred but every aircraft operation has a back up plan, there are very rare situations where you can't back out, and those are usually due to poor planning.
Not in that sea state. Winch can yank as the ship moves, destabilizing the helicopter. Also need to consider wind. A sudden gust can throw it around into the hull of the ship. The pilot also needs to be able to rapidly abort and ditch if something goes wrong.
Well this looks like a perfectly safe and easy thing to do! Pretty incredible skill! So many shoulders of men as brave as but not as lucky as them to make this even possible. Thank you to those who protect and defend!
I participated in one of these from the aft observation portal over 1MC. Our flight deck was smaller and the 60 had to angle at around 45° for the tail to touch but it worked. I was impressed.
Fantastic skills and courage. I must think what I saw on TV in 1977, a Lynx from the Dutch navy makes a rescue landing on a loose oil platform wind force 11, on the north see. Waves from 11 meter, amplitude 22 m. The pilot was able to get the same cadence and put it down, a I thought on the highest point.
Ive seen this done in similar conditions on a US Navy Cruiser. We used RAST system (cable that helps pull the helo where it needs to be ) which helps a lot. Does not appear to be used here
The RCN developed a device that literally winches the helicopter down onto the deck, the helo lowers a cable which is then hooked onto the beartrap and then winched down relatively quickly! I’ve seen helicopters land in the same condition and worse on the Canadian ships. All the time securely fastened, then the mechanism brings the helo into the hanger.
The Canadian Tribal class destroyers had a "beartrap" to land choppers in heavy seas.i believe it was a landing deck winch to manually hook on to a chopper and then winch it down to the deck securing it.
So I've seen it before where there's a cable that is attached between the helicopter and the ground, and in the ground, it's only sort of trolley, and it sort of moves around. And when. activated, I believe it slowly pulls on the cable and then it pulls the helicopter to the exact middle of the landing area.
And here I am offshore and our BARS standard wont allow landings if the heave rate is more than a meter per second . We get stuck out here for days on end after crew change date waiting for weather to be like a summer pond , this is very rare . These Navy pilots show what possible ...
I think the system shown is called harpoon or something.. the Canadians use something called Beartrap, the US uses a variation of Beartrap called RAST. I believe the Japanese also share it with the US and Canada. Not sure what Australia uses. These types of systems have been around since the 70s in various forms. This is something that helicopter pilots in a fair number of Navy's around the world are capable of and have done. It is impressive to watch but not as uncommon as folks might suggest.
The system used is called Decklock. After landing, an arm extends below the belly of the helicopter and engages a round grid with lots of holes. The Roal Navy used this on Lynx and presently the AW159 and Merlin HMA.2
But I heard that the light Airborne multi-purpose system could land on the ship in the state five storms, that's pretty severe light Airborne multi-purpose system working with IBM avionics dedicated 25000 square feet to develop the anti submarine Advanced Warfare capability for the lamps it was an incredible revolution in anti-submarine Warfare but the greatest thing about the lamps was its ability to track and Target enemy submarines, and they Bragg that it was able to land in a state 5 storm that's a lot of pitching
Royal Canadian Navy pioneered the bear-trap hauldown system with testing commencing in the early 1960's. They then improved it to also perform handling of the helicopter after on the deck by providing track channels for the whole beartrap device to pull the copter into the hanger which expedited the whole manhandling process of folding foils and moving the then 9 ton Sikorsky in heavy sea states.
I guess the idea is to time the landing. Either when the ships pitches down or up. Cause there is a short window each time the back end goes up or down enough to land it before the ship changes its pitch.
I can tell this is very difficult to achieve. I am French, I served during my military service on ship pretty similar to this one and assisted helicopters to land. In bad weather conditions, it was sometimes unpossible.
Bad weather !!! most navy's wouldn't even attempt this, I suppose it wouldn't even matter if it ditched because the pilots massive balls would keep it afloat
If your navy operates in the north Atlantic on a regular basis like the Danish, Norwegian, Canadian and Royal Navies you pretty much has to learn to operate Helis in those conditions, outside the weather around Antartica at the capes, it has the worst weather in the world
The Canadian navy has been landing helicopters in similar conditions since the mid 50's BUT: with a bear trap hauldown system they invented for the job. Watching helo's landing on a pitching deack without a hauldown device is nerve wracking for the viewer. Can only imagine the concentration and reflexes required while on the stick & pedals.
@@bambangl I used to hang glide, and I often wondered if it would have been as much fun if it wasn't dangerous. It would not have been so exciting, painful, or occasionally (but always someone else) fatal. But it probably would have got overcrowded at flying sites, as it did a bit with the appearance of paragliders.
Great video! May I kindly request your permission to include this clip in my upcoming episode? Full credit will be given in both the video and the description. Thank you.
I find it interesting they’re communicating in English and not Danish. I know English is the official language of aviation, but I didn’t know it extended to the military as well as international flights.
Ouf ... juste incroyable et ... stressant. Bravo le pilote de l’hélicoptère et celui du bateau. Merveilleux exercice de coordination. Bon ... je vais vomir maintenant ...
"So Pilot DAF, during a hurricane, on the high seas, when do you go up, and when do you come down?" Pilot DAF: "Well, it really depends on how badly I need to pee." 😑
This is spectacular! Is the pilot first flying next to the ship in order to spot the size of the incoming waves? Did the pilot really say "hold by coffee while I land this baby on the deck?"
I have ridden in UH-60's before. That is a BIG helicopter trying to land on a 'picnic blanket' on a bucking ship in a stormy ocean. Even attempting this landing is heroic and this guy nailed it. Naval aviators are a different breed.
I've lived through this as a passenger on a Sea Lynx, landing in weather like this on a German frigate some 26 years ago. Watching this brought back the cold sweat of that moment.
Feels like the real heroes are the 2 guys sitting on a deck next to a spinning blade over which they have no control.
@@حسن_يا_برو 🤡🤡
Rough seas and “£#@& where do the helipad go, it was around here somewhere?” Then do it without emitting signals (so you aren’t discovered by the baddies).
@@valentinursu1747That’s more true when there’s recovery mechanism that requires those two individuals to run out onto the deck and attach a cable to a messenger cable from the helo, where the messenger cable carries a static charge that requires grounding with a wand on a cable…where if the messenger cable touches either one of them first it could throw them overboard.
Incredible display of skill and precision! The crew handled that bad weather landing like true professionals. It's amazing to see the capability of the MH-60R Seahawk in such challenging conditions. Huge respect to the Danish Defence for their expertise and commitment. 👏🚁
That helicopter is entirely too overladen by the weight of the pilot's balls.
Best response ever! :-)
But the ship was stabilized by that of the two crew members that were on the flight deck, looking at the flying guillotine.
Brilliant
Nah. His balls are made of titanium not steel.
heliicopter wasnt even moving. only the ship was
That helicopter crew is beyond professional- they’re certified badasses!
Hoping YT comments get creative in 2025 tbh
@@DelcoTrash i dont think so :)
It demonstrates European Professionals. The greatest place on our beautiful ocean planet. # HeroesAtSea.
@@blueocean2510 Sounds racist
Truth! complete bad asses! Any landing is a good landing.
I was holding my breath for this.
That crew was either eating warm stew that evening or at the bottom of the ocean. Not many jobs where the options are so far apart. Respect.
The thought of missing out on that warm stew was the lure to nail that landing!!
good on them, i'd be eating saltines and gingerale in those seas. and tasting them twice.
You realise this is the north sea, there is always land within 1 to 2 hours flight on helicopter, they obviously had enough fuel for a few more attempts on landing and to go back on shore if needed?
@@TheGrundigg Sorry mate I thought this was a military exercise where sticking it was absolutely required. Didn’t realise there was an easy go home option in the North Sea. Go hard or go home I suppose! 🇦🇺
@@vr46go87 I mean it still can be a military exercise and sticking it was absolutely preferred but every aircraft operation has a back up plan, there are very rare situations where you can't back out, and those are usually due to poor planning.
A free-deck landing without a stabilizing winch cable is a high skill evolution. Well done!
Perhaps a Talon assisted grab?
I searched to see if somebody could guess why they didn't use the winch
@@youtubeaccount9058 I would presume that a winch would be a bad idea when the ship is bobbing up and down that much.
Not in that sea state. Winch can yank as the ship moves, destabilizing the helicopter. Also need to consider wind. A sudden gust can throw it around into the hull of the ship. The pilot also needs to be able to rapidly abort and ditch if something goes wrong.
Very impressive. Perfect landing without having to be winched to the boat. That right there is skill.
Now THAT is some skillful flying. ✊🏻
The pilot is well skilled. That was butter landing, and it deserves a page in all helicopter user manual.
Well, if there's one thing Danes know, it's butter.
@@hoilst265 And collaboration.
That’s not a “bad weather landing” in The North Sea, that’s just Tuesday.
Yeah, and he did the exact same thing in the afternoon. Twice. Welcome to naval aviation !
North sea thursdays tend to be worse but not as bad as saturday mornings.
Ur life in pilots hands😢
Damned that is a crazy good pilot!
The two guys on deck guiding it in are also clearly blessed in the big balls department.
Either that or it's punishment duty. "Hans, you screwed up. Go get the yellow flags."
@daven1719 😂
det må være svært at flyve sådan en helikopter med løg på størrelse med kokosnødder.
Crying Freeman Jeg tror de har savet noget af stolen af så de kan være der.
Onions! Hahaha
Today I learned that in Danish balls are referred to as onions.
Respect from Greece.
Ddghjjhfddyhjj
Intense.. most intense thing I've seen on the internet in a while. 👏
I cant believe this only has 750k views! Timing those swells is absolutely incredible talent!
How this hasn't got a billion views is beyond belief
the bulk of folks only care about meaningless things in a 12 hour window,
it's less stressful for them
No Kim Kardashian or KardyB or whatever the kids watch these days.
you need to put American or something in it to get tons of views and " best in the woooorld, meeeerica"
Well this looks like a perfectly safe and easy thing to do! Pretty incredible skill! So many shoulders of men as brave as but not as lucky as them to make this even possible. Thank you to those who protect and defend!
All without a Beartrap hauldown device !!
Great flying skills to our Danish allies 👍 Semper Fi
they use the decklok system, with a harpoon under the heli
@@licencetoswillI wasn't aware this helicopter was set up for that. Thanks
Without something on the bottom to lock it down they would have had to send a crew out to strap it to the deck.
I participated in one of these from the aft observation portal over 1MC. Our flight deck was smaller and the 60 had to angle at around 45° for the tail to touch but it worked.
I was impressed.
Sure you did
Deck crew gets brass balks award.
Great pilots make great landings...
Bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!...
🙂
From Brussels, with Love....
Extremely well done.
Unbelievable. And that final touchdown was so tight!
That was more exciting than any action movie I’ve seen 😮
Fantastic skills and courage. I must think what I saw on TV in 1977, a Lynx from the Dutch navy makes a rescue landing on a loose oil platform wind force 11, on the north see. Waves from 11 meter, amplitude 22 m. The pilot was able to get the same cadence and put it down, a I thought on the highest point.
That friend who doesn't slow down for you, so you have to jump through an open window.
There is a software to synchronize helicopter to the movements of the ship. It is called Helicopter Ship Board Landing System.
Ive seen this done in similar conditions on a US Navy Cruiser. We used RAST system (cable that helps pull the helo where it needs to be ) which helps a lot. Does not appear to be used here
The real big balls here are the crew on deck with that happening right in front of them!
The RCN developed a device that literally winches the helicopter down onto the deck, the helo lowers a cable which is then hooked onto the beartrap and then winched down relatively quickly! I’ve seen helicopters land in the same condition and worse on the Canadian ships. All the time securely fastened, then the mechanism brings the helo into the hanger.
The Canadian Tribal class destroyers had a "beartrap" to land choppers in heavy seas.i believe it was a landing deck winch to manually hook on to a chopper and then winch it down to the deck securing it.
Big respect... That is a brave and skillful pilot, that's for sure.
So I've seen it before where there's a cable that is attached between the helicopter and the ground, and in the ground, it's only sort of trolley, and it sort of moves around. And when. activated, I believe it slowly pulls on the cable and then it pulls the helicopter to the exact middle of the landing area.
And here I am offshore and our BARS standard wont allow landings if the heave rate is more than a meter per second . We get stuck out here for days on end after crew change date waiting for weather to be like a summer pond , this is very rare . These Navy pilots show what possible ...
WoW!👍 What a landing, Salute to the Pilot and his Crew 👍🇮🇪
Incredible Skill! That's a well worked up flight Crew right there!
Amazing graphics 👌
How come there's always some young prick who wants to make an ignorant smartass comment? Can't you just admire this?
Amazing this helicopter even can takeoff with the pilots massive balls of steel
Lovely piece of aviating
Balls that big I'm suprised he could take off
Pilot: Captain, can you please run into a couple more of those big waves?
Pilot to Co-Pilot: Good call on getting the wiper blades changed.
I love watching professionals accomplish the impossible.
I think the system shown is called harpoon or something.. the Canadians use something called Beartrap, the US uses a variation of Beartrap called RAST. I believe the Japanese also share it with the US and Canada. Not sure what Australia uses. These types of systems have been around since the 70s in various forms. This is something that helicopter pilots in a fair number of Navy's around the world are capable of and have done. It is impressive to watch but not as uncommon as folks might suggest.
The system used is called Decklock. After landing, an arm extends below the belly of the helicopter and engages a round grid with lots of holes. The Roal Navy used this on Lynx and presently the AW159 and Merlin HMA.2
But I heard that the light Airborne multi-purpose system could land on the ship in the state five storms, that's pretty severe light Airborne multi-purpose system working with IBM avionics dedicated 25000 square feet to develop the anti submarine Advanced Warfare capability for the lamps it was an incredible revolution in anti-submarine Warfare but the greatest thing about the lamps was its ability to track and Target enemy submarines, and they Bragg that it was able to land in a state 5 storm that's a lot of pitching
At least Western Nations do practice it commonly, others not so :)
@@LyonPercival You think there are naval/military forces anywhere that operate helos but don't practice landings?
Royal Canadian Navy pioneered the bear-trap hauldown system with testing commencing in the early 1960's. They then improved it to also perform handling of the helicopter after on the deck by providing track channels for the whole beartrap device to pull the copter into the hanger which expedited the whole manhandling process of folding foils and moving the then 9 ton Sikorsky in heavy sea states.
I’d say that’s a deliberate exercise..the ship is still going very fast. If it wasn’t an exercise, it would slow down to make it easier.
It says in description they were testing landing capabilities in rough weather
The slower the ship goes the less stable it becomes in both pitch and roll.
Hard to tell in those conditions..the ship appears to be moving fast because of the conditions possibly...
I'm amazed that bird had the lift capacity to carry that pilot's enormous cast iron balls.
I think my stomach would prefer to stay in air than roll around on that sea. Amazing skill.
I guess the idea is to time the landing.
Either when the ships pitches down or up.
Cause there is a short window each time the back end goes up or down enough to land it before the ship changes its pitch.
Pilot: "experiencing moderate buffet!"
You can kinda tell by the slight strain of the voices on the radio just how fucking tough this landing is!!! Props!!!
Honored that I was able to do that but I wouldn’t want to go back to it!
@@MAXIMUMF ?
I'd go back in a heartbeat if they let me. I really miss it.
I can tell this is very difficult to achieve. I am French, I served during my military service on ship pretty similar to this one and assisted helicopters to land. In bad weather conditions, it was sometimes unpossible.
That is almost (but not quite) into pick a moment and hope for the best territory.
Very professional. Awesome skills.
That pilot got some big waterproof balls.
Bad weather !!! most navy's wouldn't even attempt this, I suppose it wouldn't even matter if it ditched because the pilots massive balls would keep it afloat
If your navy operates in the north Atlantic on a regular basis like the Danish, Norwegian, Canadian and Royal Navies you pretty much has to learn to operate Helis in those conditions, outside the weather around Antartica at the capes, it has the worst weather in the world
I was thinking the exact same thing, lol
Dude has balls of steel..... amazing skills.
@@bentalexranebundgaard4867 USN and USCG do this stuff too. Northern Pacific is every bit as bad once you pass about 38 north.
That's not really true at all. Look into various "bear trap" systems for landing helicopters on ships in rough weather.
Nicely done Denmark, respect from Poland.
Amazing. Nice edit also.
The pilot must be like: if there's another time, I'm outta here.
The Canadian navy has been landing helicopters in similar conditions since the mid 50's BUT: with a bear trap hauldown system they invented for the job. Watching helo's landing on a pitching deack without a hauldown device is nerve wracking for the viewer. Can only imagine the concentration and reflexes required while on the stick & pedals.
Amazing. Hats off to all involved (but I do think they should invest in some better windscreen wipers)
No haul down device? Damn!
...and the Danish pilot didn't even break a sweat!
No no no no no and no!!!
Massive respect for what these aviators have to do.
Just unreal.
Fly by wire has taken the fun out of flying...see how steady the helicopter was even in severe turbulence, absolutely amazing.
You mean taken the fun out of dying..? 😆
@@bambangl no, taken the fun out of surviving!
@@bambangl I used to hang glide, and I often wondered if it would have been as much fun if it wasn't dangerous. It would not have been so exciting, painful, or occasionally (but always someone else) fatal. But it probably would have got overcrowded at flying sites, as it did a bit with the appearance of paragliders.
Absolutely amazing skill and self control
me trying to parallel park while someone's waiting behind me: i can't handle this pressure
That’s one hell of a landing.
Great video! May I kindly request your permission to include this clip in my upcoming episode? Full credit will be given in both the video and the description. Thank you.
nah man,that's just another day in the office for the sons of vikings
Magnificent maneuver.
Maybe a beartrap was used??? There’s a break in the vid between the heli hovering and it shown on deck.
Now try and do that at night with just pan lighting, very dangerous, been there done that as part of deck crew RCAF on HMCS Halifax in the 90s.
Sound track should be playing ACDC's Big Balls.
That sole windshield wiper made the difference.
I’m surprised that chopper could fly at all with the forward CG those pilot’s cast iron balls caused.
Holy smokes...what a pilot!
Incredible. Great job. 👏👏👏
Stringfellow Hawke would even have found that challenging.
Hats off to that pilot.
That’s the easy bit. Now the pilot‘s gotta get out and walk across the deck!
Could we get another couple wipers please
That is a truly great pilot.
Now that's a landing worthy of applause.
I find it interesting they’re communicating in English and not Danish. I know English is the official language of aviation, but I didn’t know it extended to the military as well as international flights.
superb landing and team work , 🥸🤓,Canada
Ouf ... juste incroyable et ... stressant. Bravo le pilote de l’hélicoptère et celui du bateau. Merveilleux exercice de coordination. Bon ... je vais vomir maintenant ...
I’ve done this on battlefield. It’s easy you just line up where you want to land and hold s.
_To any who wonder:_ A ship not moving in choppy seas may pitch and roll more severely than a ship moving at a steady pace upwind.
except only the helicopter was not moving and only the ship is moving
Literally not one person was wondering.
@@johnnyjericho8472 first comment
I’m a landlubber and I was wondering thanks.
And then the thousands of cold-blooded landings we never see.
"So Pilot DAF, during a hurricane, on the high seas, when do you go up, and when do you come down?" Pilot DAF: "Well, it really depends on how badly I need to pee." 😑
This is spectacular! Is the pilot first flying next to the ship in order to spot the size of the incoming waves? Did the pilot really say "hold by coffee while I land this baby on the deck?"
Awesome 👌
RESPECT. 👍🙂✝
Her: « Hey babe, my parents are off-shore tonight »
Me:
Pilot is smooth operator...👌
How do u even practice that
I was on the edge of my seat the entire time!
quite a pilot !
I shat my pants just watching this, amazing piloting skills!