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That is some amazing and scary rescue piloting

Yeah that was some amazing shit! Great flying!

Two things - how close did those blades come to the snow! And, what about the person with the camera?

EvieMiles : The person with the camera was left behind because they insisted on shooting phone video in portrait mode. Harsh, but fair.

dkronfeld :

HAHAHAHHA that'll teach him! But EvieMiles did raise a legit question and now I'm curious too. What about the camera person and how close were they when they filmed it?

That's probably one of the on-foot rescue teams. You can walk a rescue but you cannot carry an injured person around.

Most amazing to me is that the helicopter didn't blow up a ton of snow. The main reason to not do a rescue that close is to prevent that blowing around of dust and snow cutting of your visibility.

sjonsvenson : oh that's good to know!

I was on edge the whole short video. I'm amazed helicopter can even be balanced statically (not sure the right word) that way. Must take so much experience for that kind of know-how

It takes a bit of experience and a good auto-balance system. It also means the pitch of the blades needs to change every revolution so it puts a lot of wear on the mechanical stuff;

I'm wondering if the upturn at the end of the blades has something to do with why the snow wasn't blown everywhere. I don't know enough about the aerodynamics of it all.

sjonsvenson : I think it was more packed snow vs the fresher powdery kind. There doesn’t seem to be much blowing about.