Like Low Flying????

[mike furline]

Not sure its fair to compare Tallman's billboard stunt with the low flying chopper dude. Tallman was doing his job, being paid to look dangerous, and he had a split second to kill himself. Chopper dude gave his self a chance to die about every five seconds through the video.
Still its all fun to watch.

Steve G

Is it possible the helicopter pilots were doing thier job and being paid as well?
How many chances to kill one's self does it take to go from a "thumbs up" to a "thumbs down"?

Regards,

[bipe215]

Three

[mustangdriver]

I think there is a huge difference in making a low pass, and dodging trees.

True, but I'm going to guess this was a pre-planned flight. Maybe a company demo with test pilots???
It seems that the camera angles may also have played a part in making it look more dangerous than it already was.

Regards,
Mike

Camera angles can only do so much. A low pass straight and level flying runway heading is not as dangerous as dodging trees, high angle banks at high speeds and low altitude. Camera angles or not that was some hairy flying. And as someone that used to work with the B105 that is something I would not want to be doing in that helicopter. I am with you in saying that this looksl like a planned video put out maybe by the military. As for the B-25 take off in Catch 22 that was also dumb, but this is worse. It is cool though, I will give the guy that.