Are you flippin kidding me?!?

That does not look like fun. Having recently had to recover my DJI Mavic Pro on the back of a boat that was underway but in calm seas, I can only imagine how difficult his job is.

BTW, how do they secure the helicopter once landed so that it doesn't roll off the deck?
 
Our boys...are British and they can use a bear trap and tie downs on small one and two spots.
 
They don't get paid enough to do that.
 
Jeez, I've seen them do it with the cable trap, but not unassisted like that. Quite the stick. LSO has great big ones to stand there and trust the pilot too.
 
RudyP said:
BTW, how do they secure the helicopter once landed so that it doesn't roll off the deck?
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With the British system shown in the video (also used by the USCG) once its down, its just chocks and chains to hold it there.

With the US RAST system, the recovery system itself secures the aircraft and then traverses it into the hangar. For the US ships that don't have embarked aircraft, they have to rely on chocks/chains alone.
 
When the little handheld GPS units first came out, our command wrote "Cadillac" chits to buy a couple of them for use by the aircrew. The HAC had to check it out for each flight. It was quite literally a game changer in the SAR business.
 
wilkersk said:
When the little handheld GPS units first came out, our command wrote "Cadillac" chits to buy a couple of them for use by the aircrew. The HAC had to check it out for each flight. It was quite literally a game changer in the SAR business.
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Every Navy ship I've been on had handheld Garmins for the boat crews to use. Very handy indeed.
 
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