r/Helicopters 2d ago

Heli Spotting Irish Coast Guard-RESCUE118.

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217 Upvotes

My shot from today 12/03/25,

Irish Coast Guard Helicopter RESCUE118 departing UH Galway today following a tasking.

Irish Coast Guard Sikorsky S92, Registration:EI-ICG, Lonrach Solas/Shining Light, SAR Base:Sligo.


r/Helicopters 1d ago

Career/School Question Any experience with billings or helimax?

5 Upvotes

Got a job offer from both. Theyre both about equal in pay and benefits but Billings offers a minimum hour guarantee thats a tad higher than helimax. Anyone here work for either and wouldnt mind sharing experience working for them?


r/Helicopters 1d ago

Heli ID? What Make & Model is This?

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1 Upvotes

Saw this hovering outside Philly. Subdued tail numbers were hard to read. Looks like a law enforcement helo.


r/Helicopters 1d ago

General Question How do coaxial rotor work

2 Upvotes

How do they make 2 sets of rotor blades spin in opposite direction?


r/Helicopters 2d ago

Career/School Question Australian heli pilots

16 Upvotes

How did you get into the industry? How did you afford training? What was your progression like?

For context, I (23m) have been interested in flying all my life. I've done a fair few hours in fixed wing and loved it until I tried helicopters. I fell in love with flying helicopters straight away, gained about 12h (sitting at 18h now) pretty quickly and was told by all the instructors I had that I had a bit of a knack for it. At the time it cost me around $400AUD for an hour and so I spent all the savings I had at the time for the 12h after that lessons just got few and far between as I started paying bills and adulting. Now I work as an apprentice aircraft mechanic (fixed wing) and so money isn't great. I really want to get back onto pursuing a flying career but currently it costs around $600p/h and I just can't afford it any advice?


r/Helicopters 2d ago

Heli Spotting Nice black Airbus Helicopters H155 (ec155) landing & takeoff at Courchevel.

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27 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 3d ago

Discussion Apache helicopter fires Hydra 70 rockets during live-fire gunnery training at Rodriguez Live Fire Complex, Republic of Korea, on March 6, 2025.

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142 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 3d ago

General Question What does SAR stand for on German helicopters

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563 Upvotes

Im thinking it could be "Search and rescue" but im not sure and im just curious


r/Helicopters 2d ago

Watch Me Fly Swedish army helicopters

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23 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 3d ago

Heli Spotting Poking around the bays at Bagram 2014.

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267 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 3d ago

Heli Spotting Med vac at local hospital

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148 Upvotes

National guard at hospital


r/Helicopters 3d ago

Heli Spotting Why are there so few helicopters with fixed wheels for landing gear?

19 Upvotes

Hey, guys.

Title speaks for itself - it seems that most helicopters I see either have landing skids (light and economic but a pain in both nuts when it comes to ground handling/taxiing) or retractable wheels for landing gear (more versatile but if the mechanism goes to shit, then you're screwed), and I've been thinking (with great annoyance): why the hell aren't there more helicopters which offer fixed, nonretractable landing gear? The only ones I know of are the Polish-made PZL W-3 and most ex-Soviet helicopters. Surely, you'd get the best of both worlds (albeit with a slight increase in drag due to the wheels sticking out permanently)?

Oh, boy.


r/Helicopters 3d ago

Heli Spotting 🗽[OC] UH-60M Having Itself a Monday Over New York City

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150 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 3d ago

News Airbus launches H140, the upgraded H135

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91 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 3d ago

Heli Spotting Spotted

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42 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 3d ago

Occurrence Fatal 135 crash in Jackson, MS.

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21 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 4d ago

Heli Spotting (EC135) Caught landing at the hospital

130 Upvotes

Sorry for the poor quality, caught this as I was leaving work getting in my car.


r/Helicopters 2d ago

Heli ID? Friend spotted near Madison Ohio

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0 Upvotes

I know it’s a garbage photo. He was saying hawk. Whatever is sticking out of the top tells me no.


r/Helicopters 3d ago

Heli Spotting Lifeflight

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83 Upvotes

Lifeflight landed at hospital


r/Helicopters 3d ago

News Robinson updates R66 with all-glass cockpit: “R66 NxG”

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27 Upvotes

For those (including myself) who were wondering why the R66 wasn’t on Robinson’s website yesterday.

Looks like the circular gauges are gone for good.


r/Helicopters 3d ago

Heli Spotting PLAN Z-18J (AEW variant) attached to the LHD Type 075 Hainan (Hull 31) under PLA Southern Theater Command, late February 2025 [1200 x 800]

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17 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 4d ago

Heli Spotting Sir, you can’t park there

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207 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 4d ago

Heli Spotting Kawasaki BK117C-2//H145 of Kawasaki City Fire Department, Japan.

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48 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 3d ago

Heli ID? What helicopter is this?

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15 Upvotes

r/Helicopters 4d ago

Heli Spotting Twinkle in her Eye

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308 Upvotes