Surfing USA

[udat]

I saw this and wondered if it was for real?

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/3707/

[Wanna-be]

yeah its real, i saw the full version on the television a few months ago. Pretty nice, big waves and great heliflying

[udat]

Well Im glad no one was hurt, it looked as though the surfer struck the rotor disc to me.
Must have been the effect caused by a telephoto lense compressing the perspective.

Thanks.

[Cyclic Hotline]

Just as well they don't have a tail rotor then.

Just another NOTAR safety example. Stick your tail in the trees, in the water, have mid-air collisions with surfers!

[rudestuff]

glad no one was hurt? that makes it sound like there was some kind of near miss - the Heli is obviously off the front side of the wave to get camera shots of guys jumping waves... looks cool to me!

[thepross]

The video clip was taken on the north shore Maui at a place called Jaws...The Helicopter looked closer than normal because the video was shot from the cliff, which is about 300ft high.

[Stan Switek]

In photography, the term is called "depth of field." The shot was from a considerable distance with a telephoto lens making the surfer & helicopter look much closer then they really were.