widgeon, your correct, the full video does show jim having fun in sea state 3 or so!
where that video is, not sure
there are alot of scenes not on the video.
- 500 tailrotor / water contact, not good. summer charge on the oleos
- koala, tailrotor / water contact, even worse, little explosive
- but my personal favorite was gentleman jim, falling off the dolly, to one side, after test flight in the AS-350 and having the whits to gentley lift the ship back up and shut down. keep in mind he had the tri bag inflated, therefore nil downward vis. got my attention, i had visions of some "grey" blades splintering in my general direction
cal