Let's talk about the approach: actual landing isn't an issue.
There isn't a windsock, but give the benefit of the doubt and accept the approach is into wind.
The landing-on direction is dictated by the loading zone.
Ideally, I would have looked more at a curved approach with the final turn into the landing configuration as a much more measured and controlled manoeuvre.
As shown here, even allowing for the camera angle, there seems to be a period where the 212 has gone beyond a sideways and into a backward component flightpath. That, and the lateral rolling and nose down pitch to induce a reduction in groundspeed indicates an approach which
could have turned pear shaped, but was well controlled. Apart from that, normal stuff!
I'd hazard a guess that it is one of Alpine Helicopters 212s, and once this thread comes to light then the YouTube may get pulled even though it has been there for 7 years! Hotdogging these days is almost guaranteed to get caught on camera; what we used to do/get away with is fortunately lost in the mists of memory cells, so let he who is without sin cast the first stone
