AH-64 Apache Pilots Train in our Backyard

[@daver7465]

Wow that's awesome, your own personal airshow!

[@trvman1]

I the one thing I noticed in this video is the grass for that landing strip looks better then 70% of homeowner lawns I see :)

[@BoBo-SpackleMunkey]

I flew 64s A/C models out of Ft. Hood we had agreements with some of the ranchers out in our Western Training Area- WTA to use their land with prior notice / coordination...we always gave them a good show🤜🏼🇺🇸🤛🏼🫡

[@SchubertTech]

That would explain how the grandfather knew when they'd be there.

[@DoYouLikeThisName]

Old 15Y here. This reminds me of FARP training

[@Account2-g3d]

Has anyone ever refused to let you land on their property?

[@Chris-hw4mq]

Meanwhile the arab neighbours be like: ohh no they found us again

[@Cuties-o7w]

There's no ft hood dude

[@sturvinmurvin9408]

If the pilots ever get to see this thank you for giving us all a fantastic show, must have been amazing to see in person. Been around them a few times and I've always been impressed. The entire rotor system is incredible. A beast!

[@mcembuff]

Very cool! The last run at 10:47 must have been amazing to see an AH-64 Apache buzz over you lol. God Bless our service members!

[@Orca19904]

It's amazing how precisely they can maneuver that thing, between the skill of the pilots and the technological sophistication of the aircraft, it truly is an incredible achievement.

[@mikeschlup5279]

It takes hours to learn to fly these things...I did the simulator...it was HARD!..never mind the weapons systems

[@Orca19904]

@@mikeschlup5279 And being able to do all that in a combat environment where you're having to avoid enemy fire as well.

[@dpjim-q2w]

Awesome love it my son just got selected to fly the ah64 fort novosel

[@mikeschlup5279]

My son in law is an Apache I.P..I got to try out the simulator...it was hard

[@michaelparedes165]

Awesome brother

[@saqibsultantemuri2437]

this one 8:00, just WOW! seems like they are practicing to duck under the Radar. Love it!

[@jamesmedlin8552]

That was freaking awesome! Those guys were putting on a show! They’re probably some awesome dude’s or dudets.

[@TheHurkulez]

7:18 Apache's combat range is 260 nautical miles (about 300 miles or 481 kilometers). With a full combat load, a fully fueled Apache can remain airborne and on station for 2.5 hours.

[@sharonbraselton3135]

Thatscright

[@tacoenvy]

Extremely awesome video, excellent filming and excellent sound, this is gold for Aviation enthusiast.

[@asw850]

That was really cool and so very fortunate to have these guys drop in for a visit with an AH-64! Awesome stuff. Thanks for posting :)

[@MaistoHelix]

Your piece of straight grass is very tempting to cruise along :-)

[@toxicgracie3772]

😂

[@tbp1256]

so so you just documented some thing that happened to me when I was a kid I had just moved to North Carolina. I hadn’t been there a month and one morning. I went out for a walk down our country road out our house behind the back of our house and I heard the thing coming and he came in over the trees just like that and he ducked in this little clearing right in front of me in this big field on our property, it had the big radar on the top of the propellers and he ducked his helicopter down below the tree line and turned the helicopter around helicopter. The pilot looked at me, and when he did, the gun turned on the bottom with his head, it was the coolest thing that I had ever seen, and it looked just like this video right here!!!! thank you for filming a memory that I’ve had in my head for many years. I got to live it again. What a cool feeling thank you so much.!!!!

[@brutusmuerto]

Awesome Apache footage! Thank you!

[@xCAPTNxBACONx]

Main takeaway here: Always keep your yard mowed, ya never know...

[@mattmartian1658]

Right. I'm bad at yard work. They fly over my house all the time. But never stop. Lol

[@joshstarrett9931]

The housing authority has new gear I see!

[@MattWillisVideoProductions2023]

That is absolute hellfire Nick! Being able to see them up close like that and the way they can move them like they do!! Thanks to her grandad for his service! Good to see y’all still together too!

[@antonfarr781]

What a Great Post That is the Sight and Sounds of Freedom!!

[@mickeybowmeister1944]

What freedom?

[@JasonJimmy14]

Confined area operations by the looks of it.

[@SchubertTech]

My son is a Warrant Officer in the US Army and is training to be an Apache pilot at their training school (it's in Alabama I believe). Super cool to see this video and thank your grandfather for such a cool opportunity to see Apaches in action. Well, non-kinetic action. Having served, and being in Afghanistan for 3 years, it's very impressive when an Apache reaches out to say hello with projectiles :)

[@dpjim-q2w]

Nice congrats my son is there now his class got pushed to may

[@zexcthd5519]

tell him to check out DCS in his free time. Its not really a "simulation" but its as close as domestic market comes. It had the AH-64D in it with everything you can think of such as Fuel pages, turning on auxiliary fuel tanks, arming the APU to star up, letting INS systems align etc.

[@SchubertTech]

@@dpjim-q2w Is he waiting until may for Phase 2 of flight training?

[@fujiman4286]

Its an honor to know your GFs grandfather, in a roundabout way, is still helping to keep us safe and free!! Thank him for many of us!

[@chuckriggsjr.6021]

Very cool. Up close n personal. They train in the black hawk over our place. At the tree tops. On had a few apache's fly over. Great camera work. Thanks for sharing. God Bless all of our service men n women.

[@stevenm6592]

I was an old 67N Huey mechanic in the 80s. I am still amazed when I see helicopters fly today as when I first went to school down in Ft Rucker Al for training. An to see what those guys can do with them.

[@thunderdrummerdude]

The Apache attack chopper is still one of my favorite aircraft in our armed forces. It’s such an advanced aircraft that pilots have to have so many hours of flight time to even qualify to start training to fly it. Awesome video! 👍

[@speedfiend74]

Wonderful...thank you for sharing!

[@itaclips6698]

So badass! No other way to describe Apaches!

[@ChangingAperture]

Absolutely incredible pilots! Wow!! Glad they’re on our side!

[@helopilotr]

8:21 The wave haha- That's just awesome there :D

[@spaghetti9845]

nice catch!

[@landykid]

the last pass is absolutely amazing

[@makertime6296]

Wow! God Bless all our Men and Women current and past.

[@makertime6296]

@@TFT-bp8zk Pretty obvious to 99.99% of folks I was referring to our soldiers in uniform. Lay off the Cool-Aid bud.

[@greenbeenie2]

@@TFT-bp8zk WELL HE PROBABLY ASSUMED THAT PEOPLE READING HAD TWO BRAIN CELLS TALKING TO EACH OTHER AND WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT HE WAS REFERRING TO MILITARY PERSONNEL. STOP BEING A DICKHEAD

[@Hunk-x8i]

I can watch this for hours. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[@NSBlack_Stallion]

It takes alot to hover that well for that long. Impressive pilot. Have to constantly work the cyclic to keep it stationary.

[@nobodyinparticular83]

Not unless you have balls of steel. Then it's pretty easy

[@Tel864]

Not really, civilian pilots do it quite often on some jobs.

[@NSBlack_Stallion]

@Tel864 How often have you done it? Better yet, when have you seen a cyclic being used to hover? In other words you’re full of it.

[@NSBlack_Stallion]

@@nobodyinparticular83 LOL! Cant argue that. He must have been working that cyclic like a gyroscope at a bowling alley.

[@NSBlack_Stallion]

@ No kidding. I didn’t say whether anyone could do it or not. I said it’s not easy, takes skill. Ever watched a pilot working the collective, the cyclic and his feet in unison to compensate shifts in wind, keep steady height, control static turns and a shifting center of gravity, etc etc? Takes a lot of skill. And what crop duster uses a helicopter? In a hover?

[@bigcountry5045]

OK .... THATS JUST TO DAMN COOL .... ID HAVE TO MAKE A SIGN TELLING THEM THANK YOU FOR THE SHOW !!!!!!

[@eustaceomalley6071]

Only thing more comforting than air support from an AH-64 to an Infantryman like me was an AC-130.... These guys always were there to support us.

[@ericanderson8965]

When i was in the FLARNG our Apache squadron used to make approaches like this on an automated unprepared field like this in North Florida. It was cool to see the field lights kick in when the pilot keyed his UHF radio!

[@SK-bb1lc]

Glad to see you post stuff after 6+ years

[@martinf1736]

Put a big white H on your lawn and invite them in for tea😅

[@IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-q1b]

Don't forget the bbq

[@asiangaming8409]

You mean a beer

[@J-Justice666]

Rotor wash knocks out the mic every time he flies over. What a trip.

[@judyeason299]

OMGOSH!!!! What a beautiful adventure right there. You guys are so lucky.

[@theoriginalcripster]

03:45 even the windsock is watching. Awesome!

[@miskaknapek]

Really great video - almost meditative. Many thanks for posting it! Whenever I'll need to relax my head (I code too much) I'll watch this :)

[@CVSiN]

Wow what a show! love that so much..

[@Zv021-1]

Would be nice if one day, he brings his buddies over.❤

[@Hazen75]

The sound of freedom!

[@Slingertronic]

Beautiful lawn, awesome show!

[@gray011170]

That would never get old. And I know the grandfather gets a kick out of it

[@randyc6912]

Practicing setting up target runs by using cover then using a hole in the cover to pop out, lase target, fire and move.

[@randykelley6826]

One of my 2 favorite sounds while serving in combat in Afghanistan. The other was the A-10 Warthog.

[@Skiman21632]

Man what a treat. Thanks for sharing this video I'm an aircraft enthusiast also an intermediate RC pilot. I have a good friend who flew the Boeing CH-47 Chinook.

[@daz3331]

We used to get them sometimes 2 at a time very low over our house in Skriveri Latvia. Admittedly not that close to the ground though

[@madyogi6164]

Pilot: Excuse me sir, have you ordered some hellfire? After UH1, 2nd characteristic blade/engine noise.

[@vinny6935]

This is awesome!! I would love that - thanks for sharing the video!

[@rileywhittenberger5258]

What an awesome experience...

[@J_JetClips]

This is super cool I love videos like this

[@cornbread83]

Thanks for the video, that was gnarly.

[@joshstarrett9931]

Have they ever landed and talked to you? That would be AWESOME!!!

[@ejm57301]

In the National Guard we'd use some peoples private property to train on, with permission... sometimes that permission came from a grandson that didn't tell grandpa about it. :) It always worked out.

[@robsmith7681]

This is awesome. Pretty jealous. We have the Huey fly over our house all the time from yankee air museum, and I love that, but this is super cool. 💪🇺🇸

[@JAT_4321]

This is absolutely awesome!

[@mpmassacre91]

Ill never forget as a kid i was standing in a parking lot with a field flying an rc plane and i heard a helicopter coming and it sounded low so i did one more loop with and and landed the ah64 then came into view he was getting lower and lower as he got closer slowly and the dork kid i was started waving all exicited he went past and spun back around but faster then shot climbed high so fast then went almost vertical leveled off did a few more fly arounds came in and gave me a thumbs up greatest day as a kid.

[@Mike-zi6dy]

Lucky guy!! It was one of my first models i built when i was a kid. Kuwait-war. 💙💛 from Sweden

[@iamReddington]

Holy crap, that is AMAZING!!! I'm so jealous.

[@Jvoid-l8g]

I like that fact the backseater waved at you guys

[@weaponsman217]

That’s the pilot lol

[@GodOfWar221]

@@weaponsman217negative, The pilot is the front seater. The backseater is the WSO (weapon systems officer)

[@rangercameron]

@@GodOfWar221actually both are pilots and both have a set of flight controls, but generally speaking the backseater is in the pilot station and the front seater is in the CPG (co-pilot gunner station).

[@bernardanderson3758]

I hope The training continues in your backyard as a DZ ,,,❤ ARMY AVIATION

[@rpearce18]

Wow, I live in a rural setting in Southern England and these lovely aircraft fly and train over my cottage at 200 ft. That's nothing compared to this video. Wow, wow ,wow😮😮

[@tjtjtjtjtjtj]

That's awesome, I miss being a crewchief for that machine. Most will never see it

[@dslife1]

That’s awesome! Gives me goose pimples 👍👍

[@jimmyworthington1676]

That is some bad ass flying!

[@ErikBjork-y6l]

Awesome,great video any more.

[@rancherodave]

I work right by ft knox and they have a airfield with a air unit that is mainly black hawk’s. Some weeks back there was a c 130 practicing touch and go’s. Must have been doing them for an hour straight. Pretty cool to see such a big bird land and take off numerous times.

[@SchubertTech]

same here. I live next to March ARB and C-5s, C-130s, F35s can be seen at random times doing touch and goes.

[@RadoLex]

Beyond amazing, what a treat.😊

[@american_chevy616]

Beautiful lawn

[@rdh72]

It would be nice to see them land and spend time with y’all.

[@1bullrider2]

This would be so awesome. I love the fighter jets and helicopters I’ve passed so many hours playing flight simulator games for this helicopter. Thanks for the video.

[@tomkeating65]

He was probably getting his hours in for takeoff and landings. You know, qualifying.

[@jsmith198095]

I can’t even fly worth a darn on battlefield 😆 but this person straight up can fly

[@georgetincher7859]

Hey, I'll make one of these on my property if Apaches and Black Hawks will use it!

[@LatitudeSky]

It worked for the cargo cults, why not?

[@ChrisLewisBRAVO2]

Hometown is about 45 minutes away from what used to be Ft Rucker. These and Blackhawks were somewhat seen or heard on the regular. It’s been years since tho…

[@spaghetti9845]

thank you for sharing this with us

[@mikemuppet3807]

if no one has noticed but over the past 6 months the US DOD has been doing a lot more urban training compared to the past 20 years. Protocol usually enforces the law about urban training in populated areas so this is a bit troubling.

[@fergieferguson2457]

I live near Shiloh national battlefield in Tennessee they were doing this cpl times a month.landing taking off and parachute jumping repelling several different kinds of big choppers..

[@micky3554]

Very cool

[@johnlocklear]

That's confined area training. When I was getting my helicopter license I had to hover/land in between two basketball goals at an outdoor park.

[@madcatmk213]

what a huge backyard you got!

[@JimWalkerMusic]

Used to see them boys all the time when I lived in Daleville

[@andrewkinsey8754]

In Britain, a back yard this size would make you royalty

[@IndifferentLynx]

They have those in great britain?

[@Detect-Oregon]

Lots of royalty in the US… lots of spaces like this privately owned throughout the nation. The benefit of being a young large country I suppose.

[@dethiusa2591]

I miss my army aviation days. Small troops so everyone was really close regardless of rank.. the smell of jp8, the sound of turbines whining up🥲

[@jonathanbell7752]

One hell of a leaf blower come autumn 🍂 🍃 🍂

[@TamasLaszlo-83]

Amazing!

[@RohitGurung-v4t]

Big fan from Talchowk Lekhnath kaski Nepal. ❤

[@floridaboy3891]

My old man was on the ground level of the Apache development at Lockheed Martin. His job was to operate the shop queen. This was basically the nose of the helicopter in his office. He could trouble shoot or reproduce issues with the TADS / PNVS systems and come up with solutions. Now to your back yard, one of the tricks they do is hide behind trees and other items then pop up long enough to survey the battle field. The systems can identify 16 targets, rank them by threat and calculate a fire plan. Then they pop up again and up to 16 targets have a very bad day. So they train to find and maneuver into places they can hide. Crazy to think the plans for that machine were developed in the late 1970s and it is still the deadliest helicopter in the world! TADS Target acquisition and designation system. PNVS Pilot night vision system,

[@banzaiib]

Tell me you're working on your pilot license? Also, very cool and thanks for sharing.

[@crafty714]

Absolutely AWESOME!!!!

[@alexblack6421]

“Low Rider” playing from Apache

[@Ros.A314]

Awesome man!!

[@GHOST-A2CO]

absolutely beautiful! 💪

[@rfd339]

Grandpa... can I go play outside in the yard? Sure. Just let the Apatchies play too.

[@Dgadude]

This is amazing! Can you give us the backstory on why they are training here? Didn't know they were partial to using private civilian ground but this is fantastic. Can I come to your backyard? Lol

[@C-141B_FE]

Bad Ass what a privilege. Hell yes!

[@hearshot187]

@Nike, so what's the back story to this event? Did the Army ask him if they could come and practice here? Can you give us a little more detail on the story? This was awesome, good camera work man! Thank you for not adding music to this video... My dad was a CH47 pilot and he would come by after his deployments and give a little airshow on his way back to the base. Your video brought back some memories.

[@Q_82]

cool :D I Love the Apache