A fun video on Restricted Category UH-60A used in firefighting in Northern California - Mark Pilkington is a great guy, a well known broker of Cessna work-horse airplanes and has a fledgling YT Channel "Skywagon University" - a great choice to subscribe.
This is a real treat for us Helo Bubbas - want to hear
@Gatordev and others reactions...
Had no idea you could shoot "fuses" out the back. Also, the stabilator functionality was pretty far off. I wonder if it was because he didn't know or he was trying to stay out of the weeds on what it does and how it works. The Black Hawk Advanced MEDEVAC (BAM) window is actually for the cargo door, not the gunner's window. That aircraft does not have BAM windows. When talking about ground taxi, "20% to taxi and 100% when flying." Not in that aircraft. I guarantee that thing IGE hovers without a bucket at sea level below 60%.
The bubble window would be nice for bucket ops, as would the on-the-fly cinching of the bucket. ? He mentioned "long line", so I assume they are using something longer than we do, which is only 50'. That has to be easier to get the bucket to fill up. At 50', if you are not spot on with a touch (but not too much) of ground speed as the bucket hits the water, the bucket will float out from under the aircraft and not tip over and fill. 100' would probably reduce the downwash enough to discourage the floating/sailing of the bucket on the surface.
I think he does not know much about the aircraft. I believe that is what GatorDev was getting at with his value of NATOPS or other military flight manuals comment. Who, besides an experimental or maintenance pilot really cares or actually knows what the functions of or inputs to the stabilator are? It does its own thing back there. If it stops, flight characteristics change. If it fails full down at low altitude during aggressive accelerating flight, it is bad news. Next question?
Overall a fun video, but not exactly factual.