The Pas, hot and heavy Bell 205 start and take off

[@dashakuznetsov8566]

This guy is a boss starts her up with like 20 wasp in the cabin Didn't he notice them Great work awesome video I fly a Astar 305

[@jaritikkanen3958]

I wonder that wasp army too 🤔

[@B205Wrench]

The summer fire season up here in Canada is brutal some years. When the machine sits for 20 minutes, the horse flys flood the cabin and just hover around in the skylights 😂

[@eds6889]

Those are horse flies, not wasps. Also what’s an AStar 305? There are AS350s and AS355s but no 305.

[@leonardpodbisky6128]

Worked for Mid West Drilling in Manitoba years ago for a short period of time. Some of the jobs used helicopters to move equipment and men and some of those pilots were CRAZY. One was even a Vietnam vet and I swear to God he was reliving some of his exploits when we flew with him. I thought it was fun, others not so much.

[@martinsinclair55]

when u think about it they should be crazy just getting back from legalized murder

[@leonardpodbisky6128]

@@martinsinclair55 good point

[@bobbybabsonjr787]

Good old Bell bounce on start up, my father put me in right seat when I was ten to do an engine run at Davidson AAF, it was a Saturday, and he was the maintenance officer on weekend duty. No way you could get by with that today. Thanks for the video.

[@davidhames319]

Flying a helicopter is like balancing a broom stick handle vertically in your hand

[@HaskellMoore]

While standing on a beach ball. In a hurricane!

[@ats-3693]

@@HaskellMoore drunk!

[@kennethmccartney6468]

This will make sense to chopper pilots... " If you can't dance; you'll never fly a helicopter... 😂.. 6 control points...

[@jayeshkurdekar126]

You summed it up buddy

[@mrizwan9411]

@@HaskellMoore a good

[@Bat21bravo]

Martin Sinclair = Certifiable Badass >

[@rickbanet4830]

That tablet sure creates a heck of a blind spot for the pilot.

[@billyhillk5726]

Just don't text & fly 🕊️ lest you get ☠️

[@eds6889]

It looks like it’s in front of him but it’s in the centre of the aircraft. Like a low rear view mirror. You just need to move your head a bit to see around it.

[@heathermetz6576]

That was just so cool!

[@StoneCoolds]

The amount of flies in that chopper!

[@maxasaurus3008]

Bees!

[@gchyz]

excellent video... well done..

[@goapebilly]

awesome,but all those flies was making me crazy, couldnt imagine in cockpit with you

[@martinsinclair55]

As soon as the blades start turning they all just settle down somewhere and you don't see them.

[@goapebilly]

@@martinsinclair55 like to see more heli vids

[@shawnm4842]

the van off to the right gives me HTS vibes

[@kennethmccartney6468]

My time flying was mostly with Vietnam era pilots; amazing, and magnificent flyers..

[@briancooper2112]

Thank you for your service.

[@nickmaguire5104]

Fantastic video

[@ejschannel8912]

Way to go Sir!

[@michigannative2951]

@1:50 is start-up have headphones ready!. That’s almost the best part. No not really great video thanks for sharing it.

[@hgodtx]

Looks like you forgot to check the turbine cowling for wasp nests! They are not happy!

[@eds6889]

Horse flies

[@charliemarkovic4301]

I bet the pilot did some R&R in Saigon man!

[@martinsinclair55]

ABSOLUTELY NOT. I would never be a paid assassin for US gov. But I have been to Saigon several time as a civilian.

[@charliemarkovic4301]

@@martinsinclair55 HEHEHEHEEH Well, then you did R&R in Saigon!

[@timothydavison8767]

Holy Crap, you got old Marty

[@kekauhi808]

Those flies are huge!

[@martinsinclair55]

Yes. They settle down once u start

[@MyLongevityExperiment]

Bugs the size of Black Hawks!

[@wano]

provesional... salam indonesia..🙏🙏🇮🇩

[@sstrr9578]

Nice job!

[@macgfly]

Nice bird!!

[@JohnnysTrainVideos]

Looks like this guy has done this a time or 2...

[@kirtboswell4463]

Is there a bee hive in the cockpit? Anyone else see all the damn bees

[@eds6889]

They are horse flies. Welcome to northern Canada.

[@maxasaurus3008]

Bees?!? Are you kidding me?!? 😮

[@eds6889]

Horse flies, not bees

[@danielled8665]

The Pas? Hey that’s where I live now!

[@theirishman8356]

What's up with the bugs in your heli ?

[@joshuamoore24_7]

Probably why they named them choppers the huge rotor wash chop sound from the Huey helicopters and similar two main rotor blades style of helicopters.

[@scottlawson9206]

Are those BEES buzzing around in that cockpit???

[@martinsinclair55]

Flies

[@josephwilliams490]

I hope he had the checklist on his tablet. I didn’t see him using one otherwise.

[@billyhillk5726]

I used to keep my checklist low & around my leg on one of those little metal "clipboards". He probably had the checklist pulled up on that ipad at the lower part of the console.

[@jonasduvaldearaujo7463]

cheio d mutucas dentro do heli kkk.decolagem show!

[@janinsweden8559]

Westland Wasp helicopter ❤️

[@eds6889]

More like a HorseFly Huey

[@TheGeorgiaRover]

Question: shouldn’t you call “clear” before starting? Not trying to nitpick…genuinely curious.

[@eds6889]

Engine sound alerts people to a start. The blades start turning much later.

[@syoung6126]

Somebody needs to invest in a good flyswatter

[@luposolitario940]

ma cosa c'è un alveare dentro quel elicottero?

[@thedolphinDog]

Do you wish you were in Left seat?

[@robsteal3887]

Those are bees

[@eds6889]

Those are horse flies

[@aaronerskine3401]

nice

[@ocnblizzard4764]

I could tell you a couple of real stories firefighting, some pretty funny. And got to work with some real good men from Gypsumville MB. in some pretty big fires. Hard to find tougher work anywhere, try lugging 80 lb's hose 5km through muskeg on your back, sinking up to your waist, sometimes deeper, until you hit an underground sheet of ice, all while fending off hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes and horseflies in scorching heat, sweaty, dirty everything...every day for 12-16 hrs. But the evenings out in the middle of nowhere, with loons calling, sun setting across the lake is worth the price of commissary lol! And did I mention those fucking mosquito's, horseflies, and spruce bugs taking bites out of you drawing blood, them the big hairy spiders crawling in your mouth and everywhere while you sleep ha ha ha!!! But when the wind is right, the smoke helps keep the mosquito's from driving you totally nuts from the constant buzzzz. How can you not love it..."

[@martinsinclair55]

Yes, I was in Gypsumville last summer for the mop up, luckily for me above the swamp. When things were raging, I could see the smoke column from Swan River over a hundred miles west. Spider bites can cause havoc. One took a chunk out of my leg last year and I still have blood clots in that leg from the venom it deposited.

[@benjaminwilliams3987]

Man if he ever get stung on the hands or face someone in trouble !!

[@eds6889]

Horse flies don’t sting and only the females bite before the lay eggs. Hundreds of horseflies a day and maybe a half dozen bites a season.

[@Jimmythefish577]

So much for clearing the 100ft safety circle, with your enterprise rental about 25ft away….😂

[@martinsinclair55]

THE 100' SAFETY CIRCLE IS A GOOD THEORETICAL IDEA FOR CLASSROOM USE, but when u become operational and it hot and you're at the weight limit and u only have a limited area surrounded by tall trees to get out of, u need to use every inch of space and be into wind direction or you risk over-temping the engine, hitting trees on the way out or worse, over-pitching to avoid hitting trees and settling into the trees. This is a straight 205, right on the limits, non power to spare.

[@globalpilot76]

I'd reply but too distracted by laughter....

[@gjswilson]

That van seems to be parked unnecessarily close

[@eds6889]

It’s a rental. Probably there in support of the helicopter.

[@kathleenyurick3902]

I thought sure you would have more than one unwanted passenger.

[@timbeach2409]

There is enough flying bugs in the cockpit that you didn't need to start the engine.

[@martinsinclair55]

You actually can lift another 600 pounds with all the extra lift generated

[@antonichable4136]

Yo no me sube a una basinica de estás me da miedo que caiga

[@gadixH]

what with fly's dud ????

[@martinsinclair55]

Northern Manitoba. Once you start they all go to sleep.

[@albatrosnaval]

They pilot si Kiefer Sutherland?😄

[@i4dat]

Naw, that’s his dad Donald Sutherland for sure. 😊

[@globalpilot76]

I think I know that bird...

[@bogusharris]

guess he has done it long enough, doesn't need a checklist, or maybe they don't use them for helicopters

[@nankinink]

he has done long enough, there is a checklist for helis

[@martinsinclair55]

There is always a checklist but on single pilot aircraft rather than pulling out a plasticized paper most pilots have a flow they follow which covers everything in the cockpit. If you don't know if after 10,000 hours something is wrong.

[@marcochavez11]

Pilot invited a fly to fly with him and the fly will fly with all her family, you can see the fly flying on the left side of the helicopter cockpit and then the rest of the fly's family just flying randomly. Inches moscas volando a lo pendejo.

[@gdog1443]

A can of fly spray wouldn’t go astray

[@martinsinclair55]

As soon as engine is started they all settle down and sleep

[@bigdaddy3662]

Why is Santa Claus flying a helicopter?

[@joshuamoore24_7]

🤭🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🚁

[@eds6889]

Flies not bees

[@zekechen5442]

The venomous sweets booly prevent because cloud biologically beg of a super session. creepy, open case

[@eds6889]

No venom in a horse fly.

[@bobl78]

bees inside.. .potential for a crash

[@martinsinclair55]

Read the replies before you post. They're not bees

[@av8or971]

Whats with all the bees/wasps in there? Gonna be a major distraction on final whrn you get stung a dozen times

[@martinsinclair55]

Horse flies. As soon as engine starts they go to sleep

[@av8or971]

@@martinsinclair55 those were not horse flies.. they were wasps or bees. one flew by the camera.. they were not sleeping. They looked agitated, i suspect the rotor wash blew them out. But that woukd hurt getting stung several times in flight with no way to escape. Lol

[@williamscheper1354]

@@av8or971 those are flies I worked in paint lake this past summer and the horseflies would always swarm the cockpit but once the pilots usually start the helicopter up they disappear

[@eds6889]

@@av8or971really? You are calling the guy there day after day that he’s a liar? Learn what a horse fly looks like before you shoot off your mouth.

[@gho3tsoldier1]

try not to fall asleep grandad.

[@eds6889]

You jealous?