Agusta Westland AW139 Start up and Take off

A visiting Agusta Westland AW139 starts up and takes off from Modec Venture 11.
The start up was from cold, as such it takes some while to get going as all preflight checks are conducted.
Typically helicopters to offshore facilities do not shut down, with baggage and passenger transfers with rotors running.
This video was taken on board the Modec Venture 11 FPSO, some 200kms north of Karratha in Western Australia.
If you would like to see some more of the Modec Venture 11 FPSO, check out this video I put together;
• MV11 Clip

[@johnmarshall4442]

Worked on these in Prudhoe Bay Alaska for ERA helicopters . Just got a job working on them again for PHI , I like these machines . ERA had 4 of them in Alaska. 2 of them had the FIPS system ( Full Ice Protection System ) can't wait to work on them again.

[@sharipuckett6923]

I love 💕 this video, because I love Agusta Westland AW 139s and the Dauphin AS 365s.

[@RJM1011]

Beautiful helicopter thank you for the video thumbs UP. :)

[@housegregory15]

6 minutes for just a helicopter takeoff. GREAT.

[@junng6848]

Are you being sarcastic?

[@HELIPORTVIDEO]

Nice video!

[@pipinosymmetric]

Fantastic audio and an amazing video. Thanks a lot!

[@schnuurtchke]

Gréât sound from this AW139

[@qsdrfghgujfddyffguff]

Wow superb

[@toqirahmad7650]

Nice (from Bangladesh

[@skuy00]

Our new mdsp helicopters are aw139s, I miss the dauphins tho

[@nocalsteve]

Is it just me, or can you actually see the curvature of the Earth in this video when you look out at the horizon? Not side to side, but if you try to imagine the water in the foreground as flat to the horizon you can see that the horizon would actually be higher in the sky if the Earth didn’t drop away in the distance.

[@R2TurboR2]

I believe this is more so the effect of the (cheap) lens in use which creates a slight curve top and bottom when zoomed fully out, the effect lessens as the helicopter lifts off and the horizon starts to come closer to the centre of the screen.

[@maccas3037]

The workers: if you burn fuel you give us job. Lol

[@ramakantjathure6448]

How much price?

[@mr.sofiyan609]

Roter blades just look likes animation

[@augusto5658]

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[@lindy-annrechais7749]

cool I went on the s -76D in the NATIONAL HELICOPTER SEVRICE LIMITED

[@joekinze]

Hello, is it possible to use a few scenes from your youtoube video?

[@R2TurboR2]

From this one? No problem at all. Looking forward to my name in the credits. :D

[@joekinze]

@@R2TurboR2 Great thank you.

[@sterlingarcher1962]

@ 2:33 - thank god he remove those, could have been a disaster!

[@buz3toooor]

Why a disaster ??? We call them a chouks to stop the hello from sliding back and forward on the rige landing and takeoffs and the gays are waiting for the pilot signal to remove them and they are not allowed to remove them without pilots orders

[@sovietsymp803]

buz3toooor gays wow

[@luejhonaguiar9728]

G00d Money.

[@muhammadboota4395]

pl all the information about Aw139 in English

[@NguyenTan-cn7mx]

🎉

[@CesarGonzalez-vq2mm]

Los viajeros de este helicoptero ya habrian llegado a su destino montando en un autobus cuando despegaba 😎

[@CesarGonzalez-vq2mm]

Por eso yo voy siempre andando a todas partes 😎

[@habyss]

Why does it take so long to take off?

[@R2TurboR2]

I would guess there are quite a few pre take off checks that need to be done prior to take off. Temperatures, pressures, power levels all need to be verified and confirmed before they take off especially when starting up from cold. Taking off from a floating facility some 200km off the coast carries with it additional hazards that probably require even further checks and cross checks. Pretty much everything that is done prior to the wheel chocks being removed are start up check and tests. Everything after the wheel chocks are removed are pre take off checks until the pilots are happy and depart.

[@marshallallensmith]

Not sure about Bristows ops but I know that on PHI you usually have to get a clearance and set out your intentions so that should shit go down you will be reachable quickly. As far as pre flight checks on a 139 you and your right seat can get that done before you turn the rotors for the most part. These guys look like they are loitering waiting on a departure time or call.

[@skuy00]

habyss engine has to heat up

[@kwikenz1]

That's the shorter version... it can take anything up to 15 minutes with the full pre-start checks.

[@junng6848]

The pilot was waiting for you

[@sureshkilli56]

Hi

[@nooralam-ms8yw]

location please?

[@R2TurboR2]

This was on the North West Shelf in Western Australia. The facility no longer exists.

[@mdarifhossain3362]

hi

[@wassolldasalles8204]

So the fuel is empty before take off 😜😜😜

[@venkatarao1658]

Haa..Ha..Fantastic is your note. It c'd have been remained there... May b warming up..???

[@marshallallensmith]

Cool but it is AgustaWestland not 'Weyland' ;-)

[@R2TurboR2]

First and only person to pick it up in just under 3 years (Y)

[@marshallallensmith]

Well helicopters are in my dna so.... lol that is probably a side effect of sitting in the left seat of one for the better part of 15 years. Good on you for changing it. Most people just get sour if you try and help them out. Cheers.

[@alyssadannah5366]

Ayy Marshall

[@habyss]

Kind of risky having something that expensive on a platform over the water, no?

[@R2TurboR2]

Risks are managed, it's quicker than going out there by boat. (45mins compared to 38hrs). Every Oil Rig and FPSO vessel has the ability to land, refuel and launch helicopters.

[@briantaylor9285]

Rotor rpm: 1 bazillion.

[@arshadvlogs786]

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[@本田勇紀]

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[@venomsnakeYGBSM]

Helicopter desune?

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