What have you seen from a helicopter

[oldmate]

In line with JCAT's thread, where have you been and seen from a chopper or plane? Was it money well spent?




Me.
Flew in chopper to Grand Canyon. Great flight, better than the 16 hour bus tour. Landed next to colorado river and flew back after stopping to refuel in the middle of nowhere. Flew over the strip of las vages at night on the way back.

Did helicopter flight on bathurst weekend in 02,  great view and follow a few cars around the track, shouted a mate with me. Well worth it.
Did sea plane flight over what is now a destroyed port villa. Good flight.

Done flights over blue mountains, though they were normally getting dropped out of a chopper for as a RAFT (remote area firefighting team) team with the NSWRFs. Long time ago now.

What have you done?

[Bird]

klms and klms of fire when we were airlifted out of the south coast fires years ago..
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[Clouty]

Went out to Whitehaven beach in a seaplane..
Spent about an hour on the beach then as we flew back to Airlie beach the pilot took us across few of the islands for look..

[Patr80l]

Bungles

[woftam]

Kings Canyon - couldn't be bothered walking it again. Very different to walking it but walking is free.
Way back as a cadet got a flight in a Huey - great fun.

[JD-120]

grand canyon. wow, that was awesome

12 apostles, again, fantastic

[StrvnMrvn]

Afghanistan, Oruzgan Province.

[Palmer]

Mitchell Falls area last year,
Around Hobart in a Huey many years ago

Now wishing I had done more...

[gclan]

Mitchell Falls and the Bungle Bungles in helicopters (best done with the doors off so you can lean right out for photos ). Absolutely worth every penny 

[Rumpig]

As mentioned in the JCAT's thread....did a flight around Ayres Rock, and The Olgas (back when they were called that) aswell as over Lake Amadeus also on that flight
Have also done a flight out at Longreach about 20 years ago which cost about $20 from memory, we just flew all around the general Longreach area looking for pigs etc, as we were going pig hunting the next day....lol
Not a helicopter but a plane....did a scenic flight about 2 years ago with the family at Birdsville out over The Simpson Desert, was pretty good seeing the sand dunes from the air and how they run parrallel with each other, a completely different perpestive from driving across the desert it was.

[olddigger]

Viet Cong.

(Was quite a while ago).

[rossm]

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.

Amazing

Used to be a bit cynical about the cost of helicopter flights but now I would do my best to take advantage of them.

Oh and RAAF Pearce back in the 60s in a Huey when I was in the air cadets.

Pilot thought it would be good fun to scare the kids. I loved it!

[rossm]

Oh and RAAF Pearce back in the 60s in a Huey when I was in the air cadets.

Pilot thought it would be good fun to scare the kids. I loved it!

[feisty]

500cc gp Phillip Island for work so they paid me......... tough gig.

[Tim - Stratford]

500cc gp Phillip Island for work so they paid me......... tough gig.

Fair bit of the 90 mile beach (RAAF SAR chopper) and a bit of the local towns/foothills and High Country (Air units). All work related. I got to go on the High Country flight as the boss went a couple of weeks earlier when all the alarms and lights started flashing.....he felt reassured when the crew advised him they still had one engine...... he wasn't keen to go again 

Tim

[feisty]

Nice work Tim
I got the the trainee pilot getting up his hours for the most part.   To finish off the day we did a lap of the island at about 50m above the beach. Absolute hoot. Felt like I was in apocalypse now...

[muzza01]

I still travel a fair bit in choppers. I need to charter them to visit some of the islands I travel to in the Torres Strait. I have seen sharks, dugon, turtles a croc, stingrays, schools of fish.  A lot of the times the water is so crystal clear you can see what type of fish are swimming. I was in a chopper last manta and I have another one chartered for next month.

[D4D]

Kings Canyon - couldn't be bothered walking it

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[Hewy54]

New Zealand a few years ago we did the chopper flight and landed on top of Fox Glacier to play in the snow for a while.
Did the flight out of Mitchell Falls with the doors off and my mate nearly s**t himself when we banked over to his side and he thought he was going to fall out.
The flight between Mt Hotham and Falls creek during the ski season was incredible.

[achjimmy]

In cadets Stockton beach so low we had to climb to get over the wreck,the pilot had also been booked that week so thought it funny to buzz the highway patrol on the road lol.  Iroquois and chinooks outta Amberley as well.

Have had the chance to second seat one, the good pilots are good it's a lot of work.

I have rarely seen a doco yet that doesn't use effective aerial shots to see some great spots of this country, and figure you really need to do same.

[Diesel Power]

Chopper flights over Uluru and Olgas, over the Rocky Mountains in Western Canada.
Planes flights to Lindeman Island and back, regional SA ( in a mates plane ).
Regards
Angus.

[scarpsD40]

In line with JCAT's thread, where have you been and seen from a chopper or plane?

A helicopter once showed me it's underbelly. Seen better......,.

[Jen, Sprogs n Him]

Took my daughter on a plane ride out from Shark Bay,  flew over the salt mines, lakes and then cliffs off steep point.  Really made my stomach drop but view was incredible :-)

[Kangaron]

In 1979 when the Air Wing purchased their first twin engined Dauphin, I spent 2 days scouring the Vic countryside plotting waypoints of drug plantations [ from information received of course] and the next 6 months on the ground doing the business.
Very easy to spot from the air they were.

[Paul (SA)]

Sadly have never been in a helicopter over those great places you mention, so I am jealous at most of the responses here.