Crazy Helicopter stalled turned while crop dusting over power lines

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This crazy pilot of this helicopter does a stall turn while crop dusting near Salem, Oregon.
Helicopter stalled turned while crop dusting over power lines

[@johnreggie1]

It´s not a stall, it´s a spray turn, fully under control, and designed to align the chopper with the next spray run so that full spray coverage is achieved. I sed to do this all the time.

[@equallywrong]

LOL. if a chopper could "drift" (like a race car) would this have been considered so? Seems to me he was being a little arrogant up there with his maneuvers.

[@johngnipper8768]

man it is cool

[@jfrancismacdonald2758]

@@equallywrong No, it's a "production" job, and while it may seem aggressive it's actually a very controlled manuever designed to keep the disc loaded and afford the pilot the opportunity to p/u airspeed before starting the next line. It's a basic procedural turn often repeated hundreds of times a day.

[@jManraM]

Are those sprays all toxic shit that can fatally harm animals and humans?

[@emerett2409]

Your life is cooler than mine.

[@davidcoblentz7468]

Pedal turns the best way to set up the next run in helicopter dusting. The pilot has smooth transitions and excellent handling skills

[@brucegranheim4267]

I sprayed with fixed wing aircraft when I was a kid but also have a helicopter license. It's a pedal turn just like others have said here - most effective, quite safe. I know this was posted many years ago but couldn't resist:)

[@probiethetank8825]

I bet it’s exciting to maneuver like that with aerial lines right there! I’m going to look into this. Nobody on board would complain!

[@bighueso2428]

Posted many years ago but people still watching

[@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13]

Yeah I'm no pro, that's for sure, but I'm slowly learning about helis and have had a few goes with my godfather on their farm down here in Australia. I'd like to get my licence some day soon though. I'm probably going to fck this explanation up... But it looked like a completely routine pedal manoeuvre from my perspective... And from what I understand, isn't the risk of stall when making a turn like that, when you overspeed the aerofoil on the exit of the turn through too much forward momentum? As opposed to a fixed wing aircraft, where the risk of stall is obviously from losing too much airspeed over the wing, as you make the turn and trade that forward momentum off in the rotation. He looked to me like he slowed it down and picked up his speed well within the margins and I wonder if the original poster thinks that he appears to be stalling because of the lack of forward momentum, which would be the very opposite of what increases the risk of losing lift. I'm probably not explaining that well. I dunno, never looked like he lost lift to me though.

[@matthewstorer8236]

This is how it's done. Great job! Excellent chopper pilot skills.

[@Mitch-rd9gs]

It didn't stall, it's just a turning maneuver they use to quickly turn around.

[@slikrhodez3336]

His job looks a lot more interesting than mine.

[@Hands4Surgery]

Where is the stall?

[@interstellarsurfer]

Beautiful work from the pilot and his machine. 👍

[@justacoupleofkids320]

Amazing that it’s profitable to use such an expensive machine for crop dusting…

[@davidandersen9186]

I've watched this 30 times...yet to see the stall....one more time and maybe I'll catch it....

[@XKclassHater]

That’s some insane skill…especially when shit can go wrong so fast if you mess up

[@truckerray7533]

These sharp turns are left pedal & right pedal anti-torque tail rotor turns. There is no stalling of anykind.

[@wesleymccurtain166]

It is not stalling, it is almost a hover and pivot.

[@brinsonharris9816]

Hammerhead stall for fixed wing. Saw a pilot do that with a brand new AG-Cat back in the days of 600 HP radial engines. He’s pull straight up after a swath run, kick the rudder just as he was about stall (full hopper was 350 gallons and about 3,000 lbs), then dive into the next swath run from that. Ag pilots are the best! Seat of the pants all the way. Never seen it done rotary wing-this guy knows his machine!

[@crazyralph6386]

Spray turns/hammer heads not stalls. Probably one of the most dangerous aspects of commercial helicopter work, as it’s almost always near power lines, tree tops, and in zero wind conditions(which is always early morning or late at night).

[@igvaneeden6529]

Whatever one would like to call it stall turn, spray turn etc, I know it as a torque turn, it is still an impressive very skilled manoeuvre. Appreciate it, as drones are taking over, crop dusting in aircraft and helicopters will become a lot less.

[@nocotton]

Most turbine agplanes carry a liquid crop protection payload of 500 to 800 gallons. A drone will never be able to achieve that.

[@rootsAlkebu]

@@nocotton you don’t think we have or can create unmanned aircraft that can do this? Come on now

[@nocotton]

@@rootsAlkebu Correct, I don't. Show me one that can carry that payload. It doesn't exist. It takes turbine aircraft with 1,000 or more shaft horsepower to carry that type of load.

[@ned_right3440]

@@rootsAlkebu I’m waiting to show him please I need to know 😊

[@WilsonZoneOK]

​@nocotton So, are you saying a drone will never have a turbine powerplant? There is no rule that says a drone can only use an electric motor. Most drones are small and limited on how much they can lift. Notice I said "most" and not "all." There are drones that can do some heavy lifting. As technology progress, we should be seeing more and more drones doing this type of work and then some. They have drones that can fly along the side of tall buildings to fight fire. Other machines do the most dangerous work for us. A drone able to carry that payload? It may not exist. At least, not yet anyway...

[@thedonleroy]

My neighbor had his own spray plane & sprayed his crops for years. One year he had troubles with his plane & hired a helicopter to do some spraying. My Dad & I stopped to talk to him & watch the spraying. My Dad asked him if he was going to trade his plane for a helicopter. He said "Hell no did you see the size of the rotor shaft? It's the size of my thumb. You couldn't pay me to get in one of those". This was 30 years ago or more.

[@badeugenecops4741]

Dude knows his shit.

[@2ndamendmentfanboy723]

No stall, just the way helicopters turn when spraying

[@flywayne9362]

Where was the stall ?

[@13snoopy]

Philip Casey, This video was not an example of retreating blade stall and retreating blade stall was not what the OP meant when he described the helicopter in the video as "stalling", i.e. like a fixed wing aircraft would stall. Helicopters do not stall in the way a fixed wing aircraft stall, and that is what the OP is erroneously conveying in the video.

[@ILSRWY4]

do you know the difference between a stall and a momentary hover? Helicopters do hover.. you know that right?

[@johno7858]

Ag turn...

[@patdenney7046]

More than likely under 30 years old what video games have taught our kids! I was amazed learning that the operators running crane helicopters for the power companies and they use three at the same time the oldest person Was 26

[@destroytheilluminati770]

i would imagine he is following a gps unit mapping his runs too. a few years ago we had a chopper hit powerlines with his tail rotor near Spring Green, Wisconsin and went down in the field, luckily he wasn't hurt too bad.

[@MikeBUSA]

It's called a wing-over. Totally normal.

[@robertkaspersr.1582]

This is mild. The fella's that used to do my brotherinlaws farm were all ex nam pilots and they would stand the choppers on end while getting lined up for the next pass. There were spraying potato plants and many times would come back with vines hanging on the spray boom. They used both bell-47's or the tomcat version of a bell-47 which has a very narrow cockpit rather then the big heavy bubble. Sadly many years later the fella that took me up for heck of ride was killed coming back to base after moving west. He missed a wire at dusk and it took him down. RIP Frank.

[@Swooop9530]

Not a stall, but pretty cool, huh! Pretty common to see jet rangers and ag trucks (airplanes) crop dust like this in farmlands.

[@Mikdeelow]

I saw a helo making turns like this once. He was spraying avocados next to my house; I was in my bedroom looking straight up out of the window. He was not more than 200’ up and I could see right into the cockpit. Crazy skills there!

[@geraldernst4794]

Nice flying!! Definitely not a stall!!

[@PiggyOinkenstein-ts4dp]

I saw one spraying several years ago doing the same thing. Couldn't help but think, "wow, that dude carries his balls in a wheelbarrow". ❗🤪👍

[@jamesdegraff]

Crop dusting is a blast to watch. These guys know low level flight.

[@JD-un2zv]

Crop dust exam question 1) You are hired to dust a rectangular field, do you A) dust in short horizontal lengths ... or B) Dust in long vertical lengths.

[@theratrace5826]

The derp is strong with this video title.

[@Defender78]

1:47 nice driving!

[@patdenney7046]

Drones and computers will be doing this job. The farmer will be able to do it himself this way

[@garydalrymple7308]

Great video. As others have stated, not a stall turn but a spray turn. Either way, the moment of the actual turn was obscured by other clickable video pop ups right over the image. Maybe it’s just my set up but one would think you don’t make a 3 min video of regular boring flight and cover up the actual point of the video with links to more videos.

[@coilmotorworks]

Doesn't that cause mast bumping?

[@JS-fc9ri]

I agree its not a stall. He is just spinning the tale around to make his next pass with the nose pointed to the ground. I see this all the time in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Indiana. It is amazing to watch and these pilots are very experienced. Plus balls the size of watermelons help im sure. 😆

[@peterrestaino7047]

ag turn, I used to have to install wet or dry systems in the morning on B206 and convert back to passenger config for sightsee ops in the afternoon. yuk

[@JBHRN]

Its actually a rotor-over... like a wing over, but since is a rotory-wing aircraft it is a Rotor-Over.

[@paladin0654]

Stall?

[@GabrielManzanero]

When did it stall????

[@BO-dc4xg]

Click bate? You can even see it because the stupid ads for other videos blocked it out. Other than that nice video of a helicopter spraying.

[@rockerpat1085]

That's How I Fly My Remotely Controlled Helicopters!!! Only Way I Know To Turn And A Lot Of Fun!!! So It Must Be A Remotely Controlled Helicopter!!! Just Really Big!!!

[@heliace]

Other than flying a bit too high and using too much pedal in the turns, there was no "stalling".

[@moviestudioland]

Click bait. But a nice video none the less.

[@inthend5]

He’s putting lives in danger I can tell you that.

[@jeremylakenes6859]

Part of me wonders... why not fly along the power lines?

[@sethmacdonald5725]

I think i know this guy, or at least someone crazier named Van... The man has no fear of the planes

[@BikZom]

you can tell he loves his job

[@Entity_BlackRed777]

The heck?!?!

[@Entity_BlackRed777]

It opened up the spraying thing at 1:06!!

[@douglasfesta730]

It’s an ag turn. You pull collective and at the top you use left or right peddle. There fun

[@cyrusumberger5285]

Gorgeous!!!!

[@larslake]

Where's the stall?

[@swigjd]

Nothing line the ads popping up at the end and blocking the best view of the turn.

[@jameskivel2982]

Cyclic climb and peddle turn.. Fun!

[@medajim9092]

just adding a little flair to his work. kudos.

[@TheTruthKiwi]

Wouldn't it be quicker and safer to spray the field lengthwise instead of across? He can't spray the edges anyway because of the lines. Dusting a field surrounded by high powerlines seems like an accident waiting to happen anyway.

[@gregbrooks3577]

That's time I'll never get back.

[@danfarris135]

Roger E Mosley approved. 👍

[@tedphillips7727]

Usually following a stahl you here a great load plop. This was not a stall. But fun to watch.

[@bradmoyer9737]

If you ignore the ignorance of the video title, it is a pretty good example of close quarters aerial spraying.

[@thatguy2133]

That is a tail rotor kick… required to turn around in a confined srea

[@bubaks2]

The thumbnails that pop up completely block the video

[@owainwright6055]

Generally called Torque turns in the eggwhisk community 😄

[@captainaxle438]

But why risk running into the power lines so many times? Why not just spray flying parallel to the power lines

[@ronfaria1882]

It's called an ag roll takes a lot of balls

[@claudehopper9813]

Avocado trees around here get sprayed from time to time I've seen the maneuver many times . I never considered this a crazy maneuver , just good piloting ?

[@michaelhancock937]

I didn't see a " crazy" helicopter or a stall.

[@thepilot9796]

actually its called a returned to target manuver.....used in the military

[@tylerw1418]

That’s a lot of pedal...

[@ShortysShadow]

That was 🆒️

[@JamesVonLindern-dt3wr]

I've seen that done in Vietnam

[@Imagineering100]

I don't think you want to stall a helicopter, but it is good flying.

[@farmboy694]

Seems like he's spraying pretty high vs an airplane ?

[@bronco5334]

If the forward airspeed is lower than the fixed-wing aircraft would use, you would need to spray from higher: you are putting down a less-dense pattern from higher, but you're also spending more time over the target because you're slower. The slower you fly, the higher you need to be (or the lower volume-per-minute your sprayer has to deliver) to get the same spray density on the target.

[@farmboy694]

@Bronco 53 interesting! Thanks for the detailed reply. Us fixed wing guys can be slow on the uptake ;)

[@funkyzero]

where is the "stall"? this is how it's done

[@theonlymadmac4771]

Clickbait - no stall in sight, just a turn

[@dave0mary]

I readily admit I'm an idiot - and I'm not a heli pilot. But, excuse me for asking - why not run PARALLEL with both sets of power lines???

[@MoOse9232]

You have to spray up-/downwind to keep your juice in a straight line. I think. I'm not an expert, but that is what makes the most sense 😊

[@bartdereu9267]

That and the fact that they always prefer to fly along with the way the crops are lined. it's easier to hold your heading when you see the crop line . (i think)

[@bevonostro................]

Just out of curiosity, has whoever posted this ever SEEN a helicopter fly? Eight year old clickbait...

[@FireVideos]

This was the first time I had ever seen one. It was incredible!

[@gernottimm4549]

There‘s no stall at all. Just hammerhead turns. No big deal.

[@karhukivi]

That is called a "torque turn", not a stall! Clickbait...

[@ThinBlueLineGuardian]

That is a Hammerhead, not a stall

[@alexkorzenewski4250]

The wing did not stall.

[@kikupub71]

Sometimes used in combat. Hammer head stall.

[@bronco5334]

It's not a stall. A fixed-wing aircraft would have to stall to perform a similar maneuver, but this isn't a fixed-wing aircraft. It is a helicopter. And the wings, IE the airfoils, IE the rotor blades, do not stall during this maneuver. They are producing lift the whole time. The pilot is simply tilting the rotor disc backwards to slow down, using the tail rotor to make a yaw turn, then tilting the rotor disc to provide thrust in the direction the pilot wants to fly.

[@user-wg3xw2kw8e]

Called an RTT return to target maneuver

[@georgeemmerich1485]

Not at stall. A quick turn and avoiding wires. Headline is for sensational purpose to get more views

[@nixxonnor]

It is a somewhat technically-ish correct title for fixed wing aircraft manouvers.

[@its4michael]

Not technically at all. The forward motion of a helicopter has nothing to do with it stalling. It's all about weight and how much lift each rotorblade is producing. Helicopters fly backwards and sideways yes?

[@nixxonnor]

@@its4michael I agree. I was actually thinking of the overall movement of the aircraft during the turn

[@jonnie2bad]

im no expert but seems like the smart thing to do is just fly parallel to the powerlines

[@mysock351C]

Got to see this in my back yard when a corporate helicopter broke out of the low-hanging clouds and fog and realized he was not quite at the municipal airport yet. Worked well to avoid the oak tree, and probably lucky the windows survived given all the rotor wash.

[@Militaryman64]

He's not crazy He's just a former OH58D Kiowa warrior pilot,,if you ain't cav you ain't shit.

[@jims6323]

If it stalled like that, it would be on the ground in 100 pieces!

[@RogerT_XRS]

Nice way to get people to watch it though.👌

[@FireVideos]

😉

[@rootsAlkebu]

@@FireVideos 🤣

[@stevensgarage6451]

I’ll pass on that job

[@mmafightergirl3155]

There wasn't any stall.

[@jamesmaseobrown]

Sham title

[@TheHounddog2343]

That’s 3 minutes of my life I won’t get back. Click bait

[@lcpeterbilt379]

i may be wrong but due to it not actually having wings, it almost impossible to stall.. only wings it has is the rotors.

[@bronco5334]

The rotor blades are wings. That's why helicopters are also known as "rotary wing aircraft"

[@lcpeterbilt379]

@@bronco5334 notice how i said "actually". i understand the concept. i was referring to the lack of airspeed in winged aircraft that generates a "stall". and if you read it again i pointed out that the " only wings it has are its rotors".

[@bronco5334]

@@lcpeterbilt379 But you're missing the point: the wings do very much have a lot of airspeed. Stalls don't care about the speed of the fuselage respective to the ground; they care about the speed of the wings relative to the air. The helicopter has wings, and the wings were not stalled.

[@lcpeterbilt379]

@@bronco5334 if you stop thinking you are smarter than everyone and actually read the knowledge you have is shared. you in fact have everything correct ,you are just rewording what i stated. i said nothing about anything other than the wings, you sir are not the smartest person in the chat. your only down fall is your lack of reading comprehension.

[@lcpeterbilt379]

@@bronco5334 i may be wrong but due to it not actually having wings, it almost impossible to stall.. only wings it has is the rotors.

[@UriahD85]

When spotters get all excited over nothing pfff