Crazy Canadian Pilot Extraction in Afghanistan

From our archive, this footage appears to be early-Afghanistan and shows a crazy extraction of injured Canadians using a CH-146 Griffon. We don't have a whole lot of context other than what you see here.
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[@supersixbravo1610]

This is how our friendly neighbors to the north roll. They were really good in Afghanistan.

[@FatalShotGG]

The Canadians finished WW1 on Vimy Ridge so that alone speaks volumes to our capability! God Bless you bro

[@TheRealDemocat]

Canadian pilots are some of the best in the world, super underrated.

[@christophermaynard1902]

Patriots leave no one behind. God bless Canada.

[@MetaliCanuck]

427 SOAS most likely, my home town. I live right at the Pembroke Airport here in Petawawa, you should see those guys fly inches off a moving Tractor Trailer Rig setup doing I'd say 60kms/hr up and down the runway for Hours. Insanely skilled Rotary Pilots. The multiple videos I have of them doing this training day/night would blow peoples minds.

[@MrMAC8964]

post them

[@MetaliCanuck]

@@MrMAC8964 I really want to but I have friends and friends of family in that Unit that say I shouldn't because its highly specialized training for on the move drops. I was told its specialized training which also has Counter-Terrorism implications involved.

[@Skimer54]

@@MetaliCanuck bah, if its done in the public eye there aint no secret. Its Canada, we are good but we aint no top secret tactical strategy shit.

[@nataliiateteruk585]

Think about the wind push from flaps, even made that helmet fly away.

[@conniepr]

Wow! Amazing! Who filmed this? And who is it that has the gun? Friendly?

[@nadogrl]

“Who filmed this?”…Excellent question.

[@antongoatlord6860]

Wicked toe in & stabilization by that crew. Awesome talented true patriots y’all. Me nephew is on a Blackhawk crew in Nagoya Japan. God bless our troops. We had to do that a few times!!! Holy it was intense !!! Like a long shot of lightning ⚡️ surging through me soul n purging out everywhere!!! Runnin jug’s line seismic survey in N.western Wyoming 1987. We had Vietnam war vets piloting our 500 Hueys n the goofy shaped Sikorsky . Luved the job

[@paulvienneau]

As a Canadian, this makes me so proud.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@naughtachance3960]

Plenty of Canadian pilots can do that. At least the ones in Alberta and BC. You should see what they do with long lines !

[@ilsonilson7113]

Saw some impressive skills while working the seismic line crews in Alberta. Swinging the hooks under high tension wires to pick up bags of gear that thoughtless jughounds left behind.

[@doonhamer252]

We were picked off of a mountain by a Canadian griffin, when we got back to the base. When pilots pulled there helmets off and I nearly dropped as I'd flown with them often in civvy times, one had picked me off off log cuts on the Island and over near Golden often, toe in a skid on a stump, the other, Co, she'd flown me several times up in McKenzie Mtns NWT.. small world some reunion.. had a rematch at Canadian's hanger 6 months later..

[@jolufepi]

That's why I'm a proud Canadian. 👍🇺🇾🤝🇨🇦🧉🦮🐎⚖️🗽

[@dougmate2378]

Nice pinnacle landing

[@infinite9100]

Probably had a cold one in his hand and hockey night in Canada playing through his ears

[@davecass485]

"Here, hold my beer and watch this"

[@peterpaul7932]

yeah, i saw some austrian UH-1 pilots doing the same stuff like eye-measuring close to rocky mountains in the austrian alpines. trimming and fighting against upwinds and turbulences, sweating to hold controls over the helo - whilst having winterly temperatures outside. one can only imagine what balls of steel those pilots have. respect!

[@R3TR0J4N]

Damn they dont even let you do this on a game. What a pilot.

[@sakalaath]

Yes you can. Arma 3.

[@daveo2992]

Arma 1-2-3-4, Gta V

[@biIIybob858]

@@sakalaatharma controls are all wonky, you probably have to be as good as this pilot to do that in game lmao

[@sakalaath]

@@biIIybob858 I think the controls are pretty good in Arma 3, but sometimes the vortex ring state feels too strong. It has an auto hover feature that would allow almost anybody to pull this specific maneuver off, but I try to never use it. Otherwise it will be a crutch and I won't learn.

[@biIIybob858]

@@sakalaath they took me a while to get used to, maybe its a skill issue on my part lol

[@Nick-sz3wx]

Flawless!!

[@howardbellahjr]

Great pilot flying that bird

[@Fofoloncescu]

“If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers but a helicopter can land and save your life.” - Igor Sikorsky (Russian-American aviation pioneer)

[@Hitched14]

Canadians = savage warriors. Don't let recent leadership fool you.

[@dn2610]

Awesome video!

[@chrismair8161]

Balls out and Balls in Flyer! Good JOB!

[@JBirdBobbyJ]

This gives me all the feels

[@bourbonstjoeNOLA]

Nice on TacHel!!!

[@Stoney_AKA_James]

Damn good flying!

[@DH-.]

Hands of surgeon

[@baba6388able]

Nooiicceee and the ''Spa un doux'' i love it!

[@violakrone8429]

Forgot the guy who recorded 😅

[@DJ-jy7md]

Baller

[@Allen338LM]

The helo pilot is a stud holding thta still with that upwash from the cliff awesome

[@06fz1000]

Where they're at on that outcropping is several feet above the skids of the helicopter meaning they were just feet or less from the blades

[@mornbar1]

Steady hand and a lot of brass.

[@bandcookie88]

You always hear the jokes about troops getting OUT of perfectly good aircraft... I'm puckering diamonds just watching this!

[@sinistadropbear5257]

Awesome stuff 👍😎

[@adnanyousef2177]

You suffered a crushing defeat in Afghanistan

[@Anti-terrorist3112]

Yousef, the goats need tending , milking or whatever you do to them in the privacy of your bedrooms...

[@briankeefe6161]

Nothing crazy here if his rotor blades were close to a rock face than yes

[@TheBigbossjack]

dude that was freakin crazy!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

[@Jreb1865]

If you read some of the memoirs of chopper pilots flying in the highlands of Vietnam, this was a pretty standard maneuver in resupplying some SF A teams. It was the only way some could be reached...

[@ljt3084]

They had it a lot harder using the Huey model D in Vietnam. That was single engine and struggled at high altitude. This is a Bell Huey model N twin engine also known as Huey 2 EP or SP model. Greatly improved shaft horsepower and lift capability at higher altitude when air is thinner. Testament to those Vietnam vets. Really stable platform the Huey, amazing workhorse that proved itself in its infancy during the Vietnam war. One of the best stories is of the two Huey's that cut themselves a landing zone in dense bamboo trees with the main rotor and survived lifting out 50 grunts over several trips without the blades letting go & leaving the aircraft. The images of the battered leading edges on the blades says they should never have flown 10 feet let alone multiple trips to pick everyone up. Bell built a superb aircraft right from the drawing board.

[@Jreb1865]

@@ljt3084 That they did. I've always had quite the interest in Hueys in Vietnam, as my Father was a Dust Off medic there 64/65. It never failed to bring him back... I still have his painted up cue ball flight helmet...

[@ghostmedic86]

Good to see the Huey still being used.

[@bbarr69]

Ch-146 Griffon, not a Huey...

[@twa2471]

That's how she's done , in the A Shau Valley in Nam that was a common practice, because there was no other choice most of the time. If I could put up a picture here I'd put one up I snapped after an air assault on Hamburg Hill with our 2/ 17 pilots resting the skid on a blown off tree stump and us loading up while we were being extracted. A Cool picture of real war tactics,,,

[@kim-jong-poon]

that's the type of thing that if I saw in an action movie I'd think bullshit, No pilot would risk accidentally chopping up his comrades by getting too close like that. Happy birthday Ronnie 🎉

[@concernedcitizen2868]

nothing sounds better then a AH-huey. Not the F-36 not the -f-18 raptor ( might be wrong wasn't navy ) but Huey is a bad ass sound. HOOAH

[@lordlouis9931]

Underfunded but still badass

[@toktarsamykenov1697]

Good job.

[@italjahcorntrashroller]

Our conventional enemies are so F U CHD.

[@Sayrox-i5k]

This is a common maneuver that Turkish pilots perform every day when evacuating soldiers from the mountains

[@exporsps8159]

Let's go brothers

[@shadowbanned3716]

Good pilot

[@lukelyall5879]

Link?

[@Bronk0Nagurski]

Muthah Fuggin SKILLZZZ. Wow! That's what Im talking about.

[@lllllREDACTEDlllll]

Drop em back off! Someone dropped their NODs at 48sec.

[@christianchristiansen7117]

The same Way They steal a mountain near my house just for copper

[@Gsp_in_NYC]

no hoist?

[@Mephistopholies]

Damn LEDGEND!

[@mitalsardesai660]

Jeez....I hope the psychs back home can help. Crazy is not something I would like to have or be called

[@zleake000]

What a fucking pilot

[@spencergear]

Unreal we still use Vietnam helos

[@rayjay5836]

It isnt.

[@ХомячекГаагский]

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🖐️👍🔝💪🤝🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Craeshen]

Of course it'd be a dustoff flight from a damned mountainside in a huey.

[@saulvasquez6311]

👍👍👍💪💪👏👏

[@anthonyp.2492]

My God that pilot is the shit👍

[@kirleyx]

but... did he apologize? 🍁🍁

[@Jigger2361]

😂

[@vincentxavier1317]

👍

[@alperensanli96]

Every Turkısh pilots like him 😂

[@Anti-terrorist3112]

"Crazy Canadian " ..... aren't they all ???

[@ChalkyDisc]

Don’t make them like that anymore

[@SomeReefer]

I have seen a sea hawk do crazier!

[@hartman12349]

Hmm, I guess no one has seen rescue pilots in the Austrian Alps, this pilot didn't do anything exceptional or dangerous.

[@rayjay5836]

Lol right buddy, why don't you give it a shot.

[@shootstraight29]

Respect to those pilots, but I’m pretty sure they did not have the extra stress of getting shot out of the sky …. What a stupid comment

[@michaelpennell8863]

Why a Canadian Pilot? What in the world does he have business there?Guarding a poppy field for the cabal? Was this in the name of freedom? Regardless of skill please stop and ask these questions.

[@capnstewy55]

Slow clap

[@haileuropa3708]

What a fkin chad

[@ppstorm_]

fake

[@Ulnvtcydr]

Why is everyone amazed? It literally just hovered, not that impressive.

[@ljt3084]

Difficult manoeuvre at high altitude due to less air for the turbine engines. Reduced lift. The prop wash hitting the ground causes a disturbance back upwards towards the main rotor made worse by being a one sided prop wash, (drop off on the left side of airframe) It takes a lot of skill to hold it steady against prevailing winds rushing up the cliff face whilst loading passengers. Just 2 feet of lateral tilt from a sudden gust and the tip of the blades will either strike the ledge or the passengers entering the aircraft. Skilled pilot needed even with the use of the excellent Bell Huey N model twin shaft.

[@Ulnvtcydr]

@@ljt3084 hmm ok I guess it could be a bit tricky but it's not really some mind blowing feat as the comment section would imply.

[@rayjay5836]

@@Ulnvtcydr Oh and your a pilot.

[@HAWKSTA24]

Doesn’t seem crazy. Just seems cool pilot shit

[@69grandpa69]

calice

[@ryanchristopher2020]

Standing ovation for the pilot

[@sgtmilwaukee]

RAAAHHHHH🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🦫🦫🦫

[@fredbyoutubing]

The extraction is crazy but the pilot is extraordinary.

[@xMahaDMAhx]

Well said👌

[@sladeb6036]

Then what is the Cameraman?

[@JessePaiz-ys7kr]

Dont know much about pilots and aviation. Is this a real difficult maneuver per say to pull off? Thanks brother.

[@fredbyoutubing]

@@JessePaiz-ys7kr I wouldn't say I'm an expert but I'm pretty certain high altitude rescue is one of the most difficult things helicopters can do. In this case, if it moved a metre or two in the wrong direction, it could mean: crashing, soldiers falling as they try to get in0 or even chopping heads off and damaging the rotors...so also crashing.

[@JessePaiz-ys7kr]

@@fredbyoutubing Interesting. Thanks for the insight brother.

[@rmp5s]

That pilot...what an absolute legend...

[@covrtdesign5279]

I don't think people understand a few things here. To keep a helicopter in hover at this power is unbelievably hard, even as highly trained as this pilot is. To keep a helicopter in hover, at this power, AND keep it this steady, is amazing. The pilot cannot see where the skid is at all and is relying on his crew chief to guide him in, so their training together is exceptional. Also, the amount of wind and downforce being generated onto those men waiting, and then being able to load a casualty and themselves under that downforce is so damn hard, (I have had to do it and I have had it done to me in Iraq when I was hit) and these men made it look like a walk in the park. I think this pilots father was a huey pilot in Vietnam, and he had to show his father who is better! (Obviously a joke, this pilot is a beast!)

[@haredeenee]

didnt ask

[@DeNihility]

@@haredeenee didn't ask you to not ask.

[@golden4857]

​@@haredeenee I asked

[@covrtdesign5279]

@@haredeenee Didn't give a shit.

[@jamesoneill2606]

​@@haredeeneeI asked.

[@project_poor_runner]

Shout out to our Canadian Brothers who fought along side us in Zhari & out of FOB Masun Ghar in 2010.

[@tomdevine7395]

Incredible flying. Well done.

[@spingebill8551]

Throughout history, Canadians have proved themselves as some of the best greatest fighters in military history, from the Haidans, to our boys earning a fierce reputation in the world wars, to our efforts in Korea, to getting the longest sniper kills in the war on terror.

[@HaiLsKuNkY]

after world war 2 Canada had the second biggest navy in the world after the USA 🇨🇦

[@Victor_Victory]

They have been incredibly fierce and brave fighting as volunteers for Ukraine 😳🇨🇦🇺🇦

[@stevenbelanger7660]

@@Victor_Victory No just dumb enough to support your cause.

[@thiefsleef6752]

bro dosest know about Saudi pilots

[@Naiuhz]

​@@HaiLsKuNkYCorrection: at the end of WW2, Canada had one of the largest navies in the world. The current Canadian navy is a small shadow of its former self.

[@keeperofthelists4771]

Crazy Canadian?.... naaaa "Canadian who is an experienced pilot " we're not crazy🙄 who flys the beer in?

[@andrew0138]

I do not know how can this helicopter even fly with the weight of the pilots balls of steel!?!?

[@Ulnvtcydr]

Zzzzzzzz

[@covrtdesign5279]

He hung them out the left side so he could keep the right side that close and steady. What a beast!

[@JB-zu7qs]

Don't forget the crewchief that called him in...4, 3, 2, 1, hold hover. Awesome work

[@BattleChemist]

*Team gets backed against a cliff* "Ain't nowhere to go now but Down!..." "Nah, ya hoser... We go up, eh?" *In flies Helicopter Pilot with the precision of a neurosurgeon*

[@hellomyride7793]

Skills !! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🫵🏾

[@madshad3351]

Wow. Steady as she goes.

[@halninekay]

Hell lot of skill!

[@philchristmas4071]

Man, just a slight mistake and those blades are dicing meat. Great work by the pilot.

[@1982rrose]

Impresive job sir.

[@forty2_K]

Whoever piloted that chopper is a legend.

[@watdeneuk]

That's one hell of a beefy engine, carrying those pilots balls and staying airborne.

[@vahtikoira2125]

The UH-1N seen here has 2 engines with power to spare.

[@TundeEszlari]

Brilliant content, keep it up.

[@NightWarp]

fuck yeah, RCAF, get the boys home

[@ashab1]

Who are the guys filming, special forces? Silencers etc aren’t regular issue? One sounds English the other Welsh, looked like British camo too.

[@flyscye7565]

most likely CSOR or JTF2

[@pittsky]

Why are we only seeing this now FUNKER? :) Awesome.

[@SadisticKid.]

Nerves of steel

[@jimspear3033]

I've done this i n vietnam and in the sierra nevada's for drop off and recovery. Takes real pilot.

[@juicyj3819]

🇨🇦✊🏻

[@chaossix2391]

It's called a pinnacle landing, I had personally been extracted several times in this manner and as crazy good the pilots are, I still shit bricks each time.