Combat-Helicopter Pilot Rates 8 Helicopter Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

Moral of the story: it can’t be realistic if Dwayne Johnson is in the movie

This lady is so charismatic, I'm sure the helicopter she flies generates lift by pure respect for her alone.

In every helicopter scene I'm amazed at how quiet the helicopters are and how the passengers can have a conversation without having to yell.

What a professional pilot! No bullshit, clear explanation. Awesome!

"If there is a helicopter helicopter dogfight, something has gone DRASTICALLY wrong."" Classic!

I was in a documentary with Vernice and met her at the Pentagon (when we were both still on active duty). She is the most motivational person I have ever met, and I feel enriched from having met her.

Black Hawk Down is as real as it gets for helicopter scenes. Those were actual pilots from the 160th SOAR flying and real Rangers from 3/75. She was right about how slow it shows them spinning, in reality it was a lot faster. Mike Durant said they started spinning instantly and so hard that they couldn’t even reach up to shut the engines off to eliminate the torque. The ground and sky just blurred together from how many G’s they were pulling… Highly recommend watching his interview on Jocko’s podcast

I was there in 1993 during Gothic Serpent while in the US Navy. The movie portrayed exactly how things happened except for two things. 1. The US Navy's and Marines involvement. 2. The protracted acting within the movie to extend the scenes. The crashes were practically on point to what I saw, heard and seen during and after.

“Sometimes we couldn’t carry a full load of fuel because of a all the rockets and missiles” is one of the coolest things anyone has ever said

I like the way she explains everything so clear and simple, easy to understand even the Physics behind flying a helicopter. Please bring her back for more videos like this.

That helicopter from "Spectre" is an MBB just like the Red Bull-helicopter and it can perform the exact same maneuvers. The only other helicopter to do such maneuvers is the Lynx.

Man. NOTHING escapes her attention! That analysis is great stuff. Wow. Much respect. Total respect.

The Redbull helicopter was indeed used for shooting that scene in Spectre.

Woooow, I’ve served her at 2 different restaurants in Atlanta. She has this same energy in person, a pleasure to be around. Never even knew what she did until this video.

Thanks, Marine, for saluting the Tuskegee Airmen with your jacket in this video. Great heroes all!

Engineer here. A few corrections here For the james bond scene, there are two wrong points. 1- you dont HAVE to load the rotor unless its a semi-rigid rotor. She's flying a Super Cobra and what she said applies 100% to that as mast bump is a pretty a quick way to go down. But on a fully articulated rotor (like on AH-64) or a rigid rotor system (like BO-105) CAN handle zero or even negative G loads no problem.. 2- While most helicopters CAN unload the rotor, its a bad idea from controllability perspective anyway, without any net lift from the rotor, a helicopter (with a single rotor) has no roll and pitch controllability. That is why helicopters do BARREL roll. You can't do normal roll on any helicopter because helicopter with a single rotor has no means of directing lift asymetrically same way a fixed-wing aircraft does.. But every helicopter, even semi-rigid ones can theoratically do barrel roll with different risk factors involved. Stupidity of the plot aside, barrel roll with a BO-105 is not only 10/10 realistic, its so easy and they probably did without any CGI effects with the same helicopter they've already rented. Also at 6:22, those are LAU-61 rocket pods. They don't carry 26 rockets, they carry 19. For Rambo, they've modded a Puma helicopter to look like an early variant of Mi-24.. Because it was 1980s they couldn't just rent a Mi-24 from Soviets.. After Jumanji, IMHO this scene was the most unrealistic one in whole series. If a Mi-24 took-off with intent to hunt a UH-1, it can carry up to 4 R-60 air to air missiles or depending on variant, 4 or 8 Igla-V air-to-air missiles. and since UH-1 in the movie don't carry flare dispensers, chase would end before it begins. Even with the shown loadout, a Mi-24 will have 4-barrel Gattling gun with 1400+ rounds at its disposal. Puma in the scene don't have gun, or lets assume gun is out of the question... AT-2 missiles at wingtip pylons are SACLOS guided so can be used againist helicopters. Even if for some reason, Mi-24 pilot wants to use rockets, in the movie he carries 4xUB-32 rocket launchers. So he has 128 57mm rockets under his wings. He wouldn't fire one every 10-15 seconds... He would just spray those rockets onto the UH-1 without getting too close, watching those rockets fly and adjust his aim. Think about it; firing 2 rockets every half-a-second, he has more than a minute worth of firepower... Scene is very cool and amazing to watch because it was shot with real helicopters with zero CGI, but how real? Its still 1/10.

She’s very charismatic. Has a lot of personality. I really enjoyed it

"It probably would have burned up his legs." She's makin good points 😂

My dad was temporarily placed as a medic/observer on a UH-60 in Grenada during the peacekeeping operation after the Invasion, and during the flight, the pilot did a loop flying inverted. It’d sound like a tall tale, but we have a photo my dad took, sitting at the Starboard Gunner/Chief position aiming into the cockpit, and you can see clearly the tree line is upside down.

I had no idea that most helicopters were incapable of doing inversions. The way she explains it makes a lot of sense just never thought about it that way and you see helicopters doing crazy stuff like that in movies so often you start thinking that's normal. I've got massive respect for all helicopter pilots because you have to fly with both your hands and feet constantly.