The footage starts from near pick-up and goes all the way to mountain base landing. The Huey is an agile light helicopter. It can feel like riding a bucking bronco. You have to respect her agility or it would kill you. It's the opposite of the Mi-8/17 (Mighty Eight). In the Huey, you need to make constant adjustments to your cyclic while the Mi-8 requires deliberate precise movements of the cyclic and collective. The Mi-8 (17 for export) is a very stable helicopter but it is vulnerable to entering the vortex ring state while descending or landing and this makes her a pilot killer as there is almost always no safe recovering from that in the Mi-8.
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