Gnarly Hind Vid at Low Level

[VinRouge]

It seems the Russians like practicing their Operational Low Flying!

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=oOWK_1583608750


https://youtu.be/Js6DRlu51cw

[CAEBr]

Bit of understeer there :}

[dead_pan]

Thats absolutely criminal ... filming in portrait not landscape.

[WB627]

I once saw a Puma in LFA1 a bit lower than this. I was on the Bluebell railway and looking out of the window, I was looking down on the rota disc :ok:. Disappointed that I have never seen this again, although I was seriously cut up by one on the A26 just north of Nutley driving home one night :).

[Less Hair]

Seems to be some eastern passion. Have been on some freshly inherited East German Hip back then and they would never climb above treetop level.

[tartare]

What is it with MIL and those miniature cockpit fans?

[FantomZorbin]

... because he/she starts to sweat when the big fan stops:E

Hat, coat etc. ...

[Mogwi]

Reminds me somewhat of the road to Belmopan (look it up!) but we did that at 450 kts. Surprised the odd 4-tonner, as I recall.

swing the lamp.

Mog

[dead_pan]

I once saw a Puma in LFA1 a bit lower than this. I was on the Bluebell railway and looking out of the window, I was looking down on the rota disc :ok:. Disappointed that I have never seen this again, although I was seriously cut up by one on the A26 just north of Nutley driving home one night :).

I almost had a head-on with a Puma in my car while cresting a hill in Fermanagh back in the day. They don't mention that in the Highway Code.

[NutLoose]

Puma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roPrE_NJcoo

[NutLoose]

UH-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvKLcMwOg90

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I almost had a head-on with a Puma in my car while cresting a hill in Fermanagh back in the day. They don't mention that in the Highway Code.
There were some lovely roads in NI for low flying and I have had to pull out to overtake in the past - happy days (80s)

[Fareastdriver]

It's lucky this is on the Miltary Aviation pages. Were it on Rotorheads there would now be four pages of posts screaming about irresponsible pilots and dangerous flying!

[rattman]

It's lucky this is on the Miltary Aviation pages. Were it on Rotorheads there would now be four pages of posts screaming about irresponsible pilots and dangerous flying!


Dont let them see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0SN3tG4Atk

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It's lucky this is on the Miltary Aviation pages. Were it on Rotorheads there would now be four pages of posts screaming about irresponsible pilots and dangerous flying!
However, the UH1(205) video isn't military and appears to have pax (don't know if they were fare paying or not) on board.

There is a good reason military low flying takes place (even if some will kick the ass out of it - been there, done that) but civilians who want to fly like military pilots should join the military.

When you leave the military, stop flying that way - even I have managed to do that.

[ORAC]

Did someone mention a puma?

https://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c326/jvoc/Belize1_zps2ea3cda4.jpg (https://s30.photobucket.com/user/jvoc/media/Belize1_zps2ea3cda4.jpg.html)

[teeteringhead]

There were some lovely roads in NI for low flying and I have had to pull out to overtake in the past - happy days (80s) Conversely crab@, flying Walter into a head wind I once had a car pulling away from me in Norn Iron - it was a very sporty one through (the car, not the Wessex!)

[chevvron]

I went round the south east part of SPTA in a Puma with an AAC test pilot at about that height once; most exhilerating!

[Herod]

No vibration from the fuselage skimming terra firma. I know the Hind's got retractable gear, but to quote a late, great Wessex driver: "If you don't touch your wheels on the ground every hundred yards, you are not low flying"

[tartare]

Norn Iron - like that!

[ShyTorque]

In W. Germany (Cold War) our air control orders for most exercises (rotary wing) was not above 150 feet agl. We were allowed to fly down to 100 feet agl almost anywhere in the country in transit and down to 50 feet agl in an exercise area or anywhere else on detachment when the local commander deemed that crews were familiar with the local terrain. We regularly got "bounced" by the fast jet pilots who were normally authorised not below 250 feet agl. Good fun but it could be bloody dangerous exciting at times, especially when wearing that goddam awful AR5 respirator connected to the "hissing handbag" ventilator.

[Two's in]

One of our AAC pilots was tasked to fly a reporter for a monthly Defence rag around the Soltau Training Area in Northern Germany, the reporter was duly authorized Gazelle front left seat, duals out, so he could get some good pictures of the Armoured Divisional Exercise. Well, about 3 months later, when the article came out, there's the picture from the Gazelle cockpit, aircraft barrelling down a fire break with the ASI clearly showing 120 Knots and the RadAlt flickering at about 20 feet. That was long time ago but it seems the lesson about not capturing your misdemeanors on camera has not aged very well. The CO certainly had a view about the reputational damage!

P.S. The rule of thumb for low flying was height AGL in feet should never be lower than speed in Knots. Is that still used?

[Fareastdriver]

We threw that out when flying training on de Havilland Vampires in 1961.

[Mogwi]

First attack on Stanley airfield, 1st May 82 - HUD film showed 480 kts with rad alt flicking between 5 and 15 ft over the sand dunes. Climbing to 150' for the weapon release seemed stratospheric!

Swing the lamp.

Mog

[chevvron]

I once saw a Puma in LFA1 a bit lower than this. I was on the Bluebell railway and looking out of the window, I was looking down on the rota disc :ok:. Disappointed that I have never seen this again, although I was seriously cut up by one on the A26 just north of Nutley driving home one night :).
When I did a detachment at the old RAE site (OP3) at Larkhill, I was told to be careful at a certain dip in the road because at the bottom was a tank crossing and the tanks didn't give way, so going home one evening, I stopped and looked down to see two Pumas pass below me. On exiting the dip, I heard a strange noise from my car but decided to keep going to Bustard Gate before stopping to see what it was. I didn't need to stop because as I turned left to go through the gate, the Scout which had been about 2 feet above me came into view!!